Christina Cauterucci
@c-cauterucci.bsky.social
Slate senior writer / host of Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs / co-host of Outward, Slate's podcast about queer life
Almost 10 years ago, I bought a gun for a Slate reporting project that never panned out. I detested guns. I thought we should ban them all. I couldn't wait to get rid of it.
This is the story of how my feelings changed.
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This is the story of how my feelings changed.
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Conservatives Are Terrified That People Like Me Are Buying Guns Now. Maybe They Should Be.
We’re here. We’re queer. Increasingly, we’re armed.
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February 11, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Almost 10 years ago, I bought a gun for a Slate reporting project that never panned out. I detested guns. I thought we should ban them all. I couldn't wait to get rid of it.
This is the story of how my feelings changed.
slate.com/life/2026/02...
This is the story of how my feelings changed.
slate.com/life/2026/02...
Here's a story, a decade in the making, about my love/hate relationship with the handgun in my living room.
slate.com/life/2026/02...
slate.com/life/2026/02...
Conservatives Are Terrified That People Like Me Are Buying Guns Now. Maybe They Should Be.
We’re here. We’re queer. Increasingly, we’re armed.
slate.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Here's a story, a decade in the making, about my love/hate relationship with the handgun in my living room.
slate.com/life/2026/02...
slate.com/life/2026/02...
so exciting - congrats!!
December 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
so exciting - congrats!!
ty Shannon!!
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
ty Shannon!!
Trump is concocting a world that rewards unabashedly manufactured femininity. Who better to capitalize on it than the company that insists the sexiest thing in the world is a stiff, sculpted bra that hides our softest body parts behind a wall of foam?
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Victoria’s Secret Is Returning to “Sexy.” You’re Not Going to Like Why.
I hate to be the person who brings up Donald Trump in conversations about thongs, but ...
slate.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Trump is concocting a world that rewards unabashedly manufactured femininity. Who better to capitalize on it than the company that insists the sexiest thing in the world is a stiff, sculpted bra that hides our softest body parts behind a wall of foam?
slate.com/life/2025/10...
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In this "darkest moment" for climate activism, Bill McKibben is trying to recapture the magic of the first Earth Day, when so much more seemed possible. Can a message of beauty, collective liberation, and the magic of the sun resonate in today's cynical, politically polarized times?
The Old Climate-Activism Playbook No Longer Works. What Else Can?
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September 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In this "darkest moment" for climate activism, Bill McKibben is trying to recapture the magic of the first Earth Day, when so much more seemed possible. Can a message of beauty, collective liberation, and the magic of the sun resonate in today's cynical, politically polarized times?
Climate activists told me that they're having to completely rethink their strategies.
That the window for stopping warming "has closed, and perhaps never really existed.”
That "everything that I’ve worked on in my entire professional life has gone down the toilet in the last six months.”
That the window for stopping warming "has closed, and perhaps never really existed.”
That "everything that I’ve worked on in my entire professional life has gone down the toilet in the last six months.”
The Old Climate-Activism Playbook No Longer Works. What Else Can?
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Climate activists told me that they're having to completely rethink their strategies.
That the window for stopping warming "has closed, and perhaps never really existed.”
That "everything that I’ve worked on in my entire professional life has gone down the toilet in the last six months.”
That the window for stopping warming "has closed, and perhaps never really existed.”
That "everything that I’ve worked on in my entire professional life has gone down the toilet in the last six months.”
For the NYT Magazine, I wrote about this moment as an existential turning point for climate activists.
Just as solar power became cheaper than fossil fuels, global politics swung to the right. Where does the movement go from here? I went to Vermont for creemees with Bill McKibben to find out.
Just as solar power became cheaper than fossil fuels, global politics swung to the right. Where does the movement go from here? I went to Vermont for creemees with Bill McKibben to find out.
The Old Climate-Activism Playbook No Longer Works. What Else Can?
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
For the NYT Magazine, I wrote about this moment as an existential turning point for climate activists.
Just as solar power became cheaper than fossil fuels, global politics swung to the right. Where does the movement go from here? I went to Vermont for creemees with Bill McKibben to find out.
Just as solar power became cheaper than fossil fuels, global politics swung to the right. Where does the movement go from here? I went to Vermont for creemees with Bill McKibben to find out.
they yassified Amanda Knox
August 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
they yassified Amanda Knox
I wrote about the first indelible image of Trump's D.C. invasion: a sandwich bouncing off a bulletproof vest.
The Image That Defines Trump’s Reign of Terror Is … a Subway Sandwich?
Sometimes, the only way to fight fascism is with a $5 footlong.
slate.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I wrote about the first indelible image of Trump's D.C. invasion: a sandwich bouncing off a bulletproof vest.
Reposted by Christina Cauterucci
“The D.C. public spaces that will be militarized and overpoliced in the weeks to come are exactly where you can best observe the interdependence and plurality that make cities great, and that conservatives view as a threat to their own ideological ends.”
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I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here.
It’s not what the president would have you believe.
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August 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“The D.C. public spaces that will be militarized and overpoliced in the weeks to come are exactly where you can best observe the interdependence and plurality that make cities great, and that conservatives view as a threat to their own ideological ends.”
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I took a stroll through D.C., trying to see my city through the tactical Oakleys of a DEA agent patrolling the National Mall
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I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here.
It’s not what the president would have you believe.
slate.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I took a stroll through D.C., trying to see my city through the tactical Oakleys of a DEA agent patrolling the National Mall
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I really wish the phrase "WNBA dildos" had come into my life in a more positive and celebratory (read: merch) context but this is the society we live in
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It’s Raining Dildos on WNBA Courts. You’ll Never Believe Who’s to Blame.
