Episode 79: Mauree Turner
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with Oklahoma representative Mauree Turner (they/she), the first openly nonbinary state legislator in the United States.
Topics include:
- Reimagining the justice system in the incarceration capital of the world.
- Working in spaces that weren't built to accommodate your existence.
- The pros and cons of representing so many different identities while your white cis coworkers get to just, like, chill.
- Dress codes.... they're bad!
- Plus: Which Steven Universe character is Mauree?
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Producer: Isaura Aceves
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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to |
| 0:19.4 | understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective, |
| 0:24.3 | Tuck Woodstock. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey everyone. I hope you're all hanging in there. It is such a weird time. I know some |
| 0:38.6 | of y'all are bum that you won't be seeing your family for the holidays. |
| 0:41.1 | Some of you are relieved to not see your families for the holidays. Some of you are relieved to not see your families for the holidays. |
| 0:44.7 | Some never see your families for the holidays and are like, hello, welcome to my entire life. |
| 0:49.7 | And some of y'all have been quarantining with your families for months and either love it or hate it or both. |
| 0:56.0 | Someone wrote in at one point several months ago to be like I'm trans and I'm quarantining with like 10 straight conservative family members and your show has been helping me and ever since |
| 1:04.8 | then I've been like I have to put out new content for this person. |
| 1:08.1 | So whoever you are I hope you're I hope you're really hanging in there. But anyway, we are not taking breaks for the holidays because we just started the season and I don't have anything else to do and time is fake. |
| 1:19.0 | So this week on the show, I am delighted to share my chat with Marie Turner. |
| 1:23.0 | Marie talks about being the highest ranking openly non-binary person in the US |
| 1:28.4 | political system. What? They're also the first Muslim legislator in Oklahoma. |
| 1:35.7 | We talk about all of the pressures that come with that. |
| 1:38.4 | We also talk about starting a job and a system |
| 1:40.8 | that wasn't built for you and about reimagining the quote-unquote criminal justice system in a |
| 1:46.0 | state with one of the highest incarceration rates in the entire world. |
| 1:49.8 | We've been literally defunding public education in order to fund the police. |
| 1:55.0 | We've been literally defunding access to health care in order to fund the police. |
| 2:01.0 | But first just one quick announcement, our merch stores are still packed with a wide |
| 2:05.3 | variety of shirts stickers masks pillows all sorts of fun sometimes weird stuff |
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