Wow. Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast that hopefully gets us a little bit closer to

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

gender detective Molly Woodstock.

Hey everyone, it's me, your friend, Molly Woodstock, except I just changed

all my bylines and social media handles to talk.

So maybe I'll introduce myself as that in the future.

It's a weird time to change my name,

but as I say later in this episode,

I love to take transition steps when nobody is paying any attention.

So we'll see.

Anyway, I hope you're all hanging in there.

It is a absolute buck wild time to be alive, but I am so glad that you are alive in here with us.

Whatever you've been up to this week, I hope that you are safe, I hope that you are healthy.

I have been spending most nights covering the protests in Portland as a freelancer with the

Portland Mercury so I went to bed at three last night and the night before that and

the night before that and by the way you can follow all of that coverage on

Twitter at tuck Woodstock.

But anyway, despite all that, I really wanted to find time to share this conversation with

activist Vidya Irvin.

So I've been working on getting it up when I'm not in the field or sleep or eating

Taco Bell, and here we are somehow more or less on time

In this episode video talks about so many things that are relevant to the current moment, including the value of failure

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