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Gender Reveal

Episode 70: Mari Wrobi

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with trans, queer, and intersex activist Mari Wrobi (they/them). Topics include:

  • Being the only trans person at your middle school.
  • Why "people with vaginas" might not be as inclusive as you think.
  • What does a "typical intersex puberty" look like?
  • What does transitioning look like for intersex folks?
  • Also: OK, but what does femme mean?

This Week in Gender: Read them's tribute to Lorena Borjas; watch her documentary; and donate to her trans mutual aid fundraiser.

Find Mari @genderfenderbender on Instagram, and become a better intersex ally with the help of interactadvocates.org.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2.

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Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Additional Music: "Come As You Are" by Blue Dot Sessions

Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Heart is a show about intimacy, power, gender, bodies, love, sensations that linger in your body,

0:08.0

interactions that you keep turning over in your mind.

0:11.0

Host Caitlin Press and a new team of producers bring you honest, raw and experimental

0:15.5

narratives about all of the invisible things in the air between humans. From Mermaid Palace and

0:20.6

Radiotopia, listen and subscribe at mermaid palace.org or wherever you get your

0:25.5

podcast. Welcome to Gender Review, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to

0:46.0

understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident gender

0:51.3

detective Molly Woodstock.

0:54.0

Hey everyone, I hope you're all hanging in there.

1:02.0

Please do keep hanging in there. This week on the show

1:06.0

I'm excited to share my interview with queer trans and intersex advocate Mari Roby

1:10.6

Mari shares tips for making your trans-inclusive language

1:13.8

intersex inclusive as well.

1:15.8

They fill us in on all of the advocacy and art that they do, and they tell us about coming

1:20.3

out as trans in middle school and how that informed the way they came into their

1:24.8

inner sex identity. My body is literally telling me like binaries are fake, gender

1:29.9

sex are both social constructs, like they're not real.

1:34.3

Please note that this interview was recorded in January so you will hear references to things like

1:39.2

volunteering, doing photo shoots, going to work.

1:43.0

That's all from the time before, and hopefully we'll resume in the future,

1:47.0

but it's not happening right now.

1:49.0

But before we get to all of that, y'all are still joining the Patreon for some reason.

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