Episode 33: Sonalee Rashatwar
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with social worker, sex therapist, and radical educator Sonalee Rashatwar (they/she). (CW: body image trauma, abusive relationships, fatphobia.) Topics include:
- How fatness can queer someone's gender presentation
- Why gender and sexuality are supposed to be fluid
- Advice for trans folks struggling with body image issues
- The (de)colonization of gender and sexuality
- The most delicious "future of gender" yet.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully |
| 0:19.7 | 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. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey everyone, hope you're doing okay out there. I am sick which you can probably tell from my |
| 0:38.1 | voice. This week on the show I'm delighted to speak with Sonali Rishatwar who you may know from |
| 0:43.3 | Instagram as the fat sex therapist. Sonali has a lot of smart and important |
| 0:48.3 | stuff to say about race and bodies and sexuality and trauma and decolonization, but before we get to that just and Okay, first I just want to say that this episode is dropping on my very own birthday and it would sure be an incredible gift to me if you took some sort of action to support the show. |
| 1:10.0 | As you know, our entire budget comes from listeners just like you who donate to the show. |
| 1:15.5 | So if you could throw in a few bucks to the Patreon or PayPal or cash app, all of which are |
| 1:19.6 | linked in the show |
| 1:25.0 | that would be so great. And maybe even more importantly, you also know that we don't have |
| 1:26.0 | like a marketing department. The only way we promote the show is through y'all |
| 1:30.0 | spreading the word. So if you could take a minute to get your friends |
| 1:33.9 | subscribe to the show or to post about it on social media and tag us that would really |
| 1:38.8 | mean a lot to me personally. Thank you so much. Secondly, to celebrate the beginning of season 3, |
| 1:45.0 | we are giving away a copy of R.G. |
| 1:48.0 | Bonjevani's book, a quick and easy guide to they-then pronouns. |
| 1:51.0 | Check out our Instagram, which is at G-E-N-T-E-R-E-E-A-L to learn how to win and to see pictures of my cap. |
| 2:00.0 | Okay with that it's time for this week in gender. |
| 2:05.0 | For once this week in gender is actually about this week. |
| 2:11.0 | This Sunday, December 16th, 94 contestants from all around the |
| 2:16.2 | world will compete in the 2018 Miss Universe pageant in Bangkok, Thailand. One of these |
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