Episode 43: Caleb Luna
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with writer, activist, teacher, performer, fat babe and Ph.D. student Caleb Luna (they/them). (cw: mentions of rape, slavery, racism) Topics include:
- How fatness impacts gender performance
- Experiencing white supremacy in QTPOC spaces
- "Fat liberation requires the undoing of western civilization"
- The racialization of gender throughout U.S. history
- Is romantic love a colonial construct?
References:
- "The Gender Nonconformity of My Fatness" by Caleb Luna
- "The X in Latinx is a Wound, Not a Trend" by Alan Pelaez Lopez
- "Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native" by Patrick Wolfe
- "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe" by Hortense J. Spillers
- Learn more about our This Week in Gender topic here and here.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully |
| 0:20.2 | get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. This week I am thrilled and |
| 0:37.5 | honored to share my conversation with writer, activist, teacher, performer, and |
| 0:41.7 | all-around, Caleb Luna. |
| 0:43.8 | We talked a lot about how gender can be racialized, how fatness and disability can make gender |
| 0:48.4 | less legible, and how we should decolonize everything. |
| 0:52.2 | I feel like there's a lot of acknowledgement |
| 0:54.6 | that like a lot of our problems |
| 0:56.2 | have to do with Western civilization. |
| 0:58.4 | But first, just a gentle reminder |
| 1:00.4 | that gender reveal is 100% funded by listeners like you. Without ordinary folks stepping up and |
| 1:06.3 | joining the Patreon out of the kindness of their hearts, we wouldn't have our grant program, |
| 1:11.3 | we wouldn't have a website, we wouldn't have buttons and stickers, and honestly |
| 1:15.2 | we just wouldn't have a podcast. |
| 1:17.4 | So thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you who continue to make this possible |
| 1:21.0 | every week. |
| 1:21.6 | It really means so much. |
| 1:23.4 | If you would like to join us and support trans media you can do that at |
| 1:27.1 | Patreon.com slash gender on PayPal or Cash app |
| 1:31.3 | or by writing a little they mail message for us to read on the show or by buying |
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