Wow. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding

what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock.

Hey friends hope you're all hanging in there with whatever weird whether you're

having or possibly not having this week's interview is going to be late and I know that I could just make it

late and not say anything and no one would care. But I also know that I really intentionally don't talk a lot about my personal life on this

podcast. And I thought maybe I would tell you all of the reasons why this podcast was late

in an effort to let you get to know me a little bit more

and let you know what's going on in my life because I know that some people want

that. However if you don't want that, that's totally fine.

Please just delete this episode. There will be an actual episode really soon.

This is only for people who think it would be fun for me to just ramble for an indeterminate amount of time about all the things that have

happened to me in the last week.

I will say they are all related to being trans, which is why I am talking about them on a show about being trans. I also want to give a content

warning for food restriction, mentions of disordered eating, mentions of the existence of transphobia, and mentions of the existence of hate crimes.

If you are currently restricting your food, I would prefer that you did not listen to this episode.

Oh, but also I'm okay, so don't spend this whole episode

worrying about me. So, I have a bunch of reasons why this podcast is late. I am going to approach

them in order from least personal to most personal, just like myself up.

So the first reason is that I've been very busy. I hiked for a couple days with someone who I will talk about later

and then I went to the XO XO Festival.

If you have not heard of this, XO is a conference that happens every year.

It's an experimental festival about the internet and creative people and it's really hard to describe.

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