Outward: Mercury Stardust Helps Queer People Feel Safe and Sound at Home

It’s September. Are you ready to warm up your muscles as the
temperatures dip and get your apartment all cozy for the cuffing
season to come? If so, Outward has you covered. First, listeners
Elizabeth and Peter respond to last month’s discussion of Amazon’s
film adaptation of Red, White & Royal Blue. Then the hosts talk
with sports journalist Katie Barnes about their new book Fair Play:
How Sports Shape the Gender Debates, which tells the remarkable
story of how sports have been gendered long before today’s
anti-trans panic. After that, they’re joined by writer and
TikTok-er extraordinaire Mercury Stardust, who is known as the
“Trans Handy Ma’am” for her DIY home-repair videos. Mercury’s new
book, Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair,
blends stunning illustrations and emotional-processing breaks with
how-to guides for making your apartment into a sanctuary. The hosts
end the show, as always, with some new additions to the Gay Agenda.
Items discussed in the show: “Bottoms Queers the High-School
Comedy,” the Culture Gabfest’s discussion of the movie, with
Christina “Power Bottoms,” by Rachel Handler, on Vulture Fair Play:
How Sports Shape the Gender Debates, by Katie Barnes Safe and
Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair, by Mercury Stardust
The Safe and Sound book tour Gay Agenda Bryan: “What Happens When
You’re Almost Out of Testosterone–and You Live in Florida,” by Nico
Lang Christina: Deadloch, on Amazon Prime Jules: People Collide, by
Isle McElroy This podcast was produced by June Thomas. Please send
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