Outward: The "Spirituality" Edition
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This month on Outward hosts Christina Cauterucci, Bryan Lowder, and New America’s Brandon Tensley look for queer spirituality. Where do we find it if not in a church? First they’re joined by producer Daniel Schroeder to talk about astrology, enneagrams, and the ways they embrace queer magic. Then they interview artist Leo Herrera about his new series the FATHERS Project, a video series that seeks to answer the question, what if AIDS never existed? Then they get a call from Laura Root of Affirmation where she shares her experience reconciling her Latter Day Saints faith with her life as a gay woman. Then they tackle an advice question about sexual attraction, and as always recommend pieces for the gay agenda.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:14.5 | Hello and welcome to Outwards December 2018 episode. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Christina Kaudrucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Waves, Slate's podcast about women and gender. |
| 0:26.3 | And I hope that everyone here has watched the Netflix Christmas movie The Princess Switch in preparation for the inevitable queer sequels, the Princess Top and The Princess Bottom. |
| 0:36.9 | I have not, but... |
| 0:38.9 | It's so good. |
| 0:39.6 | Rotten Tomatoes tells me that it has 89%, so I don't know what I'm doing. |
| 0:42.7 | Actually, that's... I love it, but that's still somehow surprised me. |
| 0:46.1 | That's amazing. I'm Brian Lauder, editor of Outward, and I am just here to offer you your |
| 0:51.8 | annual reminder that Lady Gaga once recorded a Christmas song that is |
| 0:57.3 | about Christmas trees and sex and includes the immortal lyric, oh, oh, Christmas, my Christmas trees, |
| 1:06.1 | delicious. |
| 1:07.8 | So go listen to that. |
| 1:09.3 | I forgot about that song. |
| 1:10.5 | I also love your... Go listen to that if you |
| 1:12.1 | if you haven't heard it in a while or I've never heard it and it'll give you all the festivity that |
| 1:16.4 | you could desire. And I'm Brandon Tensley, the associate editor at New America and a contributing writer at |
| 1:22.0 | Pacific Standard Magazine. And to be honest, I'm just glad that it's once again Mariah Carey season. Have y'all seen the adorable video of her singing All I Want for Christmas is You with her kids as her backup singers? No, I haven't. Maybe I should. Yeah, it came out like a week ago. But it's a total diva move, and it's totally Mariah Carey. So back to back listening. We have a playlist for our listeners now. |
| 1:45.0 | All right. |
| 1:45.4 | So obviously we're all getting into the holiday spirit of our secular seasonal camp. |
| 1:51.7 | But this time of year is also a time when people embrace other kinds of spirituality sometimes |
| 1:57.6 | more so than they do around the other times of the year. |
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