Episode 179: Colby Gordon
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Tuck chats with Colby Gordon (he/him), a founder of Early Modern Trans Studies. Topics include:
- How much of Colby’s work is writing slashfic about the Bible??
- The limits of secularism in protecting trans people, and why Colby wants more trans people to have access to religion
- How the IRS randomly assigned Colby a trans name as a teen
- Running a twitter poll to decide between rabbinical school and a neck tattoo
- Plus: Phalloplasty, Wheat Jesus, trans mayhem(!), and the return of Spinoza
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Find Colby at colbygordon.com and @badinfinity2. Glorious Bodies is available now.
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| 0:00.0 | Wow. Welcome to Gender Reveal, for a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:19.6 | what the hell Gender is. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm your host and president gender detective Tuck Woodstock. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey everyone hope you've all been hanging in there. This week on the show I am so |
| 0:38.4 | so excited to share my conversation with Colby Gordon. Colby is a founder of the academic field of early modern |
| 0:44.9 | trans studies or emo trans for cool kids and for years I have been like that's so |
| 0:51.6 | cool for you Colby but what does early modern trans studies mean why should I care and then I actually spoke with |
| 0:57.9 | Colby for the podcast and we had so so so much fun he's just an incredible speaker and he wasn't even mad at me when I asked if his work is mostly slash thick about Jesus. |
| 1:08.0 | In this episode, Colby and I talk about his new book, Glorious Bodies, Trans Theology, and Renaissance literature. |
| 1:16.0 | He also talks about reclaiming religion for trans people, naming himself after his hometown |
| 1:21.4 | that he feels complicated about, and about the time pre-transition |
| 1:24.8 | that the US government just sort of randomly decided that his name was Charles. |
| 1:29.9 | And then we also talk about falloplasty, neck tattoos, Twitter poles, Renaissance |
| 1:34.8 | trans investigations, and the Bible. |
| 1:37.7 | Genesis 127 is God created the man in his own image. He created them male and female. It's like Adam has pronouns and they're a real problem. |
| 1:47.8 | But before we get to that huge news, the 10th iteration of our annual gender reveal grant is now open for applications. |
| 1:56.5 | As usual we are awarding 500 to a thousand dollar grants to fund community |
| 2:01.2 | organizing and artistic projects led by |
| 2:03.8 | trans people of color. You can see a list of all of our previous grant |
| 2:08.0 | recipients on our website and you can also find a link to apply to this |
| 2:12.2 | year's grant that's all at gender |
| 2:14.3 | podcast.com slash grant. As always the grants are funded directly by our |
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