Episode 66: Elijah Forbes
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with two-spirit artist and Gender Reveal grant winner Elijah Forbes (he/him). Topics include:
- "What does being a man mean, and how attached to those meanings am I?"
- Why cis people prefer tragic trans stories to happy ones
- Censorship in trans and two-spirit art
- Navigating healthcare systems as a trans Indigenous person
- Plus: Why indie trans patreons always trump Disney
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Gender Review, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to |
| 0:20.0 | understanding what the hell gender is. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm your host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey everyone hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show we chat with |
| 0:38.7 | two-spirit illustrator and gender reveal grant winner Elijah Forbes Forbes, about navigating health care systems |
| 0:44.6 | as a trans and indigenous person. |
| 0:46.5 | Honestly, the biggest gift I gave myself |
| 0:48.8 | was being really annoying to cis people. |
| 0:51.9 | Experiencing censorship in trans and two-spirit art |
| 0:55.4 | and choosing to tell trans stories with happy endings. |
| 0:58.4 | It's a lot easier to have a story |
| 1:00.9 | about a tragic trans character than it is to have a story about a tragic trans character that is to have a story about a happy trans character that just has a pretty good time. |
| 1:08.0 | So full disclosure, I've been traveling since the 14th and I wasn't sure if there was even going to be a |
| 1:13.9 | show this week but I ended up pulling this entire edit together in a few hours |
| 1:18.1 | it's a little bit more rough than usual you may hear a little bit of typing in the |
| 1:22.0 | background at one point you may hear some little bit of typing in the background at one point you may hear some |
| 1:24.1 | slime at one point you may hear that the entire guest audio is blown out and I |
| 1:28.5 | truly have no idea how that happened but I'm just amazed that an episode |
| 1:32.4 | exists at all so let's just try to focus on these smart funny things that |
| 1:36.4 | Alia is saying thank you so much for your patience |
| 1:45.2 | But before we get to that I wanted to let you know that I appeared on two other trans hosted podcasts this week. |
| 1:46.8 | Friend of the show and Sylvian co-founder, Kashis Adair, and I discussed American |
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