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Gender Reveal

Episode 136: Sabrina Imbler

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with writer and creature enthusiast Sabrina Imbler (they/them). Topics include: 

  • A Who's Who of the ocean's notable transsexuals 
  • Writing about trans youth for the New York Times (lol, lmao)
  • Seeking gender role models from creatures, plants, and fungi
  • Why is a sad octopus more heartbreaking than a sad human?
  • Plus: Neopets, the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, and a goldfish driving a tank(?!)

This Week in Gender: Carl Charles shares a trans Supreme Court update.

Find Sabrina on Twitter @aznfusion and on tour. Their work is available on Defector and at simbler.github.io. How Far the Light Reaches is out on Dec 6, and Dyke (Geology) is available now from Black Lawrence Press.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Taoudella" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Urbody (promo code: TUCK15)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

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0:09.0

of those across the gender spectrum.

0:11.0

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0:14.9

and gender-nonconforming folks.

0:16.6

Use code Tuck15 for 15% off your first your body purchase, shop based on fit and style,

0:22.1

and remember that you deserve to get dressed for the day with confidence, and that starts

0:25.6

with what's underneath.

0:30.0

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

0:46.8

what the hell gender is.

0:48.9

I'm your host and resident gender detective, TechWoodstock.

1:01.0

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

1:04.2

This week on the show, I am very, very excited to share my conversation with Sabrina Imblar.

1:09.4

Sabrina is possibly best known as the creative genius behind such New York Times headlines

1:13.9

as when an eel climbs a ramp to eat squid from a clamp that's more right?

1:18.4

But you will soon know them as the creative genius behind how far the light reaches

1:22.6

a life-intense sea creatures.

1:24.9

How far the light reaches is, of course, Sabrina's exquisite debut memoir and it comes out

1:29.7

tomorrow, December 6th.

1:32.6

In this episode, Sabrina and I talk about the process of writing that book, and then

1:36.7

I was like, oh, hydrothermal events.

1:38.5

There's probably a creature that lives on a hydrothermal event that looks a little bit

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