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The Words Don't Fit the Picture: Gender vs. Voice

The Words Don't Fit the Picture: Gender vs. Voice

By: Jess Lupini
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 What happens when your voice no longer matches your gender identity? Join host Jess Lupini as she explores the strange and tangled relationship between gender and voice. Through interviews with linguists, trans people, voice training experts, doctors, surgeons, storytellers, and much more, The Words Don't Fit The Picture will take you on a journey through what we know — and what we've still yet to fully understand — about how our voices and gender identities affect one another.Avo Media Biological Sciences Science Social Sciences
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  • What does gender sound like?

    What does gender sound like?
    Apr 8 2025

    What do others assume about us from our voices? Jess speaks with Dr. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, an associate professor of linguistics at Ohio State University, who specializes in sociolinguistics — The study of how society and culture affect language. They discuss how gender norms change how we speak, and how our speech changes the way others perceive us.

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