Episode 59: Brooke Stepp

Gender Reveal

In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with somatic therapist and politicized healer Brooke Stepp (they/them). Topics include:

• Tips for finding a therapist as a trans person
• Eating disorders and harm reduction (h/t Gloria Lucas)
• Why body acceptance doesn’t work for trans people
• Nonbinary high femme identity (vs womanhood)
• Gender communism!

Content warnings

• Suicidality (20:30–21:30)
• Eating disorders (29:30–38:30)

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