Episode 108: Da’Shaun Harrison

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with theorist, author, and abolitionist Da’Shaun Harrison (they/them). Topics include:

The way fatness functions as its own gender
Working towards a better world without hope that we’ll achieve it
Why the concept of health is unsalvageable
Why we’re tired of talking about pronouns with cis people
Plus: destroying gender!

This Week in Gender: WPATH’s Standards of Care 8 is open for public comment through Dec 16.

Find Da’Shaun and Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness at linktr.ee/DaShaunLH.

References: “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe” by Hortense J. Spillers.

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Littl John ” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) and Rev Nat’s (promo code: SNACKS)

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0:00.0	If you don't drink or don't want to hear an ad for alcohol, skip ahead 30 seconds,
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0:55.0	Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding
0:59.9	what the hell gender is.
1:02.2	I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuckwood Stock.
1:06.1	Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there.
1:17.2	This week on this show, it is a pleasure and an honor to speak with Deshaan Harrison,
1:21.9	author of Belly of the Beast.
1:24.1	In this episode, we talk about why anti-fatness can't be separated from anti-blackness, why
1:29.2	gender can't be separated from colonialism, how those four concepts and more are all
1:33.8	intertwined, and how disentangling them is going to require some pretty big changes.
1:40.4	The only way to arrive to any sense of actual liberation is to destroy the world.
1:46.4	But before we get to all that, it's time for this week in Gender.
1:55.1	This week, we are talking about W-Path, y'all probably know W-Path, but it is the
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