Do you still consider yourself a liberal? If so, prepare yourself: this podcast may shake to their very core the foundations of your worldview. I consider myself a liberal (well, sort of), but listening to this young women confirmed a deep fear of mine: that many of the new norms embraced by good liberals have had a very dark side.
She speaks candidly about how she was conceived via artificial insemination to a successful single mother and a gay sperm donor father who did not raise her; how was first exposed to porn as a child and later was traumatised by an aggressive heterosexual youth culture — from which she found refuge by identifying strongly as a gay man. In her 20’s, she had herself sterilised, she says, motivated by white guilt.
I will be pondering the implications of what she told me for a long time to come.
I came across Leigh Janet Marshall in an interview she did on one of my favourite podcasts, Whose Body Is it with Isabella Malbin. So riveted was I that I tracked Leigh down, and she kindly agreed to give me some of her time.
Small side note: because I’m a big fan of podcasts, I’m a tad embarrassed by utter lack of production values in this recording. My dogs bark, the audio cuts out briefly twice, and I have a brief chat with my teenager, because I recorded it in my living room last Sunday evening right before dinner time. I’m summoning all my discernment so as not to care about those imperfections, because the content is truly the star here. Leigh Janet Marshall is a woman to watch.
You also can listen to the discussion on Spotify (see below) or Apple podcasts. While you are there, you may as well subscribe. I guess I have a podcast now!
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