Welcome to 'Outside the Boxes'. A new podcast exploring the labels, boxes and stereotypes that we are all forced into. Dr Pragya Agarwal examines the effect of such boxes, and speak to people who have stepped outside these boxes. If you have ever felt claustrophobic in the box, or fearful of stepping outside one, then this podcast is for you. It will force you to think and examine your own biases in the process. True magic happens 'outside the boxes'. FOLLOW US: Twitter: twitter.com/DrPragya ...
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Dr Pragya Agarwal Podcasts
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How to talk to our children about race and racism - OTB5
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In this episode, Dr Pragya Agarwal discusses the importance of talking to our children about race. Pragya also describes what she’s been up to recently - completing her book, ‘Sway - The Science of Unconscious Bias’, writing an article for Prospect magazine on the potential problems around race and the rise of Face Recognition Technology, writing a…
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Male and Female Brains: Why you've had it wrong all along - OTB4
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In this episode, Dr Pragya Agarwal explores what neuroscience says about men's and women's brains, and how we've had it all wrong for so long. In this thoughtful episode, she brings about theories and research from cognitive psychology and neuroscience to introduce you to NEUROSEXISM and how brain science has been used to create and perpetuate the …
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This episode is all about what it means to be courageous and fearless. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- First of all, there's time to mention a question which was asked in the Facebook group - Join Pragya’s Raising Feminists Facebook Group. 'Should I call my daughter pretty?' Main topic: Courage and being …
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Feminist Parenting in the age of Trump - OTB2
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This episode is about ‘Feminist Parenting’, which is constantly evolving in the current climate of rapid political and cultural change. We are now focussing on helping our children to move away from gender stereotypes and the ways in which we can re-define gender itself. Why do our youngest children want to dress up as gender-specific characters an…
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This is an excerpt of my TEDx talk that I recently gave in India around International Women's Day 2019. Men benefit from patriarchy but they also suffer because of it. So, the power privilege that sexism affords to men, also traps them into narrow boxes and roles. This talk questions the model of masculinity and the narrow gender boxes that are imp…
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