Episode 29: Vivek Shraya
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with musician, author, filmmaker, and visual artist Vivek Shraya (she/her). Topics include:
- Viewing Hindu gods as queer role models
- Writing pop music about racism, gender, and biphobia
- Why we should reject "love is love" as a queer slogan
- Chronic suicidality / how to live when the world wants you dead [CN: 42-49 min]
- How do we keep going if we don't think we're going to win?
Learn more about our This Week in Gender topic here and here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Molly just popping in before the show starts to give you many content warnings. |
| 0:05.0 | Normally we put the content warnings in the show notes, but there's many of them and I wanted to make sure you didn't miss them. |
| 0:11.0 | In this episode, we talk about assault, we talk about racism, homophobia, |
| 0:16.4 | transphobia, misogyny, starting around a minute 41 or 42 to minute like 48 or 49 we talk about |
| 0:25.4 | suicidality and depression a lot. This is I think my favorite episode of |
| 0:31.7 | gender field that I've ever made, mostly because Vivick is incredible. |
| 0:36.8 | And so typically I have a strict cap on how long I let these episodes go, and on this one I blew past it by like 10 minutes |
| 0:45.4 | because I just really wanted you to get to hear |
| 0:47.3 | the whole conversation. |
| 0:48.9 | And so it's a long one. |
| 0:50.0 | If you need to take a break and come back, that's fine. |
| 0:52.3 | If you need to skip a section, that's fine. If you need to take a break and come back, that's fine. If you need to skip a section, that's fine. |
| 0:54.5 | If you are struggling with suicidality, |
| 0:56.8 | I would urge you to call 1-800 suicide, |
| 1:00.3 | the Trans Lifeline, or the the Trevor Project or a friend and if you can't call them maybe text them if you can't text them |
| 1:08.8 | Just hold on. I'm so happy you're here. I you so much I hope you enjoy the episode Welcome to Gender Field, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm your host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 1:42.8 | Hello and welcome to the penultimate episode of Gender Reveal Season 2. This week I am finally sharing my interview with Vivik Straya, which I recorded months ago, but have been saving as a special treat to all of us for making it through this season. Vivik is an author, a musician, a filmmaker, a professor. |
| 2:05.9 | She has a new book that just came out. |
| 2:07.7 | She does so much incredible work and I'm really, really in awe of her. |
| 2:11.3 | I'm really excited to share our talk, but that's all coming up later. |
| 2:14.8 | First, let me tell you that I have been working on so many gender reveal projects, like really |
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