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Live show pre-sale!! Dean Spade!! Do you have a dog name?

Hey friends,

Let’s get the big news out of the way: I’m thrilled to announce that we’ll be doing a live show at the Bell House in February! If you’re looking for a last-minute holiday gift for the New York-adjacent Gender Reveal listeners in your life, this is a great option! We’ll be catching up with AC Dumlao, answering listener que...

Sabrina Imbler! Tuck vs the NYT! Chris Fleming’s Lesbian Hulu Film?

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I know the holidays can be A Lot and I hope you’re all doing alright.

Speaking of which, thank you to the folks who have sent me mail for Sagittarius Season!!! This is the first year I’m spending Christmas a) alone and b) not in the Pacific Northwest, so I’ve been saving everything to read for when I am feeling weird and disconnected from everyone. Y’all are truly the best.

OK, I mentioned this previously, but I want t...

speed-running a newsletter!

Hey bbs,

I'm off this week so I'm not writing this week's newsletter — except that clearly I am because I'm here? This both is and is not this week's newsletter. (Schrödinger's patreon content.) (That's not funny but I'm simply SO tired.) 

OK, this week on the show, we've got: Sabrina Imbler! More on this next week, but you can and should buy their book! Here it is.... the book.

2022-12-12 06:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Waking the Great Turmaculus with Sabrina Imbler

To celebrate the release of Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches, we're sharing an extra 15 minutes of chatting that didn't fit into this week's Gender Reveal episode. Topics include:

• Reparenting yourself through your cat children (a cool and normal thing to do)
• Causing an avalanche with the power of our t-voices 
• The wide and wi...
  2022-12-07 19:53:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Joan Summers! 2022 playlist! Sagittarius mail season!

Hey everyone,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show, we’ve got Joan Summers on the show to answer the enduring question: is it literally possible for queer celebrities to not be annoying??????

Topics also include:

• Being a Zoomer-Boomer
• Getting kicked out of church for being gay in a parking lot
• Retreating into a missile-proof bunker to talk about implicit...
  2022-12-03 00:47:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Wo Chan! Jellyfish-riding octopi! Unionizing Love is Blind?

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s a weird time on top of a weird time on top of a weird time and I don’t have anything smart to say about it, but I’m sending solidarity and care.

(I’m also realizing that you might never see this because your inboxes are all hell from the Holiday Sales of it all, but I owe y’all a newsletter so I’m sending it on Saturday night and hoping most of the sale emails are over.)

This week on the show, I spoke with Wo ...

Unionizing the Love Is Blind Pods with Soraya Shockley

Have you ever wanted to spend your "holiday" weekend listening to two trans people talk about three radio unions and one hit Netflix television show? Great news, we have the exact content for your extremely niche needs. 

For this month's bonus episode, we're continuing our Labor Week theme by speaking with audio editor and union organizer Soraya Shockley. Topics include: 

• Taking a trip to the s...
  2022-11-23 22:54:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Labor Week! Starbucks strikes! Dakota Hommes! Laundry pile gender?

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Wow, Labor Week ended up to be perfectly timed after all, huh? Harper Collins is striking! The New School is striking! 110+ Starbucks stores are striking! 2022-11-19 18:49:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Howie Echo-Hawk! Labor Week! Mckenzee’s tips!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Mckenzee is sitting in my living room, staring at her phone while I try to get some work done. I asked her if she wanted to write the newsletter, and she contributed the following:

10 tips for being trans

1. Try to have fun with it
2. Don’t get hate-crimed

She did not offer tips 3-10 but tbh th...

Cat Fitzpatrick! A sword! Questions for YOU!

Hey friends,

We’re back, baby! Gender Reveal Season 10 entered the world on Halloween, which does in fact make her a Scorpio. We’re kicking things off by chatting with the delightful Cat Fitzpatrick, cofounder of LittlePuss Press and author of the new novel The Call-Out. (Have I said already that I was initially skeptical of a book written in verse? Reader, I was WRONG. More books should be written in ve...

