Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. If you’re able, please support disaster relief mutual aid on the ground in North Carolina and other impacted areas this week, as well as continuing to supp...
2024-10-05 02:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Tuck chats with Katherine Packert Burke (she/her), author of Still Life. Topics include:
The transsexual privilege of being a stranger in your hometown
Why 2 Trans 2 Furious is spiritually an Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader
Who will make the Killer Car Lesbians TTRPG??
The #1 threat in Austin, Texas
The ongoing influence of Gossip Girl
The current wave of trans lit and its emp...
2024-09-30 13:24:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there — and a very happy Eric Adams Indictment Week to all who observe!!!
I am thrilled to announce that we’ve got a live show coming up in Boston (technically Somerville?) on Sunday, November 3, at 5pm! Mattie, Calvin, and I will be doing the same show as last Sunday’s Union Hall show, ex...
2024-09-27 23:13:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. As promised, I finally have news!
First and foremost, our annual patreon survey is now open. As usual, it’s somewhat lengthy but every question is optional, so it’s a real choose-your-own-adventure in terms of how long you want to spend on it.
As a tha...
2024-09-21 14:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I got my vaccines this afternoon and I’m very aware that the side effects could hit at any moment, so I probably shouldn’t have waited until 9pm to write this??? Live and learn! (I will not learn.)
Before I forget: I’m recording an episode of How’s Your Sex Life on Friday, and they’ve asked me to solicit advice questions...
2024-09-16 01:31:19 +0000 UTC View Post
As a treat, we're sharing an extra segment from our chat with Yvie Oddly. Topics include favorite freaky drag scenes, childhood camping memories, and the unexpected place that Yvie keeps ~almost~ having wild orgies.
2024-09-09 15:22:00 +0000 UTC View Post
(Doll Invasion photo taken by Hunter Abrams for Vogue; I would buy a big print of this for my wall if I could!)
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am once again writing from plane. I believe we’re currently over Detroit? I have a sixteen-inch laptop, which means that my computer absolutely does not fit on a main cabin tray table and I can only open the screen to like a 60° angle. I’ve also spilled my water twice due to the tray table situation. But neverthel...
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I started writing this newsletter and then somehow spent an hour messing around on Bookshop dot org, trying to make a little trans book playlist (that can’t be what they’re called? but that's the energy?) for y’all. And then… I decided it’s not finished until I read many more books, so here I am, back at the blank newsletter page. Hello!
This week on Gender Conceal, it was such a treat to speak with Emma Specter about Bise...
2024-09-01 01:48:29 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Tuck chats with writer and iconic she/they bisexual Emma Specter. Topics include:
Giving your childhood a letter grade on the local news
Why Emma doesn’t do Q&As at their readings
Did you know you can think about your gender without monetizing it??
TFW your middle school classmates buy your memoir about disordered eating
Covering Doll Invasion, Bennifer, and Project 2025 for Vogue
Organi...
2024-08-26 18:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show, it was such a treat to speak with my good friend Rose Eveleth! I just think Rose’s work is so so smart and thoughtful, and I loved getting all the behind-the-scenes industry/gender gossip from them and Ozzy.
(I don’t know if I’ve ever been able to ask a guest, like, “hi what what is the exact information that you think will be most interesting to Gender Reveal listeners?” and get an extremely inform...
2024-08-26 02:03:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I was on vacation this week, enjoying a trip I booked way back in April when I was in the middle of a podcast-induced meltdown (lmao). I spent the week in Washington state, and boy howdy, do you know how good a blueberry can be? Or a peach, or a carrot, or a tomato?? To be fair, this was after three days of mostly eating baseball stadium hot dogs, so I was primed to be impressed by any fruit or vegetable, but I think I would’ve been stu...
2024-08-19 03:23:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. I’m currently on a cross-country flight, and to pass the time, I’ve been streaming the Olympics. Specifically, I’ve been watching women’s breaking. Have you been watching women’s breaking??? Everyone’s extremely talented and hot and then there’s a 36-year-old Australian woman who studied breaking for her PhD and now she’s in the Olympics?? Just like… pretending to breakdance??? I think that by the time you’re reading this,...
2024-08-09 23:37:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Thanks for being so chill about the whole “making 60% less podcast” thing! Appreciate y’all very very much.
Speaking of making podcasts, did I mention that season 13 starts on Monday??? Here’s Ezra successfully cracking the anagram and creating some incredible other trans names along the way:
2024-08-02 19:32:36 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Yesterday I rushed out of the house at 7am to go play in a gay softball tournament (yay) and forgot to take my meds (boo), and today my brain is Angry! So it’s a weird time to write a newsletter announcing a big pivot in the Gender Reveal Media Conglomerate Universe (GRMCU), but I will give it my best shot.
(Before we start, I will mention that this information all exists in much more detail via the newest Gender Conceal episode, ...
2024-07-28 19:24:24 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Tuck & Niko share their hopes and dreams for Girl Dad Press, and Tuck makes a big announcement about the future of the podcast Gender Reveal.
Topics also include:
Gay Cats (w/o cats) @ 9/11
Podcast gossip and feelings :)
Niko's upcoming book, TDRTMMAW
Tuck's terrible truth about reading memoir
The exact hour that the McElroy brothers emerge
The existential perspective off...
