Introducing Outward: The "Our Queer Roots" Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Introducing Outward, Slate's new monthly LGBTQ podcast! On the first episode, hosts Christina Cauterucci, Bryan Lowder, and New America’s Brandon Tensley—along with a smorgasbord of Slate staffers—reveal their queer roots. Does it all come down to crop tops? Then, in the debut Straight Studies segment, Slate features director Laura Bennett helps us decide if straight, cisgender people have roots, too. Then Alex Barasch joins the gang to talk about his Washington Post piece, “ Biology Is Not Destiny: Seeking a Scientific Explanation for Trans Identity Could Do More Harm Than Good."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello and welcome to the very first episode of Outward Slate's LGBTQ podcast. I'm Christina Cotarucci, a staff writer at Slate, |
| 0:24.6 | and host of the Waves Slate's podcast about feminism and gender. My pronouns are she, |
| 0:29.8 | her, and I'm a dance floor top, kitchen bottom. And I'm Brian Lauder, editor of Slate's Outward |
| 0:36.2 | section. My pronouns are he, him, or the gay she, |
| 0:40.0 | and my sexual orientation is insta photos of engorged heirloom tomatoes and actual eggplants right now. |
| 0:48.2 | And I'm Brandon Tensley, the associate editor at New America, and a contributing writer at Pacific Standard Magazine. |
| 0:55.0 | My pronouns are he, him, and I'm a fan of picking fights with anyone who thinks that Kylie |
| 0:58.6 | refers to anyone other than Kylie Minogue. So we're here, we're queer, and we're making a podcast. |
| 1:06.0 | Yay! I know. This show's been in the works for so long, and we're very excited that is finally ready for human ears. If Brandon sounds a little weird, it's because he is joining us from Australia. |
| 1:19.1 | Hello from Down Under. That's commitment. I love it. |
| 1:21.5 | It's amazing. It's just magical to think that our queer voices are bouncing through outer space. I don't really |
| 1:30.1 | know how Skype works, but I'm assuming there's a lot of black magic that's involved right now. |
| 1:35.4 | Black magic, queer magic. Exactly. Speaking of queer magic, outward in Slate has long been your |
| 1:42.3 | spot for smart, fresh coverage of LGBTQ life, thought, |
| 1:46.6 | and culture. And in this monthly podcast, we're going to bring you even more of that stuff. |
| 1:52.1 | And so the way we're going to do it is each episode is going to be focused around a different |
| 1:56.9 | theme. And we'll do segments sort of riffing on that theme. And I wonder if Brandon |
| 2:02.8 | can tell us from down under what the theme this month is going to be. I would love to. So |
| 2:08.4 | today we're talking about roots, as in the stuff at the root of our queer identities. We'll be |
| 2:15.4 | talking about our own roots, of course, and in a segment called |
| 2:18.1 | Straight Studies, we'll also be looking into whether our hetero, cisgender friends have any |
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