Episode 140: Margaret Killjoy
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with author and podcast host Margaret Killjoy (she/they). Topics include:
- What to consider before moving to a queer off-grid land project
- Suing RENT (2005) to get credit for playing melodica!?
- The secret rules of writing heterosexual romance novels
- Easy, actionable ways that we can all prepare for disasters
- Plus: Feminazgûl, high school GSAs, anarchism, and exploding the czar
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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: "Hope and the Forester" 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? |
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| 0:10.5 | to support a trans-owned worker-owned radical community space that's bristing with great books, |
| 0:16.0 | free Narcan trainings, free plan B, free COVID tests, and delicious $1 coffee. |
| 0:37.3 | Welcome to Gender Avail, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:41.8 | what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuckwood Stock. |
| 0:56.6 | Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. This is gonna show I am very, very excited to |
| 1:01.2 | share my conversation with Margaret Killjoy. You may already know Margaret as the host of multiple |
| 1:06.7 | podcasts and the author of several books. Most recently we won't be here tomorrow and other |
| 1:11.6 | stories. In this episode, Margaret and I talk about the things you might expect, like anarchism |
| 1:17.5 | and prepping and whether you should move to an off-grid land project. But we also talk about like |
| 1:23.3 | ghost writing romance novels, playing in an anti-fascist black metal band. They want to say that |
| 1:29.6 | that's their aesthetic terrain and I want to not let Nazis have nice things. And also Margaret's |
| 1:34.7 | surprise cameo in a very famous 2005 film. How am I in the movie rent? That doesn't make any |
| 1:41.0 | sense. Speaking of fun surprises, a fun coincidence is that Margaret is actually friends with last week's |
| 1:45.7 | guests from when they were both punks roaming around like 15 years ago. We don't talk about that |
| 1:50.4 | directly in either interview, but there is an oblique reference to Margaret and the Linda |
| 1:54.3 | Sigerra interview that if you go back and listen again, you might catch it. Not important, |
| 1:58.5 | just like a fun, cute connection. Anyway, before we get to the interview, a few quick announcements, |
| 2:04.4 | the first is that we announced our latest round of grant recipients. Our panel of nine incredible |
| 2:09.5 | judges selected 19 trans folks of color doing bad work. And I got to say that this round is |
| 2:14.6 | particularly special to me because we had winners from all around the world, including Pakistan, |
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