Episode 159: Alison Rumfitt

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tuck and Ozzy chat with author Alison Rumfitt (she/her). Topics include:

When people fail to recognize their kink as simply a kink
Letting go of the need to ~understand~ TERFs
What makes a good trauma narrative?
Reappropriating an accidentally-trans Eminem lyric
Plus: Utopian organ dreams and trans slug allyship? (Also: worms!)

Find Alison @alison.zone (IG) and @hangsawoman (Bluesky/Twitter). Preorder Brainwyrms before Oct 10.

Come see Tuck & Mckenzee at North Figueroa Bookshop on Nov 10!

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Find a copy of 2 Trans 2 Furious here.

Find us genderpodcast.com and @gendereveal.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: ShopEnby.com (promo code: GenderReveal)

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0:00.0	Shopping for sex toys can sometimes feel overwhelming or dysphoric, but ShopNB.com aims to create
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0:22.1	Visit shopnb.com.shopenb.com and use the code gender-revealedcheckout to get 10%
0:29.8	off and bring more pleasure and affirmation into your life.
0:49.1	Welcome to Gender Revealed, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding
0:54.1	what the hell gender is. I'm your host, and Brentson and Gender Detective Tuck Woodstock.
1:08.4	Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. Welcome to this penultimate episode of season 11
1:14.5	of the Gender Revealed podcast. This week I am very excited to share our chat with author
1:19.3	Allison Rumpfit. You might have heard of Allison from her debut novel, Tell Me I'm Worthless.
1:24.2	Now she has a new book coming out next month called Brain Worms, and if you thought
1:28.2	that Tell Me I'm Worthless was like a little intense? Boy, how do this one really kicks it up
1:32.4	like a few notches. In today's episode, Allison and Ozzy and I talk about everything from worms,
1:39.2	horror, and kink. There's a lot of people who are involved in kinks who I don't think
1:45.1	realize they are. To the different ways that Allison approaches writing about TERFs in her two novels.
2:00.2	But before we get to that, I have a very exciting announcement for some of you at least. McKenzie and I
2:05.2	are going to be together in Los Angeles for one hot second in November. I wanted to book a
2:12.1	Gender Revealed show that ultimately didn't work out because the venue offered us show times
2:17.2	at either 4 p.m. or 10 p.m. on a weekday. I just wanted to check in with all of you because in my
2:22.7	opinion, those are not times that successful weekday events happen, but just for the future.
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