#Tested Podcast

[ever-so-slightly-monstrous]

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.

[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 😬😬

[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.

[quisters]

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

[springypaws]

This is what I’m doing instead of studying for my big Physics test tomorrow, like a cool individual

(messy phone drawing moment)

[ghostedflakes]

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

[strix-and-stones]

Okay so I don't know if anyone made the same connection but Arthur is in medieval times right now yeah? What if King Arhthur? Like you know the one from the arthurian mythos?

[no-tengo-ojos]

Hello Arthur Lester’s limbs!