Podcast #204: Discovering Your Inner ‘Demisexual’

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15 Dec 2022 · 1 min read

Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield of Feminine Chaos, about why young straight women are inventing new (and dubious) queer subcategories.

Links discussed in this episode:

Feminine Chaos: I Am the Very Model of a Modern Demisexual

Feminine Chaos: Your Privilege Is Showing, Coffee Husband Edition

Katherine Dee on Tumblr’s effect on group identity

Louise Perry on demisexuals

Kat Rosenfield on demisexuals

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