Alma Avalle rocked an elite fiefdom with her woke soap opera
Added 2025-12-15 11:00:14 +0000 UTCThis month, Tuck chats with writer and union organizer Alma Avalle. Topics include:
Getting very publicly fired from Condé Nast in an egregiously illegal instance of union retaliation :)
Key takeaways from a Transparent rewatch (incl. its many similarities to Emilia Pérez)
Anna Wintour’s genuinely surprising coffee order
Trader Joe’s dream to destroy the National Labor Relations Board
Visiting other countries as a trans adult
Why make a physical trans magazine rather than a website?
Existing in the center of a fight about the future of media unions (nbd!)
It’s so intimate to lose your job with an ex :)
An acne breakout of American fascism
Do people let you be bitchier when you’re a girl?
“Anna Wintour's elite fiefdom rocked by woke soap opera after trans journalist had nerve to scold executive for firing non-binary ex-lover from Teen Vogue”
Also: why does Alma keep saying “calculus”?!
Find Alma at @goodbyealma across platforms and @picnic_mag on IG.
Download issue 1 of Picnic Magazine for pay-what-you-want, and don’t forget to sign the petition to reinstate the Fired Four.
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Comments
Alma and Joyce publish it!
Tuck
2026-01-01 21:27:57 +0000 UTCthis was such a good interview! What if you joined forces and Picnic became a GirlDadPress publication? Alma may have said who publishes the mag and I missed it
Sam Berry-Sullivan
2025-12-30 17:46:54 +0000 UTCThat show introduced me to talented actress and the mind boggling SMOKESHOW that is Trace Lisette, its only redeeming quality.
Sam Berry-Sullivan
2025-12-30 17:45:20 +0000 UTCTransParent thoughts: all of the characters do horrific, irredeemable shit, but the thing that randomly jumps into my brain to fill me with impotent rage is the oldest daughter cheating on her husband with a woman, leaving him for her, they get engaged, and only ON HE WEDDING DAY does she really think about what she’s doing, and leaves her almost wife to go back to hr ex husband. I think about what she put her kids through, how they’re supposed to think about and related to this flaming car wreck of a woman as their parent, and the fact that her betrayal makes he almost wife relapse into alcoholism….I have never hated a character like I hate her
Sam Berry-Sullivan
2025-12-30 17:43:36 +0000 UTCHello! Thank you for sharing this interview.
nicododd
2025-12-20 00:07:26 +0000 UTCI’d suggest reaching out to Alma!
Tuck
2025-12-18 05:36:52 +0000 UTCPls share the Medellin list! Im in a similar boat family wise and have only vaguely gone around parque lleras w my partner not really knowing where to go last time I was there. I would love to be around queer colombians next time I visit
Val
2025-12-18 03:25:18 +0000 UTC
