iO Tillett Wright: My Parents Never Questioned My Gender
LGBTQ&A
Jeffrey Masters
4.7 • 703 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2016
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is LGBTQNA, where we get to know different members of the LGBTQ community. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Jeffrey Masters, and I'm here today with Iyo Till It Right. |
| 0:09.3 | Iyo is an artist, activist, writer of the new memoir Darling Days, |
| 0:12.9 | and creator of the Proto Project Self-evident Truths. |
| 0:16.5 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:16.9 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:31.1 | Hi, Oyo. |
| 0:32.5 | You like that music? |
| 0:35.3 | It's so peppy. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, so much pep. |
| 0:37.3 | I like that. Yeah, I feel like we need to be like broken out into like nine screens of each other |
| 0:41.5 | and ourselves absolutely and we're bopping yeah yeah so before I read your book I was |
| 0:46.3 | going to ask you how you chose the name I-O I thought it was something you did your homework |
| 0:51.4 | and then I read the book yeah but I thought it was something that you, like, renamed yourself to, like, fit the new you. |
| 0:56.6 | Everybody does. |
| 0:57.3 | No, my parents knew already. |
| 0:59.3 | The me that was coming. |
| 1:00.7 | The forthcoming child was not to be gendered. |
| 1:03.5 | It's amazingly gender neutral. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah, I'm very lucky. |
| 1:06.6 | Do you, I mean, do you actually think it's, fortuitous or is that? I think it plays into everything that my parents are about, which is just not playing by the rules. |
| 1:14.2 | Okay. |
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