Episode 9: Mads Ambrose
Feb 26, 2018•37 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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Episode description
In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Mads Ambrose (they/them), founder of body-positive, all-gender waxing salon Babe Wax. Topics include:
- Why waxing can be lifesaving for some trans folks.
- Transphobia at mainstream waxing salons.
- The struggle of being femme and genderqueer (in Oklahoma circa 2010).
- Playing with gender as a feminine drag king.
- What even is a woman?
Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here.
Find Tuck on last week’s episode of Feminist Killjoys, PhD and Two Broads Talking Politics.
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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
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