Hello and welcome to the August 2020 edition of Outward.

I'm Christina Cauterucci, a staff writer at Slate. And I would like to commend everyone on the internet

making memes about Kamala Harris, the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, as Bet Porter.

And I've decided that this is going to be my version of imagining an audience in their underwear

to get over stage fright. Just every time I see Joe Biden in the news or making a speech, I'm going to imagine him

as Tina Kennard, and that's going to make this terrible, wretched campaign cycle a lot more bearable

for me.

Oh, my God.

I love that so much, especially because that Porter is the patron saint of our show.

Totally.

Of course. That's wonderful.

I like that get out of the, get out the vote strategy, Christina.

It's motivating to me.

I'm Ramon Alam. I'm one of Slate's Karen feeding columnist, and I'm a dad.

So August usually promises, yay, the kids are heading back to school. And that has

been replaced by a sense of creeping dread about Zoom lessons and Google classroom.

But it's just, that's the kind of moment we're in. Yeah. I'm Brian Louder, editor of Outward, and today is a good day because I just got a

surprise package of drag from one of my fairy friends. I'm going to show it. The listeners

won't be able to see it, but look at this emerald green, very sparkling gown. It's like a

full gown. Oh my God.

That's gorgeous.

Like full-length floor gown, zip up. I cannot wait. As my dad would say, every time I bought a new item of clothing in high school, are you going to wear a tank top under that? Because it's too-through. It is too-throat. No, and I probably won't. I probably think of Kristen as bad.

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