Season 6 Episode 9: Gender Blender

Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships

Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick

Society & Culture, Sexuality, Science, Social Sciences, Relationships, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 910 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Ariel, founder of Gender Illumination, shares what it’s like to date as someone trans, gender queer, and gender non-conforming. We discuss her own personal journey, all the terms and pronouns, challenges in dating in the trans community, and how to be open and educated. WE WROTE A BOOK! HOW TO BE DATEABLE (Simon & Schuster) is available now: https://howtobedateable.com/ Want to remove distractions from your dates? Download Brick and get 10% off at https://www.getbrick.app/DATEABLE Our Sponsors: * Avocado Green Mattress: Check out their mattress and furniture sale: https://avocadogreenmattress.com/DATEABLE * Get Rain of Shadows and Endings wherever books are sold or at Kensington Publishing https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Quince: Get free shipping and 365 day returns at https://quince.com/dateable * Ruggable: Get 10% off your first order, sitewide, with promo code DATEABLE at https://ruggable.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	The dateable podcast features real stories from real people of how they make modern dating work.
0:06.3	Or not? I'm your host, U.A. former dating coach turned dating insider, if you will.
0:19.0	On each episode, you'll hear commentary from my producer Julie Craftschick and other surprise co-hosts. This episode is brought to you by Making Ways.
0:22.0	Making Ways is a podcast that shares the unexpected
0:25.2	paths to creative careers. Just like we hear stories about people's journey to
0:29.4	finding love, making ways shares people's journey to finding a career they love.
0:35.0	You can find the podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud, Spotify,
0:38.8	and all major podcast apps or visit Making Ways.co to learn more.
0:44.0	Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Datable, a show all about modern dating. Today we have a special guest
0:56.1	named Ariel with us. I'm gonna give a quick bio but I know there's more we need to
1:00.9	talk about too. So this is just the opening of who Ariel is all about. So Ariel's a
1:07.6	sex and relationship coach and educator, an ordained Hebrew priestess, and a founding member of the Sexual Liberation Collective.
1:16.0	In 2009, Ariel founded Gender Blender, that's a great name by the way, a safe community space for all genders always and in 2016 founded gender illumination
1:27.0	which focuses on education and policy reform as methods of safe space
1:31.5	creation for trans and gender non-conforming people.
1:34.5	Yes! Yes! When not working, you can find him on the dance floor.
1:40.3	Ariel grew up in New York and now lives in Berkeley, California.
1:44.0	So, before we get to you, Ariel, because that was a mouthful,
1:48.0	we also have a special co-host with us.
1:50.0	We have Aaron in the house.
1:52.0	Aaron's from season 4 episode 4 in an episode called
1:56.3	Levels of DTR. And when we think about DTR it's usually in the context of monogamous relationships, but Aaron open our eyes up to
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