We are more than labels; we are humans.

Lois Holzman is director and co-founder of the East Side Institute in New York, USA, where she developed social therapy methods with Fred Newman. She is known for her research and work on play therapy, social therapy, and criticism of the medical model of mental health.

Amy Schiller is a writer focused on feminism, politics, philanthropy, and culture. I’ve written for The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, The American Prospect, Salon, and many more places.She’s lamented the decline of American Girl Dolls, fought with Alan Dershowitz over free speech on college campuses, broken a story about the eviction of an artist collective in Bushwick, and documented the ongoing meme-ification of Hillary Clinton. Her work has been picked up by The New York Times, New York Magazine, Jezebel, The Hairpin, and Buzzfeed, among others.

Angela Ellsworth is a multidisciplinary American artist traversing disciplines of drawing, sculpture, installation, video, and performance. Her solo and collaborative works have addressed wide-ranging subjects such as physical fitness, endurance, illness, social ritual, and religious tradition. She is interested in art merging with everyday life and public and private experiences colliding in unexpected places. She is a descendant of LDS prophet Lorenzo Snow and was raised as a Mormon; some of her work relates to her religious upbringing.[1][2] She is openly queer and married to writer/ performer Tania Katan.

In this first episode our guests talk about what their gender have meant for them in the past, and how they are adjusting to what they think it should really mean. Growing up in different parts of the world and being brought up by different cultures they help us understand how openness and communication can help us "let ourselves grow".