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Gender Reveal

Episode 100A: Justin McElroy

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tuck kicks off Cis Day of Visibility with the help of podcaster and author Justin McElroy (he/him). 

Topics include:

  • Using video games as an empathy exercise
  • Giving your kids gender-neutral names ~just in case~ 
  • Parsing community feedback (aka ally tips for allies) 
  • The end of Monster Factory?
  • Plus: "the dark flexibility we crave," the most-cis snack, and what gender actually is(!)

Find Justin's work at mcelroy.family. Subscribe to My Brother, My Brother & Me, The Adventure Zone, Sawbones and Justin's other shows wherever you get podcasts. 

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Produced by Cassius Adair and Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Variation Waldheim" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Bistitchual

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Bistitual Podcast is brought to you by John and Kelsey, two crafty queer Canadians.

0:05.3

Tune in bi-weekly for real-life ramblings, zodiac quizzes, work in progress check-ins, and tips,

0:10.2

tricks, and other fiber tidbits, along with the occasional crafty gas to discuss all things

0:14.8

you aren't related.

0:16.2

Hang out in the Bistitual Discord server to make new queer fiber friends, show off your

0:20.1

work, and pop into the bi-monthly stitch night.

0:23.0

Find them on Instagram at bistitualpodcast or at bistitualpodcast.ca

0:41.8

Welcome to Gender of Yield, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding

0:46.5

what the hell gender is.

0:48.4

I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuckwood Stock.

1:00.4

Hey everyone, I hope you're all hanging in there.

1:04.4

Welcome to Episode 100.

1:07.4

Welcome to cisgender day of visibility.

1:13.4

As you likely know, we've been making this podcast for three and a half years now,

1:19.4

and other than one or two guests in our first season, all of the folks we've spoke with

1:24.4

in the first six seasons of a show are trans, or non-binary, or two-spirit, or otherwise not cis.

1:30.4

And every time we start an interview, I would ask, in terms of gender, how do you identify?

1:35.4

And it started feeling really bad to ask trans people, quote-unquote, how they identified

1:41.4

when I wasn't making cis people answer the same question.

1:45.4

So, I thought, what if for my 100th episode I asked like a whole bunch of cis people

1:51.4

to tell me how they identify and what they think gender is?

1:55.4

In this idea, with through many, many, many iterations in my head over the last several months,

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