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We're Back! Imara Jones! Merch 4 Trans Kids!

Hey everyone,

Hope you're hanging in there. I am thrilled to announce what you likely already know, which is that Gender Reveal is officially BACK for our sixth season.

We're starting off strong with a conversation with TransLash founder and TransLash Podcast host 2020-12-13 01:02:58 +0000 UTC View Post

A zillion new podcasts! Twitter-inspired merch! Elliot carrying firewood! Crunch crunch!

Hey friends!

Hope you're all hanging in there. I'm trying really hard to finish this episode for you for Monday, so we're going to do a lightning round of news without the color commentary. Apologies, but also — maybe you'll like it better this way, even! Who knows?

(Also, hey, did I share that Drake meme already? If not, here it is, and if so, here it is again.)

Merch news

(Full disclosure, I didn't mean to put this section at the top but now I'm scared to move it...

BIG NEWS! A discount code, I guess? also, memes.

Hey friends,

Hope you're hanging in there. 

Since our viewing of Mulan a week or two ago (what is time?), I've been collecting gay & trans Mulan memes. Send them my way if you've got any!

OK, let's get down to business.

I've decided that Gender Reveal Season 6 is coming back on December 7. Will I actually make an episode by the deadline?!? I don't know! Only time will...

Surf Shark Lives!

Hey friends,

Just a quick update: thanks to the outpouring of support from everyone, the surf don't terf sweatshirt is back in the store again! Please enjoy if you have not already partaken in the shark hoodie: 

https://teespring.com/surf-shark-hoodie?tsmac=store&tsmic=gender-reveal&pid=212&cid=5842

Surf Don't Terf 4ever 🦈🏄🏳️‍⚧️

Hey friends,

I was technically one newsletter behind, and even though I'm sure nobody was counting, I'm making it up to you here with this unfortunate This Week in Transphobia update.

It appears that the folks at Teespring are deeply confused about what "we love and support the LGBTQ+ community" means. They took down our Surf Don't TERF design for an alleged IP complaint, and when I contested it — which cost Niko $200 by the way! Justice for Niko's bank account! — they reveale...

new logo! $15,700! a trans disney icon! land back!!!

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. I am here to let you know four things:

1. Thanks to the generosity of all y'all as well as people on twitter, we were able to successfully raise $15,700 for the mutual aid fund! That means that all 157 applicants will be receiving $100. Y'all, that is INCREDIBLE. Thank you so much for your help and support! 

2. I got to see Rose of 2020-11-17 05:25:34 +0000 UTC View Post

trans elections! mask merch! gritty?

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there.

I've been putting off writing this newsletter for a few days because I was hoping to eventually have something to say. But lately, it feels like the more that happens, the less I want to speak about it. Maybe because there are more people listening now. Maybe because so much of what's happening right now (an election? a pandemic? a vaccine? a coup?) is so big and nebulous that it's hard to fully wrap my mind around it. Maybe because I...

Election Day Survival Kit: playlist! animal pics! tiny bonus ep!

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there on this day of all days. 

Apologies that I missed last week's newsletter. I have lost track of how time and space work. Will try to get a second newsletter out this week, but also, does anyone want another email to deal with right now?!?

Anyway, if you check your podcast feeds, you will see a Gender Reveal episode called "BONUS: Election Day Check-In," which consists of me sort of whispering in my closet for what might be on...

Last chance for grants/merch! New bonus ep! HBD Z!

Hey everyone,

Hope you're all hanging in there.

I've got some reminders about upcoming deadlines (is that the right word? Things are ending, idk) but first... happy belated birthday to Zee Griffler, our beloved gender detective!

2020-10-26 01:19:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Mutual aid! Grant! New merch! New guests! I'm tired!

Hi bbs,

Hope you're hanging in there. I have many things to announce, so let's get started:

As you may recall, I'd been going back and forth between making our fall grant program into a grant (as the name implies) or a mutual aid fund. 

On Indigenous Peoples Day, I asked twitter dot com to send donations for a grant program for Black and Indigenous trans and two-spirit people. We raised $5,300 in one day(!) and are now able to offer both a gran...

gay marriage, heterophobia, Sabrina the Teenage Witch?

Hey everyone,

Hope you're all hanging in there. Last week, I wrote about how everything was Incredibly Bad. Since then, I've been trying to take my wins where I can get them — spending as much time as possible in the sun, several feet away from people I love, and minimal time on the Hell Sites other than to look for updates on the health of Trump and his buds. 

something not extremely bad! also, no cis vampires!

Hey everyone,

Boy howdy, everything's just really absurdly bad, huh? 

Well, not everything. Someone sent me that meme (above) that made me laugh and also feel v flattered. 

Also I went to the farmers market and bought these flowers for my roommate after they were very sweet and let me cry all over them the day before.

Also also, Jon Bois just announced that he's rele...

Air! My dot-com company! SO MUCH MERCH!

Hey everyone,

Hope you're all safe and healthy and breathing some good good air. I am thrilled to say that after ten days of barely leaving the house (and looking like this when I did)...

...and then having a big panic and driving an hour to the forest to find a place with air that's only "unhealthy" and walking around and seeing some salamanders and a frog (can u see the frog in this ph...

Gender fires! Memes! A new trans podcast! Soup?

Hey everyone,

I feel like every time I say "I hope you're all hanging in there," I get one notch more emphatic. But, hey, I really hope you're all hanging in there. 

I write to you (as always) from Portland, Oregon, where the air quality is currently (definitely not always) at 246 AQI ("very unhealthy"), due to the wildfires burning in our adjacent counties and up and down the west coast. Believe it or not, I am relieved that our air is "very unhealthy" because everything is ...

