Outward: Are Throuples All That Different From Couples?

Love is in the air this month, so hosts Christina Cauterucci, Jules
Gill-Peterson, and Bryan Lowder turn their attention to some very
queer questions of love. First, they discuss a new Spanish film,
Petit Mal, which explores the intimate drama and everyday feelings
of three women in a throuple. Then they consider what is arguably
the hardest kind of love: loving yourself in the wake of great loss
or pain. Recent years have seen a huge growth in the applications
of psychedelic drugs as a treatment strategy for PTSD, depression,
anxiety, and more. Although psychedelics are becoming more popular
with everyone, a lot of queer and trans people have pre-existing
relationships with some of these substances, both in recreational
and therapeutic contexts. The hosts are joined by Dr. Alex Belser,
the leading researcher into queer people’s relationship with
psychedelics, to discuss what these drugs might offer—and get back
from—queers. Items discussed in the show: “Gay Bars and Hookup
Apps”: The February 2021 episode of Outward that focused on Lex and
other dating apps for women The official trailer for Petit Mal
Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic
Medicine, edited by Alex Belser, Clancy Cavnar, and Beatriz C.
Labate “Does the Queer Scene Have a Ketamine Problem?” by Delilah
Friedler in Rolling Stone “10 Calls to Action: Toward an
LGBTQ-Affirmative Psychedelic Therapy,” by Alex Belser Gay Agenda
Christina: Aftersun, written and directed by Charlotte Wells Bryan:
The legacy of Charles Silverstein, who died on Jan. 30, 2023 Jules:
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous
Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, by Saidiya V.
Hartman This podcast was produced by June Thomas. Please send
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