Episode 156: Casey Plett

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Lgbtq, Documentary, Queer, Personal Journals, Gender, Nonbinary, Society & Culture, Genderqueer, Transgender, Trans

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tuck and Ozzy chat with author Casey Plett (she/her). Topics include:

Is queer community… bad for us?
Is it finally time to talk about Topside?
The present and future of trans publishing
Accidentally teaching girlies about the COGIATI(!?)
Plus: Mennonite masculinity, Super Smash Bros, and Taylor Swift’s Red

This Week in Gender: Niko Stratis shares the latest from Autostraddle’s ongoing implosion. Read more via MB’s thread.

Find Casey at caseyplett.com and preorder On Community.

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Find us genderpodcast.com and @gendereveal.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Posh and Vine” and “St. Augustine Red” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Queer Candle Co. (promo code: GENDER10)

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0:00.0	Queer Candle Co is a queer and trans-owned business that makes small-batch
0:03.0	soy wax candles hand-poured with love. The other day I was at Clementine Bakery in Brooklyn
0:06.9	which sells queer candle co-candles and the employees there were just like opening up and
0:10.5	smelling them and talking about how good they smelled and if that's not an endorsement I don't know
0:13.6	what it is. Plus they've got DIY refill kits available online and 10% of profits are donated
0:19.2	to the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. You can use code gender10 at checkout to get 10% off your first
0:25.2	order at QueerCandleCo.com that's QueerCandleCo.com
0:44.2	Welcome to Gender Advil, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what
0:49.2	the hell gender is. I'm your host and president gender detective. Talk what stock.
1:03.3	Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. Thank you so much to everyone who came out for
1:07.9	our live show last week at the Bell House. It was such a treat to meet so many of you. All of you
1:13.2	listeners will hear part of our live show next week but this week on the show I am thrilled to share
1:18.6	my conversation with author Casey Plett. Now you might ask, hey Tuck, wasn't Casey also in the
1:24.1	live show? So will I be hearing from her two weeks in a row? And the answer is yes, this is true.
1:30.4	We are all extremely lucky. Anyway, in this episode Casey and Ozzy and I chat about why Casey is
1:37.6	finally talking about the top side press of it all. Whether Queer community is actually bad for
1:43.7	and why Casey made the brave polarizing choice to write a book about community.
1:50.2	A lot of my men and I community people were like, oh awesome, I'm so curious to see what you're
1:53.2	gonna say. I can't wait to read that. And every single homosexual is like, what the fuck?
1:57.5	Oh my god. Why? And you'll definitely want to stick around to find out what made Casey say this.
2:04.4	I will walk out of the room if anybody presses me on that.
2:07.6	Here's two things I learned about Casey in this episode. Sometimes she likes to do a little
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