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Gretchen Felker-Martin! Bad apartments! The yawning abyss! lol!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I woke up at 6:30am fully dressed (oops), immediately got a 15-minute nosebleed, cleaned that up and immediately walked through a giant spiderweb on my way downstairs, and then opened twitter at the exact moment that millions of Americans lost abortion access. At least the collapse of democracy put the nosebleed in perspective? If anyone needs me, I’ll be 2022-06-24 15:54:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Fran Tirado! Rewards update! Are ghosts real?

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I finally remembered to finish up the very last round of $10 patreon rewards, so if I owe you one of those, keep an eye on your mail next week! Meanwhile, I’ve still got, uh, 169 (nice?) sets of stickers to send to $5 folks — they’re coming eventually, I promise.

Speaking of Patreon rewards, listener Sarah Connor very kindly made some new logo art ...

Amy Schneider! Trans Census! Blob Gender?!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I spent the first half of the week laughing at replies to the Fire Island Bechdel Tweet and the second half trying to [redacted personal quest], but I still managed to squeeze in two interviews that are coming out later this month! (2022-06-11 04:42:10 +0000 UTC View Post

June merch! Trans Jeopardy! Fire Island!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. It is very rainy here but I’ve heard it’s summer in other places, so I hope you are enjoying whatever climate crisis you happen to be experiencing.

As you know, we skipped the main show this week, but we have a bonus episode out for all our $5+ listeners! I won’t plug it too hard because most of y’all have already seen a post about it, but I did want to take the chance to share a picture of me and Cass in fun shirts.

I...

Trans Studies Quarterly Quarterly with Cassius Adair

Welcome back to Gender Conceal! This month, we’re speaking with honorary Gender Reveal producer Cassius Adair (who also has a PhD in something from somewhere**) about Trans Studies Quarterly and the t4t special issue... and also about how our injections are going. Topics include:

• Is trans academia doing anything useful for non-scholar transes?
• What if ROGD is fake but also very hot?
2022-05-30 06:44:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Imogen Binnie! Piss Christmas! Cowboy boot coffee! Many links!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I have said this already but I think it is weird that we are expected to just Keep Going! I’m proposing a day where we all just lay on the floor for a bit. No work, no news, just floor.

(Speaking of work: As you may have heard at the end of this week’s show, we’re not putting an episode on the main feed next week. Tbh I just to...

Jo Krishnakumar! Nevada! Dogtorates!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s still very cloudy and cool here in Portland, but every day they say “tomorrow will be warm and sunny!” and every day they are wrong? Please just give me the sun, I need it to power my brain!!!!

Anyway, let me tell you the most exciting news first: next week’s episode is with IMOGEN BINNIE(!!!!) and it’s absolute chaos. This ...

TAYLOR ALXNDR! Good dogs! Good advice! Etc!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am currently eating a LOT of popcorn because scientifically it’s impossible to suffer when you’re eating popcorn.

Anyway, this week’s episode features triple-threat icon TAYLOR ALXNDR! Topics include:

• “Can we develop the surgery that turns me into a sassy amorphous cloud?”
• Organizing hundreds of events with dozens of queers over a decade… and not having it collapse from infighting and drama somehow...
  2022-05-12 22:29:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Avery Tucker! Trans + Disabled Solidarity! 62% Homosexual!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there! Maybe an unrealistic hope but I’m doing it anyway.

I just put a really beautiful new design in the merch shop that I wanted to share with y’all. It’s by my dear friend Ariana Martinez (one of my favorite artists!), with proceeds going to the Brave Space Alliance. I’m in awe.

2022-05-07 01:52:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Edgar Gomez! Don’t Say Straight! Merch & grants end tomorrow!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. We’ve got a bunch of announcements/reminders this week, which you may or may not have already seen me post about today:

First off, tomorrow is the last day to apply for our spring grant program. We’ve got 250 applications so far, which is about half of what we got last time. And while I would love to not have 500 applications for logistics reasons, I do want folks to apply!!! So, tell your friends if you haven’t yet, please. ...

Being Trans and Feeling Bad with Hil Malatino

It’s our first official Gender Conceal episode! We’re sharing Tuck’s recent conversation with Hil Malatino, which took place “at” Bluestockings (via Zoom) and served as the official 2022-04-29 03:39:48 +0000 UTC View Post

River Butcher! Bad allies! Dogs in hats!

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Every time I write “hope you’re hanging in there,” I momentarily reflect on the weird bullshit going on in the world in the last week. How is there always new weird bullshit? Has it always been this way? Anyway.

As promised, we kicked off the new podcast season on Monday by releasing our chat with 2022-04-22 22:46:27 +0000 UTC View Post

River recaps all of baseball in 90 seconds.

Howdy! I'm testing out the new podcast feed by sharing this little two-minute clip of River and I talking about baseball. This was weirdly one of the most personally informative sections of the interview for me, so I hope at least one of you also finds it interesting! 

