The Truth Behind Long Lines at The Ladies Room: An Intro to Biopolitics ft. Nishita Rao

Why are the lines outside of women’s bathrooms always longer than the men’s? Why is black considered a more formal color than pink or orange? Who is really impacted by anti-DEI policies? 

In honor of Women’s History Month, Cee The Sex Lady hosted Nishita Rao–a sexuality researcher and educator, Reiki Grandmaster, Mandala Art Therapist, Carnatic Singer, and self proclaimed Belly Dance Enthusiast. 

Cee and Nishita explored what it means to be a woman, and how this meaning is impacted by biopolitics. 

Episode Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Guest Background

02:55 Understanding Sex and Gender

10:38 Exploring Biopolitics

34:42 Victorian Morality and Women's Independence

35:20 Archetypes and Societal Constructs of Womanhood

45:15 Trans Inclusion and the Future of Feminism

Connect with Nishita: 

www.pillowtalkwithnixi.com 

@pillowtalkwithnixi 

Resources to learn more about biopolitics–

Social Media Accounts:

@blairimani

@kahlil.greene

@joelbervell

@aslanpahari

@itskimberlyrene

@thehumanityarchive

@keegantatum

@nrithyapillai

@afrosexology_

@adeche.atelier

@artwhoring 

@alokvmenon 

Books: 

1. Criado Perez: Invisible Women


2. Singer: Dressed to Kill


3. Oyewumi: The invention of Women


4. Schiebinger: Nature's Body


5. Fausto-Sterling: Sexing the Body


6. Russet: Sexual Science


7. Paoletti: Pink and Blue


8. Schuller: Biopolitics of Feelings


9. Peiss: Hope in a Jar


10. Gould: Mismeasure of Man


11. Engels: The origin of Family, private property and the State


12. Washington: Medical Apartheid


13. Katz: Invention of Heterosexuality


14. Jordan-Young: Brainstorm


15. Miller Young: A taste for Brown Sugar


16. Melissa Grant: Playing the Wh*re


17. Madhur Gupta: Courting Hindustan


18. Davesh Soneji: Unfinished Gestures


19. Saba Dewan: Tawaifnama


20. Elizabeth Winkler: Shakespeare was a Woman


21. Eleanor Janega: Once and future sex


22. Eleanor Cleghorn: Unwell Women


23. Menaken: My Grandmother's Hands


24. Sonya Renee Taylor: Body is not an apology


25. Clarkisha Kent: Fat off Fat on


26. Stephanie Yeboah: Fattily ever after


27. DeGruy: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome


28. Thomas: Sexual Demon of Colonial Power


29. Strings: Fearing the Black Body


30. Narvaez: The evolved nest

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