Tuck on Normal Gossip! Gender Reveal in Xtra! Morgan Givens on Gender Conceal!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Our new season officially starts in two days, but $5+ patrons can pregame with our new Gender Conceal episode, featuring the hilarious workplace wisdom of storyteller Morgan Givens. (If you’ve been asking us for more autism content, this one is especially for you!)

I love this chat with Morgan, but most of y’all have ...

bonus podcast transcripts

Hey y'all,

Just a quick note to say that I finally made a page for all of the Gender Conceal transcripts! It's at genderpodcast.com/bonus. You'll need a password, which is detective.

Thank you so much for your continued support of our work! As always, if you have friends who can't pay $5 but want to access a transcript for whatever reason, feel free to give them the password. It's really not that ...

Surviving the Workplace with Morgan Givens, King of Boundaries

If you love workplace gossip, boy howdy, have we got the pod for you. This month, we’re catching up with Morgan Givens, who we last heard from way back when my voice sounded like a little mouse. These days, we’re older, wiser(?), and even less patient with professional nonsense. Topics include:

• Decoding “neurotypical” coworkers
• Self-advocating for disab...
  2022-10-29 00:40:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Dogs party in costumes! U.S. Trans Survey opens! Halloween playlist grows!

Hey friends,

Are you ready for Halloween? Famously the most transgender holiday, Halloween is shaping up to be a big day in the Gender Reveal Cinematic Universe. It’s the last day to apply for our 2022 grant program, and the first day of our podcast’s new season. It’s ...

Fall grant! Counting clothes? Season 10 news!?

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. First of all, thank you so much for all of your feedback on the grant, mutual aid, and merch programs!!! I did not anticipate that outpouring of kind words and it really truly helps so much — both in that it gave us a clear path forward, and in that it just made me feel better about the work we’re doing here. Y’all are truly the best.

Speaking of the grant program, we did open applications for a new round of grants. Folks can ...

The future of our grant & mutual aid programs! Plus: Tuck & Jules G-P chat at NYU!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re hanging in there. This week’s newsletter is a little bit different than our usual format, because I’ve got something that I want to run by y’all, regarding the ~*~future~*~ of our various “redistributing money to trans people” programs. I’m gonna give you a long version and then a tl;dr, so feel free to skip down to the bold sentence if you don’t care enough to read 5 paragraphs (why would you???).

When we started our 2022-10-05 19:15:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Spooky restocks! Straight funerals! Spicy advicey! Baseball playoffs!?!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re hanging in there. I’ve been trying to write this for at least three days but I keep getting distracted by… as you know all too well if you’re on twitter… baseball!!! THE SEATTLE MARINERS WON THE WORLD SERIES!!!!

Oh, wait, I’m checking my notes here and it turns out they just made it 2022-10-03 02:34:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Unveiling the Gender Questions Hall of Fame with Mckenzee Griffler

This month, Mckenzee makers her Gender Conceal debut to tackle twelve advice questions previously deemed Too Hot To Handle on the main feed. Topics include:

• A cisgender transsexual
• A xenogender/otherkin question
• Genital preferences
• I think I might be a TERF?
• Does gender dysphoria make you trans?
• Is masc/femme the new binary?
• What should I do about my transphobic trans teen?
• Plus, the most iconic question we've ever rec...
  2022-09-29 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Penguins! Baking disasters! How to be a trans scientist!

Hey everyone,

Hope you're hanging in there. I was just reading Stephen King's review of Celeste Ng's new book, and he started with the OED's definition of dystopia, which is, "An imaginary place in which everything is as bad as possible.” I don't know why (hmmmm...) but that line is hitting very hard tonight!!!! 

Anyway.

It's the last week for September merch, if you're into that sort of ...

Romanian cats? Teachers & organizers? Angel radio? SOC8????

