Episode 84: Hil Malatino
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 ā¢ 1.3K Ratings
šļø 25 January 2021
ā±ļø 53 minutes
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Summary
Tuck speaks with scholar and Trans Care author Hil Malatino (he/they). Topics include:
- Why we can't talk about gender without talking about race
- How Hil's intersex conditionāand health insuranceāinfluenced his transition
- Why debates about labels are debates about belonging
- Trans academia and the "cannibalization" of trans scholars
- Plus: Dad-as-gender, the best little boy in the world, and the difference between genders and Gender
This Week in Gender: Dr. Rachel Levine was nominated to be the US assistant secretary of health.
Support Hil's work by purchasing Trans Care from University of Minnesota Press and Queer Embodiment from University of Nebraska Press. There's also an open-access copy of Trans Care available here.
Authors cited: MarĆa Lugones, C. Riley Snorton (Black on Both Sides), Susan Stryker, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Care Work)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Before we start the show, there's another podcast I want to tell you about, although you may have heard about it already. |
| 0:05.6 | If you listen to my show, you know that news and culture shows usually aren't made with trans folks like us in mind. |
| 0:12.0 | Trans voices are routinely left out of the conversation, |
| 0:15.1 | even those stories about us are everywhere. The Trans Slash podcast with |
| 0:19.2 | Amara Jones is changing that. Amara is a Peabody and Emmy Award winner. She is also a genius TBH. |
| 0:26.1 | You might remember that she was on the gender reveal podcast recently, episode one of this season, |
| 0:32.3 | talking about how trans people telling our own stories will |
| 0:35.2 | literally save trans lives. Amara just released a new episode of her show to help us process all of the wild |
| 0:41.7 | political news that's been happening since the start of the year. |
| 0:44.9 | It features Sarah McBride, the first openly trans-state senator in US history, as well as the popular |
| 0:50.8 | podcast host and political commentator Danielle Moody. |
| 0:54.4 | You can find that episode and more sharp insight from Amara by tuning into the TransLest |
| 0:59.2 | podcast every other Thursday. |
| 1:01.5 | I listened to the episode last week. It's great. |
| 1:03.8 | Subscribe wherever you're listening right now. Welcome to Gender Appeal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to |
| 1:26.2 | understanding what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident gender |
| 1:31.0 | detective, Tuck Woodstock. |
| 1:40.0 | Hey everyone, I hope you're all hanging in there. Can you believe that we're already pretty much halfway through this season of gender reveal? |
| 1:47.0 | Thank you so much for all of the wonderful feedback so far. It's really meant a lot |
| 1:52.0 | This week on the show I'm excited to share my |
| 1:54.3 | chat with author and scholar Hill Malatino. As an academic Hill says a bunch of |
| 1:59.4 | fancy smart things like this. Those relationships are often characterized by greater |
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