Hello and welcome to a special slate podcast with the founding editors of

Double X. Slate's longtime women's section. I'm joined today by Emily

Baselon, now a writer for the New York

Times magazine. Welcome Emily. Hey Julia, thank you. And Megan O'Rourke, a critic and

poet and the author of the recent poetry collection, Sun in Days, welcome Megan.

Hello.

And by Hannah Rose and now one of the hosts of NPR's Invisibility.

Welcome, Hannah.

Hi.

It's so fun to have you three in a virtual studio together

and of course our regular listeners know that you guys each pop up

extremely regularly or very regularly on various other slate podcasts including

Double X the Political Cab Fest and the Audio Book Club but we're here today to talk about double X we've

gathered for an Irish wake of sorts we have just announced here at slate that we

are closing double X the section which began as a slate blog,

XX Factor during Hillary Clinton's first campaign for the presidency,

then launched as a standalone site before taking its place

on slate proper, has fostered some of the best work slate

has ever published, and some of the sharpest

voices over the past decade among them, Amanda Hess, Christina Katerucci and Ruth Graham,

but at a moment when matters of gender are vital to our coverage of news, politics, culture, and technology, and

when there's a hunger for family and lifestyle coverage for and by readers of all genders, we've decided

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