Episode 170: Jamie Lauren Keiles

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Tuck chats with with writer Jamie Lauren Keiles (he/him). Topics include:

Writing a nonbinary history book that eschews common trans identity rhetoric
Reporting on phallo and blowjob jokes for the New York Times Magazine
Why Jamie will never run another Most Transgender Name Competition
Why everyone in the trans community is annoying in different beautiful ways :) :) :)
Plus: “Fake bi to real bi,” best novelty license plates, and Chaz Bono shopping in Miami?

This Week in Gender: There’s new work by Andrea Long Chu, Beans Velocci, Paisley Currah and Judith Butler… but we instead quote Sawyer Kemp, Lola Pellegrino and Foz Meadows.

Find Jamie at jamielaurenkeiles.com and on Instagram and Twitter.

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

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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: “Syriah” & “The Odd About It” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: ShopEnby.com (code: GenderReveal) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

Transcript

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0:58.2	understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender
1:02.3	detective Tuck Woodstock. Hey everyone. Hope you've all been hanging in there. This week on the show I am
1:17.2	very excited to share my conversation with Jamie Lauren Cayles. You might know
1:20.7	Jamie from his archival Instagram account, Sex Change dot TBT,
1:24.0	or from his work as a New York Times magazine contributor,
1:27.0	or from his resignation as a New York Times magazine contributor alongside Jasmine Hughes.
1:31.0	In this episode, Jamie and I talk about truly so much including
1:35.9	the history of non-binary identity. Gender queers are coming out of like queer
1:40.1	co-ops and anarchist scenes and like G8 protesters whereas like non-binary people come out of the
1:45.9	internet right?
1:46.9	The winners of his most transgender name contest.
1:50.3	Like I would never do it again because it created so much classic transgender drama which I think really did make it the most transgender
1:58.0	contest and having to clear his falloplasty and blow job articles with the New York Times Standards
2:04.0	Desk.
2:05.0	That was just the year of like minor arguments about Dick.
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