Episode 160: Raquel Willis

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Tuck chats with activist Raquel Willis (she/her). Topics include:

Why having the ~most radical gender~ isn’t a useful standard
Reconciling your feminism with your transsexual desires
Parental loss, and death as an animating force
How to choose a good beneficiary for trans fundraising
Plus: Afrotransmisogyny, Janet Mock, and… Fortnite??

This Week in Gender: Girlfriends by Emily Zhou; Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas; People Collide by Isle McElroy; Laugh Riot by Io & Jonas Goonface.

Find Raquel on Instagram and Twitter. Preorder The Risk It Takes to Bloom before Nov 14.

Find a copy of 2 Trans 2 Furious here, and join us on Nov 10 at North Figueroa in LA. (RSVP here, ignore the date listed lolol.)

Check out our nonprofit merch store by October 15!

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to access our bonus podcast, newsletter, and other fun perks.

Find us genderpodcast.com (for starter packs, FAQ, grant info, transcripts, etc) and @gendereveal.

Join the Gender Detective Slack here (link expires in 28 days).

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Di Breun” and “Hedgeliner” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: ShopEnby.com (promo code: GenderReveal)

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0:35.5	Welcome to GenderReveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what
0:55.6	the hell gender is. I'm your host, and resident gender detective, talk with stock.
1:04.6	Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. Here we are, it is the final episode of GenderReveal
1:16.2	Season 11. If you're new here, this episode is actually a great place to start, but we also have
1:22.4	little starter packs on our website where we've grouped episodes based on topic and theme,
1:27.2	so if you're staring into the depths of our back catalog and you aren't sure where to go next,
1:32.2	you can check those out at genderpodcast.com slash starter packs.
1:36.7	Anyway, this week I am very excited to share my conversation with author and activist
1:41.3	Reck Hell Willis. I wanted to have Reck Hell on the show for a long, long time, and I'm so excited
1:47.2	that her upcoming memoir finally gave us an excuse to chat. In this episode, Reck Hell and I talk
1:52.9	about shaking off respectability politics and reconciling your feminism with your trans
1:58.6	actuality. Everyone fucking has desires for their body, right? Like it's actually not just a
2:05.6	trans thing. We also talk about the way that black trans women can be written off in queer spaces,
2:12.0	and why it's weird that some people can play being a woman with not having radical gender
2:18.1	politics. To live your life trying to appear or be the most radical is its own prison of
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