2024-07-27 21:39:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. I had a big, multi-part announcement planned, but it seems like there’s other stuff going on right now?? So let’s save it for next week, which is great because I’ll have a Gender Conceal episode ready for y’all by then as well.
I will offer you a couple of teasers tho!
If you like spoilers, here’s 2024-07-22 03:08:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I had a very chill week, a very normal weekend, nothing to report! We are so so close to being able to actually announce podcast stuff, but in the meantime, it’s the same as last week:
Mattie’s Family Abolition shirts & tanks are 2024-07-14 21:42:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s gross outside and I’m trying to go to the beach, so let’s get right to it.
All physical patreon rewards at the $5-10 tier have been mailed! (Unless you joined this week.) I still owe four $40+ rewards that are coming very soon, but otherwise, we’re all caught up.
(Side note but stamps cost almost twice as much as when I started doing this job?? I don’t know what the economy is but that can’t possibly be right?...
2024-07-07 13:25:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Happy last weekend of pride! What deadly sin will you choose to celebrate next month? I know wrath is the classic, but I think everyone should get to pick their own :)
This week, to celebrate the release of Heavyweight (out now!!), we posted an interview with Solomon J. Brager on both Gender Conceal...
2024-06-29 16:50:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Tuck speaks with Sol Brager (they/he) about their graphic memoir, Heavyweight, which comes out tomorrow btw(!!!!). Topics include:
Being "trans without direction"
Our mothers' feelings about our hair color
Critical fabulation, or why sometimes you need to make up things that are true
W...
2024-06-24 15:13:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Hope you’re all hanging in there and staying cool. Thank you to everyone who came to our show on Thursday!! :) :) :) It was such a treat to see so many familiar faces there, including many from the Gender Detective Slack. (Btw, the current link to join the slack is right here.) Special shout-out to the guests dressed as Team Rocket with a little ...
2024-06-24 02:01:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m realizing that I have gone a little too hard and overbooked myself every day until July, but at this point the only way out is through!! So!! Let’s get to it!
My big news this week is that 2 Trans 2 Furious won a Lambda Literary Award — something that I apparently threatened to make happen back in Episode 149!? I don’t have much to say that I didn’t say 2024-06-17 02:34:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Before we get started, can anyone explain this Instagram post that the Giants made for pride? You are SAN FRANCISCO. Why did you ERASE THE RAINBOW. What's going ON. Okay, here's the newsletter:
Hey everyone,
Hope you’ve all been hanging in there. And, hey, welcome to all the new patrons! As you may have heard, newsletter subscribers get sneak peeks of new episodes and any behind-the-scenes gossip I can muster. Here’s what I’ve got for you tonight:
Earlier today...
2024-06-08 02:04:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am once again struggling to write anything that isn’t about The Horrors, but also, what is the good of writing about how genocide makes me, personally, feel upset? Who cares?! Instead, let’s start off with some relevant Links & Stuff, shall we?
I was lucky enough to attend a Cartoonists for Palestine event earlier this week. You can pr...
2024-05-31 19:39:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Tuck chats with Arlie Adlington about how their vacation is going. Topics include:
Tuck’s search for iced coffee and Arlie’s search for normal tea
A very powerful story of queer labor solidarity that we love!
Keeping your Duolingo streak going through childbirth
Attending the 40th anniversary of Pits & Perverts with Bill Nighy
Terrible Sam Smith gossip
Baby sightings and hair-based bab...
2024-05-30 20:32:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Gotta be honest: I got home from the airport at 6pm last Sunday, and several times was like “OK, should I write a newsletter? I could still write a newsletter!” And then I very intentionally was like "TUCK what if you TOOK A WEEK OFF, nobody cares if they get fewer emails!!!” So that is what I did. Apologies if you are the one freak who loves emails.
Anyway, last week on the show, I had the pleasure of speaking with filmmaker ...
2024-05-24 20:39:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I need to leave for the airport in an hour, which means that my brain is absolutely short-circuiting as I try to write any words at all. What if I start typing and forget to go to the plane????? (I was going to say “shout-out ADHD hive” but I have to assume that’s 99% of you.)
This week on the show, Cat and Casey popped in for a little bonus episode! I truly did not expect them to reveal so much about the books and ot...
2024-05-12 21:57:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. Here’s my regular Operation Olive Branch plug — if you have anything to spare, your donations can truly help save lives in Gaza. OK, anyway, here’s our silly podcast newsletter:
We’ve got two new episode this week! On the main feed, Mckenzee returns to answer sixteen advice questions and also ...
2024-05-06 01:46:42 +0000 UTC View Post
We did it, folks — we ranked every MLB mascot from transest to cissest. Sort of. Topics include:
The Phillie Phanatic doing trans social contagion
1984 Crazy Crab: the most hated mascot in sports history
A cocaine-dealing pirate parrot I’m not joking
How did they make “DJ Kitty” so cisgender :(
Which of these birds stormed the US Capitol on Jan 6?
Which of these mascots is AK's sworn enemy?!?<...
2024-04-30 16:18:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Statistically, at least one of you is probably occupying a college campus right now to protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and we love to see it!!! More about that later, but first, an announcement on a much less significant topic:
We’re doing a live show in Brooklyn for Pride™! By which I mean, I thought it would be funny to book a Bell House date for late June “as a bit,” and now I am reaping what ...
2024-04-26 20:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post