Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast - Power Dynamics and Trans Discrimination
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🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This month, Christina, Bryan, and Rumaan discuss a New York magazine piece about fashion designer Alexander Wang, the dynamics of power and consent, and the swiftly changing norms of gay spaces. Then they’re joined by science writer Riley Black to discuss her recent Slate piece about how science might not be the best tool to argue with those who oppose trans rights.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the March 2021 edition of Outward. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm Christina Cauterucci, a senior writer at Slate. |
| 0:20.6 | And as I bask in the 70 degrees sunshine on this fine DC day, I want to celebrate an often-ignored holiday for the queer community. |
| 0:31.0 | It's a time for cutting sleeves off of t-shirts, cutting legs off of jeans, cutting a few centimeters off your alternative |
| 0:39.4 | lifestyle haircut, cutting your flop top, which I've just invented, into a crop top. |
| 0:45.2 | That's right, it's cutting season for all of us, and a very happy one to all of our listeners |
| 0:51.9 | who celebrate. |
| 0:53.8 | Oh my gosh, I love, I love cutting season, season. Yeah, you've heard of cuffing season. This is |
| 0:58.6 | cutting season. I'm Brian Lauder, editor of Outward, and apropos of cutting season. I am indeed |
| 1:07.8 | that guy in your neighborhood walking around in shorts and a tank top, even though it is just 58 degrees and only kind of sunny. I am indeed that guy in your neighborhood walking around in shorts and a tank top, |
| 1:16.6 | even though it is just 58 degrees and only kind of sunny. I am not sorry about it. My DMs are closed. I really wish I lived in your neighborhood now. That would be such a welcome site. |
| 1:24.0 | I sort of feel like I do, Brian, because that is what I... |
| 1:27.9 | We're all sort of starting this episode by saying the same thing. |
| 1:31.1 | And so I'm going to just add my two cents, which is that I'm Ramon Alam. |
| 1:35.6 | I'm in New York City at 60 degrees. |
| 1:37.8 | The other day, my friend Emily Gould tweeted about having her first shirtless dad working out outside |
| 1:44.0 | sighting of the season. |
| 1:45.6 | And I just thought, like, yes, this is my favorite season. |
| 1:49.0 | This is my absolute favorite season where I'm forced to go to the playground. |
| 1:53.6 | I'm willing myself to be warm, even though it's not entirely warm. |
| 1:58.0 | And there is the shirtless dad doing his chin-ups on the playground equipment. |
| 2:03.9 | It's, you know, it has been a long winter for a lot of people and I think we are about to, if this, if this little panel discussion is any indication, we are on the verge of the next pandemic of spring fever, |
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