Episode 190: Saint Buffy Loses Her Wings
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week on Blocked and Reported, Jesse and Katie discuss a stunning revelation about Indigenous icon Buffy Sainte-Marie. Plus, New York Times Magazine witer Jazmine Hughes is forced out after taking a political stand. Again. (Guys, this will be the last episode with audio problems on my end, I promise — it is too boring a story to bother telling but by this time tomorrow I will almost be back at my home setup, where I never have these problems. I am sorry for all the pops. -Jesse ‘Plosive’ Singal)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I did a conference to reveal my gender downtown Denver gamer gamer. Yeah, I got I'm still in DC now |
| 0:21.1 | I'm not back to New York yet. So my this very long trip isn't over but I went to the Genspect Conference in Denver |
| 0:28.1 | which is interesting because I also went to the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine |
| 0:32.0 | Conference in New York. There's just like a lot going on right now among folks who hold the |
| 0:38.0 | opinion which we know from previous conversations is extremely bigoted that there's some questions |
| 0:42.8 | about the efficacy of youth gender medicine. So these are two groups trying to sort of become |
| 0:47.4 | central players in research and advocacy on those questions. Well, it also seems like there's a lot |
| 0:52.4 | going on on Twitter in response to at least the Genspect Conference. Have you seen the drama |
| 0:57.6 | over the self-proclaimed AGP who were addressed to the conference? Yes, this is not like I figured |
| 1:04.0 | there'd be Twitter drama. I was surprised the direction it went. Phil Lilly wrote a book about |
| 1:08.9 | autogynophilia. You know what? Should we save this for the primo? Yeah, we should save this for |
| 1:12.8 | the preview. It's it's an interesting story. I hung out with the AGP in question. I liked them |
| 1:19.9 | a lot. We had interesting conversations. Hey, hey, you're you're giving it away for free. |
| 1:23.7 | Okay, that's it. That's all I'll say. But yeah, we'll talk about this on previous very good |
| 1:27.3 | primo content. But yeah, I was grateful I got to attend these conferences and meet people and |
| 1:31.5 | there's a lot more to discuss on that front in the future. But not today. Not today, Satan. |
| 1:37.4 | Katie, what is the name of this increasingly teasing podcast? |
| 1:41.2 | This is Boston reported and I'm Katie Herzog. And I'm Jesse Single. And today we've got some stuff |
| 1:46.5 | to talk about. You've got a story about, do I have this right? Buffy the vampire slayer? |
| 1:51.4 | Something like that. Buffy the pretend vampire slayer. Okay. And then we're also going to talk about |
| 1:58.0 | Jasmine Hughes, a talented young writer who left the New York Times magazine over political |
| 2:03.3 | differences. I should quickly say before we get into that, I solicited listeners opinions about |
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