Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I have been doing a cute little morning routine lately where I log into twitter and it ruins my entire day. I have this print (by a trans artist!) in my bathroom and yet it still happens.
To cope with my own bad choices, I made a playlist of songs that were resonating with me re: using the world wide web; it’s very chaotic but ...
2022-01-28 01:53:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’ve all been hanging in there. I’ve spent the entire last week mostly watching Yellowjackets and reading about Yellowjackets and thinking about Yellowjackets and then very occasionally doing my job. So please know how hard I had to focus to make this newsletter not just a list of “10 Interviews with the Cast & Crew of Yellowjackets That I Recommend.”
Anyway, this week on the show, Producer Jules made their Ge...
2022-01-20 05:39:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am eating cereal for dinner, like an adult professional.
This week on the show… actually, I’m just going to let Io tell you:
“I’m on this week’s Gender Reveal and it was a barrel of fun! Find it wherever podcasts live! [Tuck] and I gab about gender nihilism, whether Dune is trans (with a masterful alioop by producer Jules), worm cu...
2022-01-12 03:07:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. I feel like the 😶🌫️ emoji. It’s taken me three days to write this because every time I think about putting paragraphs together my brain goes 😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️. [If you don't have that emoji, it's this one.]
This week on the show, it was a joy and a privilege to ...
2022-01-07 02:47:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I know I’m always like “I feel like we’re in an extra weird section of the Weird Times” but I do feel that way. I can’t stop looking at this line?!?
Photo ID: a graph of covid cases in New York City since the start of the pandemic. The line peaks around 10K cases in spring 2020 and then ~17K cases in winter ...
2021-12-30 02:35:23 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s, as always, a very weird time!!! It’s Christmas Eve Eve Eve, and half of the New Yorkers I know have Covid, and Portland is allegedly about to get snowed in for at least a week (because we are always really bad at snow and because the labor shortage extends to plow drivers), and also I’m eating that weird protein spaghetti made out of lentils because it was on sale and I make a lot of mistakes.
This week we’ve got music...
2021-12-23 04:32:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m typing to you from a weirdly shaped ergonomic keyboard because my carpals are threatening to tunnel again, or however that works. I want to say it’s flaring up because I’ve been hard at work making podcasts and such, but unfortunately I suspect it’s due to me playing a lot of Best Fiends while holding my phone at weird angles.
As promised, 2021-12-17 00:44:56 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. Have you heard this week's episode yet? I literally have not — by which I mean, I did listen a zillion times during edits, but I always listen to the final cut on either Sunday or Monday and I just...... didn't this week. So, um, if there's a weird cut or blip somewhere, I hope you're enjoying/ignoring that.
ANYWAY, this week on the show, I ...
2021-12-08 08:04:15 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I have mostly been watching Sondheim clips and by “clips” I mean a “bootleg copy of the 2011 New York Philharmonic Concert version of Company with Spanish subtitles.” I won’t link to that but I will link to the 1991 taping of Into the Woods, which is next in my queue and which I would recommend to anyone (esp. over the 2014 film).
Anyway, t...
2021-11-30 03:38:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. It’s so funny being an independent trans show, making it up as we go along… conventional wisdom says that “holiday” weekends would mean a drop in podcast downloads, but I tend to assume that while you (the listener) might be too busy to listen to Gender Reveal this week, you alternately might be extra eager to listen — either because you’re spending time with cis people who still haven’t figured out how to (or cared to) (or been...
2021-11-25 02:42:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I just got a new computer(!!!!!!!) and am now terrified that it will break if I like, type? or breathe wrong? or something? So I’m writing this very gingerly and feel very silly about it.
This week on the podcast, I had the privilege and the delight of chatting with Jackie Ess, author of Darryl and beloved troll of the internet and beyond. ...
2021-11-18 05:45:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Phew, it’s dark out there, huh???? I meant literally — it’s pitch black at 5:13pm — but figuratively we probably aren’t doing great either. It's brutal out here, as (I assume) the teens say.
You know what is great, though? This week’s episode with sports writer extraordinaire Britni de la Cretaz! I had so much fun speaking with Britni, and learned...
2021-11-11 01:47:56 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week is one of those “six 12-hour day” podcast work weeks (possibly should be seven but also my girlfriend is allegedly visiting and I simply refuse?) so I’m running low on brain juice (GROSS) to write this newsletter but I will try my best.
(Six 12-hour days WITH Jules. Remember life without Producer Jules, a hero and an icon??? I simply cannot imagine!!!!!!)
This week on the show, I’m so excited to finally share...
2021-11-04 04:10:16 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Long time no see! As you may have gathered, we just released a complete overhaul of our first episode, Gender 101. The process of releasing this episode was considerably more elaborate than our typical interviews and advice episodes, where I just click “publish” on Libsyn and go to sleep. Here’s what we did (not in order):
- wrote a full transcript for the episode annotated with reference links, additional information, and suggested texts for folks looking t...
2021-10-25 21:44:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. A big gust of wind knocked my power out for five hours so I'm having a weird one. Still managed to get an episode up for tomorrow, though!
In fact, it's actually already up now in a secret way, but I don't really want to tell you how to find it because where's the fun in that? It'll be up properly in five hours, and I assume many o...
