Episode 138: Lehuauakea
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with māhū artist Lehuauakea (they/them). Topics include:
- Should you be going to Hawaii????
- Being cornered, exotified and spat on(!) by white patrons
- Native Hawaiian gender terms and cultural roles
- The past, present, and future of kapa-making
- Plus: Finding faith that the world will continue to exist, lol?
This Week in Gender: More about drivers license gender markers, including stats from California and another story from Rosemary.
Find Lehuauakea's work at lehuauakea.com and @_lehuauakea_ on IG. (The account Lehuauakea recommends in the ep is @ainamomona.)
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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Pat Dog" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Bluestockings and DeleteMe (promo code: TUCK20)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you find yourself funding evil billionaires' rocket ships every time you buy books? |
| 0:06.1 | Check out Blue Stockings Cooperative Bookstore in New York City or online at bluestockings.com |
| 0:11.7 | to support a trans-owned, worker-owned, radical community space that's bursting with great |
| 0:16.2 | books, free Narcan trainings, free Plan B, free COVID tests, and delicious $1 coffee. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:42.6 | what the hell gender is. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuckwood Stock. |
| 0:49.8 | Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. |
| 1:01.2 | This is Gun the Show. |
| 1:02.2 | I am excited to share my conversation with Lehua Ukeia. |
| 1:05.0 | Lehua is a native Hawaiian artist and cop-a-maker, and in this episode we talk about native Hawaiian |
| 1:10.1 | gender concepts, how you and I can support Hawaiian sovereignty and prosperity. |
| 1:15.4 | And you're just saying, well, my vacation is more important than your survival. |
| 1:21.2 | And the perils of being a queer, brown artist in a straight, white art world. |
| 1:25.8 | A group of three white women backed me up into a corner with a bunch of LaCroix. |
| 1:31.9 | Lehua Ukeia is a visual artist and as you're listening, I really encourage you to follow |
| 1:36.0 | the links in the show notes and look at examples of their work, so you know what we're talking |
| 1:39.4 | about. |
| 1:40.4 | But first, two exciting announcements. |
| 1:43.1 | Next we've got a live show coming up on February 1st of the Bellhouse in Brooklyn. |
| 1:47.0 | It features Danny Lavary, Sabrina Imblur, Maddie LeBchansky, AC DoomLow, maybe more |
| 1:51.7 | people will find out. |
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