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This month Bryan, Christina, and Jules explore the intersection of queer life and incarceration. How has America\u2019s prison-loving penal system shaped our history and present, and how does that experience get channeled\u2014or not\u2014into the culture we make and consume? The hosts are joined by Hugh Ryan, author of the new book The Women\u2019s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, which uses one infamous mid-century institution in New York\u2019s Greenwich Village to return the overlooked lives of incarcerated women and transmasculine folks to our collective story, and to make a stirring case for prison abolition as a queer issue. Then they discuss how prison shows up in pop culture\u2014and whether they\u2019re entirely comfortable with those fantasies.\nItems discussed in the show:\nSelling Sunset\nTwo recent articles on phalloplasty: \u201cHow Ben Got His Penis,\u201d by Jamie Lauren Keiles in the New York Times, and \u201cMy Penis Myself,\u201d by Gabriel Mac in New York\nOriginal Plumbing\n\u201cMadison Cawthorn Thrusting His Naked Body on Another Man\u2019s Face Doesn\u2019t Tell Us Much About His \u2018Gayness,\u2019 \u201d by Bryan in Slate\nNot Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, by Jane Ward\nThe Women\u2019s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, by Hugh Ryan\nWhen Brooklyn Was Queer, by Hugh Ryan\nHuey P. Newton\u2019s 1970 speech on the women\u2019s liberation and gay liberation movements\nChained Heat 2\nOrange Is the New Black\nGay Agenda\nChristina: Great Freedom\nJules: The Vice series Transnational\nBryan: From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium, by Justin Elizabeth Sayres\n\nThis podcast was produced by\xa0June Thomas.\nPlease send feedback, topic ideas, and advice questions to\xa0outwardpodcast@slate.com.\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices