Outward: Living for the Dead Queers the Ghost-Hunting Genre

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The spooky season is upon us, so hosts Christina Cauterucci, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Bryan Lowder discuss Living for the Dead, the new queer ghost-hunting reality show from the creators of Queer Eye. The show, now streaming on Hulu, is narrated by the disembodied voice of Kristen Stewart, a haunting many of us would welcome. The hosts end the show, as always, with some new additions to the Gay Agenda. Please note, starting in November, Outward will be appearing in your feeds more often, so be sure to subscribe. Items discussed in the show: Trans Data Library Living for the Dead, on Hulu Gay Agenda Christina: Autostraddle’s coverage of Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger’s divorce Jules: JewishCurrents’ “Dispatches From Gaza” Bryan: Queer witch @Riotaddams This podcast was produced by Palace Shaw and June Thomas. Please send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to outwardpodcast@slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome to Outward Slate Show about queer life and culture, both on this
0:20.9	side of the veil and in the lands beyond.
0:23.8	I'm Brian Louder, I'm an editor at Slate, and if you need me this Halloween, Sowing
0:28.4	season, I'll be waiting for the great gay pumpkin and the most sincere Whole Foods decorative
0:33.6	gorg display I can find.
0:35.6	Do you want to come with?
0:37.6	Oh, 100% I'm so there.
0:41.5	I am Jewel's Guild Peterson, noted Al Vyra, look alike.
0:48.2	I'm Christina Kauraruchi, senior writer at Slate, and am I supposed to know what Sowing
0:54.1	means?
0:55.7	Well, I think on today's show we might learn, it is the Wiccan holiday.
1:01.1	Oh my God.
1:03.1	It's Halloween.
1:04.1	Remove my gay card from my wallet.
1:07.1	No, seriously, I thought it was an adjective, my bad.
1:11.1	Yeah, it's the which is new here.
1:14.4	So speaking of Halloween and all things, which we have a lot of that on our show today,
1:20.7	so first, I just want to share with everyone that we're going to be switching things up
1:24.7	a bit starting this month.
1:26.9	You're going to start to see a lot more of us in your feeds, which is very exciting with
1:32.0	shorter and different sorts of episodes dropping most weeks, and we'll even have some
1:36.1	new voices occasionally joining the mix.
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