Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Lesbians in Paris … and in Period Dramas
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🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This month, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan are first joined by Diana Souhami, whose new book, No Modernism Without Lesbians, tells the story of Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, Gertrude Stein, and the artistic community they built in Paris between the wars. Then June Thomas joins them for a discussion of the recent spate of period dramas featuring women in love. Why can’t the women in these films get a little electricity or running water?
Items discussed on the show:
Dan D’Addario on Colton Underwood’s coming out, in Variety
Daniel Schroeder on what Underwood’s coming out revealed about the Bachelor franchise, in Slate
“Transgender Childhood Is Not a ‘Trend’,“ by Jules Gill-Peterson in the New York Times
No Modernism Without Lesbians, by Diana Souhami
Saturday Night Live’s take on lesbian period dramas
Ammonite
Carol
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (and Slate Spoiler Special episode)
The World to Come
Gay Agenda
Bryan: The Lady and the Dale on HBOMax
Rumaan: Julie Mehretu’s exhibit at the Whitney Museum, and the New York Times T Magazine conversation between Mehretu and her former partner Jessica Rankin
June: The audiobook Hoosier Daddy, by Ann McMan and Salem West, and Not the Real Jupiter, by Barbara Wilson
Christina: Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians, by JEB, and June’s interview with JEB on Slate’s Working podcast about the making of the book
This podcast was produced by Margaret Kelley.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the April 2021 edition of Outward. I'm Brian Louder, editor of Outward, |
| 0:18.6 | and I have a ruling from the Queer Council to deliver, |
| 0:23.3 | yes, very important, which is that while regular daffodils are exempt from identity politics, |
| 0:29.5 | those ones with the insane, gaudy, orange centers are officially gay. |
| 0:33.9 | It's honestly far, far too much, and we love you for it. |
| 0:36.8 | Thank you, orange daffodils. I always for it. Thank you, orange daffodils. |
| 0:39.3 | I always wondered why I was attracted to those daffodils. |
| 0:43.1 | I'm Christina Cotterucci, a senior writer at Slate, and because I preach the gospel of Lil Nas X, |
| 0:50.7 | I'll be spending the last few weeks of my post-vaccination life practicing the lap dance that I'll use to seduce and murder Satan himself. |
| 1:00.9 | I don't know about you guys. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm Ramon Alam. I am a co-host of this show and of Slates working. |
| 1:10.9 | And I have very little to say right now because I feel like I am on some kind of drug related to seasonal allergy. |
| 1:19.0 | Although I'm actually not taking, I'm not taking a drug, which might mitigate these particular symptoms. |
| 1:23.4 | But it feels like I'm looking at everything through a glass wall at the moment. |
| 1:27.3 | I feel absolutely crazy. But this two will pass like I'm looking at everything through a glass wall at the moment. I feel absolutely crazy. |
| 1:29.3 | But this two will pass. |
| 1:31.4 | I am looking forward to getting outside. |
| 1:32.9 | And like Christina said, post-Vax life is on its way. |
| 1:35.9 | And I'm, I don't know. |
| 1:38.6 | I feel it's like it's almost precipitated like a break, psychic break with the way I feel |
| 1:44.1 | of gratitude and just sort of like |
| 1:46.4 | the overwhelming feeling of what lies ahead for all of us. I'm so excited. Same. Yeah. My, |
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