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Hello, and welcome back to Outwards Slate's LGBTQ podcast.

I'm Brandon Tensley, the associate editor at New America, and a contributing

writer at Pacific Standard Magazine. And I'm bewitched by Tilda Swinton and masculine drag in

Suspheria, which I've now devoured twice in the past week. I'm Christina Cotteroochie, a staff

writer at Slate and host of The Waves, Slate's podcast about women and gender. And this season,

I am thankful for hot toddies and legal weed. And I'm Brian Lauder, editor of Outward, and I'm still

shook from election night, could not believe how shady Nancy Pelosi's grandchild was being to her on stage.

Did y'all see those eyes rolling?

Yeah, they were, it actually looked kind of out of place to me. I didn't realize who those two

children were just sort of like watching the telephone on mute. It was like all of these old

ass members of Congress and then these children. No, the one in the front was just really giving

it to her. It was hard to pay attention to our presumptive speaker. But anyway, future Republican.

So it's November, that time of year when we're slowly, reluctantly awakening from our

Halloween candy comas and preparing for the holidays. For lots of folks, that probably means

preparing to spend lots and lots of time with their families. But we here at Outward have to ask

with the side of gay SaaS, what is family really? What are its possibilities? On this

month's episode, we're going to challenge the prevailing cultural expectations

that exist around family by talking about chosen families, those social units that many queer

people put together out of necessity. We'll play a game to suss out if some of our favorite

fictional figures are queer family before diving into how we cobbled together our own chosen

families. Then we'll chat with

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