The WNBA needs to get tough on spectators behaving badly.
slate.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I really wish the phrase "WNBA dildos" had come into my life in a more positive and celebratory (read: merch) context but this is the society we live in
slate.com/culture/2025...
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Reposted by Christina Cauterucci
Probably the most ridiculous photo illustration I've ever had to cook up in my almost 12 years at @slate.com. (And I've done some doozies.) Shouts to @c-cauterucci.bsky.social for breaking down one of the most idiotic things going on in pro sports right now. slate.com/culture/2025...
It’s Raining Dildos on WNBA Courts. You’ll Never Believe Who’s to Blame.
The WNBA needs to get tough on spectators behaving badly.
slate.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Probably the most ridiculous photo illustration I've ever had to cook up in my almost 12 years at @slate.com. (And I've done some doozies.) Shouts to @c-cauterucci.bsky.social for breaking down one of the most idiotic things going on in pro sports right now. slate.com/culture/2025...
excellent work 🎖️
August 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
excellent work 🎖️
hmm I agree
this piece is so firmly in the news-story-to-streaming-series pipeline that I hope Christina Cauterucci gets a finders' fee
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A Mysterious Network of Revenge Experts Is Quietly Ruining People’s Lives. That’s Entirely the Point.
Nefarious Jobs can arrange everything from breakups to firings to mortifying public shaming. But the agency won’t do it for just anyone.
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July 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
hmm I agree
a searing and aggressively sensible (and, because it's @benmathislilley.bsky.social, fun) piece on the trap Democrats have laid for themselves and how they can get themselves out
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Democrats Are at a Historic Low Point. A Certain Kind of Advice Brought Them Here—and They Can’t Stop Listening to It.
During the Reagan revolution, Democrats settled on a new way to win—and it’s destroying them now.
slate.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
a searing and aggressively sensible (and, because it's @benmathislilley.bsky.social, fun) piece on the trap Democrats have laid for themselves and how they can get themselves out
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I'm sorry in advance. Once you read this, you won't be able to unsee it.
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For the Love of God, Please Stop Putting Up This One Pride Flag
Do this instead.
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June 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I'm sorry in advance. Once you read this, you won't be able to unsee it.
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that's wonderful!
June 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
that's wonderful!
Reposted by Christina Cauterucci
“Crowds of queer people cheering for rainbow-clad straight people on a day meant to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community—it’s as dissonant as sending a model of a drone down the parade route, and it’s a sign of how far Pride has drifted from its origins as a show of queer visibility and power.”
I Am Beyond Thrilled That Corporations Are Defunding Pride. No, Not for the Reason You Think.
I really think we’ll be fine without the Raytheon float, you guys.
slate.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“Crowds of queer people cheering for rainbow-clad straight people on a day meant to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community—it’s as dissonant as sending a model of a drone down the parade route, and it’s a sign of how far Pride has drifted from its origins as a show of queer visibility and power.”
I wrote about the beginning of the end of corporate Pride, and the possibilities that await us when the companies leave
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I Am Beyond Thrilled That Corporations Are Defunding Pride. No, Not for the Reason You Think.
I really think we’ll be fine without the Raytheon float, you guys.
slate.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I wrote about the beginning of the end of corporate Pride, and the possibilities that await us when the companies leave
slate.com/life/2025/06...
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Reposted by Christina Cauterucci
"But you don’t need the backing of business leaders to host a Pride event. Nor do you need the majority of your neighbors to endorse it. All you need is a few committed residents with a knack for party promotion and the chutzpah to overcome—or ignore—whatever opposition rears up in response."
The Conservative Wave Is Having a Very Unexpected Effect on Pride
Against all odds, small-town Prides are multiplying and thriving—even in the country's most Trump-coded areas.
slate.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"But you don’t need the backing of business leaders to host a Pride event. Nor do you need the majority of your neighbors to endorse it. All you need is a few committed residents with a knack for party promotion and the chutzpah to overcome—or ignore—whatever opposition rears up in response."
Reposted by Christina Cauterucci
"They can’t stop LGBTQ+ communities from supporting and sustaining one another with art, whimsy, and a good dance floor. And they can’t roll back the cultural progress of newly out young people finding more supportive family members, teachers, and care providers." Pride! @c-cauterucci.bsky.social
The Conservative Wave Is Having a Very Unexpected Effect on Pride
Against all odds, small-town Prides are multiplying and thriving—even in the country's most Trump-coded areas.
slate.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
"They can’t stop LGBTQ+ communities from supporting and sustaining one another with art, whimsy, and a good dance floor. And they can’t roll back the cultural progress of newly out young people finding more supportive family members, teachers, and care providers." Pride! @c-cauterucci.bsky.social
I didn't see the full thread - thank you for actually reading the piece!
June 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I didn't see the full thread - thank you for actually reading the piece!
Reposted by Christina Cauterucci
"One seventysomething lesbian couple said they’d moved from Nampa to a blue state 30 years ago, seeking a more affirming community. They returned just for the Pride event and were overcome with emotion by what they saw. “I cried like 50 percent of the day,” Knapp said."
You Might Think Trump Has Destroyed Gay Pride in Conservative America. It’s Quite the Opposite.
Against all odds, small-town Prides are multiplying and thriving—even in the country's most conservative areas.
slate.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"One seventysomething lesbian couple said they’d moved from Nampa to a blue state 30 years ago, seeking a more affirming community. They returned just for the Pride event and were overcome with emotion by what they saw. “I cried like 50 percent of the day,” Knapp said."