Gender Journeys Josie Kallo

This week, El and Josie discuss Gender Dysphoria Disorder, and the issues with the DSM in general.

Content warning: mental health discussion, dysphoria discussion, transphobia mentions

Music for Gender Journeys Composed by Sonia Bourdaghs

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El and Josie discuss how and why transphobia can act as a "gateway prejudice" that leads toward potentially violent far-right rhetoric.

Here's the study discussed in the episode.

Here's the TikTok explaining the study.

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CW: discussion of transphobia, racism, antisemitism, homophobia, and far-right nationalism/calls to violence.

Music for Gender Journeys Composed by Sonia Bourdaghs

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This week, El and Josie discuss the surprisingly fraught topic of gender in videogames.

Music for Gender Journeys Composed by Sonia Bourdaghs

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This week, El and Josie reflect on El's top surgery journey, chat about El's 6 month follow-up, and discuss the next steps El's going to take.

CW: surgery discussion, blood mention, dysphoria discussion

Music for Gender Journeys Composed by Sonia Bourdaghs

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El and Josie chat about all the queer books El read in 2021!

Check out the Gender Journeys Storygraph Challenges:

Fiction Challenge

Nonfiction Challenge

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Queer Books El Read in 2021:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

Raising Them by Kyl Myers

What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron

Memoir of a Race Traitor by Mab Segrest

The Song of Achilles by Madelline Miller

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo

The Stonewall Reader edited by The New York Public Library

Glitter+Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die edited by dave ring

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan

Transgender History by Susan Stryker

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility

Captive Genders by Eric A Stanley

A Low Life In High Heels by Holly Woodlawn and Jeffrey Copeland

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

When The Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo

Cemetery Boys by Aiden ThomasWhen The Tiger Comes Down the Mountain

How To Survive a Plague by David France

Detransition Baby by Torey Peters

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell

No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll

Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley

Normal Life by Dean Spade

Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby

Pheonix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer

Once & Future by Cori McCarthy and A.R. Capetta

The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

Between Perfect and Real by Roy Stoeve

The Ghosts We Keep by Mason Deaver

Nonbinary Lives edited by Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker and Kat Gupta

Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore

The House In the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam

Real Queer America by Samantha Allen

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

The Nobleman’s Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks by Mackenzie Lee



Music for Gender Journeys Composed by Sonia Bourdaghs

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This week, El and Josie discuss whether or not bisexuality is transphobic (it isn't) or enbyphobic (also no) and how other identities under the multisexual umbrella like pan or omni interact with bi, trans, and nonbinary folx.

CW: discussion of transphobia and biphobia (mild)

Music for Gender Journeys Composed by Sonia Bourdaghs

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Follow us on social media or find us online!

Twitter: @Gender_Journeys

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Website: JosieWrites.com/GenderJourneys

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Need some advice? Reach out to us at josiewrites.qtn@gmail.com!