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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Prudence is joined this week by Ella Baker, a trans lesbian writer and the host of How to Be Trans, a platform celebrating thriving transgender lives.
Prudie and Baker tackle letters about what to do when your girlfriend allows a strange coworker to live in your apartment while you’re away traveling, how to know if you quit your volunteer job for the right reasons, what to know when you discover you have herpes even though you’ve never had sexual contact, how to know if the rules you’re imposing for your 12 year-old daughter’s sleepover are transphobic.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon music. |
| 0:03.3 | Just a reminder that the Dear Prudence podcast happens twice a week. |
| 0:07.0 | Slate Plus members get an additional mini episode every Friday. |
| 0:10.8 | Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash pruddypod. |
| 0:16.5 | Hello, Pruddy listeners. Just a quick note, due to a technical issue, the first minute of our guest is from a phone recording. The sound quality will get better once we start reading letters, so there's no need to panic. Okay, let's start the show. |
| 0:32.5 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Do you think that I always I am your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Danny M. Lavery. |
| 1:04.2 | With me in the studio this week is an old, old college friend, Ella Baker, a trans lesbian writer and host of How to Be Trans, a platform |
| 1:13.1 | celebrating thriving transgender lives. |
| 1:15.5 | Ella, welcome to the show. |
| 1:17.8 | Yeah, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:19.4 | It's so good to reconnect with you this way. |
| 1:21.4 | It is so wonderful. |
| 1:22.9 | And thank you for teaching me how to be trans. |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:25.5 | And I just, I know we can't just, like, |
| 1:29.5 | reminisce about, like, being closeted little trans kids at a Christian college in suburban |
| 1:35.0 | Los Angeles all hour, but I want to. Yeah, it's worth a reminiscing for sure. Yeah. I'll just say |
| 1:42.9 | that you are one of the highlights of college then, and you're one of the |
| 1:46.2 | highlights of my Tuesday today. Oh, thank you so much. Yeah. Okay. Well, we will, I'm sure, be able to |
| 1:55.4 | find ways to work our fascinating histories to the episode today, But I think I should get us started with our |
| 2:03.5 | first letter, which, by the way, I included some language in here that I would normally edit |
| 2:09.8 | out if only because it made the letter a little bit too long. But I think it's useful for |
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