Episode 107: Calvin Kasulke
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with Calvin Kasulke (he/him), author of Several People Are Typing. Topics include:
- The secret(?!?) baby-trans subtext of Calvin’s debut novel
- Writing fiction (about Slack dot com) vs journalism (about bodega dick pills)
- Parallels between sobriety and transitioning
- Calvin asks Tuck a question (a.k.a. “there’s cops here and I’m gay”)
- Plus: GLAAD Awards Travis Bickle // nu-metal Big Bird // cyberpunk Rodney Dangerfield
This Week in Gender: A town in Bangladesh elects a hijra mayor(ish); Switzerland made it easier to change your name and gender marker; Canada is in process of banning conversion therapy; the Dutch government is finally apologizing for forced sterilizations; and an important French dictionary adds the gender-neutral pronoun iel, causing insufferable backlash.
Find Calvin at calvinkasulke.com, and pick up a copy of Several People Are Typing wherever books are sold. Here are links to the stories we mentioned about choosing your name and buying dick pills and packing.
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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Some people say that you shouldn't give a sex toy as a gift to someone you're not |
| 0:04.5 | currently sleeping with. |
| 0:06.2 | In my opinion, those people are wrong and cowards. |
| 0:09.2 | But even if everyone's on board shopping for a sex toys can sometimes feel overwhelming |
| 0:13.4 | or dysphoric, which is why shopnb.com aims to create a better experience for the queer |
| 0:18.6 | trans and gender nonconforming community. |
| 0:21.1 | Two percent of all profits are donated to organizations focused on improving the lives |
| 0:25.1 | of queer and trans people of color. |
| 0:27.4 | So visit shopnb.com that's s-h-o-p-e-n-b-y.com and use the co-gender reveal at checkout to get |
| 0:34.4 | 10% off and support the show. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:57.0 | what the hell gender is. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm your host and resident gender detective, Takwadstock. |
| 1:11.1 | Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. |
| 1:13.9 | This week on the show, it was an absolute delight to chat with my friend Calvin Kasselke, |
| 1:17.8 | the author of several people are typing, which you may have heard of as the book that |
| 1:21.9 | set entirely in slack for some reason. |
| 1:25.7 | In our chat, Calvin and I talk about our friendship origin story, about writing a book with |
| 1:31.1 | no explicitly trans characters, but huge cracked egg energy, and about all the important |
| 1:36.9 | service journalism that Calvin has been doing. |
| 1:39.6 | Service journalism, like if you take a gas station dick pill, if you go to your bodega |
| 1:43.6 | and you buy one of those knock off bi-agre pills, will you die as a trans man? |
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