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Gender Reveal

Episode 176: Susan Stryker

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Tuck and Ozzy chat with historian Susan Stryker (she/her). Topics include:

  • Publishing old kink erotica in a new academic reader
  • Truffle-hunting for niche trans subcommunities on Reddit
  • What does it look like to embrace monstrosity in today’s world?
  • How Susan pieced together the story of Compton’s Cafeteria Riot
  • Plus: The literal meaning of life!

Find Susan at susanstryker.net. When Monsters Speak is out now. (Watch Screaming Queens for free on YouTube!)

Come see Tuck, Mattie & Calvin on September 22 at Union Hall!

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Find episode transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Lost Shoe” by Blue Dot Sessions

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:12.0

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0:16.7

and gags and jokes and bits and maybe taking the Kojati live on stage.

0:20.5

We'll see the first iteration of this show that we're trying out is called

0:25.0

Gender Reveal presents, is this anything and it is happening on Sunday, September 22nd at 5 PM at

0:30.6

Union Hall. Tickets are only $10 and there are only 100 total tickets available so I believe

0:36.0

this will sell out. So if you would like to come see the first iteration of this show we would love to see you again September 22nd 5 p.m. at Union Hall

0:46.6

thank you so much for your support time for the show You're going to. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to

1:09.9

understanding what the hell gender is.

1:12.6

I'm your host and resident gender detective,

1:15.2

Tuck Woodstock. Hey everyone hope you've all been hanging in there.

1:27.0

We are back for a brand new season of gender reveal and we are kicking things off by speaking with trans icon Susan striker.

1:35.4

You probably already know Susan as the author of transgender history and a founder of the

1:39.8

field of trans studies.

1:42.0

Last week marked the release of the book Wind Monsters Speak, a Susan

1:44.9

striker reader, which was edited by Mackenzie Wark, and which features an eclectic sampling of

1:49.6

Susan's work over the last 30 years.

1:52.4

As such in this interview, we talk about what it's like to

1:55.0

republish your trans-B-DSM erotica in an academic reader. To go back into the 90s and just

2:01.0

talk a lot about like fucking is you know it's just like oh what grandma just say you know and what

2:08.3

Transgender even meant back in the 1990s

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