Episode 163: Cassius Adair

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Tuck finally chats with academic and occasional Gender Reveal producer Cassius Adair (he/him). Topics include:

His role in the Twin Flames cult documentary
Getting mpreg (lol) 12 years after being told that HRT would sterilize him
Joining trans studies because he got on the wrong flight in 2011
Writing about whiteness, tech history, and hot trans social contagion
Plus: Lexification of t4t and putting ur relationship through academic peer review

This Week in Gender: Jesse Lawson & Lou Sullivan on “How to Look 30 When You Are 30” (listen here).

Find Cassius at cassiusadair.com, and find us both at sylveon.co.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Lost Shoe” & “Lakkalia” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Popwink (code: GENDER20) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Popwink is a trans-owned sticker club and art shop.
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0:21.9	or your first six months of St club at poplink.co. Welcome to gender reveal a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to
0:46.4	understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and
0:50.3	resident gender detective,uck Woodstock. Hey everyone, hope you've all been hanging in there. This week on the show I am very excited to share my conversation with Dr.
1:08.0	Cassisadair. If you've listened to this podcast for a while, you may have heard Kast's name before. He's
1:13.8	popped up in the credits a couple times as like a producer. He was the guest in one of
1:19.0	our very first gender conceal episodes. He was actually an on mic producer for a very silly special
1:24.8	episode with Justin McElroy. Kast is also my business partner at
1:29.3	Sylvian and one of my closest friends and honestly I'm just so happy that we finally sat down for his official gender
1:36.9	reveal interview. Today on the show, Kast and I talk about a little bit of everything
1:41.9	honestly.
1:43.0	Topics include like how Kask got into trans studies
1:46.2	as an academic field because he got on the wrong flight
1:48.7	once in 2011 and some of the fun trans hot takes he's written into peer-reviewed academic articles.
1:56.0	So we really wanted to put on paper like, hey, we don't have to constantly pretend that this isn't happening in order to like fit into the liberal narrative of
2:03.0	Born this way like we can be really really honest about the fact that like
2:06.3	some people get trans by like a hot anime character or like by their Tumblr
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