Gender Reveal

Last chance to save 50% off Gender Reveal  patreon subscriptions  and Girl Dad Press books with code "PRIDE" (!!!) Tuck tackles more advice questions with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler. Topics include why becoming a beautiful woman is like riding a motorcycle, how to handle intrusive questions from other trans people, and how we can support our friends when they make decisions we hate. Listen...

Tuck and Ozzy chat with I Saw the TV Glow actor Jack Haven (they/them). Topics include: Wearing an A/C unit on your head, both literally (in Camp Miasma ) and figuratively (at Cannes and elsewhere)   Chasing shame and embarrassment as the most intense and therefore realest emotions   Filming an improvised movie guerrilla-style with friends & family Jack's grandmother falling in love with another n...

Every 100 episodes, we demand that Lola Pellegrino—a nurse practitioner who specializes in gender-affirming care and gynecology, mostly for trans people—answers our medical questions. Topics include: Exciting new developments in PrEP!   Will crossfading hormones werewolf a doll? How important is freezing your eggs/sperm prior to HRT?   How does testosterone affect menopause? Plus: "Weird/bad vagin...

Save 50% off Gender Reveal  patreon subscriptions   and Girl Dad Press books with code "PRIDE" all June!  Tuck challenges Sabs (How Far the Light Reaches), Calvin (Several People Are Typing), and Alma (Picnic Magazine)  to draft the best bookshelf of trans literature. Along the way, we become cool bus perverts, travel to the Swiss Alps, and discover which recently published books are about Calvin...

Tuck chats with author and organizer Bobuq Sayed (they/them). Topics include: How Bobuq's novel No God But Us addresses shortcomings in other immigrant lit Writing representation for white trans guys with a savior complex who are bad at poly :) How living in Turkey changed Bobuq's relationship to the pride flag   How Writers Against the War on Gaza combats the media ecosystem's rightward drift Plu...

Tuck teases a very personal recent Gender Conceal episode and a big, exciting upcoming experiment. Then, Ozzy chats with Tempest Creation (she/her) about her short film Birth of the Hive Queen. Topics include how to cast moths for a movie, why Tempest's films all have "hooker brain," and whether trans cinema has a coherent aesthetic beyond being dark and crazy :) :) Listen to the full episode on P...

Tuck and Ozzy chat with Violet Allen (she/her), author of Plastic, Prism, Void . Topics include: Incorporating 40+ fonts, multiple languages, three timelines, a theme song, and approx. one trillion references into one sci-fi romantasy novel Violet's personal beef with Joyce Carol Oates?!   Tuck & Violet's shared grievance against contemporary fiction   Channelling all your evil into books :) :)  ...

Happy Trans Eve of Snack! Tuck chats with Mattie Lubchansky & Calvin Kasulke about how to know whether you're on a date, deal with ambivalence towards certain HRT effects, and cope with the fact that you didn't transition earlier. (Also: trebuchets, glory holes, and nonbinary Donald Duck.) Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear us discuss whether you should tell your husband about your affa...

Tuck and Ozzy chat with scholar Marquis Bey (they/them). Topics include: If we abolish gender, what will happen to sex changes? Is nonbinary bourgeois? Learning about nonbinary from incarcerated queer studies students If neither of us care about gender, then what are we doing on this gender podcast?!   Plus: Burner genders, replacing "community" with "swarms," and pushing back against the assimila...

Tuck outlines two options for this year's Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack festivities . Want to plan your own Trans Day of Snack event? Apply for a microgrant at bit.ly/TDOS2026 .   A full transcript of this episode (and all of our TDOS episodes) is available on our website .   Submit questions for our upcoming Gender Conceal episode with Mattie and Calvin at bit.ly/GCadvice .   Donate to the mic...

Tuck chats with the internet's own AK (they/them) about baseball disease, fantasy hockey shows, and the most iconic scene from Twilight. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of the Phillies' horrible bodily fluids, Happy Feet- related top surgery, and AK's journey to becoming a jumpsuit influencer on January 6. (Plus, more baseball!) Find AK @dumplingmenace on IG and Bluesky ....

Tuck chats with trans studies scholar and Minneapolis resident Aren Aizura (he/him). Topics include: How a protest camp in the Australian desert helped free dozens of immigrant detainees(!!) How Aren's kids are reacting to ICE occupying their neighborhood   How Twin Cities organizing has remained leaderless and decentralized  Being subjected to archaic HBIGDA "true transsexual" guidelines and a po...

