#Tested Podcast

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If you're outraged/confused by the controversy surrounding Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting and sex testing at the Olympics (why are they allowed to do it, why are they allowed to release the results to the public, etc), then I cannot recommend enough listening to the short run podcast Tested, hosted by Rose Eveleth. The series goes into when sex testing in Olympic Women's sports started (hint: literally the moment women were allowed to compete), why it started, how it's done, the ways in which is has been challenged, put down, then comes back as if nothing has changed, and how it has destroyed the careers and lives of numerous athletes who are disproportionately dark skinned women from the global South. It cannot be overstated the role racism plays in who gets tested.

Again, that's Tested, which can be listened to here or on pretty much any podcatcher.

[imaginebetterfutures]

TESTED: Resisting Gender Verification from the Inside (aka what Jake Elsas did on his summer vacation)

I want to share this recent newsletter with you all because it's one of the things I really wish we had time to include in Tested, and I think it shows something really important: how to work within a broken system to minimize harm.

Here's an excerpt:

Jake was living in Oregon when he got the call from his father, explaining that he’d taken the job running the gender verification program, and asking his son to come home to Atlanta and help out with it. “He told me that he felt like it was his responsibility to take this position, to make sure it was done correctly,” Jake told us. “He came around to think that if he were to do it, he could oversee it, every level of it.” For 26 days in the summer of 1996, Jake’s dad oversaw a complex operation that included 50 volunteers dedicated to making the sex testing process as compassionate, non-invasive and accurate as possible. While Jake took photos and ran the badge machine, his mother Nancy, a nurse with years of genetic counseling experience, helped oversee the DNA collection. “He wanted it to be basically kind of like this family-run enterprise,” Jake said. Jake said his father ran the program with a very clear point of view, and goal — which was to make sure that as long as athletes weren’t cheating, no one would be sent home. “He wanted to make sure we all understood why we were there,” Jake said.”We weren’t there to disqualify anybody. In fact it was quite the opposite. We were there to make sure that everyone was allowed to compete.”

You can read the post here (blog) or here (newsletter). And if you like this, and want more of this kind of thing, consider subscribing to the Tested newsletter!

[marsalta]

[killermaxaroo8675309]

Kissy animation <3

It is currently 4 am, I refused to go to bed until I had this finished, ((also I was finishing s4, so win-win I guess))

[nesperus]

mikey walters the man that you are

(i’m on episode 46! love this guy)

[nureyevs-worst-alias]

Never forget that Buddy made Juno do the entire Zolotov heist in fuckin six inch heels for seemingly no reason at all whatsoever

[gelatomoon]

shadow 

[froglegsblogs]

Emizel chaos page, him and Shilo are definitely my favorites so far.

[zoomclown]

something that I don't think gets talked about enough is how much Warren needs to be validated by the people who are harming him.

Like how hard he latches onto being important. He will let them treat him any way they want so long as they see him as valuable. I think that beyond the avoidance, there's a part of him that wants to stay at Red Valley just because he is told he is useful.

When he holds himself hostage, the first thing he mentions is that they need him. He believes they will do what he asks because he is valuable to them. When he finally stands up to Bryony and tells her he doesn't want to go back in the pod, he immediately follows it up by mentioning that he is valuable to Overhead. Trying to get her to affirm his worth. Even when they get back from the meeting with the board and he asks her if any of their relationship was real. After hearing her tell them that she's been deliberately triggering his PTSD, he is still trying to get her to say she ever valued him at all.

He could get validation from Gordon any day. Gordon, who somehow manages to convince him that he might actually have value beyond his usefulness as a test dummy. But his need to hear it from people who are actively causing him life-threatening harm just speaks to his experience of parental abuse. The experience of looking into the eyes of someone who is actively hurting you, and instead of fighting back, waiting for them to tell you you're good enough.

[potato-lord-but-not]

are there any women in malevolent at all. ive been trying to listen to it but im a lesbian and getting a little bored of just these two guys

Oh bestie 😬😬

[ghostedflakes]

I think this is my final Moonshine design! Best part was looking up a bunch of mushrooms to draw.

[yogsothott]

Neglected to post this earlier because of life stuff going on, but belatedly here's my piece for the @malevolent-fanzine, inspired by the early episodes of season 4 and the boarding house.

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

John has been driving this whole time do you really think he's been using his turn signal? Not once.

[pigeons-with-jello]

Love how a god hyperfixated on somr guy because he was literally so sopping wet that he taught him ethics and poetry like a whump version of the good place

[axoxo]

pretty sure this was how Kayne's introduction went

[quisters]

Arthur must constantly be passing out with his frankly atrocious lack of blood at this point