Have you ever thought about what the world is like as you get older? It can be hard. Even harder if you're a woman. And harder still if you're gay. Or transgender. If you don't fit in.

Teresa Savage has spent her life not fitting in. And being awesome for it. She runs the website 55 Uppity, which is a site ”about what older dykes and queers and lezzos wear and think and believe.”

She fills us in.

Links from this episode:

Find more cool, older lesbians at 55 Uppity.

The Australian Silver Rainbow Project and the Rainbow Tickhelp make sure retirement is an LGBTI safe place.

Songs in this episode:

Impossible Girl #3 — Kim Bokebinder

Musica Poetica I: Gassenhauer — Carl Orff (Tölzer Knabenchor, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden, Der Kammerchor der staatlichen Hochschule für Musik, München, Fritz Schieri, Stuttgarter Sprechchor, Godela Orff-Büchtemann & Instrumental Ensemble)

Bad Girls — M.I.A.

You're So Cool — Hans Zimmer

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