2021-10-25 04:58:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. We’re eight days away from our aspirational Season 8 premiere date. Will we make it? I truly have no idea. Stay tuned!
I’m writing this on my phone in a sculpture garden slash mini-golf park in Minnesota — I’m here for Sylveon work, except for the mini golf part, which is a “my friends’ kid needed an activity” thing — and you will be shocked to...
2021-10-18 02:41:07 +0000 UTC
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(Thank you to our friend Rose for the meme, and sorry to Rose about the crisis.)
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. Julia and I have been hard at work on Season 8; we've got two interviews down, and four more(!) coming up in the next two weeks. We're hoping to launch the new season by the end of this month... cross your fingers that we pull it off.
...
2021-10-10 01:51:02 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. It is 69° here (nice) which is undoubtably bad for the planet long-term but is somewhat ameliorating my depression in the very short term so maybe it's good actually. (It's not.) (But maybe!)
We just launched our Fall 2021 grant program, which is more or less the same as our spring grant program except six months later. To recap: we're awarding $500 payments to trans people of color who are doing rad art or act...
2021-10-03 00:04:49 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. It's been a while!
Our Fall 2021 mutual aid program opened and closed in a quick 48-hour sprint! In that time, we were able to send $14,300 in mutual aid payments to trans people of color in the US, the UK, Canada, the Philippines, and more. (Thanks to everyone who has donated to our ongoing mutual aid fund to help make this happen!)
Speaking of sending money to people on the internet... we'll be opening up our fall ...
2021-09-26 03:06:26 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. Got a real quick one for you this week. A few things:
1. Our New York City live show is in less than a week! This show sold out in less than two days(!), and since then, a couple folks have contacted me about handing off their extra tickets to someone else who'd like to go. So, if you're trying to share or snag a ticket, feel free to comment below ...
2021-09-11 06:45:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
If you've already received your physical Patreon rewards, feel free to delete this. Congratulations on reading one less email today!
Everyone else — hey, hi. Hope you're all, you know, hanging in there.
Since the season ended, I have been torn between the desire to Not Make My Carpal Tunnel Worse and the desire to Send Y'all Some Belated Stickers and Pins and Stuff. I don't know when I'll be able to write 48 thank you notes and address 123 envelopes, but some ...
2021-09-06 02:52:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
I hope you're hanging in there. Sorry for skipping last week's newsletter — I was trying to "take some time off" and "not exacerbate my carpal tunnel" and I would say I've been like 44% successful in those goals on the average day.
I'm back because my wrists and arms are still doing bad but I played an ill-advised round of Mario Party with my roommates last night, and if I do that, I can't really justify not also doing the job parts of my job. Or can I? You'll tell ...
2021-08-31 02:06:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there.
I’m really bummed to announce that we’re going to be cutting this season short due to an intense carpal/cubital tunnel flareup that has made it really difficult for me to work for more than like 30 minutes a day. Most of you probably know how much I typically prioritize work — to a fault, most of my friends would say!! I’ve been trying to adjust that over the last several months, and having a repetitive motion injury e...
2021-08-17 03:33:26 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s 100° here but only 89° inside (lol), and my roommate is hanging out with their partner in one room, and my other roommate is hanging out with her friend in another room, and I’m sitting in front of a fan, trying to make y’all a podcast, but my brain is liquified so instead I keep inserting myself into my friends’ conversation about Jeff Rosenstock, and also everyone involved in this sentence is trans because obviously.
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2021-08-13 02:59:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey again,
Monday's episode features an excellent essay by Tobi Hill-Meyer about the history of "autogynephilia" as a concept. I'm posting the full transcript below, including Tobi's citations and an extended bio, in case it helps to follow along or refer back to. (The full episode transcript will also eventually be up on our website.)
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2021-08-09 06:24:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there.
It’s been a weird week over here, but we managed to release a bonus episode featuring our friends over at Autostraddle — remember Drew Gregory from the
2021-08-09 01:39:31 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. As you may have seen, we did something weird this week — we interviewed two cis guys. This, understandably, confused a subset of listeners and social media followers and people who just wandered by us on the internet. Below, we attempt to explain ourselves:
Q: What’s Cisgender Day of Visibility?
A: In honor of our 100th episode, I thought it would be funny to interview cis people in the same way that cis people in...
2021-07-31 00:47:56 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. I took the last week off(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and am now hustling to finish up tomorrow's podcast in the next few hours. So, instead of your usual scheduled content, here is a slideshow of my friend's 13-week-old kittens.
btw, Justin McElroy is going to be on the podcast tomorrow for some reason (the reason is that I thought he would say no!!!!!...
2021-07-26 04:43:47 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’ve been trying to write this newsletter for fully five days but every time I look at the screen I can’t think of how to make words into sentences.
This week on the show, I was very excited to officially catch up with my friend LaTisha Rico. Tish is a youth worker, an artist, a nonbinary parent, a...
2021-07-18 03:02:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. As you may have heard, we somewhat accidentally did a celebrity gender reveal this week.
You may have thought that Gaby Dunn was already out as nonbinary. I, too, thought this when I invited them back onto the show to update their hilariously trans "token cis" Gender Reveal interview from 2018. But, in a fun twist, Gaby used 2021-07-09 22:20:45 +0000 UTC
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