Episode 160: Raquel Willis
Episode description
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??
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Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Di Breun” and “Hedgeliner” by Blue Dot Sessions
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