Episode 164: Shuli Branson

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Tuck chats with Shuli Branson (she/they), author of Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life. Topics include:

Transition as a form of anarchist refusal (and why transition itself isn’t liberatory)
Breakup theory: letting go of the expectation that everything needs to last forever
How raising kids can help you catch your authoritarian impulses
Is it actually more responsible to give away your savings right now??
Plus: Palestine solidarity, abolishing work, and signing up for your shift at the depression factory

This Week in Gender: Conflict with Lantern and Moss??

Find Shuli at sjbranson.com and @shulibranson. Practical Anarchism is available from Pluto Press. Support The Breakup Theory on Patreon and subscribe wherever you’re reading this.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “On the Hour” & “Lean Dream” 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.
0:03.6	Sticker club members get to vote on the theme every single month.
0:07.0	Recent sticker club themes have included unhinged Barbie summer, cryptids,
0:11.7	and aggressive affection.
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0:16.4	and ship for free worldwide.
0:18.3	Use the code Gender20 for 20% off your first order
0:21.8	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
0:45.7	understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident gender
0:50.6	detective Tuck Woodstock.
0:53.0	Hey everyone, hope you've all been hanging in there.
0:57.0	This week on the show I am very
1:05.0	excited to share my conversation with Shuli Branson. Shuli is the author of
1:09.4	Practical Anarchism and a co-editor of surviving the future abolitionist queer strategies.
1:15.2	In this episode, Shule and I talk about transness as a form of anarchism and the way that
1:20.2	gender abolition and family abolition overlap?
1:23.4	Family is also like the laboratory of gender.
1:26.0	It's like where gender is enforced on us.
1:28.2	We also talk about the concept of breakup theory and why not everything needs to last forever.
1:34.4	When I'm thinking about breakup, I'm not necessarily saying you must break up,
1:38.8	but saying there's always the possibility to end things.
1:42.2	Just a note, Shuli lives near a train, occasionally in the background you will hear a train.
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