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Conspirituality

143: Trans Reality, Trans Possibility (w/Beau Brink)

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

For three years, we’ve covered a forest fire of body fascism, unleashed by the culture wars and the pandemic. With the help of many esteemed guests, we have tracked its hateful and eugenicist impacts on marginalized groups: the disabled, the racialized, the fat, the neurodivergent. We have taken too long to host a trans person who can give us both a front line personal and analytical report on what it feels like, and what it means, to live under the current regime of moral panic and legislative assault. Today we welcome artist and journalist Beau Brink. Beau is a longtime activist and advocate for LGBTQ+ communities, and a member of the Trans Journalists Association. After hours, he’s an outsider artist who works primarily with cosmetics and crafting materials. Please visit the episode page on our website for all of the citation links we didn't have room for here! Beau Brink has created a resource page for this episode, which includes a statement on the labour that went into this episode. It's here. -- -- -- Support us on Patreon Pre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | Julian Original music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Conspirituality Podcast. I'm Matthew Bemsky.

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0:59.0

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1:04.0

And you can pre-order our book out June 13th through the link at the bottom of the show notes for this episode.

1:11.0

This is episode 143. Trans Reality Transpossibility with Bowbrink.

1:21.0

If you've been listening to our show for long enough, you'll know that Conspirituality is a ragged spiderweb of ideas and commitments that tries to map out and stitch together a chaotic world.

1:35.0

It's a tangle of conspiracy theories, positive affirmations, a koschic record readings, transmissions from the Galactic Federation, satanic fetishes, poorly pronounced Sanskrit mantras,

1:47.0

turmeric supplements, and MLM pitches. But all of these ragged threads cover over something more primal. And that would be a pulsing sense of anxiety that we call body fascism.

2:04.0

This is the rigid, armored demand that we must perfect our bodies in order to be healthy, pure, virtuous, worthy of the divine.

2:16.0

It's the defensive, but pious feeling that we individually must exhibit and enforce something we call natural immunity, not only against viruses, but against anything that challenges our sense of moral cleanliness or biological order.

2:35.0

Many vaccine hesitant folks cite reasonable concerns about big pharma profiteering, but those who are truly seized with body fascism seem to believe that any substance entering their bodies from the modern world will overtake and corrupt them.

2:53.0

Some COVID skeptics plausibly wonder whether masking will really help cut transmission, but the hardcore body fascist is insulted by the idea that anything foreign could enter them without their knowing.

3:10.0

Are body fascists bigots? Individual members of the yoga and wellness demographics we study might be explicitly racist, misogynist, homophobic, or anti-trans as they post about free birthing, muscle tone, and green drinks.

3:28.0

But there's a larger contingent whose body fascism is internalized and non-verbal. They nurture a vague but ever-present craving for things to be simpler, older, easier to understand, and homogenous.

3:43.0

They're offered countless consumer choices to feed cravings for purity and virtue.

3:49.0

Bourgeois body fascism looks for order, a slower pace, for a nostalgic but regressed place where the stories of childhood make sense, with princes and princesses played by boys who are boys and girls who are girls, a world in which you don't have to think about JK Rowling's politics.

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