Gender Reveal Episode 99: Checking in with LaTisha Rico
Tuck catches up with Diné artist and youth worker LaTisha Rico (they/them). Topics include:
- Raising a nonbinary Indigenous baby as a nonbinary Indigenous person
- Thinking about gender as a decolonial act
- Navigating fatphobia, transphobia, racism, and a pandemic during pregnancy
- Embodying two-spirit traditions through trans youth advocacy
- Plus: Gendercide, beading, and fronting an Indigenous hardcore band(!!!)
The article Tish mentions is Deborah A. Miranda’s “Extermination of the Joyas,” which you can read here.
This Week in Gender: The Olympics banned two cisgender Namibian sprinters from the 400m race, citing high testosterone levels. Read Scientific American’s “4 Myths about Testosterone.”
Find Tish’s beadwork at roserico.com and listen to With War on Bandcamp.
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