Outward: Mercury Stardust Helps Queer People Feel Safe and Sound at Home

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It’s September. Are you ready to warm up your muscles as the temperatures dip and get your apartment all cozy for the cuffing season to come? If so, Outward has you covered. First, listeners Elizabeth and Peter respond to last month’s discussion of Amazon’s film adaptation of Red, White & Royal Blue. Then the hosts talk with sports journalist Katie Barnes about their new book Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates, which tells the remarkable story of how sports have been gendered long before today’s anti-trans panic. After that, they’re joined by writer and TikTok-er extraordinaire Mercury Stardust, who is known as the “Trans Handy Ma’am” for her DIY home-repair videos. Mercury’s new book, Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair, blends stunning illustrations and emotional-processing breaks with how-to guides for making your apartment into a sanctuary. The hosts end the show, as always, with some new additions to the Gay Agenda. Items discussed in the show: “Bottoms Queers the High-School Comedy,” the Culture Gabfest’s discussion of the movie, with Christina “Power Bottoms,” by Rachel Handler, on Vulture Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates, by Katie Barnes Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair, by Mercury Stardust The Safe and Sound book tour Gay Agenda Bryan: “What Happens When You’re Almost Out of Testosterone–and You Live in Florida,” by Nico Lang Christina: Deadloch, on Amazon Prime Jules: People Collide, by Isle McElroy This podcast was produced by 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	Hi everybody and welcome to Outwood Slate's show about everything lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer.
0:24.1	I am Jules Gil Peterson, and this is my brain after listening to Kali Minogue's tension 30 times in a row.
0:31.8	So if I just sputter out into nonsensical robot interludes during this episode.
0:37.9	You'll know why.
0:40.4	I'm Brian Lauder.
0:41.8	I'm an editor at Slate.
0:43.3	And am I a bad gay because I haven't listened to that yet?
0:45.9	I feel like I, I feel like I'm behind.
0:48.1	Oh my God.
0:48.5	Okay, I will, actually, let's pause the recording.
0:50.5	The straight numbers are growing.
0:58.2	I'm Christina Cotterucci, a senior writer at Slate, and I'm fresh back from Philly where some of our Slate colleagues and I went to the
1:06.1	NLGJA conference or as June Thomas pronounces it, negligee. Well, I just have to ask this question. Do you,
1:16.6	do you feel what I feel? The crisp rustle of autumn leaves, that closet full of chunky
1:25.0	sweaters, what's calling your name. Okay, well, let's be real. Maybe you're
1:31.4	feeling it or maybe you don't thanks to climate change. There is literally a hurricane off the
1:35.5	coast of New England right now where I'm recording. But the calendar says it's September.
1:41.8	And if you're ready to warm up your muscles as the temperatures dip,
1:47.1	or get your apartment all cozy for cuffing season that's on its way, we have got you covered.
1:55.3	First, we're going to be talking to sports journalist Katie Barnes about their new book,
2:00.4	Fair Play, How Sports Shape the Gender Debates,
2:03.9	which tells us the remarkable story of how sports have actually been gendered way before today's anti-trans panics.
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