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Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast cover image

Are Advice Columns Intrinsically Queer?

Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast

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The Power of Melodramatic Figure in Your Own Head

I think it's really interesting to think about other people's stories often seem implausible in ways that our own stories don't. And like, a total lie is the same as a story that you've like slightly embellished. One of the things that can be really useful in like queer and trans cultures is like leashing the power of the melodramatic figure in your own head. The sense of being terminally unique really resonates with me.

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