Episode 113: D’lo

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Producer Ozzy(!) speaks with actor, writer and comic D’lo (he/him). Topics include:

Creating a trilogy of solo shows about transition & queer life
Queer community as a spiritual practice
Using art and comedy to reshape traumatic narratives
“Nobody can touch us, the more vulnerable we are”
Plus: The god/freak complex and the short hair to transmasc pipeline

This Week in Gender: Mr. Manley makes Ohio history; Andrea Jenkins becomes president of the Minneapolis Council; Mj Rodriguez wins a Golden Globe; Republicans propose more bills against trans youth; and an Olympic skater says not to focus on them being nonbinary (oops).

Find D’lo at dlocokid.com and on Twitter/IG @dlocokid.

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Torna Rho” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Bistitchual

Transcript

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0:00.0	The Bystitual Yarn Shop offers a wide range of beautiful queer and or Canadian indie
0:05.3	dyed yarn and handmade accessories.
0:07.9	They ship internationally with free shipping on orders over $100, and they offer beginner
0:12.8	and not-so-beginner knitting and crochet zoom classes so you can join from anywhere in
0:17.3	the world.
0:18.3	Visit them in-person on Annette Street in Toronto or online at bystitual.ca.
0:38.9	Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding
0:44.0	what the hell gender is.
0:46.1	I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuckwoodstock.
0:57.8	Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there.
1:00.5	This week on the show I am very excited to step out of the host seat and slide that
1:06.0	metaphorical chair right on over to producer jewels for our second ever guest hosted Gender
1:12.1	Reveal interview.
1:14.0	I'm going to stay here and lead you through my usual this week in gender chaos, but then
1:17.7	jewels is going to step in to interview this week's guest who is actor and comic
1:23.1	D.Lo.
1:24.5	In their conversation, jewels and D.Lo talk about vulnerability, divorce, something called
1:29.6	the God Freak Complex, making a whole show about the decision to go on T.
1:34.3	None of us know why we're really taking the hormones.
1:40.3	In resisting the need to have everything all figured out right away, or ever, everybody
1:45.9	keeps doing this subconscious thing like figure it out, and it's like, oh, why?
1:52.5	Why do we have to figure this out?
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