💫 check your mailing info, also i love u 💫

 Hey babes,

If you have not received your Patreon rewards yet, can you please check to make sure that we have the most current address and name for you? I'm about to start sending these out again, and I want to make sure I'm not sending your stickers, thank you note, pins, etc. to the wrong place. 

If you have questions about anything, or any special instructions about what name/address to use for your mail, please feel free to contact me. Thanks so much...

☀️ Supersized Summer Summary Newsletter! ☀️

FRIENDS! Hello! 

I want to start by apologizing for the long break between newsletters. The short explanation is that the Portland protests started making national news (and I started working 11am-4am); then I took some time away to recover from that; then I got back into covering the protests, and at no point in time there was my brain really functioning enough to write newsletters. But I'm back, baybee, with a recap of everything I meant to send in the last several weeks...

Addison Rose Vincent! The future of Gender Reveal!

Hey friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. I thought I sent this newsletter last week and I thought I would have time to make an episode for today and neither of these are true! 

It's really incredible how literally every day I think, "Today is the day that I start shifting away from protest coverage and get my shit together for Gender Reveal" and every day it's suddenly 7pm and all I've done is take a shower and ignored my email and tweeted about police...

Flowers I've seen while distancing (+ trans thoughts)

Hey friends,

I owe you two newsletters this week, but I only have one newsletter's worth of podcast news. So! Here's a slideshow of flowers I've seen since coronavirus hit the US back in March. It's good to see that some of us are still thriving.

While we're here, here are some miscellaneous trans thoughts:

- My friends made an organization called the Trans Journalists Association and it's already making a ...

Five (5) trans audio pieces we love! Also, tear gas?! And last chance @ Pride merch!

Hey friends.

Hope you're hanging in there. I was out until 4am last night covering the protests happening at the North Portland police precinct. If you'd like to see me deliriously greet a tear gas canister like an old friend, you can do so here. (Content warning, obviously.)

2020-06-27 00:50:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Riah, Dominique, Layleen: Black Lives Matter.

Hey friends,

This is last week's newsletter. Oops.

Last week on the show, we did a quick overview of several notable pieces of trans news, including the fact that Boris Johnson may be blocking plans to make it easier to be declared legally trans in the UK (Did that sentence make sense? Here's an article.), the delightfully...

Vidhya Aravind! More Protests! Worst Pride Ever?

Hey friends. Hope you're all hanging in there.

I know it's weird to promote a podcast in the middle of... *gestures at everything*... but I cannot recommend this week's interview with Vidhya Aravind highly enough. I learned so much from Vidhya about:

• what a world without police might look like 
• diving into activism as a "dumb bitch that cares a lot" (iconic!)
• fi...
  2020-06-14 02:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Morgan, Lewis, "objectivity," protests, and twitter dot com.

Hey friends, 

I hope you'll accept last week's newsletter a little bit late. Truthfully, I doubt anyone's sitting around impatiently waiting on the Gender Reveal newsletter ever, let alone right now, but I do try to hold up my end of the bargain when y'all are so incredibly generous in your support of my work.

The above photos are posters sent by friend of the show Lewis Rave...

Beth Easton!! Sharkruisers! Nancy!

Hey friends,

Hope you're all doing OK out there (in there?). This week, I'm thrilled to share my chat with friend of the show Beth Easton. You may know Beth as the designer of our 2020-05-28 01:41:46 +0000 UTC View Post

We're back!!! Featuring Vico Ortiz!

Hey, friends. Hope you're all hanging in there. I am doing... shockingly OK, given the state of the world. I hope you're finding moments of joy and levity as well.

But who cares how I'm feeling—the big news is that THE PODCAST IS BACK, BABY. I'm diving back into your podcast feeds to share the last five episodes of Season 5, starting with this g...

Rest in Power, Aimee Stephens.

Friends! I hope you're all safe and healthy and hanging in there.

First and foremost, I was devastated today to learn that Aimee Stephens has passed away. You may remember us talking about Aimee on the show; she was fired after telling her boss that she intended to wear a female uniform at her job. (Why ...

gender parties! $100,000! send us mail?! (also, podcast update!)

Hey, friends.

I apologize for missing last week's newsletter, and the one before that. The truth is that I was a) very busy with the trans mutual aid fund b) very busy with the Life Kit episode I'm hosting, and, most of all, c) honestly doing very badly in my brain. Whoops! 

The good news is that I'm doing much better now — still not great in the scheme of all people at all times, maybe, but OK enough in the context that we're in right now — and am getting back i...

weird impulse buys! gay feels playlist! challah triumph!

Friends! I'm bummed that there's no new podcast episode this week — between the trans survival fund,  the Life Kit episode I'm hosting, and some wild personal stuff, I wasn't able to record anything for Gender Reveal. I'm really hoping that by next week, I'll at least be able to piece together a bonus episode. We'll see!

In the meantime, however, I have plenty of non-podcast stuff for you beautiful, perfect patron people to enjoy. (Did you know that there are FIVE HUNDRED of you ...

Danny Lavery! Mutual aid! Garfield Kart?!

Friends! It's good to talk to you again.

This week on the show, we chat with Danny Lavery, co-founder of The Toast, advice-giver @ Dear Prudence, and author of the new Something That May Shock and Discredit You. With the help of Danny's book, we dive into an array of transition-related topics including but not limited to:

• forced-masc narratives in Mulan...
  2020-04-10 03:55:29 +0000 UTC View Post