Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s so cold and everything is so bad! But it is once again time to talk about…. Podcast. lol.
This week on Gender Conceal, I chatted with Encanto’s Jess Darrow about working with Disney as an outspoken queer person. We also discussed Jess’s mission to make Captain Hook gay in 7th grade; their big discovery about comedians(??); their hot take on cishet relationships(???); and much more!!!! It’s a...
2026-02-01 23:36:36 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am effectively snowed in—as in, I could technically make it down the block to the bodega, but not too much further than that—and have spent most of the last 24 hours texting and reading about what’s going on in Minneapolis. I suspect that many of you are in a similar position: either snowed in & glued to your phones or on the street yourselves, defending your neighbors from kidnapping and worse. More on that in a minute. In th...
2026-01-26 02:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’ve all been hanging in there(!!!). Thank you again to everyone who filled out our 2025 patron survey—I’ve really enjoyed reading through your responses. I’m hoping to talk about this more in a future Gender Conceal, but in the meantime, here are a bunch of stray findings:
(Image by sweatermuppet, maker of incredible trans stickers.)
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. We haven’t had a normal newsletter in a few weeks, so before we get going, I’d like to belatedly thank everyone who sent Sag season mail—a true bright spot in a deeply weird holiday season. Special shout-out to these fun handmade cards:
It's that time again! Before we start: you have one week left to take our annual patron survey! Thank you so much to the 261(!) patrons who have already completed the survey.
Total Gender Reveal downloads in 2025: 322,841
Countries & territories with at least one download in 2025: 165
Gender Reveal epis...
2026-01-02 19:48:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. Now that we are ~77 hours away from 2026, I’m finally sending the 2025 patron survey! If you’ve never taken one of our annual patreon surveys before, here’s what you need to know:
It’s long but every question is optional
You can almost always write in your own answer under “other”
We use the bulk of this information to (try to) improve our podcast/patreon/spinoff offerings, but sometimes...
2025-12-29 00:12:47 +0000 UTC
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Hi friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. Happy solstice! I typically do my holiday travel a week or so before the holidays because I'm an iconoclast and/or a child of divorce and/or don't want to deal with peak holiday flights. This is inconvenient for everyone — taking a week off right before everyone else takes two weeks off is not great business practice, and flying back into town right as all yr friends leave is not ideal — and yet I keep doing it.
All that to say! I...
2025-12-21 23:25:31 +0000 UTC
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This 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 ot...
2025-12-15 11:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. The big news today is that it snowed. :)
This week on the show, it was an absolute joy to chat with artist Barry Lee. We talked about Strega Nona, Keith Haring, the Muppets, self-help pitfalls, bodily autonomy, spiritual bypassing, terrazzo flooring, noses, Atlanta, and more! Barry is in the midst of migrating their newsletter off Subst...
2025-12-14 23:33:27 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’ve all been hanging in there. I was very surprised to see how many people still posted Spotify Wrappeds this year, given everything 2025-12-07 22:57:27 +0000 UTC
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This month, Tuck chats with cartoonist Lee Lai about her graphic novels Stone Fruit and Cannon. Topics include:
She/her mustache, Puberty 4, and being mistaken for transfemme
How gossiping helps Lee develop her characters
Do hormones affect where your feelings physically sit in your body?
The hazards of thinking you should be rewarded for being overly self-reliant(!!!)
“I have a lot of mechanisms for...
2025-11-30 16:21:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. We’ve got a fun Gender Conceal episode with Lee Lai(!) all ready for you rn, but I didn’t want it to get lost in the weekend slush pile, so I’m holding onto it for now and we’ll talk about it next week.
In the meantime, I thought it would be fun to make a little gift guide… and then I remembered that I 2025-11-30 03:21:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone!
Greetings to our paid members, who received another email from me like 20 minutes ago, and to our handful of free members, who did not.
As soon as I sent our weekly newsletter, I received confirmation that our Portland event rebooking was ready to launch! And since I always try to give Patrons first dibs — and since this event will absolutely hit capacity — I wanted to let you know ASAP.
The Sex Change and the City Portland tour event w...
2025-11-23 23:21:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s finally Sagittarius season! Among other things, that means it’s time to remind everyone of our mailing address, in case you’d like to loop me into your holiday card list or just say hi :)
PO Box 50297
Brooklyn, NY 11205
This week on the show, Ozzy and I had the honor of chatting with G.L.I.T.S. founder Ceyenne Doroshow. We spoke with Ceyenne about her mother Miss Major, her 3-hour conversation wi...
2025-11-23 22:22:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Thank you so so so much to everyone who came to our Chicago, Minneapolis, and Brooklyn tour stops! So far, I am 4-for-4 on having an absolutely incredible time, and I hope y’all had fun also. It was great to see so many of you in person!
