Episode 38: Torri Rubi
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with Portland chef and self-described genderless feral child Torri Rubi (she/they). Topics include:
- Dressing up like a literal doll.
- Ghost roots and colonization.
- Gender justice and community giving.
- How do people find girlfriends?
Don't forget to donate to the Social Justice Fund's Gender Justice Giving Project! You can also follow Torri on Instagram at @soycurlmami and @mijamijaaaa.
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Additional music: "Topslides" by Blue Dot Sessions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What? Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully |
| 0:20.3 | get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm your host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:27.8 | Hey everyone. Hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show I spoke with |
| 0:38.6 | Chef Tori Ruby of the mihamaha pop- about ghost roots, gender justice grant giving, and growing up as a genderless |
| 0:46.4 | feral child. |
| 0:47.4 | Because I've never been super feminine and like I've never known how. |
| 0:51.2 | I would research different like old-timey dolls and I would like go to a |
| 0:55.2 | thrift store and like buy that outfit full-on like poofy skirts stockings the whole |
| 1:00.6 | fucking thing. But first just wanted to say that I completely missed the |
| 1:05.3 | official one-year anniversary of gender reveal. If you have been here for an entire |
| 1:09.8 | year or you've at some point consumed an entire year's worth of content. |
| 1:13.7 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:15.8 | I really appreciate it. |
| 1:17.0 | We literally couldn't and wouldn't do it without your support. |
| 1:19.8 | Speaking of support, if you have listened to an entire year's worth of content and you haven't yet donated to the show and you have the means to do so, I would super encourage it. We have lots of cool rewards on our Patreon. We also have an exciting new way to support the show that I just made up today and I'm |
| 1:36.1 | really excited to tell you about it. If you've ever listened to a maximum fun podcast, |
| 1:41.1 | which is a podcast network that I'm not a part of. You'll have heard of |
| 1:44.7 | Jumbotrons, which are personal messages that are read by the hosts of the show and |
| 1:49.4 | submitted by listeners. I have created our own version of Jumbotrons. It's called They Mail. |
| 1:55.0 | And to get on the show, all you need to do is fill out a form that is on our website in a couple of places and in the show notes and you submit a message of |
| 2:05.2 | 75 or fewer words and I will personally read that message on the show. Your |
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