Episode 21: Ari Monts
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with writer and Ph.D. student Ari LaRae Monts (they/them), whose research focuses on queer women of color and non-binary people of color. Topics include:
- Grappling with family trauma by writing a love letter to butch queers.
- Using federal dollars to study queer SM communities of color.
- Rethinking "femme" as an identity beyond an aesthetic.
- Practicing Christianity as a queer and trans person.
- Exploring nonbinary identity at A-Camp.
Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here.
Find Alaina's writing on Autostraddle, and follow them on Twitter (@alaraemonts).
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Welcome to Gender Reveal, the podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm your host and resident gender |
| 0:24.1 | detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:27.0 | Hi friends hope you're all hanging in there. Before we get started I wanted to share |
| 0:37.0 | two quick reminders slash announcements. First it's time for us to do another |
| 0:41.1 | advice segment on the show so if you have questions about |
| 0:43.7 | gender or queerness please send them to us we have a Google form in the show notes and you can also |
| 0:48.5 | email them to us or DM us on Twitter. Secondly as you, our show is 100% listener supported. |
| 0:55.0 | Last month, Allison Jones became our first ever Patreon supporter at the $40 level. |
| 1:01.0 | Allison is not only a kind and selfless queer angel, she's also a relatively |
| 1:05.1 | recent gender revealer who is just now making her way through the backlogs, and she |
| 1:09.6 | asked me to remind everyone that if you haven't listened to season one you should just |
| 1:13.8 | listen to all the episodes because they're fun but specifically if you're |
| 1:16.9 | confused about some of the vocabulary we use on the show you can listen to episode |
| 1:20.6 | one which is a glossary of terms that we use to talk about |
| 1:23.4 | gender and identity and all of the other episodes. If you want to learn more |
| 1:26.8 | about pronouns I'd also highly recommend listening to episode 13 with Kirby |
| 1:30.3 | Conrad which has a ton of tips and information from a professional linguist. |
| 1:35.2 | We currently have 94 incredible Patreon donors, most of whom are donating one or five dollars |
| 1:40.3 | a month. |
| 1:41.1 | If that sounds doable to you and you want to be our 100th donor, find |
| 1:44.8 | us at patreon.com slash gender. And with that it's time for a segment called |
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