Hello and welcome to Outward. Slate's podcast about the first woman president of the United States,

trying desperately to get her bisexual son on prep. But more on that later, I'm Christina

Kateruchi, a senior writer at Slate. It's great to be back with you guys. Yes, I am

Jules Gil Peters and that's your royal highness to all of us. I am Ryan Lauder. I'm an

editor at Slate. So I was gonna say like, oh, it's our last podcast of the summer. But in this

era of climate catastrophe and also not being in school anymore, I kind of feel like summer

last through the end of September. So listeners, I hope y'all are enjoying the middle of summer,

which is nowhere close to ending. We still have much of it left. And I'm so excited for our show

this month because we have two topics to discuss that truly span the full range of cultural

and political sophistication. First, we're going to review red, white, and royal blue, the new

adaptation of Casey McQuiston's best-selling gay romance novel. It's out on Amazon Prime now,

and it features two men with, I would say, almost identical bodies. It's heavier on the

rom than the calm, although it professes to be both. And it is really apolitical as anything,

despite having a presidential election as one of the major moving parts of the story.

Then for our second topic, we are going to talk to Pigeon Pagones, a brilliant intersex

activist and educator who's out with a new book called Nobody Needs To Know. The book

is part memoir of their childhood and coming of age and part creditor about their work to stop

non-consensual surgeries on intersex kids. That is going to be an amazing conversation. I'm thrilled

that Pigeon is going to be here with us. And I'm really excited to hear about both of you have to

think about both of these things. But first, Brian, what's in our mailbox this month?

Christina, I'm so happy because we've got a bunch of mail in our mailbox this month. We'd

love to hear from you guys. And yeah, it just warms our hearts to see those responses. So,

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