Episode 72: Vico Ortiz
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with actor Vico Ortiz (they/he/she), whose credits include American Horror Story, Vida, and These Thems. Topics include:
- Auditioning for roles as a genderfluid actor
- Exploring femininity as a Backstreet Boys-inspired drag king?
- The evolution of gender-inclusive Spanish…
- …and translating nonbinary jokes into Spanish subtitles
- Plus: gender as a waterbed?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to |
| 0:19.4 | understanding what the hell gender is? |
| 0:22.8 | I'm your host and resident gender detective Molly Woodstock. |
| 0:27.6 | Hey everyone. Thank you so much for your patience during our |
| 0:37.4 | unintentional hiatus for me to work on the Mutual Aid Fund and make a podcast with life kit and put my life back together. |
| 0:46.2 | I am really excited to be back to wrap up season five with a few more episodes as we make |
| 0:51.2 | our way to Pride Month, the only month that anyone thinks about |
| 0:54.4 | Trans People. Speaking of which, I am available to come on your show, I am available to |
| 0:58.7 | be interviewed for your article, please talk to me for Pride Month. The month people talk to me. Anyway, this week on the show |
| 1:06.1 | I'm really excited to share my chat with FICO Ortiz who you may recognize as an actor from |
| 1:10.7 | Vita and American Horse Story and the YouTube series These Thems. |
| 1:15.4 | Vico and I talk about auditioning for roles as a gender fluid person, |
| 1:19.5 | re-exploring femininity through drag, |
| 1:21.9 | and learning more about gender-in which is always a favorite topic of mine. |
| 1:26.0 | It's going to get messy obviously it is messy but also it makes us more conscious about who we're talking to and how we're referring to people. |
| 1:34.8 | It's radicalizing language, it's changing the way we see things. |
| 1:38.9 | But before we get to that, a huge, huge, huge, huge, thank you. To everyone who has joined us on Patreon in the last month or the last two or three years, |
| 1:49.1 | and to everyone who has contributed to our Trans Mutual Aid Fund, |
| 1:52.9 | which continues to be a huge success. |
| 1:55.5 | We have been able to disperse $100,000 |
| 1:59.8 | through the Trans Mutual Aid Fund |
| 2:01.5 | to more than 400 people across six continents. |
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