Tuck chats with human rights advocate and organizer Ash Tifa (she/her). Topics include: Do human rights laws actually ensure our rights? What media coverage is missing/misunderstanding about what's going on in the Twin Cities   Are Black leaders and queer people being intentionally targeted for arrest?   Plus: Ireland vs US immigrant detention, living in a post-constitutional state, and keeping yo...

Tuck chats with Encanto actor Jess Darrow (they/them) about working with Disney as outspoken queer person, singing the transest possible song for their Encanto audition, being queer-awakened by a certain Disney couple, and declaring pole dancing the most they/them hobby.   Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear how Tuck and Jess met via goofing off on Letterboxd … plus Jess coming into thei...

Tuck and Ozzy chat with author Megan Milks (they/them). Topics include: The queer and trans potential of milk Writing fantastical slug erotica and bull insemination scenes   Dating and writing advice from Samuel Delany What even is a kink, you know? Plus: New Narrative , the "overwhelming influence of The Argonauts ,"   and finally getting out of high school This Week in Gender: Tuck reads their ...

TGIJP's Zen Blossom chats with historian, artist, and organizer Andrea Horne for the California Report Magazine podcast.  Photos(!) and a full transcript are available at KQED.org . For more conversations with trans youth, plus a bonus chat with artist and activist  Donna Personna , check out the California Report Magazine's Love You For You series.   

Tuck chats with writer and union organizer Alma Avalle (she/her) about the Transparent finale, Trader Joe's dream to destroy the NLRB, and Alma's experience getting very publicly fired from Condé Nast in an egregiously illegal instance of union retaliation! Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of Emilia Perez , paywalled Condé gossip, " Anna Wintour's elite fiefdom rocked by w...

Tuck chats with cartoonist Lee Lai (she/her) about gossip, projection, emotional journalism, toxic relationship dynamics, annoying transmascs, the hazards of being overly self-reliant, and more.   Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of puberty 4, comic-reading etiquette, she/her mustache, maladaptive trans coping mechanisms, creative dialogue bubbles, and whether hormones phy...

Tuck chats with artist Barry Lee (they/them). Topics include: Creating an oracle deck that doesn't shy away from difficult emotions   Why Barry has moved away from mural-painting (and bisexuality lol) The toxic positivity and individualism of mainstream self-help tools Eugenics, limited autonomy, and other enemies of trans & disabled people Plus: Atlanta, Keith Haring, Strega Nona, noses, and quee...

Ozzy and Tuck chat with activist and G.L.I.T.S. founder Ceyenne Doroshow (she/her). Topics include: Memories of Ceyenne's mother, Miss Major   Ceyenne's 3-hour meal with Zohran Mamdani Lessons learned from a career in sex work   Providing safe housing and asylum assistance through G.L.I.T.S. Plus: Riis Beach, a St. Bernard named Thor, and a revenge trip to Puerto Rico?   Find Ceyenne and support h...

Tuck announces new book tour events, including a '90s-themed lit party and a trans band debut/reunion(!?!). Then, Tuck chats with Cass about the state of trans studies and why podcasts are over.   Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Cass and Tuck discuss talking to kids about gender, making friends in Minnesota, wearing one hat for 15 years, projecting your brain problems onto your baby,...

Tuck and Ozzy chat with writer Zefyr Lisowski (she/her). Topics include: How horror helps us explore what we owe others in the wake of pain Zefyr's delicate decision to do a ~gender reveal~ in Uncanny Valley Girls   Managing harm in t4t and crazy4crazy relationships How the Great Dismal Swamp informs Zefyr's thoughts about race and class   Plus: Grave robbers, werewolves, Pisces poetics, and a mus...

Tuck chats with author Denne Michele Norris (she/her) about the future of trans publishing — is this year's trans lit boom just a outlying blip? — and why violas are the most trans instrument, among other topics.   Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of transitioning alongside your novel's protagonist, working on a novel for 15 years, and editing stories of trans trauma witho...

Tuck and Ozzy chat with activist Isa Noyola (she/her). Topics include: What are the top priorities for trans immigrant communities and orgs? How can we best show up for our immigrant neighbors? Watching trans folks flee from the US while others flee to the US The power of Translatina (one word!) as an identity and community   Plus: Beyoncé, Burger King, and a secret meeting with the Dept. of Homel...

Tuck chats with filmmaker Kani Lapuerta (he/him) about his new feature-length documentary, Niñxs. Topics include trans rights in Mexico, the increased popularity of gender-neutral Spanish, collaborating on a film with a literal child, and what makes a film ~trans~.  Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of spiritual gentrification in Tepoztlán, masculinity in prison, inserting...