Episode 24: Meredith Talusan
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with award-winning journalist and author Meredith Talusan (she/they), the executive editor of them. Topics include:
- Third gender traditions in the Philippines
- Becoming the first openly trans staff writer at BuzzFeed
- Existing as a minority who often passes as """normal""" (cis/white)
- Adding specificity, nuance, and good faith to the American feminist movement
Learn more about our This Week in Gender topic by listening to our previous episode, Gender 201.
Referenced essays:
- How #MeToo Stands to Marginalize Trans and Gender-Nonconforming People by Meredith Talusan
- I'm a Trans Woman Who Detransitioned to Become a Mom by Lara Americo
- On Being Queer and Happily Single — Except When I'm Not by Brandon Taylor
- Twitter Needs to Treat Misgendering Trans People as Hate Speech by Meredith Talusan
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| 0:00.0 | What? Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and |
| 0:24.4 | resident gender detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:37.8 | Hey everyone. Y'all really blew me away this week. On last week's episode I casually mentioned that we could maybe use a couple more folks to |
| 0:41.4 | help us transcribe the gender reveal episodes, and I expected |
| 0:44.7 | maybe one or two folks to respond, and like everyone responded? |
| 0:48.6 | There were so many of you and you're all so kind and I'm just so grateful for each and every one of you and so we're all set on |
| 0:54.5 | transcriptions for now but if you message me and offered to transcribe before |
| 0:59.0 | July 30th let's say feel free to message me again with your mailing address, and I will send you some gender |
| 1:04.6 | reveal swag as a thank you for your very kind offer, because I really appreciate you. |
| 1:08.8 | This is such a nice community. |
| 1:10.8 | Right now, our plan is to pay a friend of the show show Camille to transcribe all of the episodes. |
| 1:15.0 | This is basically their full-time job right now, so we're very committed to paying them a fair rate and if I did |
| 1:18.9 | my math right that's going to end up being like a thousand dollars. |
| 1:22.4 | And so if you would like to help us make the |
| 1:24.1 | show more accessible by paying a queer non-binary person for their labor, please |
| 1:28.1 | consider donating to the show at patreon.com slash gender or paypal |
| 1:31.9 | dot me slash moly woodstock I also have cash app my cash app handle or |
| 1:35.8 | whatever you call it is moly woodstock if you want to send me some money via |
| 1:38.8 | cash app I'll take that I'll take your money however thank you so much to everyone |
| 1:42.4 | who's donated to the show. You are the |
| 1:44.0 | folks who make this possible and I appreciate you more than I could put into words. |
| 1:49.1 | Finally, I have an exciting announcement. I am going to be very offline for a while because I am going to try |
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