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    Invisibilia

    The Power of Categories

    How categories define us — how, if given a chance, humans will jump into one category or another. We need them. We want them....

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    KCRW placeholderBy Lulu Miller • Feb 8, 2015 • 1 min read

    How categories define us — how, if given a chance, humans will jump into one category or another. We need them. We want them. We look at what categories provide for us, we hear the story of a person caught between gender categories in a way that will surprise you, and we visit the first retirement community in the country to be based around one ethnic group.

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      Lulu Miller

      Co-host of NPR's 'Invisibilia'

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      Alix Spiegel

      Co-Host of NPR's 'Invisibilia'

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      Anne Gudenkauf

      Producer of NPR's 'Invisibilia'

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