Outward: Counting Queers, Queering Sequels

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Christina Cauterucci and Bryan Lowder welcome our new third co-host, Jules Gill-Peterson, and talk to author Dr. Kevin Guyan about his new book Queer Data. The crew then explores the trans storylines and general weirdness of And Just Like That, the “next chapter” in the Sex and the City universe, before adding more items to the Gay Agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What do I do?
0:01.2	What do I do?
0:02.4	What do I say?
0:03.6	What do I say?
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to the first 2022 episode of Outward.
0:52.0	I'm Christina Cauterucci, a senior writer at Slate, and I want to talk about an Instagram
0:58.2	ad.
0:59.2	Recently, it was for a queer company hyping up a hair pomade.
1:04.8	The hair pomade was made for, according to the ad, women and folks.
1:11.9	The two genders, right?
1:13.1	The two genders.
1:14.1	I mean, it took me a second.
1:17.0	I thought I had misread it, but then, you know, maybe it's just the logical and result
1:21.7	of what queers have been doing for a while now, which is replacing the word people with
1:25.9	folks first on reason, sometimes with an ex, sometimes not, which I'm still waiting
1:31.1	to hear about how that makes it more inclusive.
1:33.1	But it kind of bugged me just because it feels like this is like a bick for her situation.
1:37.7	Totally.
1:38.7	We're existing pomades made for men and not folks inadequate for my womanly hair.
1:45.4	Yeah, it's very, I don't know if you remember this old target, women, sketches, which was
1:49.9	done by that great comedian Sarah Haskins.
1:52.3	It was like making fun of exactly that kind of marketing.
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