Thanks to Canva for sponsoring the illusionist and for helping me address a massive gap in

my skills, I know, can you believe it? A gap in my skills says it isn't so, it is so.

Being a podcaster, I'm good at making noises. But visuals? Not great. I didn't get into

audio making because I'm good at visuals, but people do sure love looking at stuff.

I don't blame you. The first bite of the internet is with the eye mouths, as they say.

So, like many of my podcaster friends, how did you make that cool thing? Oh, I used Canva.

I'm using Canva to spruce up my game on Instagram and the slides for the illusionist live shows

and YouTube where the podcast is now available, but with currently zero visual interest.

Not for too much longer though. I am really excited to play with all this and will update you with

my progress on my journey to visuals. Why don't you join me? And if you work with people,

you can design and collaborate with Canva for teams. Right now, you can get a free 45 day extended

trial when you go to Canva.me slash illusionist. That's C-A-N-V-A-DOT-ME slash illusionist.

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This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Salzman, try not to disturb languages nest.

A couple of years ago, in the episode called Oot in the Open, we talked about Scots,

a language recovering from hundreds of years of oppression. Check it out for a bit of background

on the language because we're returning to Scots in this episode. On with the show.

When you dig in to the words that you can use for LGBT plus people, you realise how much

ideology and how much social assumption is built into every word that we use. So we have

these kind of quasi-scientific terms, homosexual, transsexual, whatever, that have their origins

in 19th and 20th century sexology and the assumptions of those disciplines that I built into how

we think about ourselves. And then we have kind of mid-20th century community terms like gay and lesbian

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