Episode 83: Salimatu Amabebe
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with multimedia artist and Black Feast founder Salimatu Amabebe (he/they).
Topics include:
- Feeling denied access to "womanhood" as a Black person
- Loving your body as a trans person
- Dating advice!
- "I don't really want terms that apply to me"
- Plus: Salimatu pitches you his food-dom TV pilot
This Week in Gender: Bell v Tavistock.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to Gender Review, a Podcast, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to |
| 0:19.3 | understanding what the hell Gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective, Chuck Woodstock. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey everyone. I hope you're still hanging in there. This episode drops the |
| 0:38.3 | morning before inauguration day so I don't know what the world will look like when you hear this, but I hope that you are staying safe and healthy wherever you are. |
| 0:48.0 | This week on the show, I'm really excited to introduce you to one of my dearest friends and favorite people, Salamatu Amababib. |
| 0:54.8 | Salamatu is a multimedia artist whose work has been featured in Vogue, Eater, and the New York Times. |
| 1:00.6 | And on this episode we talk about loving your body, respecting yourself enough to stop |
| 1:05.8 | dating straight people. So much of dating is knowing the thing that feels right |
| 1:12.1 | and then doing the thing that doesn't feel quite right anyway. |
| 1:16.0 | And how blackness can affect the way that you and other people perceive your gender. |
| 1:20.0 | I think that I wasn't able to participate in any part of womanhood actually. |
| 1:24.0 | But before we get to that we have a quick they mail message this week. |
| 1:28.0 | They mail is a program where people pay a little bit of money for me to read a teeny tiny ad on the show. This week's message is from Tay who says I lost my |
| 1:36.4 | job as a goldsmith back in March and haven't gotten any unemployment for months. So please check |
| 1:41.5 | out my teeny tiny biz heby jibies jewelry for all of your kitchy |
| 1:44.8 | queer dough jewelry needs. That's heby jibies jewelry on Instagram. Now it's time for this |
| 1:51.1 | week in gender and a content warning this one is truly a huge bummer, |
| 1:55.8 | but we had to talk about Bell v. Tavistock. If you missed it, this is a case from the UK High Court. It was decided back in December 2020. |
| 2:17.1 | Technically, there are two claimants in this case, but I'm going to completely ignore one of them who is a cisgender mother of a trans autistic teen. |
| 2:29.0 | I cannot handle her. We will not be talking about her. But the other claimant is a woman named |
| 2:35.4 | Kira Bell who first started questioning her gender when she was 14. She went on puberty |
| 2:40.6 | blockers at 16, testosterone at 17, and had top surgery when she was 20. |
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