Gender Reveal18 Feb 2019

Episode 43: Caleb Luna

In this week's episode, Tuck speaks with writer, activist, teacher, performer, fat babe and Ph.D. student Caleb Luna (they/them). (cw: mentions of rape, slavery, racism) Topics include:

How fatness impacts gender performance
Experiencing white supremacy in QTPOC spaces
"Fat liberation requires the undoing of western civilization"
The racialization of gender throughout U.S. history
Is romantic love a colonial construct?

References:

"The Gender Nonconformity of My Fatness" by Caleb Luna
"The X in Latinx is a Wound, Not a Trend" by Alan Pelaez Lopez
"Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native" by Patrick Wolfe
"Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe" by Hortense J. Spillers
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