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Welcome to the Double X-Gab Fest for Thursday, August 6th, the fun, fearless female edition.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a writer for Slate in the Atlantic.

I'm joined in the New York

Studios by June Thomas, editor of Outward Slate's LGBTQ blog. Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Laura Anderson,

an editor and writer at Slate. Hi, Laura. Hi, Hannah. So, before we get going today, I have a couple

of important announcements. Our next show is going to be a call-in show, which means we want you to call in and leave us a voicemail. We will likely play that voicemail on the air and then answer your question. It can be any kind of question, a high-minded question about feminism, a question about your own life, which are the ones that we like best. And here's the number that you should call and leave a message. 414-982-55-90. I am informed by our producer, the lovely am, that that spells out. 4149 Talk 90. Do I sound like a like a morning radio person? I don't. I don't

quite have the pep of that like, hey, call in it 4149 Talk 90. But anyway, that's my first

announcement. The second one is that we are having a live show in D.C. Monday, September 21st. So come out and buy tickets. It's part of the

Women's Voices Theater festival at Willie Mammoth Theater, which is my hands-down favorite theater in

Washington, D.C. You can get tickets at www.slate.com slash D.C. Double X spelled out. D.C. D.C-D-C-D-O-U-B-L-E-X.

So, D-C friends and friends in the region, please come and join us.

We would love to see and meet you.

Okay, let's start with our three topics.

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