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Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

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Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Noah Zazanis, an epidemiologist, writer, and prison abolitionist living in Queens, NY. His writing can be found in The New Inquiry, Pluto Press' Transgender Marxism anthology, and Obstetrics & Gynecology ("The Green Journal"). Lavery and Zazanis tackle two letters. First, from someone hesitating on coming out for fear of never being called the correct pronouns. Another letter writer is wondering if they should walk away from a relationship that they can sense is slipping away.  Slate Plus members get another episode of Big Mood, Little Mood every Friday: sign up now! Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: mood@slate.com Production by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.8

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0:15.1

Just a reminder that BigMood, LittleMood with Daniel and Lavary, happens twice a week.

0:19.2

Slate Plus members get an additional mini-episode or LittleBigMood every Friday.

0:24.0

Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood.

0:30.0

Hello, and welcome back to BigMood, LittleMood. I am your host, Daniel Lavary.

0:52.0

And within the studio this week is Noah Zazainis, an epidemiologist, writer,

0:56.4

and prison abolitionist living in Queens. His writing can be found in the new inquiry,

1:00.7

Pluto presses transgender Marxism anthology, and obstetrics, and gynecology, the green journal.

1:06.7

Noah, welcome to the show.

1:08.8

Thanks, I'm so excited to be here.

1:10.5

You can be found in so many places, and I'm so glad that you're here,

1:15.4

in part because I often enjoy seeing your opinions about the world around us,

1:22.8

the world in which we live.

1:24.4

I'm a big fan of having opinions, so I always appreciate when they're enjoyed.

1:28.7

Yeah, and as we sort of discussed before, we started recording a lot of today's letters

1:33.6

are part of our, I think, shared wheelhouses, and involve a lot of, like,

1:38.6

niches that I think we can speak to fairly well.

1:41.2

Yeah, I'm excited about that. I was looking over these letters and was like,

1:46.3

oh, hell yeah, I'm ready for this. Always ready.

1:48.6

Good, okay. Well then, I think we should just get started immediately,

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