For context: River used to have a baseball podcast called Three Swings, which is still available in the podcast plac...

Spring grants! Restocked threats! Next week’s guest! Sea bream!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. The hits just keep coming! And by hits, I mean anti-trans hit pieces.

First and foremost, congrats to Briana Bush for guessing all three anagrammed Future Podcast Guests correctly!!!!! For those of y’all who didn’t attempt the puzzles, I will now reveal that our first guest of the season is none other than... River Butcher, who we (fun fact!) first booked on t...

Season Nine Spoilers Anagram Game!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I just abruptly realized that I need to leave the house in half an hour, so this one is gonna be quick. (These always take a while to put together even though it’s like 2 minutes of text? Truly don’t understand.)

Today is the last day for Trans Day of Snack 2022 merch!!!! If you’ve ever wanted a pink tank top of a cupcake eating a cookie (is thi...

alive, ahaha, fuck. (happy TDoS!)

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Hope you're all hanging in there. I'm not!!!!!! Physically, I am on the floor. Mentally, I am here.

OK, no, I'm fine, it's fine. Everything's FINE. I came here to say that we have a new bonus episode out! The ep features two short, visibility-themed essays by 2022-04-01 03:42:09 +0000 UTC View Post

quick heads-up about our new audio feed

Hey friends,

Just a quick note: I'm about to click a button to create our new patreon-only audio feed. Patreon isn't giving us a lot of flexibility in how this happens, so I wanted to give you a tiny explainer. If you don't need one, ignore this!

How do I listen to the new audio feed?

In a moment, everyone on all tiers is going to get a link to your own private RSS feed. This is what allows you to listen to our new, patreon-only audio content! 2022-03-29 16:51:28 +0000 UTC View Post

free events! snack fundraiser merch! cool rocks!

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Hope you're all hanging in there. Trans Day of Visibility/Having a Nice Snack is coming up next week, and while we won't be doing micropayments for snacks this year, we've got a few perks and projects up our sleeves nevertheless. 

For example: we've currently got two very limited-edition TDoS '22 designs up 2022-03-27 22:57:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon restructuring! Free t4t essays! Cat stuff!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I have been less online than normal this week, but I have to assume that things are still Not Good out there. And with all of the global Not Goodness in mind, it feels very silly to give you an update on changes to the gender reveal patreon. But that’s what I’m here to do, so, here we go.

Thanks again to everyone who filled out our first-ever Patreon survey! As a result of your feedback (and my capacity and whims), I’m going t...

Death! Sex! Money! Cyclone! Newt! Ow!

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Hope you're all hanging in there. Obviously we're still extremely in hell, but at least we're getting a bit of good news? And also, now most of us are like 2022-03-12 18:31:29 +0000 UTC View Post

survey results! snacking gently! instantly and naturally gay!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. We're not going to get into it here, but the news is obviously terrible and scary, and I hope you're taking care of yourselves the best you can.

First up, thanks so much to everyone who filled out our big patreon survey! We’ve already received nearly 400 responses in the last two days, which tbh is a way higher participation rate than I expected....

Patreon Survey!!! ✨ Win fun prizes!!! ✨

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In These Uncertain Times, with a fresh war unfolding overseas and a figurative war against trans youth unfolding in states across the country for no goddamn reason — plus plenty of other awful shit that I simply won't list here — I'm sure that nobody is sitting around thinking, "Wow, I wish that Tuck would write a somewhat d...

Iconic New Merch! Homo Schedule! Trans Love?!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there.

You might have noticed us pop into yr podcast feed earlier today. We’re still several weeks away from the launch of Season 9, but in the meantime, I wanted to introduce y’all to the Homo Schedule, a podcast made by (iconic queer actor) Jasmin Savoy Brown and (iconic they/them actor) 2022-02-23 05:45:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Ski ballet! Chicken nuggets! Bisexual thruples! Adult Build-a-Bear!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I just spent six hours(!) trying to write one draft of one article and now I am air-frying a few fancy chikn nuggets and trying to retain my grasp on the English language long enough to write y’all a little note, too. (The article is about Gender Reveal’s whole approach to mutual aid and hey what if media entities with actual money and resources also did that??????? I know they won’t but I’m still writing my little essay as if the...

Day of Snack planning! Personal tasks! Music for yr plants! 🎧🌱❤️🍩

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. The sun is briefly shining here, and the first flowers of the season are starting to poke out of the ground, and I’m trying hard to take it as some kind of sign that the light is coming.

It’s the first newsletter week without an episode to promote, and as such, I have no idea what to tell you. I’ve been bouncing around between miscellaneous pod...

Ev’Yan Whitney! Cute critters and feral creatures!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am feeling increasingly feral and decreasingly coherent, so that’s good probably.

(Writing that sentence made me remember this book I read repeatedly as a child where some kids crash on an island and get turned into animals by a freaky scientist (one becomes a manta ray!) and gradually lose human speech!? Did anyone else read this? The wo...