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I'm your host and President gender detective, Chuck Woodstock.

Hey everyone. Hope you've all been hanging in there. This is the

day on the show I am excited to share my conversation with linguist Ariana Steele.

I was first introduced to Ariana's work via gender reveals resident linguist Kirby Conrad and was very excited to learn more.

Although I will say I think this conversation actually left me with even more questions than I had at the beginning.

But that can be really exciting sometimes too. In this episode, Ariana and I talk a lot about the differences between two different categories of people, like how do black non-binary people and white non-binary people use the quote-unquote gay lisp differently or how

are the Chicago versus Seattle queer nightlife scenes organized differently.

But we also talk about existing as people who don't play well with labels and don't fit neatly into categories.

And that includes, in Ariana's case, astrological categories.

So my head's Aquarius, and then my lower body is Pisces, it all makes sense.

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