Episode 131: Cat Fitzpatrick
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with Cat Fitzpatrick (she/her), author of The Call-Out and cofounder of LittlePuss Press. Topics include:
- Writing about Brooklyn trans girl drama in iambic tetrameter
- Searching for answers on the Transsexual Internet Circa 2001
- Running a small press that doubles as a community org (aka lessons learned from Topside)
- Why is it so hard for (trans) people of goodwill to build a functional community, let alone a just one?
- Plus: Cameoing in your fiction using the meanest DM you've ever received
This Week in Gender: Rosemary deserves a sword.
Find Cat @intermittentcat and at catfitzpatrick.net. Follow LittlePuss @LittlePussPress and littlepuss.net, and on tour now through Nov 5. The Call-Out, Faltas, and Meanwhile, Elsewhere are all available now.
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| 0:46.0 | Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a |
| 0:49.6 | little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. |
| 0:52.9 | I'm your host and resident gender detective, TeclonStop. |
| 1:05.4 | Hey everyone, I hope you're all hanging in there. |
| 1:07.5 | Happy Halloween and welcome to season 10 of Gender Reveal. |
| 1:12.4 | Buh-buh-bow. Baby, we made it. And you know what? 10 seasons is just so many seasons. |
| 1:21.1 | Anyway, today on the show, I'm really excited to share my chat with the wonderful cat |
| 1:25.6 | Fitzpatrick. Cat is one half of Little Puss Press, which just published to Celia Gentili's |
| 1:32.5 | memoir Fultus, that'll come up later. Cat is also the author of The Call Out, |
| 1:38.0 | a new book about messy trans girl drama in Brooklyn that is written entirely in verse. |
| 1:44.3 | And if you're worried like, oh no, is it giving hamlet? Is it giving bail wolf? No, I promise, |
| 1:49.3 | it will not feel like high school English class. It is absolutely delightful. |
| 1:54.0 | Anyway, today on the show, Cat and I talk about iconic rhymes, plus her role at Little Puss Press. |
| 2:00.8 | Definitely, I'm like an editorial service top. And being trans all the way back in 2001. |
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