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A little note about next week! Gaza links!

(Yes, I'm reusing this Bodiesx3 screenshot, don't worry about it.)

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m very very sleepy and my Internet is barely working, so I’m going to skip the part where I write a newsletter and instead just tell you what’s going on with the podcast next week, which some people would argue is “exactly what the newsletter is already” but don’t worry about that.

Anyway! This week on the show, I spoke with my good frien...

Yin Q! Also, Rhubarb does not care about the sun or moon.

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I still need to finish tomorrow’s episode (lol) and pay my taxes (lmao) so this is going to be a short one.

This week on the show, it was such a treat to hear Ozzy speak with Yin Q!! We’ve gotten great feedback about this episode, and I can see why — Yin and Ozzy did a wonderful job exploring connections among kink, gender, parenting, spirituality, sex work, and community organizing. Don’t forget to follow 2024-04-15 02:34:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Jamie Lauren Keiles! KT Hoffman! Trans Day of Snack Recap!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I was really uh not hanging in there for a while there, but I have emerged from the Venmo Trenches (and am crawling out of the Illness Zone), and am now almost a human being!

As promised, here’s this week’s newsletter about last week’s episodes. Last week on Gender Reveal, we spoke with Jamie Lauren Keiles of sexchange.tbt! Y’all...

Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack 2024 starts NOW!

Hey everyone,

I’ll write you a proper newsletter next week, but today I want to quickly give you a sneak preview of this year’s Trans Day of Snack festivities.

Oh, but first!!!! I completely forgot to mention this last month (SORRY) but PM Press very kindly created a promo code for Surviving the Future and it still works for two more days! Get 25% off the 2024-03-30 03:13:44 +0000 UTC View Post

KT Hoffman Is Legally Allowed to Make Beaverton Jokes

Happy Opening Day to all six of you who observe! This month, Tuck chats with KT Hoffman (he/him), author of The Prospects. Topics include:

• Egg & cheddar gender

• The #1 non-negotiable rule for romance novels

• Will there be a woman, trans, or openly gay MLB player first?

• Why is there a full bagel recipe in this gay baseball book?

• ...

  2024-03-28 20:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Liz Fong-Jones! Tuck’s dating show debut! Entertainment recs!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there.

This week on the show, Ozzy and I chatted with former Google organizer Liz Fong-Jones. Liz also started this cool strike fund (which we talked about) and has been key in the fight against KiwiFarms (which we didn’t talk about for mostly legal reasons). B...

Fola Francis forever.

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Well, let’s get to it… CW: death I guess!

I never figured out how to be normal about this week’s episode, and I also do not know how to be normal about this week’s newsletter. I’m arguably overly aware of ~the general specter of death~ and have always been very conscious of the fact that people we’ve interviewed for Gender Reveal would someday die. There have also been many instances of people whom I hoped to one day spe...

Ariana Steele! New TDoS merch! Boyfriends in little outfits?!

Okay, look, I’m starting this newsletter at 11:58pm Eastern, so it’s definitely going to be “late” by some definitions, but also yesterday at this time it was 10:58pm so like, what is time anyway!!! Pretty sure Shuli said it was bougie to care about time. Or something.

“Tuck, why are you writing this at 11:58pm?” Because earlier today I was busy doing a little comedy show and also a fantasy baseball draft for a trans-run league called “Boyfriends in Little Outfits” or so...

Shing Yin Khor! Spring! More anarchism with Shuli!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s the first spring-weather day of the year, and Ruby and I are out on the fire escape watching pigeons. It’s very nice!!! (If you ignore the pile of broken glass and the big pot full of swampy water and the flakes of rust and also the dead trees that have fallen over in the yard that we can’t access. Which I do!)

In this week’s episode, I had the pleasure of chatting with multimedia artist Shing Yin Khor. I’ve already e...

Seeing the dying gasps of the state with Shuli Branson

This month, Tuck and Ozzy continue their chat with Shuli Branson, who you surely remember from a few weeks ago. Topics include: 

• An argument against linear time(?!)
• Why you can't have an interesting conversation in grad school :(
• Resisting anti-trans bills outside of electoral politics 
• What's Oscar Wilde's whole deal?
• Marxism vs. anarchism 101&...
  2024-02-29 16:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Lucy Sante! Many other beautiful things!

