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Outward | Queer Travel Writing with Alden Jones

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Outward’s Bryan Lowder and Christina Cauterucci talk to Alden Jones, editor of the new anthology, Edge of the World. With essays from Alexander Chee, Daisy Hernández, Edmund White, and more, the collection makes clear that queer travel writing isn’t just overdue—it’s transformative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.2

T's and you find us and wherever we may roam.

0:54.3

I'm Brian Louder, an editor at Slate,

0:56.1

and that little greeting should be a hint that today we're going to be talking about queer travel,

1:00.4

or traveling as queers, or queering travel, maybe all of those things.

1:04.7

Stay tuned, and let's figure it out together.

1:07.1

But first, I'm delighted to be joined by my adventuresome colleague Christina Carter Rucci. It's been a while since we've been together in the virtual studio. Christina, how are you? Good. It's great to see you. And I'm so excited about our topic this week. Yeah. Well, you've had some travel recently. Can you talk a little bit about that? Yeah. So I went to Costa Rica with my family, which was probably the least gay I've

1:29.7

ever been. Because we were at this beach resort where I'm pretty sure my wife and I were some of the

1:34.7

only gay people besides like one teen who looked very queer. And two, we were like, I'm sorry, I

1:40.8

were okay. But my partner and I also went to Japan in February and had a

1:47.9

magnificent time and also went to a lesbian bar in Tokyo that just, I mean, this is everywhere we go,

1:55.3

we try to find a queer bar or something just to like get a taste of the local culture.

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