Episode 94: Checking in with Kirby Conrod
Gender Reveal
Tuck Woodstock
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Tuck catches up with nonbinary linguist Kirby Conrod (they/them). Topics include:
- Are pronoun-go-arounds for cis people?
- Gender as a local social relationship
- Neurodivergent life hacks
- Writing a dissertation about they/them pronouns
- Plus: wizard gender!
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Find Kirby's work on their website (kirbyconrod.com), their blog (kconrod.medium.com), and their twitter (@kirbyconrod).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding |
| 0:20.4 | what the hell gender is. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tech Woodstock. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey everyone, I hope you've all been hanging in there. |
| 0:36.8 | Happy Pride and welcome to Gender Reveal Season 7. |
| 0:40.6 | I am so glad to be back and I have a bunch of news to share with you all, so let's get |
| 0:45.0 | started. |
| 0:46.0 | If this is your first Gender Reveal episode, welcome, thanks for being here. |
| 0:50.3 | If you are not new here, you may have heard me say that this season of the podcast is |
| 0:54.4 | going to be a little bit weird. |
| 0:56.9 | Part of that is that we have something special and deeply chaotic planned for our 100th |
| 1:01.5 | episode, which is coming right up, but between now and then we will be checking back with |
| 1:06.0 | a few guests from the early days of Gender Reveal to see what they've been up to in the |
| 1:10.5 | past three and a half years that cannot possibly be right. |
| 1:16.2 | Today, we are catching up with Kirby Conrad, who is now Dr. Kirby Conrad, PhD. |
| 1:22.6 | Kirby first appeared in episode 13 of Gender Reveal and I still to this day recommend their |
| 1:27.5 | episode all of the time to cis people who are struggling with singular they and to trans |
| 1:32.9 | people who are trying to make cis people stop misgendering them. |
| 1:36.3 | Kirby is so smart and so funny and I'm really excited for you to hear today's conversation. |
| 1:41.3 | In this episode, we talk about gender as a regional social relationship, the pros and |
| 1:46.6 | cons of pronoun sharing and pronoun go around. |
| 1:50.0 | The best thing you can do is just make the opportunity without putting other people on the spot. |
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