Transformers remix

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Yvette Gonzales tells us a first person story about what its like to be transgender in Prison. Gender theorist B. Preciado tells us about what happens when a person takes testosterone without the intention of transitioning from one gender to another. Plus, Jim Elledge tells us about his biography of Outsider Artist Henry Darger, and why he drew little girls with penises.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
0:05.0	At Radio Topia, we now have a select group of amazing supporters that help us make all our shows possible.
0:13.0	If you would like to have your company or product sponsor this podcast, then get in touch.
0:18.5	Drop a line to sponsor at radiotopia.fm. Thanks.
0:23.5	Ear Hustle, the award-winning radio-topia podcast featuring sounds and stories that come from American Prison Life, is back with a brand new season.
0:33.5	And they're also celebrating their 100th episode.
0:37.5	In the new season, the show revisits its very first episode, a listener favorite called Sellies, about the relationships formed inside a prison cell.
0:47.0	But this time, the whole episode takes place inside a woman's prison.
0:51.5	The producers also spent a marathon 14 hours out on the road at San Quentin for this season.
0:58.5	From dungeons and dragons to dominoes, gospel to geese, weightlifting to just waiting, they've got new sounds and new stories that you have never heard before.
1:09.5	Listen to Ear Hustle, wherever you get your podcasts.
1:14.5	This installment is called Transformers.
1:22.5	The day after Bradley Manning was sentenced to prison for 35 years for leaking documents to wiki leaks, he made an announcement through his lawyer.
1:31.5	In the future, he wanted to be called Chelsea.
1:35.5	This through the free Bradley Manning movement for a loop, posters, billboards, and websites had to be changed overnight.
1:43.5	But according to Nathan Fuller, the press liaison for the Private Manning Support Network, this was not a difficult transition.
1:51.5	I see Manning's announcement of her transition as a continuation of her courage of the bravery that we've seen from her from the last three years.
2:03.5	As a soldier, Manning said that she could not be complicit in these crimes and abuses that she later exposed.
2:12.5	It's incredibly inspiring that she announces that she is not going to be living as a man.
2:18.5	She cannot accept that and so she's going to announce that she's living as a woman in an all-male prison.
2:24.5	In a military that does not recognize transgender rights.
2:29.5	Some of Chelsea's supporters are hopeful that she might get the hormonal therapy that she's petitioned for.
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