Episode 269: Marshall John Blount

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Netflix's Sex Education recently dropped its final season, and with it came a new asexual character who - while groundbreaking - has proven to be quite divisive within the ace community. To that end, it seemed like the perfect time for Lauren to have a conversation with asexual activist Marshall John Blount, known online as the Gentle Giant Ace! Marshall was homeschooled by his mother from third grade onward, so he didn't directly experience the social pressures of high school dating. Even so, he knew that he felt "different" from his peers, and when he finally confided this to a family member, the information that she gave him on asexuality was a revelation. Marshall discusses the specific set of challenges that Black asexual people face, and shares how, even in activist spaces, he is almost always the only person like him in the room. He also explains why he literally wears his identity on his sleeve (or rather on his back, in the form of an ace pride flag), and much more!

Find Marshall on Twitter at @AceGentle, on TikTok at @gentlegiantace93, and on YouTube and Facebook as Marshall John Blount!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Coming Out Pod.
0:09.8	I'm going to do a short and sweet queer root shoutout at the top here.
0:15.4	Shout out to you if your queer root is Janelle Monet wearing a suit.
0:21.6	Enough said.
0:22.6	Nothing else needs to be added to that.
0:24.8	All right.
0:25.5	So our guest today, or my guest today, is somebody who I've been following on Twitter for a number of years now.
0:33.3	Say hello to Marshall John Blund.
0:36.1	Hi, Marshall.
0:36.8	Thanks for having me.
0:38.2	Marshall. I'm really excited that you agreed to come on. Marshall is an activist, who I think I
0:45.4	started following you via Yasmin. If I'm not mistaken, I think that's how I came to you.
0:52.9	And so, listeners, if you go back in your memory banks,
0:57.4	Yasmin is an asexual activist and model, again, the greatest combination of words ever put together
1:03.8	activist model. She lives in the UK. She was our guest on, I think it was episode 193. We had her on for International Asexuality
1:15.0	Day. And so that was how I discovered through her retweeting or the two of them talking.
1:21.3	That's how I discovered Marshall. And I wanted to ask Marshall to co-out the podcast because if
1:26.7	you are a fan of the Netflix show Sex Education,
1:31.4	they recently dropped what I guess is their final season. I will be honest. I've never seen
1:38.3	sex education. I know that's there's a lot of queer TV on now. It's very different from when I was growing up.
1:45.2	We have an embarrassment of riches.
1:47.1	It is hard to keep up with all the queer TV.
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