Episode 160: Raquel Willis

2023-10-02

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Tuck chats with activist Raquel Willis (she/her). Topics include: Why having the ~most radical gender~ isn’t a useful standard Reconciling your feminism with your transsexual desires Parental loss, and death as an animating force How to choose a good beneficiary for trans fundraising Plus: Afrotransmisogyny, Janet Mock, and… Fortnite?? This Week in Gender: Girlfriends by Emily Zhou; Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas; People Collide by Isle McElroy; Laugh Riot

Tuck chats with activist Raquel Willis (she/her). Topics include:

Why having the ~most radical gender~ isn’t a useful standard
Reconciling your feminism with your transsexual desires
Parental loss, and death as an animating force
How to choose a good beneficiary for trans fundraising
Plus: Afrotransmisogyny, Janet Mock, and… Fortnite??

This Week in Gender: Girlfriends by Emily Zhou; Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas; People Collide by Isle McElroy; Laugh Riot by Io & Jonas Goonface.

Find Raquel on Instagram and Twitter. Preorder The Risk It Takes to Bloom before Nov 14.

Find a copy of 2 Trans 2 Furious here, and join us on Nov 10 at North Figueroa in LA. (RSVP here, ignore the date listed lolol.)

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Di Breun” and “Hedgeliner” by Blue Dot Sessions
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