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Mar 2019
23m 8s

The Anti-Capitalists Selling Gender Conf...

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About this episode

Noah Kloeze is one of three worker-owners of Gender Gear, a collective that sells gender confirming products for trans and gender variant people. After an uncomfortable encounter at their physical location, the collective had to radically rethink their business. This is what happened.

Store: Gender Gear, Come As You Are
Recommended: Feist, Peaches

Host
Anshuman Iddamsetty

Producers
Michelle Macklem
Emma Fedderson
Anshuman Iddamsetty

Senior Supervising Producer
Tammi Downey

Engineer
Jason ‘Metal’ Donkersgoed

Musical Score
Jim Guthrie

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