Episode 7: Joey Alison Sayers
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, we speak with cartoonist and generally hilarious person Joey Alison Sayers (she/her). (CW: depression, suicidality, substance abuse @ 30-38 min) Topics include:
- Brain changes after transitioning
- Getting called “sir” at the deli
- Depression and antidepressant stigma
- Coming out to coworkers through comics
- Talking to the youth! (Spoiler: the youth are lucky jerks.)
Plus, we made this tiny art thing out of an inspiring quote from this interview: Check it out!
Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here.
Find Joey Alison Sayers at her website or on Twitter (@joeyalison).
Questions/feedback/feelings? Hit us up at [email protected] or on Twitter @gendereveal. You can also submit questions anonymously here. And of course, we always appreciate donations at patreon.com/gender or PayPal or Cash App.
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Gladrags and Open Hand Health— let them know we sent you!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we ask intrusive personal questions and hopefully |
| 0:19.9 | get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and |
| 0:24.5 | resident gender detective Molly Woodstock. Hi everyone. Thank you so much for all of your support. We've had so many |
| 0:39.5 | kind reviews and so much great feedback and it really means so much. In fact it means so |
| 0:46.0 | much that I'm here making you this podcast even though I'm homesick with the flu. |
| 0:50.5 | Anyway, this week on gender reveal I speak with the very funny Joey Allison Sayers, but before we get to that, let me tell you who makes this show possible. |
| 1:00.0 | First up, thank you to open hand health. Open hand health is a gender affirming, body |
| 1:06.6 | positive, queer-owned business offering massage therapy and naturopathic medicine. |
| 1:11.9 | They're located in southeast Portland, Oregon, and they are located in southeast Portland, Oregon, and they are currently |
| 1:15.4 | accepting new patients both with and without insurance. Find them at |
| 1:19.7 | openhandhealth.com for more info and online booking. |
| 1:24.0 | Thanks as always to our friends at Gladrags. |
| 1:27.0 | Gladrags makes a really wonderful, comfy, eco-friendly, frankly life-changing line of reusable menstrual pads and cups. |
| 1:35.2 | When you sign up for their newsletter at glad rags.com, you'll get a discount code and you'll |
| 1:40.5 | be actively supporting gender reveal. It's a win-win. So go sign up at gladrags.com. |
| 1:46.0 | Finally, thank you so much as always to all of our wonderful Patreon supporters. |
| 1:52.0 | It really means so much to me that you're all of our wonderful Patreon supporters. |
| 1:52.6 | It really means so much to me |
| 1:54.7 | that you're willing to help us fund the show. |
| 1:56.8 | If you want to support Transnormative Podcasting, |
| 1:59.5 | head to Patreon.com slash gender to sign up. |
| 2:03.3 | Donate $5 or more and we'll send you some cool stickers |
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