Episode 106: Yeonsoo Julian Kim

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Lgbtq, Documentary, Queer, Personal Journals, Gender, Nonbinary, Society & Culture, Genderqueer, Transgender, Trans

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with game designer and cultural consultant Yeonsoo Julian Kim (they/she). Topics include:

Creating games where every playable character is nonbinary (or, in other cases, Korean)
The joys of BDSM tea party games and horror erotic fiction
Why “romanticizing colonialism” is a surprisingly common game plot
Playing to win vs. playing to process your feelings and maybe have a nice cry
Plus: divorcing fear from gender; and the DnD to HRT pipeline

This Week in Gender: Iowa Medicaid must start covering trans surgeries; R*wling once again claims to be victimized by trans people; Stu Rasmussen was the country’s first openly trans mayor; Trans Day of Remembrance happened; Amy Schneider is crushing it on Jeopardy.

Find Yeonsoo @yjuliankim and at yeonsoojuliankim.com. (Want more? Their interactive novel The Fog Knows Your Name is available here, and the Strange Lusts/Strange Loves anthology is being released in installments here [NSFW].)

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) & Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera

Transcript

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0:00.0	Wundery's new investigative podcast mini-series Harsh Reality,
0:03.2	the story of Miriam Rivera, digs into the behind-the-scenes drama of one of the most controversial
0:08.2	reality TV disasters of all time. It's a story of love, lies, and reality television.
0:14.4	It's hosted by Tracelesset. Stick around to the end of this episode to hear a preview of Harsh
0:19.7	Reality, the story of Miriam Rivera.
0:37.1	Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to
0:41.4	understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective,
0:47.0	Tuckwood Star.
0:56.2	Hey everyone, I hope you're all hanging in there, got through last week, okay?
1:00.6	This week I am delighted to share my conversation with Game Designer and Cultural Consultant
1:05.2	Jullian Kim. In this interview, we talk about one of Jansu's most recent projects in which all
1:11.1	of the characters are non-binary. That game is called Women or Wear Wolves, which we encourage you
1:16.4	to not judge by the title alone. If I named the game, then bring home the bacon. You cannot
1:22.5	be pretty sure that the game is not actually about the merits of the patriarchy.
1:27.2	We also talk about colonialism as a popular game plot,
1:30.8	trans representation in both mainstream and indie games, sex larps, and the D&D to HRT pipeline.
1:38.5	Like if I look back at my life and my preferences and how I felt about myself,
1:42.8	I just didn't have the vocabulary at the time, and I learned a lot of that vocabulary through
1:47.2	games. But first, it's time for this week in gender.
1:57.1	Okay, y'all, this week in gender, we are doing another rapid fire news round.
2:01.8	I'm going to alternate goodish news and badish news to make a little club
2:06.3	say much of feelings. So here we go.
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