Episode 19: Demian DinéYazhi´

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with Indigenous Diné transdisciplinary artist Demian DinéYazhi´(they/them). Demian is the founder and director of the artist/activist initiative R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment. Topics include:

"The only option for being queer was death. And the only option for being a Native person was death, as well."
Decolonializing concepts of sex, love, gender identity, and sexual orientation for future generations.
Defining "radical indigenous queer feminism."
Creating resources and platforms for queer, trans, and Two-Spirit Indigenous artists.
Growing up queer during the AIDS crisis.

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here and here. (And please let us know your thoughts!)

Find Damien's work on Tumblr and Etsy. Damien is also on Instagram at @heterogeneoushomosexual and @riseindigenous.

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0:00.0	Welcome. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully
0:19.8	get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident
0:24.9	gender detective Molly Woodstock.
0:27.0	Hey everyone, happy Bride, happy Solstice. I hope everyone's hanging in there. I have a great show for you today, but before we get started, I need to remind you that as always, the show is sponsored by our incredible
0:45.2	Patreon donors. We have 12 new donors this month. Thank you all so so much. We've got a lot of $5
0:52.1	donors. We've also got a lot of five dollar donors. We've also got a lot of one dollar donors. And hey, everyone donating a dollar a month. I see you. I appreciate you. You're great. Special thanks this week to Jackie, who just a second ago donated $17.
1:05.0	I don't know the significance of that number but I love it it's so many dollars.
1:08.8	Thank you so much Jackie.
1:10.4	If you'd like to start supporting the show you can do so at patreon.com slash gender
1:15.5	All right this wig and gender we've got a doozy for you so let's dive in This week in Gender, we're talking about that cover story on the new issue of the Atlantic.
1:30.0	The headline is, quote, Your child says she's trans.
1:34.0	She wants hormones and surgery.
1:36.0	She's 13.
1:38.0	All right, already we've got a couple of problems, right?
1:40.0	Because this article is entirely about children who were assigned female at birth
1:44.3	and transitioning to be masculine of center. And so already this headline is doubting this child,
1:49.6	likely misgendering the child, and there are even more issues and we'll get to them soon.
1:54.7	This article was written by Jesse Single, a cisgendered journalist who's well known in the
1:58.6	trans community for writing articles that concern troll trans youth. Concern trolling is the practice of
2:04.3	using health concerns as an excuse to bully or critique someone. Fat folks
2:08.2	experience this constantly, right? Random strangers will use health as an excuse to criticize their bodies and tell them that they have to lose weight.
2:15.9	Jesse and many other folks use concern trolling as a way to question trans kids identities and keep them from accessing
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