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Amelio Robles Ávila was a trans man who fought in the Mexican Revolution who lived as himself for over seventy years and was a total badass!
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Links:Oral history compiled by Olga Cárdenas TruebaMexican Secretary of Culture history on AmelioLydia Zárate's article in Pikara MagazineMaria's thread reflecting on trans identity and stuff, you don't actually have to follow her, unless you want to?

Doing history can be tough, especially when it comes to addressing LGBTQIA+ topics! In this episode, we talk about some of the challenges we face, how we overcome them, and how our perspectives can color our view of history. Also we have a spirited discussion on technical jargon, and why we hate it with a passion!
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Links:
"The New Unhistoricism in Queer Studies" by Valerie Traub
Examples of erotic murals in Pompeii (NSFW...obviously)
 

In this episode we talk about how gender influences the way people speak and communicate. We start with a study on the differences between men and women using signed languages like ASL, then talk about a few studies examining the differences in word choice between cis-men and cis-women, and end with an article on trans men and what people perceive as “gay sounding” speech in men.
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Sources:
Turn-Taking, Fingerspelling, and Contact in Signed Languages edited by Ceil Lucas
Women, Men, and Language by Jennifer Coates
Hegemonic masculinity and the variability of gay-sounding speech: The perceived sexuality of transgender men by Lal Zimman

Cyberpunk 2077 is out and it sure is a video game! In this episode, Maria takes off her historian hat, puts on the gamer socks, and talks about what the game did right, what the game did wrong, and why QA teams are highly undervalued in video game development! All without any meaningful spoilers!CW: Transphobia (15:04-15:23)Homophobia (20:54-22:12)
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Music: Cabaret by Kai EngelLinks:
Bella Blondeau’s article at The Gamer
Interview with Kasia Redesuik at Eurogamer
Charlie Hall’s interview with Redesuik at Polygon
Anthony Gramuglia’s article at CBR
Riley MacLeod’s piece at Kotaku

We’ve had two episodes about gay animals, now it’s time for an episode about animals that have more than two genders. These animals move beyond the gender binary that so many people think is set in stone and easily defined.
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Music: Cabaret by Kai EngelLinks:
1980 paper about female mimicry in bluegill sunfish
2003 paper about hormones and behavior in tree lizards
Evolution’s Rainbow (link to book on Goodreads)
 
 

We are going on a brief hiatus until January 7th! Happy holidays!
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel