Episode 56: Emma Jayne

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with cartoonist Emma Jayne (she/her), author of Trans Girls Hit the Town and co-host of We Should Be Friends. Topics include:

Drawing trans women (forever)
Creating trans community in comics
Wasting good jokes on straight people
Queer eggs attracting other queer eggs
Plus: Spilling three beans!

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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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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
0:19.9	understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender
0:24.5	detective Molly Woodstock.
0:27.0	Hey everyone. Hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show I have a truly
0:39.0	delightful conversation with cartoonist Emma Jane.
0:42.8	We talk about drawing trans women, creating space for trans cartoonists in the comic scene,
0:48.3	crying about adventure time being over, and striking a balance between hopeful trans stories and tragic ones.
0:55.0	I don't know, that just seemed like the most truthful way to depict the experience of being
0:59.1	trans.
1:00.1	Sometimes it's going to suck really bad, but sometimes you will feel the best you've ever felt in your life.
1:06.0	But first, there are only a few days left to buy genders of spooky ghost tote bags designed by Z.
1:12.4	Giffler after something that Eden Rotensky said in
1:15.2	episode 4 and and gender shirts made by friend of the show Beth Easton in our
1:21.0	merch store which is bit
1:23.3	L Y slash gender merch. Spooky ghost sales benefit gender reveal
1:28.1	Beth Easton's design benefits gendered intelligence Transorg in the UK.
1:33.6	We'll also have new designs coming soon,
1:36.3	but when those new designs come in, these designs will go away.
1:40.2	We are still fundraising to pay for our grant program, the next round of which will open in, I believe, October,
1:46.0	as well as paying our transcription team and our bills and all of that.
1:50.0	So donating any amount on Patreon will get you access to our extremely fun newsletter type product,
1:56.0	which is full of behind the scenes photos and news about upcoming episodes and pictures of my cat,
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