Working: A Much-Needed History of Queer Women’s Spaces

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🗓️ 19 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week, host Ronald Young Jr. talks to June Thomas about her new book A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture. In the interview, June explains what it was like to bring journalistic rigor to a world that’s close to her heart. She also discusses her pivot to full-time book writing, the importance of passing history to future generations, and her use of the phrase “queer women” to describe a group that goes well beyond that label. After the interview, Ronald and co-host Isaac Butler talk about culture and identity in their art. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, June designs her ideal queer space. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	dot co-de-e-K slash special offer. I have a mission which is to bring journalistic skills and practices to a world that I had lived in and that I really do love,
1:19.6	but that also I wanted to hold it to account. I didn't want to idealize it.
1:25.0	Welcome back to Working.
1:29.0	I'm your host, Isaac Butler.
1:31.0	And I am your other host, Ronald Young Jr.
1:34.8	Ronald, normally this is the time in the show
1:37.2	where one of us says, oh, whose voice was that
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