Sawyer K. Kemp rehashes 17th-century trans gossip
Added 2025-06-24 16:05:43 +0000 UTCThis month, Tuck chats with Sawyer K. Kemp (they/them) about the news that “Ian McKellen Will Open All-Trans Production of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s Most Trans Play.” Topics also include:
Intra-trans-community conflict in the 17th century
Is Twelfth Night even trans?? And do we care??
“Only a cisgender playwright would write so many plays about how dressing as the opposite sex will make you safer and make your life easier.”
Growing up in West Virginia as a ~coal miner’s daughter~ (gender neutral?)
Can making Shakespeare ““accessible”” ever be a bad thing?
What do we miss about transness in Shakespeare when we only think about crossdressing?
MLB corner: What do baseball and Shakespeare have in common? Which baseball player is a beautiful woman? Which baseball player would play Hamlet? Which Shakespearean role would Shohei play?
Introducing Sawyer’s monstrous new son who hangs from the ceiling
Is acting good or bad? :)
Find Sawyer at sawyerkkemp.com and at Queens College.
Here’s the sticker I mentioned btw.
Comments
thank you so much for this gay baseball info maia!!!!
Tuck
2025-06-28 03:03:42 +0000 UTCWonderful episode, very insightful! As a Shakespeare lightweight I loved that Sawyer was throwing out names of plays I literally know nothing about. Also, I agree that the gay tensions in that 2012 Giants team were POTENT, that was the only baseball team and year I have looked for fanfiction of as well. And I do think the Giants should rank in the top three gayest teams, if not number one, because while the Dodgers held the first official Pride night in 2000, the Giants hosted a "Until There's a Cure Day" to raise money and awareness for AIDS/HIV in 1994. I want so badly for the first out MLB player to be a Giants player!
Maia Kobabe
2025-06-25 21:38:35 +0000 UTCWow I loved this one. I was not a theater kid but I was an English major so this made my little heart so nostalgic. Sawyer is so smart and I want to keep hearing them talk about Shakespeare okay thank you ~
Leigh
2025-06-25 14:09:26 +0000 UTC
