Episode 57: Jerika Che
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with Jerika Che (they/them), founder of Stick to Resist. See below for content warnings. Topics include:
- Traveling while trans (aka gender in the Amazon rainforest)
- The limits of the words "trans" and "nonbinary"
- The power of queer stickers
- Nonbinary rights! (Dot com!)
- The importance of sharing traumatic trans stories
Content warnings
- Murder of trans people (13:00–13:30)
- Genocide (21:15–24:15)
- Abuse/assault (24:30-28:45)
- Suicide, murder, torture (46:45–50:00)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Queers fear, queer's fear, queer's cheers, |
| 0:03.0 | sist tears. |
| 0:04.0 | Queers, cheer, sist tears. |
| 0:06.0 | This is my vocal warm-ups. Welcome to Gender Review, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:27.6 | what the hell Gender is. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm your host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey everyone, hope you're all still hanging in there. Thank you for your patience last week when I needed to take a weekend off to go spend time with family on that trip. |
| 0:50.0 | My mom asked me and I quote, what does it mean when you say that you're trans? |
| 0:55.0 | And I died and now I'm a ghost, so that's how that went. |
| 0:58.0 | If your parents ask you what it means when you're trans, |
| 1:01.0 | I hope they're willing to listen to episode one of |
| 1:03.5 | Gender Reveal Podcast and if there are any other resources I can create that will |
| 1:08.4 | make it easier for you to talk to your parents or anyone else in your life |
| 1:11.6 | about what it means when you say that you're |
| 1:13.1 | trans let me know I am so happy to do this and spare you those interactions. |
| 1:19.8 | Anyway this week on the show I spoke with friend of the show and Stick to |
| 1:24.0 | resist founder Jerry Chee about traveling while trans, sharing stories about |
| 1:28.5 | trauma, the power of queer stickers, and seeing gender as cultural stories that we learn and are forced to live. |
| 1:35.2 | Gender is such a weird concept. It's a made up story that somebody tells you when you're a kid and then |
| 1:40.4 | they make you live it. That blew my mind a little bit. |
| 1:43.3 | But first I just wanted to let you know two very important things. |
| 1:46.9 | One is that we have new merch in our merch shop. |
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