Hey friends,

First off, we are not interviewing Laverne Cox, I just needed you to see her outfit from the Emmys. Ok, anyway:

Hope you’re all hanging in there. SOC8 is out today and I have not dived into the Takes yet but if you’re interested in that, good luck and godspeed and let me know if you find anything good!!!

My exciting podcast update is that Ozzy and I are having an IRL meeting on Monday to finalize(ish) next season’s proposed lineup! We’d typically have fi...

dog museum!?! and more!

Hey friends,

Hope you're hanging in there. I promised you more Content this week but absolutely do not have anything relevant to tell you. So instead, I will tell you about DOG MUSEUM.

Did you know that there is a dog museum in Manhattan?!?! It's like four blocks from Times Square, and I found it last month while scrolling around on Google Maps looking for touristy spots to show my friend (who was visiting from London). I was indignant that nobody in NYC had ever told me about Dog...

new merch discount! bonus ep! is this anything?

Hey friends,

Hope you're hanging in there. Got a few things for ya tonight:

1. We restocked the merch shop with one new design and a bunch of good back-to-school 2022-09-05 00:59:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Becoming the First of Your Name with Denne Michele Norris

This month, we’re releasing behind-the-scenes audio of Tuck's recent chat with Gender Reveal alumna Denne Michele Norris, which was originally recorded for the NPR Life Kit podcast. (Denne Michele graciously called into the interview while vacationing on 2022-08-31 20:11:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Happy birthday, Rhubarb! (Also, gender census results!)

Hey friends,

Hope you’re hanging in there. It’s Ruby’s birthday and I have tiny festivities planned, so I’m gonna keep things quick:

1. The results are in from the 2022 Gender Census, which asked nearly 40,000 nonbinary people what words they use to describe themselves. There’s a short recap here but...
   2022-08-27 21:39:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Tuck hats!? Pickles lore! Send us guest suggestions!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. A few quick things before we get to a supersized Links & Stuff: 

1. Ozzy and I are slowly putting together the lineup for season 10(!), and we’d love to get your input re: future guests & topics. We’re already pursuing your suggestions from the patron survey back in February, but if you have new ideas (or just don’t remember what you said, which makes sense; I wouldn’t remember either), you can chime...
   2022-08-19 21:55:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Extra advice! Long live trash! Today in gay fashion?!?!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show, we’ve got a ~*~season finale~*~ for ya! Mckenzee is back to answer questions like “how can I make my parents accept me?” and “would it be inappropriate of me to share my actual pronouns?” and “how do I balance my gender with the fact that my girlfriend doesn’t want to be mistaken as straight?...

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha! 10% off new merch! Which mascot R U?

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there! We’re getting soooo close to the end of the season, which is ofc sad but also exciting for me, a person who is behind on every aspect of their life, lol.

This week on the show, I spoke with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. I was a little worried about how this one would be received because there are only five or six ques...

Alex Hanna! Last day for merch! Tuck on TransLash!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s still very very hot here and probably everywhere, but I’m thrilled to say that I took some time off*** this week to try to have Fun for once!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please clap.

Anyway, last Monday’s episode featured Dr. Alex Hanna, who works at the fascinating intersection of AI/tech and sociology/ethics. I’m so glad we could talk about both...

Proselytizing the Fish Bones Economy with Eden Rohatensky

Welcome back! This month, we're catching up with Eden Rohatensky, who we last heard from in Episode 4 (!!!!) of Gender Reveal. Topics include:

• TFW you accidentally recalibrate your whole gender presentation by doing an elaborate bit on social media. 
• French is too confusing to have gender dysphoria about pronouns 
• Getting burnt out on posting your trauma for public consumption 
• Grimes' secret gender (and possibly secret Reddit posts)
...
2022-07-31 18:36:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Exploding whale baseball! Elephant shrew yawning! Come get my stuff!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I hear that it’s too hot basically everywhere except San Francisco, and am wishing you a very hydrated and breezy day. In personal news, I went to an Exploding Whale-themed base...