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Presenting: The Staircase (with The Longest Shortest Time)
24/02/2026 | 30 mins.
New episodes of Proxy return in April. In the meantime, we're sharing something we love — an episode from The Longest Shortest Time that digs into a conundrum so many of us deal with: guys being creeps. After a troubling incident involving her daughter, Hillary Frank sets out to understand how her daughter's middle school is teaching consent... and what she discovers throws her for a loop.
Find The Longest Shortest wherever you get your podcasts.
Hillary put together this list of organizations and individuals doing innovative work on sex ed:

SafeBAE

Scarleteen

SIECUS (Sex Ed for Social Change): Sex Ed Profiles by State

Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between by Shafia Zaloom

You Know, Sex by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth

Mr. Health Teacher
Presenting: Babies Not Having Babies (with The Dream)
10/02/2026 | 1h 35 mins.
This week, while Proxy is busy investigating new cases, we're sharing something we loved. One of our favorite episodes from The Dream, a show about the "American Dream" and all the systems (and assholes) that make it harder to achieve. In this episode, a once popular teen anti-abortion activist finds herself switching sides in this national debate.

From the episode:

Subscribe to The Dream

Follow Jane Marie on Instagram @seejanemarie
Presenting: Market Failure (with Scene On Radio)
27/01/2026 | 41 mins.
Proxy will be back soon with new cases. In the meantime, we're sharing an investigation into arguably the most consequential social force shaping life on this planet: capitalism.

Scene On Radio isn't afraid to tackle the big questions about who we are and how we got that way. In this series on capitalism, they try to understand how capitalism became our dominant economic system, what is it really, and how to make our economy work for people and living beings, not the other way around.

Some resources for fighting fascism:

https://indivisible.org/

https://www.standwithminnesota.com/

A newsletter from my friend Joanna on how to help her hometown of Minneapolis

https://iceoutforgood.org/
Presenting: Manifesting: How Powerful Are Our Thoughts? (with Science Vs.)
13/01/2026 | 32 mins.
This week we’re sharing something we loved and found useful, just in time for the new year. A rigorous look by the show Science Vs into whether there’s any science behind manifestations.
Nicole Can't Stop Being Aggro
02/12/2025 | 53 mins.
Nicole is an organizer who's good at channeling her anger. The problem is she can't always downshift.

If this episode resonates, you might also try Mic Chooses the Wrong Life or Yaroslava Can't Go Home.

From the episode:

Learn more about Deborah Gould, a Professor and Chair of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz

Read Debbie's book Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS

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About Proxy with Yowei Shaw

It’s the knot you can’t untangle - a problem so specific, it makes you feel alone. But what if you could talk to someone who gets it? On Proxy, we find just the person you were looking for, a stranger who's lived something close enough to help you get a little less stuck. It’s not therapy - it’s emotional investigative journalism™️. Yowei Shaw, former co-host of Invisibilia, at your service.If you’re just discovering the show, a good place to begin is Bisexual Wife Guy, Mic Chooses the Wrong Life, or Brian Can’t Stop Fact-Checking His Mother-In-Law. The team is hard at work investigating another batch of cases, with new episodes publishing in April 2026 🚀Proxy is an independent podcast, supported mostly by listeners. If you want to help the show keep going, consider joining our Patreon. Membership starts at $5 a month and includes bonus episodes, ad-free listening, and access to our group Zoom hangs. You can also join our Patreon for free to get the newsletter 🍏Follow us on Instagram: @proxypodcast @yoweishawGet in touch at [email protected]

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