Outward | The New Lavender Scare with Christina Cauterucci

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this episode, Christina Cauterucci and Jules Gill-Peterson discuss Christina’s latest Slate article, The New Lavender Scare, which highlights the experiences of queer and trans federal employees grappling with the threat of retaliation, job loss, and a chilling political climate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Outward Slate's LGBT podcast coming to you today, hot from the DMV.
0:23.7	And no, I don't mean the place you stand in line for a driver's license.
0:28.4	I'm not in the middle of renewing mine.
0:29.9	Talking about the DMV as in District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia region.
0:35.1	I'm Jewel-Petersson, and although I don't live in D.C. proper. I am in the
0:39.8	broader DMV, expanded universe, but I do have to confess, this is actually the second
0:46.5	national capital region that I have lived in in the course of my extremely young and very
0:52.2	glamorous life. I've also previously lived in Ottawa, which is the
0:56.8	capital of, and this is true, I just looked it up, the sovereign country of Cantha. Not for long.
1:02.1	Yeah. Oh. Hi, Gules. I'm Christina Cotarucci. Great to be here with you. Calling Baltimore, yes, it's part of the DMV.
1:12.9	Oh my God. Do not come for me. Oh, my God. We're starting this episode, fighting everybody.
1:19.8	Well, I don't know. I thought it, okay, well, I hang out all over Maryland, okay? You don't, you don't know. You don't know what I'd do. Okay, fine, I'm not. I'm not. I'm just,
1:29.7	I'm just moonlighting today in the DMV. Thank you for having me in your fabulous region.
1:34.6	That's true. I don't think about us that often as being in the same capital region, but we really are.
1:39.0	How have you been coping with the Canada of it all these days? Are you in sense at our intrusion? I mean, I am.
1:46.5	I mean, you know, no one would accuse me of being a nationalist. But, you know, I'll put it this way.
1:57.0	People in Canada are very stressed and they call me and they talk to me yes and they talk to me
2:04.2	about how they're feeling and it's a lot yeah it's not great it's not great you know I'm I'm
2:08.9	personally very bearish on some kind of actual annexation I don't think that's about to happen
2:14.7	but it is very sad to see all the economic destruction that is happening.
2:19.4	So it's stressful times. Being a transsexual Canadian is like not the best play for 2025, but you know, you take the hand that you're dealt.
2:27.7	Are your friends asking you to do something about it? Are they asking you to use all of your influence in the U.S. government?
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