Outward: The "Queer Media" Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
This month on Outward hosts Christina Cauterucci, Bryan Lowder, and New America’s Brandon Tensley discuss queer media. With so many queer publications either shuttering or in some state of flux, they decided to dig into our own world a bit and looking at current mainstream and independent media outlets and those from the past. They spoke with Jason Baumann of the New York Public Library about their new exhibit Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50, and the new collection The Stonewall Reader featuring queer writing from before, during and after the Stonewall riot. Then they’re joined by Autostraddle co-founder and CEO Riese Bernard to discuss the origins of her site and how it fosters such a special sense of community.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello, and welcome to this lovely February edition of Outward. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Brian Louder, your faithful editor, and the only Valentine's Day present I want |
| 0:24.1 | is a role of duct tape from Tignotaro's Super Butch Engineer character on Star Trek Discovery. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm Christina Cauderucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Waves, Slate's podcast |
| 0:34.5 | about women and gender, and I'm still quelling over the baby butch I saw at the grocery store last night, buying a little bouquet of roses and a teddy bear with her lesbro. |
| 0:45.9 | Oh, so cute. |
| 0:48.4 | And I'm Brandon Tensley, the associate editor at New America and a contributing writer at Pacific Standard Magazine, and I'm still |
| 0:54.5 | basking in the glow and glitter and gay y-hawing, whatever that means, of the Casey Musgraves |
| 0:59.5 | concert I went to a few weeks ago. Follow your era. I am. Don't worry. On this month's episode, |
| 1:05.3 | we're going to talk about queer media. Something you may have noticed has recently been in a state |
| 1:10.2 | of flux, we'll say. |
| 1:11.9 | So we'll use a recent BuzzFeed article by Trish Bendix to anchor us in a conversation about |
| 1:16.3 | the state and purpose of queer media before talking to the New York Public Library's |
| 1:20.9 | Jason Bowman to give us a longer, broader view of the history of queer publications. |
| 1:25.8 | We'll also speak with Reese Bernard, the co-founder |
| 1:27.9 | and CEO of Otto Strattel, to give us a peek into what it's like to run an independent |
| 1:32.2 | queer media site today. And then we'll finish up with our usual gay agenda. |
| 1:36.8 | But first, we are going to kick things off with a round of pride and provocation. |
| 1:44.9 | Brendan, what are you proud of or provoked by this month? |
| 1:48.1 | So I am provoked. |
| 1:49.9 | I know, I know. |
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