Episode 58: Elle Halo

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Gender Reveal grant winner and LGBTQ+ advocate Elle Halo (she/her). Topics include:

How other LGBTQ+ folks can support trans women
How trans women offer/teach empathy to other communities
The importance of Black foster parents
The impact of the National Black Trans Advocacy Conference and SHEBA

Content warnings: (14:15) brief mention of child sexual assault; (30-32) mentions of assault, abuse, etc.

Read more about our This Week in Gender topic: “How Queer People Brought Some Actual Reality to Dating-Reality TV” by Jenna Wortham

Read Autostraddle’s Gender Reveal feature: “Insta Crush: Gender Reveal Podcast Centers Nonbinary and Trans Voices, Is Living the Queer Dream”

Listen to Tuck's guest appearance on the Gayish podcast

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, this week before we start the show I wanted to share a piece of they mail.
0:03.7	They mail is our program where you send us some money and we read a message on the show.
0:08.3	Find more info in the show notes.
0:11.0	Here it is. From the Corners of Their Mouth press.
0:14.0	Join the creators of the Corners of their mouth a queer food scene for the Issue 2 launch party.
0:20.0	Issue 2 is a collection of recipes, comics, poetry, and essays on topics including self-care and queer crushes,
0:27.0	learning to cook in a new country, and queer nihilism's connection to vegan food.
0:32.0	Wow, that's very interesting.
0:33.4	The launch party will have free food
0:35.1	and a satirical gender reveal cake.
0:37.3	This sounds so good.
0:38.1	It's in Seattle.
0:39.1	Okay.
0:40.1	Saturday, September 7th, 2 to 5 p.m.
0:42.3	at Outsider Comics in Seattle.
0:45.0	Learn more at the corners of their mouthpress.com.
0:47.8	That's so rad if you're in Seattle you should go.
0:50.0	Anyway, here's a show. Welcome to Gender Review, a Podcast, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender
1:15.8	detective Molly Woodstock. Hey everyone. Hope you're all hanging in there. I haven't slept in like four days. It's fine. It's fine. Everything's fine.
1:31.0	This week on the show we spoke to Gender Reveal Grant winner
1:36.0	El HALO about all of the obstacles that black trans women face and how we can all do a better job supporting them.
1:43.6	The audio on this piece is pretty wild, but I think we're gonna make it through.
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