EP74: A Coming-Of-Gender Story w/ Jacob Tobia
Let's Talk About It With Taylor Nolan
Wave Podcast Network
3.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Gender nonconforming writer, producer, and performer Jacob Tobia shares their debut memoir “Sissy”. After a book tour, including an appearance on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Jacob chats with Taylor on what is means to be gender nonconforming, to be gender chill, and how to use empathy to fight hate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan. |
| 0:07.9 | I am your host Taylor and I hope you guys are all having a wonderful, wonderful week. |
| 0:12.9 | I hope you guys have taken some time to take care of yourselves and hopefully catch up |
| 0:18.0 | on some of these episodes. |
| 0:20.9 | Last week we covered a new topic that we've never talked about before, for hunting. |
| 0:26.0 | Today we're going to talk about a new topic again, something we've never discussed on |
| 0:31.2 | the pod. |
| 0:32.2 | I'm very, very excited about it. |
| 0:34.9 | I have this wonderful book here that I'm holding called Sissy and it is a coming of gender |
| 0:40.2 | story. |
| 0:41.2 | Today we're going to talk with Jacob, a gender non-conforming writer, producer and performer |
| 0:47.6 | based in LA, as well as a member of both the Forbes 30 under 30 and the Out 100. |
| 0:54.0 | Jacob's writing and advocacy has been featured by MSNBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, |
| 1:01.0 | Teen Vogue, so many more. |
| 1:03.9 | Jacob has worn heels in the White House twice and Sissy is their debut memoir and I'm |
| 1:11.3 | so, so, so excited to get talking on this topic and I really, honestly, I can't even express |
| 1:20.3 | outside because it's just something we've never talked about before and I feel like it's |
| 1:24.8 | going to be so important to address some of these things around masculinity and the book |
| 1:29.3 | is just absolutely amazing and I can't even speak highly enough of how wonderful the |
| 1:35.0 | person Jacob is. |
| 1:36.5 | So without any more intro, we can get started and welcome Jacob to the show. |
| 1:43.2 | I'm so, so, so happy to have you here. |
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