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Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Being Trans and Polyamorous with Kat Blaque

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8651 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week, Hannah chats to YouTuber Kat Blaque about how and why she shifted from genderqueer to a binary identity, choosing to define herself as who she knew she really was. Kat also talks us through what it meant to be ‘Done’ with her transition, and how Passing & Stealth are both strategies for survival as a trans person. They also discuss Kat’s discovery of polyamory, and how she realised one person doesn’t have to meet all your needs. Finally, they compare open relationships and polyamory, exploring the similarities & differences.

Kat: https://twitter.com/kat_blaque

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Transcript

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0:00.0

A friend of mine is a unicorn, and she was sending me screenshots of dating bios,

0:05.3

and it would either be the unicorn emoji to signify that they are the unicorn or being, like, looking for.

0:11.4

And I was like, oh my God, this completely passed me by. I have no idea.

0:17.3

Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.

0:28.2

Why, hello there, dear listener, welcome back. So this is another episode from my LA recordings. And it is with Cat Black, who is an amazing YouTuber.

0:40.0

She makes a lot of social commentary videos and stuff about politics.

0:44.3

She has this brilliant series called True Tea,

0:46.9

where she shares her opinions and personal stories,

0:51.1

such as her experiences with sexual assault,

0:53.8

and more recently, talking very

0:55.6

openly about polyamory and being a trans black woman. In this episode, I visited Kat at her home

1:02.3

in L.A., and we talked about everything from her coming out experience at college and online,

1:08.3

the politics of passing as a trans person person and how she found the polyamorous

1:13.3

community. I hope you enjoy this episode. Hey, thanks so much, Kat, for having me in your

1:20.7

flat or apartment. Thank you for coming. So I just think that the listeners will get so much from hearing your story and your experience. Tell us a little bit about yourself and like who you are. Oh my God, it's just an existential question. Who are you? Who am I? Well, my name is Catherine. I'm 28 years old. I live in Los Angeles and I've been a YouTuber since I was 15 years old. Oh, wow.

1:44.7

Yeah, I've been on basically YouTube since it started.

1:47.4

Are those videos still public?

1:49.7

They are if you know where to look.

1:51.9

Oh, are they on different channels?

1:53.1

Yeah.

1:54.0

I recently, for one of my videos, went back and added like old footage of me and I,

1:58.6

you can still find old 2005, 2006 videos of me if you know

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