Episode 102: Live in NYC!
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with writer Denne Michele Norris (she/her), cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky (they/them) and organizer Mateo Guerrero (he/they) at Starr Bar in Bushwick. Topics include:
- Setting boundaries with friends and family
- Working to decriminalize sex work in New York
- Coming out as a trans woman after coming out as nonbinary
- Plus: "TGNCIQ"; "transhet"; figure skating; the trans rock climbing obsession; trans lit representation; surviving public restrooms; f•cking around and finding out.
The article Denne mentions is "Trans Characters Are In Vogue, But Where Are the Thinkpieces?" by Eli Cugini. We also mention Refuge Restrooms.
Find Denne at dennemichele.com and on twitter/IG at @thedennemichele. For more of her work, subscribe to the Food 4 Thot podcast and the Electric Lit newsletter.
Find Mateo on IG @mateoguerrero_. Make the Road NY is at maketheroadny.org and on IG/Facebook @maketheroadny.
Find Mattie on twitter @Lubchansky and IG @mattielubchansky. For more of their work, join their Patreon, subscribe to the Nib, and buy their book via Silver Sprocket. (They were also on Episode 20 of this show.)
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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)
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| 0:00.0 | Shopping for sex toys can sometimes feel overwhelming or dysphoric, but shopnb.com aims to create |
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| 0:13.8 | and trans people of color. |
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| 0:50.7 | Welcome to gender reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:55.0 | what the hell gender is. I'm your host and president, gender detective, Tuckwoodstock. |
| 1:09.1 | Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show I am delighted to |
| 1:13.0 | share our September 16th gender reveal live show. This episode was recorded at Starbar |
| 1:19.1 | in Brooklyn in front of what some would call an irresponsibly packed house, but don't |
| 1:24.2 | worry, everyone was vaccinated, the audience were mass and since we are listening from |
| 1:27.6 | the future, I can tell you that as far as I heard, nobody got COVID. One person did tell |
| 1:32.7 | me later that they looked back at the crowd and the exit at one point and was like, well, |
| 1:37.1 | if there's a fire, I am going to die here, but at least I'll die surrounded by hot trans |
| 1:40.9 | people. And I guess that's all you can ask for from an event. So this show features |
| 1:46.6 | three kind of three fabulous guests. We had food for that co-host and electric lit editor |
| 1:51.6 | and chief, Den Michelle Norris. We had make the road New York organizer, Mateo Guerrero, |
| 1:57.2 | and cartoonist and Twitter luminary, Maddie Lepchansky. This is also a low key advice episode |
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