Episode 53: Kai Minosh Pyle

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Gender Reveal grant winner Kai Minosh Pyle (they/them), whose work includes Two-Spirit education and Indigenous language revitalization. Topics include:

Busting two-spirit myths and misconceptions
Searching for words to describe yourself—in six languages
The origin of the word “two-spirit”
Trans*temporal kinship
Being an ACTUAL gender detective!

Find Kai at mekadebinesikwe.com or on Twitter @mekadebinesikwe.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Wow. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer
0:19.6	about understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender
0:24.8	detective Molly Woodstock.
0:39.2	Hey friends hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show I chat with gender reveal grant winner Kaim Anosh Pyle about finding indigenous language to describe yourself,
0:45.2	being an actual gender detective, and exploring two- spirit identities, histories,
0:49.9	misconceptions, futures, and more.
0:52.6	You know, being indigenous, it's like I think each community is going to have their own way
0:57.6	that they figure out gender.
0:59.5	But first, a very extra special exciting announcement that I have been waiting a long time to make.
1:04.6	You may have noticed I actually snuck it into the end of last week's episode.
1:08.0	We have merch now.
1:09.9	It is sort of a high concept merch store so let me explain if you go to bit
1:14.5	dot y slash gender merch you will find totts t-shirts stickers pillows even every
1:22.3	single thing you see in the shop is designed by a
1:24.5	trans and or non-binary person and we are giving 50% of the proceeds to the
1:30.6	trans person who designed the thing and 50% of the proceeds to an
1:34.8	organization of the designer's choice that benefits trans and more broadly
1:39.4	LGBTQ folks. So for example if you look at the amazing t-shirt and sticker designed by friend of the show Beth Easton
1:47.3	You'll see that half the proceeds are going to Beth and half the proceeds are going to a UK
1:52.3	organization called Gendered Intelligence.
1:55.6	The proceeds aren't huge because everything is priced pretty low because I wanted it to be
2:01.2	accessible to folks, so I'm using T-Spring and
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