Episode 169: Liz Fong-Jones

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Tuck and Ozzy chat with Liz Fong-Jones (she/her). Topics include:

Creating a Coworker Solidarity Fund to support worker organizing and potential strikes
Organizing your Google colleagues so hard that you crash Google Docs
Being realistic about your security threats (e.g., is it safe to organize in Google Docs?)
Ways that (trans & cis) tech workers can support trans people
Plus: How the Joy Luck Club (not that one) saved her life

This Week in Gender: Listen to Hang Up.

Find Liz at lizthegrey.com and on cohost.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message was from Wren Dove Lark.

We’ve got limited-edition Trans Day of Snack 2024 merch on sale this month, with proceeds benefiting our mutual aid fund.

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our bonus podcasts, weekly newsletter, and other perks.

Find our starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Hrse Hrse” & “Gamboler” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: ShopEnby.com (code: GenderReveal) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Shopping for sex stories can sometimes feel overwhelming or dysphoric, but shop
0:04.3	envy.com is a black and trans owned sex toy shop that aims to create a better
0:08.2	experience for the queer, trans, and gender non-conforming community. One thing I like
0:12.0	about their website
0:12.8	is they have separate little tabs for Trans mask
0:15.5	slash FTM and TransF and TransF.
0:18.4	And if you've ever been on testosterone, for example,
0:20.8	you might have a dick growth experience and be like,
0:23.2	hey, I actually need completely new toys for this.
0:25.9	And that's where that website comes in,
0:28.0	gives you great examples of something you might like to try.
0:31.0	Visit shopnbee.com, that's sh-p-e-n-b-y dot com and use the code gender reveal at
0:35.6	check out to get 10% off and bring more pleasure and affirmation into your life. Welcome. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to
0:58.8	understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuck Woodstock. Hey everyone. Hope you've all been hanging in there. This week on the show I am
1:17.8	pleased to share our conversation with Liz Fong Jones. You might know Liz
1:21.4	from her organizing and advocacy work at Google or her past efforts to get
1:25.7	kiwi farms taken down. Or maybe you know her as the creator of the Co-worker Solidarity Fund,
1:30.9	which has provided support for striking and unionizing workers at
1:33.6	Netflix, Starbucks, Amazon, and more.
1:36.9	In this episode, Liz and Ozzy and I talk about the Solidarity Fund and Liz's years at
1:41.2	Google.
1:42.1	We also talk about ways that tech people can use
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tuck Woodstock, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tuck Woodstock and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.