Episode 100E: Carmen Maria Machado
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Tuck chats with author Carmen Maria Machado (she/her) to wrap up Cis Day of Visibility. Topics include:
- The horrors of living in a gendered body
- Doing a press tour about your trauma
- Writing about gender without having an answer
- Is the pandemic more or less horny than Carmen's 2013 short story?
- Also: vampire sex, ghosts touching, and "gender: yes or no?"
Follow Carmen on IG @carmenmmachado, and find Her Body and Other Parties and In the Dream House wherever books are sold. The referenced vampire interview is available on Electric Lit.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bistitual Podcast is brought to you by John and Kelsey, two crafty queer Canadians. |
| 0:06.0 | Tune in by weekly for real-life ramblings, zodiac quizzes, work-in-progress check-ins, and |
| 0:10.5 | tips, tricks, and other fiber tidbits, along with the occasional crafty guests to discuss |
| 0:15.1 | all things John related. |
| 0:17.0 | Hang out in the Bistitual Discord server to make new queer fiber friends, show off your |
| 0:21.0 | work, and pop into the bi-monthly Stitch Night. |
| 0:24.0 | Sign them on Instagram at BistitualPodcast or at BistitualPodcast.ca. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:48.0 | what the hell gender is. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuckwood Stock. |
| 1:02.0 | Hey everyone, I hope you're all hanging in there. |
| 1:04.0 | We are finally wrapping up CIS Gender Day of Visibility and I saved this chat for last because |
| 1:10.0 | honestly, I feel somewhat uncomfortable with having this interview as part of the CIS |
| 1:15.0 | Person series. I also feel like it's not really my business to decide on that, so this interview |
| 1:21.4 | both is and is not canonically part of CIS Day Visibility. It is Shirtingers Chat. |
| 1:28.2 | Anyway, this week on the show we are speaking with author Carmen Maria Machado. Carmen was an |
| 1:33.8 | absolute dream to interview, despite me high-key gender detectiveing her at the entire time. |
| 1:39.1 | I would love the idea of someone looking at me and not knowing if I was a man or a woman, |
| 1:42.6 | but I'm not that person. That's not me. |
| 1:46.2 | We talked about doing a press tour for your trauma and about the horrors of living in a gendered |
| 1:52.0 | body. We also talked about ghosts touching and talked kind of a lot about vampire sex. |
| 1:59.0 | Camilla is just giving ladies orgasms left and right. |
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