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Patreon-exclusive TWiG segment: "Last Month in the Czech Republic"

Hey everyone,

You'll see another newsletter from me later this week, but I wanted drop in with a special Patreon-only This Week in Gender segment for you. 

Friend of the show Em Solarova wrote and recorded a great 5-minute segment about what's been going on re: gender in the Czech Republic. (Spoiler: it's not great!) Read the essay below, or let Em read it to you via the audio above. 

By the way, I also really recommend Em's YouTube channel, 2021-07-07 20:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Mal Blum! Grant winners! Rewards update!

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. I am writing you a newsletter filed with love and news and gender, and I am also, in a very real sense, actively falling asleep as I type. Let's see how this goes.

This week on the show, I checked in with our friend Mal Blum, who I first spoke with in E...

Maddy Court! John Paul Brammer! Where are the pets?!

Hey bbs,

We're doing things pretty differently on the pod this week, so I figured I'd give you a Pretty Different Newsletter as well. 

Above is a little clip about twitter and Strangers Having Expectations from our upcoming interview with John Paul Brammer, which will most likely drop early Thursday morning. It's not fully mixed or anything, but I pulled it for someone (past and future guest Gaby Dunn, actually...

Carta Monir! Queer advice! Fish tube?! Pride just keeps Priding!

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. Remember when I said Mercury-retrograde-in-Gemini-season was kicking my ass? Right after that, my trusty 2015 laptop yeeted itself into a hell dimension. (I assume it's extremely uncool/old to say "yeeted" at this point but I don't know how to describe this situation other than "yeeted through the fish tube" or maybe "noped out of the en...

Kirby Conrod! Therapy tidbits! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯!

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. This whole solar-eclipse-in-Gemini-during-Gemini-season-and-Mercury-retrograde thing is kicking my ass. Or maybe it's just being a person that is kicking my ass? Unclear. 

So much of therapy is just me being like "I'm feeling Bad in this unique way" and my therapist being like "lots of other people also feel Bad in that way" and for some reason it helps???? Like today, I was like, "something that makes me feel better is meeting s...

New season! New merch! New nonbinary podcast!

Hey friends,

Happy Pride! We've got so so much going on right now. Let's get to it:

First off, I want to you about a rad project that our friends are working on. Gender Reveal alum (and FANTI co-host) Tre'vell Anderson and producer Carly Usdin <...

Meet our new producer! (Plus, last day for merch!)

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. I held yesterday's newsletter until today so that I could make a very special announcement: we officially hired a new associate producer! 

I'm excited for the podcast to sound better, I'm excited to have another set of ears on episodes, and I'm so excited for another perspective and vision to help us shape the future of Gender Reveal. I'm also excited to try to have a few boundaries on work, such as occasionally taking t...

First sneak peeks of Season 7 (plus gay SNL)

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. 

Once again, our news is pretty much the same. Applications for our Associate Producer gig are closing in a few hours — we've received nearly 100 applications, which is flattering and exciting and tbh a bit overwhelming. I'll be speaking to finalists over the next couple of days, and I'm ho...

Last week, again, tonight.

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. There's a lot going on in Gender Reveal world right now, but unfortunately there aren't any big public-facing updates. Mostly, everything's the same as it was in the last newsletter. Here's what's up:

1. We're still hiring an associate producer to help us put the next season of the podcas...

We’re hiring! Trans Day of Snack merch! Season 7 updates!

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. Sending extra love today to anyone who’s had to mother themselves at any point. I love you! 

This is a make-up newsletter for last week. I was down for the count over the weekend with various injuries and illnesses, but I’m more or less back in action today, and wanted to let you know about a few very exciting developments in Gender Reveal World.

First and foremost, we are hiring! I’ve finally come to terms with the f...

10 quick updates! Plus: we're in a book!

Hey everyone,

Hope you're all hanging in there. I just spent two hours looking for my wallet and did not find my wallet but I did find a headache, so this newsletter is gonna be real quick (maybe).

Updates on the Gender Reveal front:

1. I haven't added new May merch yet, but I'm gonna try to do that by tomorrow, so keep an eye out! We've got a bunch of new designs on the way... to that end, here's a sneak peek of our newest design by friend of the show 2021-05-03 04:20:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Vegetables! This Week in Gender! 143 Rewards!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Not sure what to tell you this week. I haven’t eaten a vegetable yet today, so I just checked the fridge, and the closest thing I could find was a single slice of pizza topped with red pepper and artichoke hearts. So now I’m eating that. Pizza’s a vegetable, I’ve heard.

One of our pipes has leaked since what feels like the dawn of time, every time my roommate takes a bath. There’s a huge hole in our kitchen ceiling that wa...

Sunshine! Dildos! Cis people minding their business??

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. I know that everything is very very bad in most places, including here, but I am not going to talk about that much because I think sometimes our brains need a break. CW on the next sentence, tho.

I was talking to a friend yesterday about how they felt bad “taking up space” online by creating art or existing, when there were people getting murdered (by police and by randos and by friends and family) every day, and I said something ...

Grant Announcement! Trans Day of Snack Recap! A Slight Existential Spiral!

OK, I'm obsessed with these weird binary gender donuts that say TRANSGENDER in the corner and also the way that "If we don't want visibility, what do we actually want?" is seemingly answered by this Reese's ad. And that's what we want! Snacks! 

anyway, cw for a bunch of swears and complaining about something I did to myself.

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On Monday, March 29 — the morning that Gender Reveal season six finale dropped — I turned to my roommate and said, “it’s fucked up that...

Happy Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack!

Hello! 

It's 11 pm on the west coast, which means that, by the time most of you read this, it will be March 31st: Trans Day of Visibility. 

But let's face it — being visibly trans can be exhausting. It can be scary. It can lead to a whole host of problems, from being misgendered / harassed / physically attacked to having our healthcare denied and our rights threatened in court. But you know this! I do not need to tell you. 

So what if, instead, we just did a...

Francisco Galarte! End-of-season news! It's been a week!

Hey everyone,

Well, I made it. After seventeen weeks straight of working simply too much, I uploaded the final episode of Gender Reveal season 6. But first, let's talk about last week's episode, shall we?

I felt super lucky to get to chat with Francisco J. Galarte about the experiences of trans and queer Chicanas, Chicanos, and Chicanx folks. Francisco is the author of Brown Trans ...