Episode 63: Alyssa Pariah

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with activist and labor organizer Alyssa Pariah (she/her) at Gender Reveal's first live show. Topics include:

What trans healthcare would look like under Medicare for All
How to be a better ally/accomplice for sex workers
How the Black Lives Matter movement supports trans liberation better than many LGBTQ orgs
Coping with survivor's guilt as a 32-year-old trans woman of color
What will it take to end trans oppression?
Also: an army of trans bitches in the class war!

This Week In Gender: We discuss state legislatures' attempts to block trans kids from transitioning (3:30-6:30). Read the referenced Katelyn Burns article on Vox and Laura Thompson's article on Mother Jones. Emoji news is via Emojipedia.

Learn more about the Audre Lorde Project; Don't Shoot PDX; Critical Resistance; Pride at Work; and Jobs with Justice. (Also, never cross a picket line!)

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Production help: Mckenzee Griffler

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Additional music: "The Back Lot" and "Sylvestor" by Blue Dot Sessions

Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to
0:19.8	understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender
0:25.4	detective Molly Woodstock.
0:29.4	Hey everyone hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show I am
0:37.5	so excited to share part one of our first ever gender reveal live show featuring the incredible activist and
0:45.3	organizer Alyssa Pariah. Alyssa and I talk about how we can be better allies
0:50.4	slash accomplices to sex workers, what trans health care would look like under
0:54.8	Medicare for All, and how the Movement for Black Lives supports trans liberation more than most
1:00.8	LGBTQ focused organizations do.
1:03.6	Anybody who calls the cops is not on my side.
1:06.6	Anybody who supports the US military is not on my side
1:10.1	that supports prisons and police and occupation. You're not on my side so I want to be able to be honest about that.
1:17.4	But first, thank you so much to everyone who has joined us on Patreon in the last few days including but not limited to
1:25.2	Matt Claire Jessica Jenny Robert chakura and will as you heard last week I quit my gosh darn day job to focus on this podcast and other trans equity work with
1:35.4	Sylvian Consulting, which means that Patreon.com slash gender is my primary source of income,
1:41.7	so y'all are literally making my life possible and I appreciate source of
1:45.0	the income, so y'all are literally making my life possible and I appreciate you
1:46.0	more and more every single day.
1:48.0	And of course, the Patreon doesn't just buy me lunch.
1:51.0	It also pays all the expenses for the show, and it funds our grant program.
1:55.6	You will be meeting several of last fall's grant winners later on this season.
1:59.9	In the meantime, if you would like to help support the show support trans media you can do
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