Episode 5: Leila Haile and Maya Vivas

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Lgbtq, Documentary, Queer, Personal Journals, Gender, Nonbinary, Society & Culture, Genderqueer, Transgender, Trans

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, we speak with Leila and Haile and Maya Vivas, co-directors of Ori Gallery. Ori is a brand new gallery that seeks to amplify the voices of trans and queer artists of color in Portland, Oregon. (CW: assault at 9:00 and 33:00) Topics include:

Queerness and Afro-Queerness as a gender, sexual, and political identity
Racism and transphobia in the medical industrial complex
Navigating queer spaces as a Black, trans, disabled human
Coming into a non-binary identity through an African identity
Creating a truly accessible art gallery

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here and here.

Find Ori Gallery at oriartgallery.com and on Instagram. Find Leila Haile at leilahaile.com, and Maya Vivas at mayavivas.com.

Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at [email protected] or on Twitter @gendereveal. And of course, we always appreciate donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App.

Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Gladrags (coupon code: “GENDER”) and TomboyX (coupon code: “TOMBOYS”)

Transcript

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0:00.0	My gender is actually 10,000 a.
0:02.0	That's a concept.
0:04.7	We're just made up of me.
0:05.4	Gender is literally a concept.
0:07.3	It's fake.
0:08.3	I mean...
0:09.7	Podcast over, bye.
0:10.9	H- over by. Welcome to Gender Review, a podcast for folks of all genders answer intrusive personal questions
0:31.3	and hopefully get us a little bit closer to understanding what the
0:33.7	hell gender is.
0:35.2	I'm your host and resident you the wise and important thoughts of Lila Hale and Maya Vivas.
0:51.0	But before I do, I need to tell you about the folks who are making the show possible.
0:55.0	First of all, a huge shout out as always to our monthly donors on Patreon.
1:00.0	You're all my heroes. As you know, if you're up to donate some change, you can head to Patreon.com
1:06.0	slash gender and if you donate five dollars or more, I'll send you some rad gender reveal stickers.
1:11.0	And if you donate ten dollars or more, I'll send you a handwritten
1:14.1	thank you note filled with stickers. Another way you can genuinely really
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