Tuck & Vera Blossom at Skunk Cabbage Books in Chicago :)
Hoping to see many of you in 2025-11-16 18:06:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. What a wild week!!!! Zohran was officially elected mayor, Gendertrash From Hell was published, Sex Change and the City was published, Signal Hill Issue 2 was released, Skin Graft EP was released, the gays of Philadelphia gathered for a dreamy SCATC launch event, and I found perfect pants at the thrift store for $5.99. Huge!...
2025-11-09 21:40:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. My friend Jesse is currently visiting from London, and yesterday we dressed up as each other for Halloween, which was incredible for me because not a single person at any of the parties we went to had ever met Jesse before. The ultimate niche costume! I assured them that I was, in fact, nailing it, and who were they to argue?? (I gave Jesse my extra “I voted” sticke...
2025-11-02 23:49:21 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am currently in a standoff with the United States Postal Service. Every two days, I call and say “please pick up all of these packages?” and they say “ok!” and then they do not do that. And I get it! It’s annoying to have a job! But I have so MANY books, and I do not want to carry 300 books to the post office, and I know that they do not want me to show up with 200 packages. Anyway, if you haven’t received your Sex Chan...
2025-10-26 22:35:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am thinking about walking into the ocean again. :) <paragraph of complaining deleted because who cares ultimately!!!!>
Thinking about this banger btw.
I accidentally toggled tomorrow’s Gender Conceal episode from “schedule” to “publish” so it’s available now for anyone bored on a Sunday afternoon! This episode...
2025-10-19 22:39:27 +0000 UTC
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This month, Tuck asks Cassius Adair if Gender Reveal should be replaced with ChatGPT interviewing Alok. Topics also include:
Coaching your child into autism through positive affirmation and Pokémon (JOKE! LEGALLY THIS IS A JOKE!)
How scholarly fight-or-flight and ignorant cis academics leads to boring trans studies papers
What do we mean when we say podcasts are over???
What you personally have in common with the 15th-century Medici ...
2025-10-19 17:26:50 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am still thinking about Humpy.
What am I talking about? Thanks so much for asking! For two years, the Seattle Mariners (I know, I’m sorry) have been staging a “salmon run” at every home game, in which four salmon mascots compete in a between-innings footrace. One of the salmon has a septum ring and wears a flannel, and yet, that is not the o...
2025-10-12 22:45:42 +0000 UTC
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Hi friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. I’m on a whirlwind cross-country jaunt to watch the Mariners lose a playoff game (classic!) so this is gonna be a short one.
Due to travel, I haven’t had a chance to promote this yet, but: applications for our 2025 grant cycle are open now! As always, we’re looking ...
2025-10-05 17:32:27 +0000 UTC
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The 10% off promo code has broken containment and escaped the patreon audience, so I gotta mix it up.
Promo code is now PERVERTS, plural. good for all purchases in da girl dad shop until I have to change it again someday.
here's one page of the book for fun.
Photo: A black-and-white illustration of C...
2025-09-29 18:00:34 +0000 UTC
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It’s the last day before the MLB playoffs, there are like six important baseball games happening right now, and I cannot possibly write a newsletter under these conditions. But I will bravely attempt.
(Speaking of baseball, only three days left to claim your FREE MONTH of Batting Around's Patreon!)
Thank you to everyone who suggested tour locations / venues / etc! Reading all your ideas ma...
2025-09-28 22:46:44 +0000 UTC
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This month, Tuck chats with Denne Michele Norris about her new books, When the Harvest Comes and Both/And. Topics include:
Is this year’s trans lit boom just a publishing blip?
Transitioning alongside your novel’s protagonist
Editing stories of trans trauma without re-traumatizing the author
If time isn’t linear, is it possible to deadname a fictional character? 🤯
Why...
2025-09-22 08:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Before we get started: that George Michael tweet is unrelated to the newsletter, but I saw Kendra share it and it felt spiritually correct u know? (Btw, my roommate says he has met TWO people who did not know George Michael was gay, which is a sort of puzzle that I keep turning over in my mind. How??)
Tomorrow on Gender Con...
2025-09-21 22:57:56 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Thank you for all of your questions for Cass! We recorded that episode on Thursday, and it was very fun and very long and will be out in the Gender Conceal feed in October.
This week on the show, I was honored to chat with activist Isa Noyola! Isa is so smart and has a ton of experience fighting for trans immigrants rights. In this episode, Isa shares victories in trans immigrant organizing over the last decade, and explains what we...
2025-09-14 23:10:27 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. This morning, after coffee with Io, I recorded an episode of the Batting Around podcast. Imagine my surprise when the episode dropped into my podcast feed two hours later?! For context, tomorrow’s Gender Reveal episod...
2025-09-07 22:36:48 +0000 UTC
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