Ep. 363 Gender and Genre Are the Same Word with Torrey Peters
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re joined by author Torrey Peters to discuss her new book, Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories, a collection that explores the complexities of desire, identity, and gender. Torrey shares how she freed herself to write after the success of her debut novel, Detransition, Baby, discusses her thoughts on the relationship between gender and genre, and what she finds most exciting about writing trans stories.
The Stacks Book Club pick for March is They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. We will discuss the book on March 26th with Tembe Denton-Hurst returning as our guest.
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| 0:00.0 | I got a question yesterday from like a British interviewer that was like, are you stuck writing trans stories now forever? |
| 0:07.2 | And I was like, it like kind of shocked me that question. |
| 0:11.0 | Not only in terms of like, well, is that so bad, but also like, dude, I just gave you a lumberjack story. |
| 0:18.1 | Like obviously trans stories can do anything. |
| 0:21.6 | You know, we'll see what readers think of it, but people are like, seem to be down to |
| 0:25.5 | like go with me on that. |
| 0:27.1 | And that makes me feel like if I want to do something else a little like, you know, surprising, |
| 0:32.9 | people might come with me. |
| 0:34.7 | And that's what you want as writers, just like that freedom to be like, |
| 0:37.7 | let me try something out. |
| 0:44.3 | Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host, |
| 0:48.3 | Tracy Thomas, and today I'm thrilled to welcome to the podcast, Tori Peters. |
| 0:52.7 | Tori's first book, the critically acclaimed novel |
| 0:55.2 | Detransition Baby, was picked as a top 10 book of 2021 right here on the Stacks podcast. Her latest |
| 1:02.3 | book, Stagdance, is a collection of three short stories and one novella that explores trans identity, |
| 1:08.1 | power, and transformation. Today, Tori and I talk about the relationship |
| 1:12.2 | between genre and gender, how she freed herself to write again after the success of detransition |
| 1:17.7 | baby, and what she is most interested in exploring as she tells trans stories. Don't forget, |
| 1:24.0 | our book club pick for March is they were her property, white women as slave |
| 1:27.5 | owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones Rogers. We will be back to discuss that book |
| 1:33.0 | on Wednesday, March 26th with Temby Denton Hearst. Be sure to read along and tune in. |
| 1:38.8 | Quick reminder, everything we talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found in the link |
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