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Welcome to the waves for Thursday, November 29th.

I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's and Visibilia.

In the New York studios, we have June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network.

Good morning, June. Hello, Hannah Rosen. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine. Hi, Noreen. Hi, Hannah. What's going on? Fridgy coldness, and that's all. I know. The last time I saw you, we were in Miami where I wish we were right now. I know. We were wearing sandals. I'm sorry, listeners. I missed that show. It was a really fun show. Anyway, we have another fun show coming up, which is a wintertime Collins show. So if you have any questions for us, especially is it sexist questions? Call 646-907-9-8-59. We'll repeat that number at the end of the show and leave us your questions. We'll play them on air. Okay, let's get started. Our topics today, we have the squad of young female newbies in Congress using social media to chronicle their public lives. Will that change the dynamic for them as women in Congress?

Second, traditional clothing.

Why is it going mainstream?

And finally, we are going to talk about the Hulu show, The Bisexual, by Desiree Acovan, which explores her awkward predicament as a newly discovered bisexual.

That was slightly wrong.

She's not newly discovered. No, she's more that

she explores and comes to terms with and kind of comes out. But you could just say like as a

bisexual out of a 10 year long relationship with a woman or something. I'm going to let June

correct me. It's fine. It's fine. And then in our Slate Plus segment, June, you want to say what we're going to discuss?

Yes. In our Slate Plus segment, we will be asking if the very notion of emotional labor is sexist. And if you want to hear that discussion and support Slate's journalism, you can try a two-week free trial at slate.com slash the waves plus.

All right. Our first topic, Congress exposed on Instagram. So the new squad of women includes

Ayanna Presley, she's from Massachusetts, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York, Ilan Omar of Minnesota,

and Rashida Talib of Michigan. They've been

chronicling their first days in Congress on Instagram, on Facebook, what it's like to go through

the underground tunnel, what kind of swag bags. They give out of training sessions. And yeah,

it's just a whole new view into the first few days of Congress. And I would say because they're

younger, they do it, or at least some of them do it, and we'll get into the details in a way which feels like pretty natural. It's not like that Hillary Clinton way in which it's clear that her young staff is foisting it upon her. So Noreen, do you just want to give, can you just paint a little picture of, I mean, whichever one you spent time on, like, whichever one you think is, like, most evocative of this new style of, of Nubian Congress?

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