Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. As of yesterday, my whole thing is asking everyone if they know about Dead Horse Bay. Do you know about Dead Horse Bay??? It’s a beautiful trash oasis and it’s Robert Moses’s fault, of course. The beach is currently closed and I would never break a law, but if I had theoretically gone there recently, I think...
2025-08-31 23:02:55 +0000 UTC
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This month, Tuck chats with filmmaker Kani Lapuerta (he/him) about his new feature-length documentary, Niñxs. Topics include:
What makes a film trans???
Differences between trans life in Mexico vs Spain
Spiritual gentrification in Tepoztlán
Inserting Mean Girls-inspired fantasy scenes into a documentary
Top concerns for LGBTQ youth in Mexico
The increased acceptance and popularity of g...
2025-08-26 22:18:29 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am trying to write this newsletter while also learning the Jumanji line dance and also watching my son Cal Raleigh hit 49 home runs. So as you can imagine, I am very focused and will make no mistakes.
This week on the show, it was a joy and and honor to chat with organizer-writer-comedian-etc Morgan Bassichis! We’ve got a partic...
2025-08-24 23:00:53 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there.
This week on the show, we shared an episode of our friend Raquel Willis’s Afterlives podcast. The first season of Afterlives explored the life and legacy of Layleen Polanco, and this second season dives deep into the life of Marsha P. Johnson.
2025-08-17 22:56:42 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. I had planned for this to be a big fun announcement, but then I got food poisoning (shout out to staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins!) and then I had to fly across the country while still poisoned and anyway what I'm trying to say is that there's not going to be an elaborate announcement. I will simply tell you:
Sex Change and the City is <...
2025-08-09 15:33:49 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I had so much fun at Mal’s show last Sunday! There were old songs, new songs, jokes, props, audience members line-dancing… what’s not to love? I also became an instant fan of Mal’s opener/pal, Charlie Mtn, who kept introducing their songs with questions like “Anyone here have an avoidant attachment style?” (Slay.)
(BTW, Mal...
2025-08-03 21:06:20 +0000 UTC
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This month, Tuck chats with Mal about their new album, The Villain. Topics include:
Deciding exactly how mean and messy to get in yr breakup album
How 2010s-era Brooklyn messed up Mal’s relationship to masculinity
Tuck makes a confession about Mal’s gemini v. cancer situation
Recording a TV (Testosterone Version) of an older album
Should Tuck change their name to Hatchet to become less problematic?
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Yesterday was softball playoffs, which means I played in five consecutive softball games, and now my legs don’t work and neither does my brain :) but we persist!
This week on the podcast, Ozzy spoke with with Whit Washington, senior attorney for the Nonbinary & Transgender Rights Project at Lambda Legal. Whit explained why the Skrmetti decision isn’t as broadly damaging as we might think, although it’s still obviously Bad....
2025-07-27 22:14:20 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Yesterday I messed up my shoulder so badly that I now can’t raise my arm above my shoulder, fresh-top-surgery-style. Then I hit a home run and went to a hot dog party and worked on the podcast. Today I worked on the podcast and then went to the beach with five Gender Reveal alumni. This has been a personal update.
In other people’s personal updates, it’s still Cancer season, which means it is still Ozzy season, so everyone ple...
2025-07-20 23:12:00 +0000 UTC
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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’ve been running around all week, so here’s a little personal update why not. This week, I:
played 4+ hours of softball and hit two triples :)
melted a new Chapstick all over two of my favorite shirts :(
saw a guy named “Taco Meat” hit a walk-off single to win a Portland Pickles game :)
saw 7 dog-friends and 3 cat-friends and 5 human-baby-friends (and my old boss and my hot ex and fou...
2025-07-13 22:46:26 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I started writing this on a plane on Friday, but I really just wanted to talk about the man next to me on the plane, so I had to save it. But now that it’s just us…. have you noticed an increase in people (esp. middle-seat people) raw-dogging long flights? Like, no book, no laptop, no headphones, no phone games, just six hours alone in their powerful brain!! I’ve seen it several times and I cannot possibly imagine what is goin...
2025-07-06 22:46:30 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I just got back from Dyke March, where I chaotically introduced Ozzy to Mckenzee in the middle of an intersection :) and now Mckenzee is reading Niko’s book on my couch :)
Photo: Tuck and Mckenzee smiling at Dyke March. Tuck is wearing Io's Killdozer shirt and Mckenzee is wearing the ACT UP Palestine shirt.
2025-06-29 02:56:46 +0000 UTC
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This month, Tuck chats with Sawyer K. Kemp (they/them) about the news that “Ian McKellen Will Open All-Trans Production of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s Most Trans Play.” Topics also include:
Intra-trans-community conflict in the 17th century
Is Twelfth Night even trans?? And do we care??
“Only a cisgender playwright would write so many plays about how dressing as the opposite sex will make you safer and make your life easie...
2025-06-24 16:05:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What else is there to say?
Gender Conceal subscribers can expect a new episode sometime next week. I intended to release it tomorrow, but then I spent Friday going to gay baseball with Mckenzee and Kelsey...
Photo: Selfie of Tuck & Mckenzee Griffler smiling (on the left) and selfie of Tuck & Ke...
2025-06-22 21:14:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Happy Pride! Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show, we finally shared our chat with Alison Bechdel, a cartoonist best known for dunking on podcaster Hanna Rosin on Twitter ...
