Meghan confronts stereotypes that ‘hold women back’ in new Spotify podcast she’ll host

She’s not simply the Duchess of Sussex anymore: Simply name her Meghan, the Host of Podcasts.

The previous Meghan Markle formally earned a brand new title Thursday when Archewell Audio lastly introduced “Archetypes” as the primary podcast collection in Meghan and Prince Harry’s multiyear partnership with Spotify. Their podcast was apparently greater than a 12 months within the making, because the Sussexes first introduced their manufacturing deal in December 2020.

Their inaugural Spotify Unique podcast will launch this summer time and be hosted by the previous “Fits” star.

In it, the ardent girls’s rights activist will converse with historians and consultants “to uncover the origin of those stereotypes and have uncensored conversations with girls who know all too properly how these typecasts form narratives,” in response to an announcement launched Thursday by Archewell and Spotify.

Meghan says as a lot in a teaser for the collection additionally launched Thursday.

The minute-long preview opens with soundbites of males branding the other intercourse — “slut,” “skanky,” “weaker” and “much less clever,” amongst others — and saying they need to be “quiet and submissive,” or that they’re “a little bit emotionally unstable” and insisting they need to smile after they’re complimented.

“That is how we discuss girls: the phrases that increase our women, and the way the media displays girls again to us,” Meghan says within the teaser. “However the place do these stereotypes come from? And the way do they preserve displaying up and defining our lives?”

She guarantees listeners to “dissect, discover and subvert the labels that attempt to maintain girls again” by way of conversations with them, in addition to with historians “to grasp how we even received right here within the first place.” We suspect the L.A.-bred performer is talking from first-hand expertise.

The previous “royal highnesses” based Archewell Audio in December 2020 and teased the manufacturing shortly thereafter with an uplifting vacation particular that side-stepped the controversies of the tumultuous 12 months, together with their bombshell resolution to step again as full-time royals earlier in January 2020.

The duchess and duke, who’s the sixth in line to the British throne, have confronted fairly the uphill battle since transferring to California however are trying to carve out a distinct segment with a variety of philanthropic media tasks with multiyear contract offers with Spotify and Netflix.

However final month, the couple received one other spherical of unhealthy press for not but releasing substantial content material on both platform. In April of final 12 months, the Sussexes introduced plans for his or her first Netflix challenge: a documentary collection monitoring a variety of athletes as they prepare for the 2022 Invictus Video games. The video games are set to happen subsequent month, however it’s unclear when “Coronary heart of Invictus” will likely be launched.