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The episode features a discussion on various topics from the audience, including personal experiences and critiques of conservative ideologies.

We’re cooking up a super-sized serving of Ill Conceived goodness for next week, so in the meantime we decided to dig back into the World Famous Mailbag to read and answer the stuff you’ve been wondering about but we haven’t found space to cover on the main show or the B-sides, including: Personal experiences with Aporia’s Noah Carl Parsing the hypocrisy of female right-wing talking heads The conservative Catholic propaganda mill known as Franciscan University of Steubenville How conservative Christian communities tend to privilege parents over non-parents The effects of being forced to be a caretaker in your family The exclusion of queer families from natalist communities ***WANT MORE ILL CONCEIVED? Every other week, we release B-side supplements to the main episodes where we read your e-mail responses and discuss things further. Come check us out at Patreon.com/illconceived!*** ***WE WANT YOUR THOUGHTS FOR THE WORLD FAMOUS MAILBAG! Send an email with feedback about this week's episode to illconceivedpod@gmail.com*** EPISODE ART: It's the pig. SOURCES: "Northwestern’s African Studies Program Loses Research Status but Will Continue" by Olivia Sanchez (Inside Higher Ed, August 18…

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