Episode 61: Lewis Raven Wallace

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In the Season Four finale, Tuck speaks with journalist Lewis Raven Wallace (ze or he). Topics include:

Why transphobia and homophobia aren't binary
What folks don't understand about being trans in North Carolina
How the concept of journalistic objectivity harms trans folks
Being trans in the previous millennium
"Gender is a universe and we're all stars"

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0:00.0	The Welcome to Gender Review, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to
0:19.7	understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective
0:25.1	Molly Woodstock.
0:38.0	Hello everyone. I hope you're all hanging in there. Thank you so so so so much for your patience on this episode. It took so much longer than I thought
0:42.0	but today on the show we speak with journalist
0:45.2	Lewis Wallace. Lewis just released this really vital new book and this new
0:49.9	podcast series. They're both called The View From Somewhere. The
0:53.4	podcast is out now. Please go subscribe. It's about the myth of journalistic
0:57.8	objectivity, which is what we've been talking about all season on this
1:00.8	podcast. And I would love to play you the trailer of Lewis's
1:04.3	new podcast right now. I'm Louis Raven Wallace in 2017 just after Donald
1:11.1	Trump's inauguration I got fired from my job as a public radio
1:14.8	reporter for speaking out against Trump's white supremacy and calling his lies what
1:19.4	they are. Ever since then, I've been digging into the history of so-called objectivity in journalism and other people who've challenged that idea.
1:29.0	Objectivity is the ideology of the status quo. It is.
1:35.0	White journalist's obsession with objectivity comes from being a white person in a white dominated country in which all of the laws
1:47.4	were in the favor of whiteness.
1:49.0	And I've been talking to all kinds of journalists
1:51.2	who've taken on racism, transphobia, and sexism in order to tell the truth.
1:57.0	As journalists, we don't have the luxury of being comfortable.
2:01.6	If you're a journalist and you're comfortable, you're not a
2:03.7	very good journalist. You should be uncomfortable every single day of your life.
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