Episode 45: Jack Malstrom
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with Portland Two-Spirit Society interim director Jack Malstrom (he or she). [CW: colonization/genocide; suicide mention (37:20)] Topics include:
- How to push back against 500 years of colonizing queerness.
- (Re)learning and reclaiming two-spirit traditions.
- Educating white folks at Pride — in a literal tipi.
- What does Indigenous queer community look like?
Resources:
- Listen to Rose City Native Radio on KBOO.FM.
- Find the SAMHSA Native American Culture Card here.
- (Re)listen to our interview with Demian DinéYazhi.
- Check out Jeremy Dutcher, Lady Shug, and the Native Youth Sexual Health Network.
- Find Jack on Twitter and Instagram.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully |
| 0:20.1 | get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident |
| 0:25.5 | gender detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:28.0 | Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. Welcome to the |
| 0:36.4 | penultimate episode of Gender Reveal season 3. This week on the show I'm |
| 0:41.4 | really excited to share my chat with Portland Two Spirit Society interim director Jack Malstram, which was recorded last October. |
| 0:48.0 | We talk about exploring two spirit identity, decolonizing queerness, as always, educating white people, as always, and |
| 0:55.8 | celebrating indigenous queer culture. |
| 0:58.2 | There are definitely times where I feel like indigenous queers are the only people who are really |
| 1:02.2 | talking real shit. |
| 1:04.7 | And I really, I love it, but it's, it can be seen as like super radical because they're like, |
| 1:09.0 | fuck the government, like, what does that ever helped us with? |
| 1:11.8 | The whole system is built to destroy us. |
| 1:14.0 | But first I have a very very exciting announcement for you today. |
| 1:17.0 | Gender Reveal grants are back. |
| 1:19.0 | They are twice as big as last year and the applications are open now. This time around we are only |
| 1:25.1 | opening the grant to BIPOC folks that's black, indigenous, and or people of color. |
| 1:30.4 | If you're a person who solely identifies as white, we got you next time, |
| 1:35.2 | there's going to be another grant, you can apply then. This round is only for any non-white, |
| 1:40.9 | non-sis person. We are giving out two $350 grants and $150 |
| 1:47.0 | grants. You can apply for either one or both. To apply, check out the link in the |
| 1:51.7 | show notes or visit Gender Podcast. |
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