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Gender Reveal

Episode 115: Ev’Yan Whitney

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with sex educator and ~sensualist~ Ev’Yan Whitney (they/she). Topics include:

  • What sensuality looks like when it’s painful to be in your body
  • The superpower of being an asexual sex educator
  • Advice for folks worried that transitioning will harm their romantic relationships
  • Is it fine to dissociate our way through the pandemic?
  • Plus: We’ve been eating apples wrong this whole time?!

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Find Ev’Yan at evyanwhitney.com and @evyan.whitney. Their book and podcast are both called Sensual Self.

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Associate Producer: Julia Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Fermin Canyon” by Blue Dot Sessions
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Gender Feel, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding

0:20.0

what the hell gender is.

0:22.0

I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuck Woodstock.

0:30.0

Hey, everyone.

0:35.0

Hope you're all hanging in there.

0:37.0

This week on the show, I'm excited to share my chat with Evyan Whitney.

0:41.0

Evyan is a sex educator, a sensualist, and a sexuality doula.

0:46.0

And in this episode, we're going to talk about what those terms mean and how they are relevant

0:50.5

to Evyan and me and all of y'all out there.

0:53.6

For example, what does it look like to try to be present in your body if you have chronic

0:58.6

pain or gender dysphoria?

1:01.6

And what does it look like to be a sensualist and a sex educator when you're also asexual?

1:07.6

I now see it as a superpower, and I'm really proud to be ACE.

1:11.6

But first, just a heads up in case you missed it last week.

1:14.6

This is our last episode of this season of Gender Reveal.

1:18.6

If you are new to the show, you're just finding it in a little season break.

1:21.6

Welcome.

1:22.6

We've got all sorts of great episodes in our back catalog for you, including this season's

1:27.6

earlier chats with people like Chase Drangio, Deshaan Harrison, and Kay Agbebi.

1:32.6

And then earlier conversations and other seasons with people like Tori Peters,

1:36.6

Kitching Tom, More Returner, Travella Anderson, Carmen Ray Machado.

1:40.6

I could go on and on and on and on.

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