Journeys Through Gender
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Sharing of personal pronouns has become standard practice on resumes, business cards, email signatures and more. And that’s just one sign of an increasingly widespread shift in how we think about gender. So what’s next? And what would it take to actually celebrate gender freedom? To have trans joy?
Original Air Date: January 15, 2022
Guests:
Jules Gill-Peterson — Big Freedia — Torrey Peters — Akwaeke Emezi
Interviews In This Hour:
Historian Jules Gill Peterson shares stories of trans experiences from the 1920s and 1930s — A Diva's Oasis? Bounce Music — 'Detransition, Baby' author Torrey Peters on life, love, gender and parenthood — Many Identities, One Spirit
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| 0:00.0 | We are having a lot more public conversations about gender these days. |
| 0:06.2 | I mean, a few years ago, nobody was asking me to share my personal pronouns. |
| 0:11.0 | Now we include them on resumes, business cards, and email signatures. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Anne Strange-Champson. |
| 0:16.9 | On today's episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge, this is just one sign of an increasingly |
| 0:21.3 | widespread shift in how we think about gender. He and she are no longer the only options. |
| 0:27.8 | And so what's next? What would it take to actually celebrate gender freedom? |
| 0:33.1 | I'm tired of people trying to erase me. |
| 0:41.2 | Keep listening. |
| 0:45.8 | Wisconsin Public Radio. |
| 0:57.0 | It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm answering champs. |
| 0:59.0 | What pronoun do you like going by? |
| 1:02.0 | My pronoun is he, and I present as a he. |
| 1:06.0 | You can refer to me either as she or they. |
| 1:10.0 | We just don't need to necessarily have gendered language. |
| 1:13.3 | What sort of feels good to our ears when we hear it? |
| 1:16.2 | They indicate a degree of respect. |
| 1:18.5 | Who doesn't want to be respected? |
| 1:21.3 | My name is Henia and I use C pronouns. |
| 1:27.6 | We're having a lot more public conversations about gender these days. |
| 1:32.2 | I'll cut my hair. |
| 1:34.3 | Working to end discrimination against those of us who don't fit neatly into binary boxes. |
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