What? Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to

understanding what the hell gender is.

I'm your host and resident gender detective,

Molly Woodstock. Hey everyone. I know I say this every week, but holy shit. I hope you're all hanging in there.

I am so happy to be here in your ears as we all quarantine isolate social

distance do whatever we're doing wherever we are in the world to wait out a

literal global pandemic by the way if you are feeling cut off from

trans community right now this might be a great time to join the gender reveal slack at bit.ly slash gender slack too.

That's bit dot y slash gender slack and the number two where there are hundreds of other trans people who I assume are also stuck in their houses.

Perhaps even with cis people can you imagine?

In the meantime this week I spoke with queer Muslim filmmaker

activist and curator Farhat Raman who received one of Las Falls gender reveal grants

Farhat and I talked about gender roles in trans identities in Bangladesh.

I guess I did not see that I could exist

in a place right now in Taka.

Creating a film festival that centers trans people of color

and improving representation for queer trans Muslims. People just think. people of

people just think oh there's one queer person oh great

LGBT representation has happened who who I don't think that's where the story

ends please check the show notes for a time-stamped content warning, by the way.

But before we get to the interview, I want to thank all of you for waiting so patiently

through our unexpected hiatus last week.

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