Episode 43: Caleb Luna

Gender Reveal

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
• Learn more about our This Week in Gender topic here and here.

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