In this week’s episode, Tuck speaks with Mads Ambrose (they/them), founder of body-positive, all-gender waxing salon Babe Wax. Topics include:

• Why waxing can be lifesaving for some trans folks.
• Transphobia at mainstream waxing salons.
• The struggle of being femme and genderqueer (in Oklahoma circa 2010).
• Playing with gender as a feminine drag king.
• What even is a woman?

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Read more about our This Week in Gender topic here.

Find Tuck on last week’s episode of Feminist Killjoys, PhD and Two Broads Talking Politics.

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