Episode 54: Sam Long

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, guest host Mckenzee Griffler (she/her) speaks with Gender Reveal grant winner Sam Long (he/him), a high school biology teacher working to make science classes more diverse, accurate and inclusive. Topics include:

What most high school biology classes get wrong
Becoming the first trans astronaut
Queering curriculums (through animal mating rituals)
How being gay could help a population(!)
Finding trans Nemo?!?

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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 to
0:19.5	understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock.
0:27.0	Hey everyone. Hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the
0:37.6	podcast best friend of the show Z. Griefler steps in to interview gender
0:42.4	reveal grant winner Sam Long.
0:45.0	Z and Sam talk about high school biology class, animal mating rituals,
0:50.0	queering curriculums, and finding Trans Nemo?
0:54.8	In finding Nemo, what really would have happened
0:57.2	when the mom died was that the dad would have changed sex.
1:01.4	But first, just a quick reminder that we have
1:04.5	merch at bit.ly slash gender merch. We got spooky ghost totts. We got gender
1:11.0	detective shirts. We've got genderal logo pillows for some reason
1:15.0	And sticker, sticker, stickers, stickers.
1:18.0	In fact, we now have stickers of unofficial gender-of-yal mascot Rubar Fig-McBidey-Face Woodstock, aka Ruby.
1:24.8	Yeah, that's just a sticker of an illustration of my cat.
1:28.3	Why? Because gender reveal logo designer Michelle Lye was like hey here's an illustration of your
1:34.3	cat put it on some die-cut stickers put it in the merch store and donate the proceeds
1:38.7	to the okra project and I was like, okay, sure.
1:43.2	I don't care if anyone else buys them.
1:44.8	I will buy one zillion and wallpaper my whole house with them.
1:48.8	If you don't want a sticker of my cat, which, how dare you,
1:52.4	you can also get stickers of all the other designs we
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