Scoot Over
Scoot Over
Episodes
1. Religion; The Female Exodus
What happens when women are excluded, silenced and marginalized within religious communities? In the inaugural episode of Scoot Over, Slate journalist Aymann Ismail explores the trouble with rooting out gender exclusion in a group that faces...
2. Memory; The Things We Carry
Aymann is joined by two Jewish scholars to discuss how memory - a personal version of history passed down from generation to generation - shapes identity. Emmanuel Kattan is Director of the Alliance Program, a partnership ...
3. History; A Reckoning
History is written by the victors is a famous phrase, but rarely do we dig into what it actually means and its consequences for how we understand who we are. Aymann speaks with two academics who are teaching the rest of us to resist the neat...
4. Body Positivity; Commercialized or Commandeered?
A plus-sized hijabi model and a media professor join Aymann to explore the nuance of the mediated world of body positivity and confidence culture.Leah Vernon is an international Hijabi social media influencer, award-winning aut...