Outward: The "Scene" Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This month on Outward hosts Christina Cauterucci, Bryan Lowder, and New America’s Brandon Tensley discuss the queer scene. What does that word even mean? How many scenes are there? And where do we all fit in? First they’re joined by Slate’s own June Thomas to talk about the definition of scene, and how everyone found their own. Then they wade into the debate of Pete Buttigieg and why he’s such a big part of the queer conversation right now. And finally former Slatester Shirley Chan comes on to talk about the difficulty of finding bi culture, and what it one day may look like.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello and welcome back to Outward. I'm Brian Louder. I edit Outward here at Slate. |
| 0:19.3 | And no, I'm not crying at the tails of the city Netflix trailer. You are. I'm louder. I edit outward here at Slate. And no, I'm not crying at the Tales of the City |
| 0:22.0 | Netflix trailer. You are. I'm Christina Kottorucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the |
| 0:27.8 | Waves. Slate's podcast about women and gender. And I am out here representing the fems whose |
| 0:33.5 | eyeliner hangs on by sheer force of will all through this fucking allergy season. |
| 0:39.4 | I swear my eyebrows are itching right now. |
| 0:41.2 | It's so bad. |
| 0:41.9 | And I'm Brandon Tensley, the associate editor at New America and a contributing writer at Pacific Standard Magazine. |
| 0:48.6 | And I'm just happy that we are finally back to Rose A season. |
| 0:52.0 | You would be. |
| 0:53.6 | Brandon, would you say that rosé is part of a certain |
| 0:58.5 | gay summer scene? 100% Carly Ray and Roseanne all day. That is fascinating. Do you have a |
| 1:04.7 | thing that says that on it? I'll be surprised if you don't. I should wear one to our live show |
| 1:09.2 | this summer. Yeah, you should. Well, it's fascinating that you would say that because it just so happens that our show this month is all about the scene in queer life. Now, we've all met those queers who aren't into the scene or define themselves as non-seen, and what exactly they're talking about is going to be part of our discussion today. But we're also going to look at the scene in other ways. |
| 1:29.3 | How many are there and how do they inform our identities as queer people? |
| 1:33.2 | Do we expect our political figures and leaders to be a part of one? |
| 1:36.8 | That's right. |
| 1:37.6 | We're going to talk about Pete Boot Edge Edge. |
| 1:40.7 | And we'll find... |
| 1:41.5 | And we'll also find out why it can be a struggle for by folks to find a scene of their own. |
| 1:48.0 | All that, plus we've got our regular PNPs and updates to the gay agenda. |
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