Episode 52: Callie Wright

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Callie Wright (she/her), creator of the podcast Queersplaining. Topics include:

Shifting away from performing femininity as a trans woman
Exploring your gender twice… and knowing when to stop
Atheist activism in LGBTQ communities and vice versa
“All of the worst things in my life have come from keeping secrets”
Genders aren’t plots! (h/t Cass Adair)

Read more about our This Week in Gender topics: New Hampshire, Sarah McBride, Australian car fire.

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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Colrain” 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 hopefully get a little bit closer to
0:19.7	understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock.
0:27.0	Hello everyone. I hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show I
0:38.5	spoke with podcast host Callie Wright about the intersections of trans
0:42.4	activism and the atheist movement, buying a lot of flannel
0:45.8	charts and exploring Butch, trans, lesbian identity and aesthetics, crying on your own podcast, and re-exploring on your own podcast and re-exploring your gender.
0:55.0	It was a simple choice before. In my head I only had two options and one box
1:01.0	felt definitely more comfortable than the other.
1:04.0	And now, I know that I don't actually have to pick that box.
1:07.0	I can be adjacent to that box.
1:09.0	I can be somewhere in between the two or I can be on a different plane
1:12.0	and that's all okay and so that
1:14.5	makes it harder it's like I guess it's like choice paralysis I guess. But first
1:17.7	thank you so much to everyone who's joined our Patreon or sent us PayPal
1:21.6	donations in the last two weeks.
1:23.6	Y'all are so, so incredible.
1:25.4	I'm just always blown away by your generosity.
1:27.8	Special thanks this week to new patron, Jane.
1:30.6	Jane, you know why.
1:32.0	And now, it's time for this week in Gender. The This week in Gender, A, it's license updates.
1:59.0	Again, last Wednesday, New Hampshire became the 14th state to offer gender-neutral ex-gender markers on
2:05.2	driver's licenses in some capacity.
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