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The Guardian's Token

Starting in Australia and now in the UK, Token is a podcast about marginalised identities. But it's fun - we promise. We talk about race, gender, sexuality, culture, politics and whatever else makes you feel like a token in today's world. The only constants are fun, frank discussion and the freedom to politely ask awkward questions

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    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent: episode one of a new podcast

    In the first episode of our new podcast, screenwriter Russell T Davies tells Grace Dent about his childhood in Swansea, the delights of Woolworth’s pork and egg pies, and how his husband’s death informed his TV series It’s a Sin
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    Reverberate: episode 1 of our new series – podcast

    In the first episode of our new series, Reverberate, we hear from Kashy Keegan – the unlikely voice of Hong Kong’s nascent pro-democracy movement
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    Innermost: another episode of our new series – podcast

    Two callers tell Leah Green how their relationships sent them down unexpected paths, one with criminal consequences
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    Innermost: episode 1 of a new series - podcast

    In our first episode, we hear how an uncle’s funeral and meals with an emotionally distant brother help James and Jess think about their families in new and unexpected ways.
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    Why are there so few BAME leaders in Britain? – podcast

    The Colour of Power project has shown that just 3% of Britain’s most powerful people are non-white. What can be done to change this?
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    End of season 2 – Token podcast

    Leah and Freddy bring you a quick update on Token
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    The 'why do you walk like that?' episode – Token podcast

    Leah Green and Freddy McConnell are joined by Gideon Goldberg, their token disabled friend
  • BALDWIN<br>Author James Baldwin gestures in a February 25 1985 photo. James Campbell, the biographer of Baldwin, won a victory Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1998 in a 10-year court battle to obtain the FBI's files about the internationally known black writer. But it came late: the biography, ``Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin'' was published in 1991. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times)

    The 'I Am Not Your Negro' episode - Token podcast

    Leah Green and Freddy McConnell are joined by Raoul Peck, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary I am Not Your Negro
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    The 'can you be an atheist Jew?' episode – Token podcast

    Freddy McConnell and Leah Green are joined by LA Times columnist and host of the Unorthodox podcast, Mark Oppenheimer
  • Joanna Montgomery, Sara Pascoe and Elizabeth Loftus

    Women challenging the patriarchy – one podcast at a time

    To mark International Women’s Day, the Guardian’s podcasters pick some favourite episodes featuring inspirational women
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    The 'I got the job because I'm Asian' episode – Token podcast

    Freddy McConnell and Leah Green are joined by the Guardian’s political editor Anushka Asthana. She talks about her experience of being a child of immigrants but wanting to be as white as possible
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    The Valentine's Day sex advice episode – Token podcast

    Leah, Freddy and sexpert Alix Fox answer questions on novice polyamory, ‘real lesbians’ and jelly butt plugs
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    The 'Why is black hair a thing?' episode – Token podcast

    Freddy and Leah are joined by Grace Shutti to discuss the ups and downs of being born with Afro hair
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    The gender quiz episode – Token podcast

    Tinder now lets you state your gender in your own words, and provides a list of options in addition to ‘female’ and ‘male’. We thought the obvious response to this was to have an quiz
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    The Christmas vulva episode: part 2 – Token podcast

    Leah and Freddy talk about more things vulva related with Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi, who also produced and presented The Vagina Dispatches
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    The Christmas vagina episode: part 1 – Token podcast

    Leah and Freddy are joined by Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi to talk about all things vulva related, for a festive, slightly-tipsy, end-of-year double bill
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    The 'are racial preferences racist?' episode - Token podcast

    Leah and Freddy are joined by film-festival organiser Jack Casey, to discuss the explicit racism sometimes found in the contemporary LGBTQ community
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    The Transparent episode – Token podcast

    Leah Green and Freddy McConnell are joined by TV journalist Rebecca Nicholson for a chat about Transparent, the Amazon Prime show that began its third season in September
  • "Gay Wedding" Exhibition Dedicated To Civil Unions<br>ROME, ITALY - OCTOBER 21: A Rainbow Cake displayed during the inauguration of the Gay Wedding Fair, the first exhibition in Italy dedicated to civil unions on October 21, 2016 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Simona Granati/Corbis via Getty Images)

    The gay cake episode – Token podcast

    Freddy McConnell and Leah Green are joined by columnist Owen Jones to discuss the case of the ‘gay cake’
  • Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, PHiladelphia, USA - 19 Sep 2016<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by MediaPunch/REX/Shutterstock (5899855m)
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Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, PHiladelphia, USA - 19 Sep 2016

    The ups and downs of strength – Token Podcast

    Comedian Tom Ballard joins Leah Green and Freddy McConnell to talk about strength in all its forms: women’s strength and Hillary Clinton; male strength and the pressures of the gym; and the potentially patronising ‘super-humans’ coming out of the Paralympics
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