46. Doggy Dynamite & Eldest Son Supremacy

CW: taxidermy, Santa talk, third gender, gender politics, gender slurs Sara and Tyler are back with some very fun and mystical stuff this week. First Tyler takes us to Wyoming for the legend of the Jackalope. Then Sara takes us around the world to talk about the intersection of magic and gender. Tyler's story starts at: 24:14 Sara's story starts at: 1:02:22 Tyler's sources: lifescience.com, article "The Story of the Jackalope: The Legendary Rabbit with Antlers said to Roam Wyoming" By Kalina Fragga, NY Times article "Where Deer and Antelope Play" si.edu, 99 Percent Invisible Podcast - "The Tale of the Jackalope" (2022), Book - On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Helped Capture the World's Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer by Michael P. Branch. Sara's sources: Article "Coming to Terms with Navajo Nadalehe: A Critique of Berdache, Gay, Alternative Gender, and Two-Spirit" by Caroline Epple, "Not This, Not That: The Hijras of India and the Cultural Politics of Sexuality" by Vinay Lal, "Changed Embraces, Changed Embraced: Renouncing the Heterosexist Majority in Favor of Return to Traditional Two-Spirit Culture" by Trista Wilson, "Sexualities and Genders in Zapotec, Oaxaca" by Lynn Stefen