Hope you’re hanging in there. We technically already sent a newsletter out this week, but it didn’t have a Weekly Rhubarb so it doesn’t count, ya know? So here’s another one.

It was truly such a treat to interview Lucy Sante for this week’s episode. What a joy to speak with someone who has so much knowledge and experience about so many topics that matter to me — memoir and literature, New York punk history, the economic precarity that artists and journalists currently find t...

out-of-context Lucy quotes

Welcome to a very rare public post! 

When I was researching Lucy Sante for this week's episode, I came across so many quotes that I absolutely loved but was unable to work into the interview. Just for fun, I'm copy-pasting a bunch of them here, devoid of any context or time stamp. (A hint: many of the transition quotes are from I Heard Her Call My Name, whereas much of the rest of it spans 20 years of interviews and essays available online.)  ...

Shuli Branson! Best and worst trans profile headlines?

[Author's note: wrote this whole thing last night and then forgot to hit send sooooo you're getting it now! Good morning!]

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. My brain is fully powered down — and u can tell because somehow I just had the joke-thought “my brain is powered the house down boots” which cannot be a sign of anything good!!!! 

Anyway, as you know, this week’s short episode was a tribute to the one and only Cecilia Gentili. Cecilia...

Cecilia Gentili (!)

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Also, it’s ok if you’re not! Everything is so fucking sad!

Anyway, I have a production update for you. As usual, Ozzy and I had prepared a full podcast episode to share tomorrow — this episode included both a full guest interview and an extended This Week in Gender segment honoring Cecilia Gentili. Late last night, we learned that we would need to hold the interview for a bit to rework a few things. So, that interview will hop...

Cassius Adair x 2! Baby! Owl pics!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Drag Race starts in an hour, and while the show is bad — Jane was right to say it — I’m so glad to see that this season’s girls are finally girling. Love 2 b a gender detective!! 2024-02-02 23:41:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Cassius Adair ultimately did not name his child after an Animorph :(

This month, Tuck continues his chat with Cassius Adair, who you may remember from Trans Studies Quarterly Quarterly and/or yesterday’s episode. Topics include:

• Cass picks one secret to share about Tuck!!!
• Leonardo DiCaprio sex rumors
• Our most cancelable trans takes
• Exclu...
  2024-01-31 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Salimatu Amabebe! 10% off merch! Back-to-back BFFs?!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m currently typing this with one hand because Ruby has claimed the other one, so please forgive typos, brevity, and general incoherence.

This week on the show, we’re catching up with the multimedia artist and multi-hyphenate Salimatu Amabebe! Salimatu has been a friend and a true inspiration to me for nearly a decade now, and I’m sure that’s why this turned into such an honest and vulnerable episode. I’m especially glad ...

We’re baaack! Lamya H! Bookclub chat!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there, staying warm and dry wherever you are. (Is everyone in the continental United States experiencing the same storm, or are there just several similar storms that I’m hearing about? How big is weather? What is wind? Ok, anyway…)

As I’ve mentioned, this week marks the start of our 12th season! To kick things off, I’m so excited to share my conversation with Lamya H, author of Hijab Butch Blues. We talked about:

• Almos...
  2024-01-19 22:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Trains rights on Drag Race & nonbinary Popeye confirmed?

Hey friends,

Hope you’ve all been hanging in there. Completely understand if you’re not, tbh!!! But here we are.

This week, we released two bonus episodes in the main Gender Reveal feed:

• A crosspost of my March 2023 conversation with Babette Thomas and Ally Beardsley, which recently aired on Gender Spiral (a podcast that’s essentially the younger cousin of Gender Reveal! So cute!)
• A...
  2024-01-12 20:02:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Season 12 launch date! First guest revealed! Book club?

Hey friends,

Happy new year! We made it to another year of whatever the hell this is*, and I finally have some concrete podcast news for you:

We have recorded four episodes (plus a Gender Conceal episode) for this upcoming season of Gender Reveal so far, with three more (plus a Gender Conceal) scheduled for later this month. If all goes well, you can expect:

• A full-length bonus ep in the Gender Reveal feed on Monday
• Another sh...
  2024-01-05 22:59:48 +0000 UTC View Post