2025-06-14 19:30:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m back from vacation, and the good news is that nobody did anything weird to me during any border crossing. The bad part (not news, obvi) is that everyone seems to have pivoted to a sort of dystopian future of advanced surveillance technology. Like, on my Delta flight out of the US, I never showed anyone my boarding pass at any point — they simply SCANNED MY FACE and it automatically displayed my SEAT NUMBER??? Based on my face??? H...
2025-06-06 21:07:24 +0000 UTC
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This month, Tuck talks with Niko about her new book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman. Topics also include:
Coming out as a girl by becoming a grocery store cashier
Choosing your name by misspelling a musician’s name in Sharpie on your bloody arm?!
Asking the Meg 2 to sever our internet connection at 9pm nightly
Writing memoir as someone with a bad memory
Techniques to ward off ghosts, soul-eaters, bears, an...
2025-05-26 05:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am so sorry about how everything is bad. But I have great news, which is: Puffin!!!
Puffin is approximately eight months old.
Puffin is a bunny rabbit who is also a baby criminal who is also a surprised pikachu.
2025-05-24 00:46:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show, I was thrilled to chat with the one and only Harron Walker! Topics include Simpsons DVD commentary tracks, high school GSA rituals, Cecilia Gentili, Greer Lankton, political optimism, Wellbutrin, the New York Times, Sex and the City, Martha P. Johnson Park, Sleepaway Camp (1983), They/Them (2022), the Gift of the Magi, Prometheus, Bill Clinton’s death in a tragic saxophone accid...
2025-05-18 22:48:49 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Thanks so much to everyone who came to our final Gender Ordeal show!!!!!! (And thank you to everyone else for sticking with me as I promoted all our shows one zillion times — it simply had to be done.)
At the show, we shared this incredible image that we received from friend of the show mb (who also took that picture of me above), who got it from friend of the show Rosemary (the girl with the sword), who I believe got it from some...
2025-05-11 22:59:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I just gave myself a headache by looking at too many hyper-niche pride flags online, which technically counts as a workplace injury, I think.
If you’ve been to a Gender Ordeal show, there’s a good chance that you’ve watched us play something called “These Colors Don’t Run,” better know as The Flag Game. To prepare each round of the game, I trawl through Tumblr collecting flags and their purported meanings. For example:&n...
2025-05-04 20:47:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I love to be like “Gotta do a short one today” and then not write a short one but I have 30 minutes to whip this up so it simply must be a short one!!!
This week on Gender Conceal, Mckenzee and I answered your questions about movie reviews, detective catchphrases, petty complaints, lesser-known trans emotions, and essentially whether a food can be light blue. Along the way, we also talk about cats, David Lynch, We...
2025-04-27 22:31:49 +0000 UTC
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This month, Tuck and Mckenzee answer your questions about movie reviews, cat dynamics, blue foods, trans emotions, and detective catchphrases. Topics also include:
Three tips for being normal :)
A mnemonic for eating pizza and also remembering which trans guy writer is annoying
The one time Werner Herzog was hot
The best movie to make your dyke girlfriend horny (not that Werner Herzog one)
Queering the...
2025-04-22 09:00:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. This is your final reminder :) that we will be performing our little Gender Ordeal show 2025-04-20 22:37:28 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s been cloudy and drizzly for like a week and my brain has reverted back to its old ways — namely, saying “I should throw myself in to the ocean” every time I experience a teeny tiny inconvenience.
Speaking of which. Hey. Please get ur tix to our 2025-04-13 01:20:00 +0000 UTC
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Babes, you KNOW it's gonna be at the Bell House! With multiple special guests TBA, and they're gonna be GOOD! Honestly, even if you don't live in New York, you might wanna pop over for this if u haven't seen Gender Ordeal before?? Wild idea but it's a wild time idk!!!!
tickets are on sale now and as always, I wanted y'all t...
2025-04-07 18:18:58 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m out of Insanity Hours for now, so that’s huge. I also went to the A/S/L book launch event at Hive Mind (cute queer bookstore in Bushwick), and it was such a blast — Jeanne is so smart and so fun, and 2025-04-05 23:16:21 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. To the twelve baseball people in the chat: happy (belated) opening day!! I keep saying that I can’t wait to be loballtomized but that joke doesn’t really scan via text does it? Anyway, wishing health and prosperity to your team, unless it’s the Astros.
Btw, I’m still stuck in Insanity Hours… but at least it’s a different type of insanity in which I can get most of my work done. (And that’s what matters, right? lo...
2025-03-29 03:12:08 +0000 UTC
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This month, Tuck and Ozzy chat with author Jeanne Thornton (she/her). Topics include:
Do trans books need to be so sad???
What’s up with Jeanne’s new book, and was the ending “ontologically evil” ???
Getting a “fantastic score” on an autism masking test during lockdown
Turning a book tour into a series of community open mics
Meeting 2025-03-26 07:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I have been experiencing what can only be described as Insanity Hours. (No worries lol!) My two coping strategies have been 1) spending a small fortune on fancy hippie beverages at the grocery store and 2) spending many many hours sequencing* a new playlist. These strategies have been working medium-fine. Actually, I had to cut ...
2025-03-22 18:26:21 +0000 UTC
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