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Gender Reveal

Episode 132: Howie Echo-Hawk

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with comedian, performer, and event producer Howie Echo-Hawk (they/them). Topics include: 

  • What do pronoun go-arounds and land acknowledgements have in common?
  • Is it even possible to decolonize gender?
  • Why your comedy can't come solely from suffering
  • Using nature to explore identity beyond language
  • Plus: Dance parties, autism superpowers, and punishment comedy 

This Week in Gender: The past and future of the US Trans Survey, which is available until November 21 at ustranssurvey.org. (You can read the full 2015 survey results here. The 2019 NCTE staff's open letter is here, and our segment about the Euphoria apps is in Episode 88 with Noah Adams.)

Read Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor here.

Find Howie on Instagram @howieechohawk, @indigenizeproductions, @_theresmore_ and @everynativeepisode. Find Every Native Episode here, and listen to Howie on the Deep End Friends podcast.

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Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Selena Leica" and "Gallant Fantasie" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Queer Candle Co. (promo code: GENDER10)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:44.8

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

0:49.7

what the hell gender is. I'm your host, and resident gender detective, talk what's

0:55.8

up.

1:03.8

Hey, everyone. Hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show, I'm really excited

1:07.7

to share my chat with comedian, performer, event producer, general multi-hyphenate, Howie

1:12.6

Echohawk. I had so much fun speaking with Howie about finding your gender alone in

1:17.9

the woods, discovering better ways to build community, and dealing with the ways that

1:23.6

white people respond to, honest, indigenous comedy. I get all these smiling white people

1:29.2

thanking me for being mean to them. And I was like, you know, this is like I'm not consenting

1:33.8

to this weird kink that you have. Before we get to that, I just wanted to let you know

1:37.6

I have fully restocked the merch store, and I kept all of your holiday shopping needs

1:42.1

in mind. So we've got five kinds of stickers, four different mugs, a poster, and some clothing

1:48.4

in sizes up to five XL as always. Plus, of course, all proceeds are split between trans

1:53.6

artists and trans led organizations. You can find all of that at bit.ly slash gender

2:00.1

merch. And now it's time for this week in gender.

2:11.0

This week, as promised, I wanted to talk for a little bit about the 2022 US Trans Survey.

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