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I made my first zine when I was in high-school and I’ve been wrestling with margins and photocopiers ever since. For the Transgender Studies Archive, I created a fanzine about the podcast Gender Reveal. Gender Reveal first aired in January 2018 and is created and hosted by Molly Woodstock, a non-binary journalist and educator living in Portland, OR. Gender Reveal centers non-binary experiences and interviews LGBTQIA+ artists, activists, and educators. This podcast offers a unique opportunity to listen to conversations between queer folks, specifically genderqueer, nonbinary and trans folks, talking about transgender issues. These interviews address topics including transgender vocabulary, non-binary identities, homelessness, activism, body feelings, difficulties with government documentation, and media representation.
My goal with my zine is to promote and highlight the work of Gender Reveal. I think the podcast is doing valuable work by creating a wealth of interviews and situated knowledge of LGBTQIA+ folks, and this content is free to access on the internet. I think this way of creating knowledge and media is an important complement to the more rigid forms of knowledge creation we see in higher education and I wanted to celebrate that by creating a piece of DIY media. I’ve covered four podcast episodes in the zine but Gender Reveal has over 30 episodes available. You should really give it a listen!
You can find the Gender Reveal podcast online in a few places including here and here. You can read more about Molly Woodstock on their website and support their work by visiting the Gender Reveal podcast page on Patreon.