Approved For Breakup
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Katie Tastrom, a sex worker and writer whose work focuses on disability justice. Her forthcoming book about prison abolition and disability justice is coming out in late 2023.
Lavery and Tastrom take on two letters. First, someone who received a marriage proposal from her depressed boyfriend. Another letter writer is wondering how to make it up to their friend after accidentally calling them by their deadname, and how to get their own family to start honoring their own chosen name. Plus, a sneak peek at Tastrom’s forthcoming book on abolition and disability justice.
More on transition “traps”:
https://www.thechatner.com/p/let-me-save-you-some-time-a-field
https://www.thechatner.com/p/let-me-save-you-some-time-on-transitioning
https://www.thechatner.com/p/the-stages-of-im-really-trying-to
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon |
| 0:01.9 | Music. |
| 0:03.4 | Just a reminder that Big Mood, |
| 0:05.2 | Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery happens twice a week. |
| 0:08.0 | Slate Plus members get an additional mini-episode or Little Big Mood every Friday. |
| 0:12.8 | Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. |
| 0:15.4 | Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood. I am your host, Danny Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Katie Tastrom, a sex worker and writer whose work focuses on disability justice. Her forthcoming book about prison abolition and disability justice is coming out in late 2023. Katie, welcome to the show. Thanks, Danny. It's nice to be here. |
| 0:55.8 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:57.4 | We had to re-record our opener because we had a little bit of technical difficulties. |
| 1:02.0 | So listeners, you're just never going to hear the initial conversation that we had about interactive dinner theater in these United States. |
| 1:09.3 | But I can let you all know that we have since moved on from my medieval times obsession |
| 1:13.6 | to the pirate dinner show, the pirate's dinner adventure, I should say, |
| 1:18.9 | which claims it is the most interactive dinner theater in the city of Orlando, Florida, |
| 1:24.4 | which is, I think, kind of a beautiful dig. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah, so, what you just revealed to me that the listeners may not know is that it's, |
| 1:32.2 | but it's a separate company from medieval times. |
| 1:34.8 | So it's like, it's a competitor. |
| 1:36.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:37.3 | No, so medieval times weirdly got started in Spain in the 60s. |
| 1:41.6 | What? |
| 1:42.0 | This guy owned a barbecue. |
| 1:44.0 | And he was like, how can I get more people to stop by my |
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