Living Your Truth (feat. Tamsin Kimoto)

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Are you #LivingYourTruth? This buzzy catchphrase is all over Instagram, but might it actually justify selfish or irresponsible behavior? Alternatively, can it be a way of affirming marginalized identities--and perhaps even reveal the extent to which our lives are ultimately of our own making? Ellie and David speak with Dr. Tamsin Kimoto in episode 37 about how "living your truth" relates to transgender identity formation, "born this way" narratives of sexuality, and the idea of an authentic self. After the interview, David and Ellie suggest that existential authenticity is a way of "living your truth" without buying into the metaphysical idea of an inner self.

Works Discussed

Tamsin Kimoto, "Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and Phenomenological Forays in Trans Life"
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality
Talia Mae Bettcher, “Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Rethinking Trans Oppression and Resistance”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Elizabeth Grosz, “Criticism, feminism and the institution: An interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak”
Friedrich Nietzsche, “Schopenhauer as Educator”
Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Pena Guzman.
0:09.0	And I'm Ellie Anderson.
0:10.6	Welcome to Overthink.
0:12.4	The podcast were two friends, who are also professors, put philosophy in dialogue with the everyday.
0:19.0	Because big ideas are within everyone's reach.
0:31.1	David, I'm looking at the hashtag live your truth on Instagram right now.
0:36.5	And it has 434,000 posts. Okay, give me a minute.
0:41.4	Let me type it in. Live your truth. Um, look at you on Instagram, rare occurrence. Okay.
0:51.2	So this hashtag, live your truth. What are you seeing? Oh my gosh, do you see this one,
0:57.0	yellow one? Repeat after me? Click on it. Clicking on it, the one by Instagram user Shaida Eshragi.
1:04.9	Yes. Okay.
1:05.9	Yes. It's a mantra. Repeat after me. I'm allowed to do what's best for me, even if it upsets other people.
1:14.8	Yeah.
1:15.8	And, okay, I'm really interested in this caption.
1:18.1	Let's click on the caption.
1:19.7	Living your truth isn't selfish.
1:21.5	It's our most accurate measure of courage.
1:24.8	Prayer emoji.
1:25.9	Hashtag live bold.
1:26.8	Hashtag live your best life. Hashtag live your truth. Hashtag live bold. Hashtag live your best life.
1:27.9	Hashtag live your truth.
1:28.8	Hashtag speak up.
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