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Allusionist 56+12. Joins & Pride

June 7, 2019 The Allusionist
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To celebrate Pride Month, I'm playing two of the Allusionist episodes that have stuck with me the most during the show's existence.

To celebrate Pride Month, I’m playing two of the Allusionist episodes that have stuck with me the most during the show’s existence.

The first is Joins. You listeners talk about your particular experiences in your trans bodies, dealing with the available vocabulary for sex and the associated body parts. Read all about the episode, with links to additional materials, at theallusionist.org/joins.

Content note: this piece contains language pertaining to sex and the associated body parts.

Second is Pride: the story of how that word was chosen in 1970 for LGBTQ Pride events. Read all about the episode, with links to additional materials, at theallusionist.org/pride.

The transcript is at theallusionist.org/transcripts/joins-pride-rerun.

A FEW MORE THINGS TO READ/HEAR:

  • About Stormé DeLarverie, “the Rosa Parks of the LGBTQ rights movement”.

  • Congrats to fellow podcaster Theresa Thorn of One Bad Mother, whose new book It Feels Good to Be Yourself was published this week! It’s a gorgeously illustrated book for kids - and adults - about gender identity. I wholeheartedly recommend it. Find out more at theresathorn.com and get it at book-getting places.

  • I’m here for Janet Mock and Wilson Cruz’s mutual appreciation!

  • “The contradiction between who I seemed to be and who I was grew increasingly stark”: Emily VanDerWerff writes beautifully about her transition in this piece and her newsletter.

  • Professor Grace Lavery’s regular despatches on The Stage Mirror are elegant and thoughtful.

  • “The best $6,250 I ever spent: top surgery.”

  • Our Radiotopian sibling Radio Diaries just revisited their first ever diarist, Amanda, whose parents were struggling with the idea of their teenage daughter being gay. Hear it here.

The other day, Australia’s fave radio host Richard Fidler interviewed me on ABC Conversations. Hear our chat about invented languages, synaesthesia, Welsh Patagonia and more HERE, and on the Conversations podcast feed in the podplaces.

The Allusionist live tour of the new show, No Title, is making its way around Australia! We’ve added extra shows in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, and Darwin has just gone on sale. Get tickets at theallusionist.org/events.

YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:
purfle

randomly selected word from the dictionary: Purfle

CREDITS:

  • Thanks to all the people who appeared on these episodes: on Joins, Andre, Lee, Lorelei, Marshall, Mattie, Owl, Rebecca and Sez; on Pride, Craig Schoonmaker.

  • These stories were produced by me, Helen Zaltzman, with help from Sarah Geis on Joins and Eleanor McDowall on Pride.

  • Martin Austwick makes the music that you hear in every episode. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and listen to his new podcast Year of the Bird about the songs he writes.

  • Find me online at twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow, twitter.com/helenzaltzman and instagram.com/allusionistshow.

- HZ

In episodes Tags words, language, linguistics, education, comedy, entertainment, society & culture, arts, literature, Helen Zaltzman, etymology, lexicon, history, pride, Gay Pride, gay, homosexuality, LGBT, Stonewall, demonstrations, oppression, Aristotle, civil rights, Quakers, Christopher Street, Stonewall Riots, New York City, Mayor Lindsay, trans, gender, LBGTQI, bodies, body, body parts, sex, dysphoria, communication, queer, proem, genitalia, genitals
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