Slate Money - Money Talks: Business is Bad for Lesbians
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Lesbian businesses are great for the queer women’s community, but making them profitable is a different matter. For this Money Talks, Felix Salmon chats with June Thomas, author of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture, to discuss a unique mix of cultural and economic challenges facing the queer economy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:12.0 | Hello! Welcome to Money Talks from Slate Money, |
| 0:17.0 | where I, Felix Saman of Axios, talk to some of the most wonderful and brilliant people in the world about interesting things. |
| 0:24.2 | This week we have probably the most wonderful and brilliant person in the world. |
| 0:28.6 | June Thomas, welcome. |
| 0:31.0 | Thank you Felix. |
| 0:32.0 | June, who are you and what is your new book? |
| 0:35.0 | I am June Thomas. I was the senior managing producer of Slate Podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | I worked at Slate for 25 years. Now I guess I am a person who writes books and my new book is called |
| 0:48.9 | a place of our own. Six spaces that shaped queer women's culture. The six chapters are the |
| 0:55.3 | lesbian bar, feminist bookstores, the softball diamond, lesbian land, feminist |
| 1:00.9 | sex toy stores, and queer vacation destinations. |
| 1:04.8 | So we're going to talk about some of those six spaces. |
| 1:08.6 | It's all coming up on money talks. |
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| 1:42.0 | June, you have been pretty much. best ever body wash today. |
| 1:50.8 | June you have been pretty much involved in slate money for the best part of a decade in one way or another? That's right and I'm very glad that you asked me to be on slate money talks |
| 1:56.1 | because I didn't know I was doing it at the time but I think I wrote a business book. |
| 2:02.0 | Well I think you wrote an anti-business book. |
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