Part One: The Gallae: Trans Priestess of Ancient Rome

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks to Gabriel Dunn about the gender deviants of the ancient world and how basically nothing ever changes.

Sources

https://arkeonews.net/getting-to-know-matar-kubilea/

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/56909/what-is-the-difference-between-galli-and-metragyrtai

http://www.thehypertexts.com/Epigram%20History%20and%20Examples.htm

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/boadicea/

https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/539632/d6348aa09f4510eb5704b6da501f9e7d.pdf

https://www.oldest.org/culture/civilizations/

https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient-mesopotamian-transgender-and-non-binary-identities

https://www.apsu.edu/philomathes/MattinglyPhilomathesONLINE2023.pdf

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:06.1	CoolZone Media.
0:09.4	Hello, and welcome to cool people did cool stuff.
0:12.1	Your weekly reminder that when there's bad things happening, there's people trying to do good things.
0:16.2	Or when there's bad things happening, there's podcast hosts who get lost in 2,000, 3,000-year-old history out of desire to experience anything other than the fascistic world we live in.
0:28.0	I am your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and I am the aforementioned person.
0:31.9	But I also have a guest this week.
0:34.8	My guest this week is Gabriel Dunn, host of 224 natural shocks. It's
0:40.9	something like that, right? Yeah, it's a thousand natural shocks. It couldn't just be the
0:46.8	2024 because it kind of goes, you know, it's ongoing. It wasn't like, wow, and in 2025,
0:53.7	we healed. Oh, I picked a random number. I accidentally picked a wasn't like, wow. And in 2025, we healed.
0:54.5	Oh, I picked a random number.
0:55.9	I accidentally picked a year.
0:58.0	Can I just say, just on the record, I'm so excited to be here.
1:03.6	I'm so excited.
1:05.1	I want your audience to know.
1:06.9	I have listened to probably eight straight hours of this show at one point when I'm working.
1:13.1	Yeah, it's going to be real wild for me to have you talking at me.
1:17.2	And so I don't know if your audience is like used to like cool, chill academic people,
1:23.3	but I shall simply not be that.
1:25.3	All right.
1:25.6	That's great.
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