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Gender Reveal

Episode 129: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with writer and organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they). Topics include:

  • Do non-disabled people exist?
  • Diagnoses, autism, and how disability + transness intersect
  • How to build care networks without relying on social capital
  • Why disabled people have the skills we need to survive the climate crisis, pandemics, etc.
  • Plus: ye olde “what does femme mean?”

This Week in Gender: The San Francisco Marathon offered a nonbinary division, which led us to 2 Hot 4 Hoodies.

Find Leah on twitter @thellpsx and instagram @leahlakshmiwrites, and at brownstargirl.org. Preorder The Future Is Disabled (and browse several of their other books) via Arsenal Pulp.

Find Tuck on the Trans Mutual Aid episode of the TransLash podcast, and keep an eye out for their Life Kit episode about trans name changes.

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Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Hickory Interlude” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Shopping for sex toys can sometimes feel overwhelming or dysphoric.

0:03.8

But shopnb.com aims to create a better experience for the queer, trans, and gender nonconforming community.

0:10.5

Like, there are all sorts of sex toy stores online, but this one has a section called Homo Goods

0:16.1

and there are two things in it right now, and one is Ceramic Waltiti and the other is Bondage Bears,

0:22.2

and I just think that's fun as like the two genders.

0:25.8

But anyway, 2% of all profits are donated to organizations focused on improving the

0:30.4

lives of queer and trans people of color, so visit shopnb.com that's SHOPENBY.com

0:37.2

and use the code GenderReveal at checkout to get 10% off your order and support the show.

0:56.5

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

1:02.5

what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tech Woodstock.

1:16.8

Hey everyone, I hope you're all hanging in there.

1:19.2

This is me on the show, I'm excited to share my chat with Leah, Lakshmi,

1:22.7

Pieptiona, Summer Assignum. Leah is perhaps best known as the author of CareWork

1:27.3

Dreaming Disability Justice in the co-editor of Beyond Survival, strategies and stories from

1:32.0

the transformative justice movement. But Leah has written so many books and done so much

1:37.1

rad art and organizing work. In this episode, Leah talks about creating access to care networks

1:42.8

in community, whether there are people out there who don't exist under the disability umbrella,

1:48.7

or able people in myth, like probably. And how transness and disability intersect?

1:54.0

One thing I do think about autistic cultures is we just look at society and we're like,

1:57.6

what the fuck is that? I'm going to go my own way, like I am going to be my kind of

2:03.1

fucking weird. Before we get into the interview, I just want to note that we had to use the backup

2:08.8

zoom audio for this one. So it's a little blown out in places maybe. And you may have noticed we

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