Episode 166: Shing Yin Khor

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Tuck chats with artist and experience designer Shing Yin Khor (they/them). Topics include:

The memoirist’s dilemma: narcissism vs turning other people into Content™
“The long human tradition of grabbing some clay and making a little guy”
Shifting your approach to activism in order to (hopefully!) avoid burnout
Transitioning out of gender entirely?
Plus: Burning Man hot takes, Paul Bunyan’s BDE and the Muffler Man renaissance

This Week in Gender: Krys Malcolm Belc reviews Caitlyn Jenner’s memoir.

Find Shing at shingkhor.com, on Patreon, and @sawdustbear. Read “I Do Not Want to Write Today” on Catapult.

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Find our FAQ page, starter packs and transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Slimheart” “Our Only Lark” & “The Poplar Grove” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Aphrodisia Boutique (code: GENDERREVEAL) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Sis Normative Sex Shops Suck. Trans-owned Aphrodiceia Boutique is different.
0:05.0	They stock body safe sex toys and lingerie for all genders, as well as packers and binders,
0:10.0	breast forms and gaff panties, and books on sex, gender, and relationships.
0:14.3	Shop online at aphrodisia dot boutique and use the offer code gender reveal for 15% off your
0:20.0	order or visit their store in Port Orchard, Washington. Welcome to gender reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the
0:44.1	hell gender is.
0:46.1	I'm your host and resident my conversation with multimedia artists. and hanging in there. This week on the show I am very excited to share my
1:03.4	conversation with multimedia artist Xing Yin Core. Sheng has made books, web
1:08.3	comics, games, tarot decks, t-shirts, Marionets, divination tools, large
1:12.1	immersive installations, and animal-crossing-based performance art, among other things.
1:17.7	And in this episode, we talk about the themes that connect those disparate works, such as...
1:22.3	The long human tradition of grabbing some play
1:27.3	and just making a little guy.
1:30.1	We also talk about American mythmaking, activist burnout, burning man hot takes, and a very fun, very specific competition that Shink took part in.
1:39.5	For the sake of this contest, we classified all giant lumberjack statues as Paul Bunyan.
1:46.0	Two quick things about the interview. One is just that I encourage you to go look through
1:49.2	some of Shings work as you're listening or before you listen, because I think this episode will just be more satisfying to you if you have even a vague concept of what we're talking about.
1:57.5	You can see that at shinkcore.com or Instagram. that's probably why. And one more thing before we get going. I know we've been
2:14.8	doing a lot of segments about Cecilia Gintili lately. I just wanted you to know
2:18.8	that we ended up doing a spontaneous one-day fundraising initiative where we matched all donations to the
2:24.0	Cecilia Legacy Fund and we ended up donating $9,000 which is so cool. So thank you very
2:31.2	much if you donated to Cecilia's legacy fund or if you have donated to our mutual aid fund at some point in the past.
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