Sadly Dadless

Talking dads who avoid your pronouns, with guest Noah Zazanis.

Episode Notes

Danny Lavery welcomes Noah Zazanis, an epidemiologist, writer, and prison abolitionist living in Queens, New York. His writing can be found in the New Inquiry, Pluto Press’ Transgender Marxism anthology, and Obstetrics & Gynecology (“the Green Journal”).

Lavery and Zazanis read a letter from someone whose dad refuses to use their new name and pronouns.

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Production by Phil Surkis.

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Every week, Danny M. Lavery brings on a guest to answer questions from listeners before diving into conversation about relationships, dissatisfaction, drives, regrets, estrangement, embarrassment, self-assessments, and feelings from the monumental to the minute.

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Danny M. Lavery is a co-founder of the Toast and the author of Texts From Jane Eyre, The Merry Spinster, and Something That May Shock and Discredit You. Lavery wrote Slate’s Dear Prudence column from 2016 to 2021. He writes an email newsletter at Substack called The Chatner.

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