Episode 3: Please Just Take Testosterone. Halberstam's 'Female Masculinity'
Added 2025-08-22 13:29:08 +0000 UTCIs there a difference between trans men and butch lesbians? Are non-transitioning queer people like refugees? And most importantly, HOW MUCH SEX ARE THEY HAVING IN THE MEN'S BATHROOM? This episode, Emma and Talia are joined by Isaac (The Trans Dandy, he/they/ze) to discuss Jack Halberstam's psychedelic experience Female Masculinity, a work of queer theory with a truly unearned reputation as 'representative' of the transmasculine experience.
Find Isaac at: https://substack.com/@transdandy
Additional special thanks to our newest Cum Laudest Patron, Lava Monster, who had the impeccable timing of joining the exact moment Emma exported the finalised audio.
Sources:
Jack Halberstam, Female Masculinity, Anniversary Edition: https://www.dukeupress.edu/female-masculinity-twentieth-anniversary-edition
Comments
Don't thank us, thank Sam Aburime from the previous episode
Cracked Ivory
2025-08-22 22:02:56 +0000 UTCLike... sorry, Emma, sorry Talia, shut this pod down, you've reached discourse apotheosis here with the fujoshi "observation"
Jade Diaz
2025-08-22 21:56:04 +0000 UTCYeah none of us know what kind of men's bathrooms Jack has been to. Assumedly none - Emma
Cracked Ivory
2025-08-22 20:20:29 +0000 UTC33:34 "Gender is not policed in male bathrooms" Had a really good belly laugh at that assertion bro, are you fucking kidding me - wait, has Jack Halberstam ever _been_ in a male bathroom? I mean, one that isn't at a gay bar? Like, maybe he should touch grass as the kids say, go to a suburban breastaurant and check out how well that holds up
Jade Diaz
2025-08-22 20:18:05 +0000 UTC
