Gender Reveal

Happy Fast X Day! We're celebrating chosen familia by sharing Mckenzee's essay "Letty Did Not Trans Me But Maybe She Did" from our upcoming anthology 2 TRANS 2 FURIOUS, now available for preorder!  (Note: Tuck's audio quality got messed up but we're just rolling with it, OK?) Preorder 2 TRANS 2 FURIOUS at 2trans2furious.bigcartel.com . Get your 10% off discount code at patreon.com/gender . Find Ma...

Tuck chats with Mckenzee about basement pizza, intrusive thoughts, the PTW slur, our college radio origin story, and a partial list of ways to be "more transsexual."  Find the full episode on Patreon for discussions of: Joyce Carol Oates tweet crimes  Winning with your real tits and ass Femboy vs rosboy?? Celebrity posting allyship Oakland possums and NYC rats (complimentary) To Wong Foo vs Prisci...

Happy Trans Day of Snack! We're explaining today's mutual aid campaign (including FREE SNACKS for trans people in 26 US states) and sharing a sneak peek of our snack-packed chat with Lilith K, tweeter of that famous tweet .   Our full interview with Lilith is available here . Find Lilith at @deathcarpets and on the podcasts Ghostpuncher Corps and Diet Coke & Lilith's House of Snax . Sign up to rec...

Tuck chats with actor and writer Ryan Ken (they/them). Topics include:   Why a TikTok can be more useful than a DEI training Using fashion strategically as a fat, Black, queer, nonbinary person When astrology can be reminiscent of Evangelical Christianity Why masculinity, not femininity, felt fragile and delicate as a child Plus: classical violin, Last Week Tonight, and moving beyond allyship This...

Tuck chats live in Brooklyn with AC Dumlao (they/he), Mattie Lubchansky (they/them) and Io (they/them). Topics include:   Changing your legal name to facilitate your Wendy's order Why gaslighting your family is the transmasc experience   Reading the dictionary to find out if your boyfriend is queer   Putting a basketball in your Irreversible Damage hole   Plus: Gaylor thoughts, community theater g...

Tuck checks in with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include:   Speedrunning gender Special girl bottom surgery Getting comfortable with public voice training Finally not thinking about gender at all times constantly(!) Plus: toe gender, breakfast sandwich crimes, and gender podcast good actually?!   This Week in Gender: Unholy underwhelms Satanists, per TMZ . (Learn more on Eat...

Tuck speaks with hacktivist maia arson crimew (it/she). Topics include:   Takeaways from the No Fly List leak   Why "white hat" and "black hat" hacking is another false binary An argument against copyright laws Which came first, the hacker or the catgirl? Plus: bi lesbians, bingle, and the one time horseshoe theory was real?? Find maia @_nyancrimew and at maia.crimew.gay . Its excellent merch is a...

Tuck speaks with DEI strategist Lily Zheng (they/them). Topics include:   Why pizza can be more useful than a 60-minute workshop Can we DEI our way out of transphobic workplaces? What makes allyship performative? (It's not what you think!) Should corporations be hosting Trans Day of Remembrance events? Plus: does DEI work delay the proletarian revolution?? This Week in Gender: an exclusive Gender...

Tuck speaks with gender-affirming voice teacher Renée Yoxon (they/them). Topics include:   How do we modify the perceived gender of our voices? What exactly causes a "t-voice"? What does nonbinary vocal training sound like? How do mobility aids affect the way your gender is perceived? Plus: Maverique gender, jazz, and how the two dogs inside of you can change your vocal resonance!? This Week in Ge...

Tuck speaks with author and podcast host Margaret Killjoy (she/they). Topics include:   What to consider before moving to a queer off-grid land project Suing RENT (2005) to get credit for playing melodica!? The secret rules of writing heterosexual romance novels Easy, actionable ways that we can all prepare for disasters Plus: Feminazgûl, high school GSAs, anarchism, and exploding the czar This We...

Tuck speaks with musician Alynda Mariposa Segarra (they/them) of Hurray for the Riff Raff. Topics include:   Crashing a blockbuster film set in a jangly key bikini Refusing to be made a spectacle (as a nonbinary Puerto Rican and a former train-hopping crust(y) punk) What do adrienne maree brown, Julian Casablancas, Sylvia Rivera and the Young Lords have in common? Coming back into your body after...

Tuck speaks with māhū artist Lehuauakea (they/them). Topics include:   Should you be going to Hawaii???? Being cornered, exotified and spat on(!) by white patrons Native Hawaiian gender terms and cultural roles The past, present, and future of kapa-making Plus: Finding faith that the world will continue to exist, lol? This Week in Gender: More about drivers license gender markers, including stats...

It's a Christmas miracle — we've got tickets on sale to our February 1st live show, feauting four of your favorite Gender Reveal alumni.  Get your tickets here while you can!  

Tuck speaks with organizer and educator Dean Spade (he/him). Topics include:   Why civil rights laws won't save us Common mutual aid struggles: money, security culture, etc. Why does burnout convince us that we can't take a break? Reflections 20 years after founding the Sylvia Rivera Law Project Plus: dinosaur gender, x markers, and talking people out of law school This Week in Gender: The Texas g...

Tuck speaks with writer and creature enthusiast Sabrina Imbler (they/them). Topics include:   A Who's Who of the ocean's notable transsexuals   Writing about trans youth for the New York Times (lol, lmao) Seeking gender role models from creatures, plants, and fungi Why is a sad octopus more heartbreaking than a sad human? Plus: Neopets, the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, and a goldfish driving a tank(?!)...

Tuck speaks with Eating for Free cohost Joan Summers (she/her)   Topics include:   Getting outed by your pastor's wife in a movie theater parking lot Why celebrities should come out via strategic trips to CVS   Union organizing for trans healthcare… and how it can go wrong Why do famous people love the word pansexual? Plus: Should we put Harry Styles on trial for gender crimes? This Week in Gender...

Tuck speaks with poet and drag artist Wo Chan (they/them), who performs as the Illustrious Pearl. Topics include:   Re-evaluating the narrative of your book after starting psychoanalysis Combining poetry and drag performance into… PowerPoint drag! Creating art out of testimonials from your family's deportation proceedings Learning to share without oversharing — and without judging yourself for ove...

In the second half of this special two-part episode, Tuck speaks with organizer and library worker Serena Hommes (she/her). Topics include:   Organizing the first library union in the state(!) Missouri's ban on "explicit" books in schools Transition as a spiritual experience   Plus: Narwhal facts, TikTok, and trans Harry Potter fanfic. Find Serena on Instagram @danger.dakota and on TikTok  @dakota...

In the first half of this special two-part episode, Tuck speaks with Starbucks Workers United organizer Spencer (they/she). Topics include:   Maintaining a 24/7 picket line for a 64-day-long strike(!) What is the best way to support the Starbucks union and employees? Why are union organizers disproportionately trans?   Plus: The literal Pinkertons and the future of labor.   Find Spencer and their...

Tuck speaks with comedian, performer, and event producer Howie Echo-Hawk (they/them). Topics include:   What do pronoun go-arounds and land acknowledgements have in common? Is it even possible to decolonize gender? Why your comedy can't come solely from suffering Using nature to explore identity beyond language Plus: Dance parties, autism superpowers, and punishment comedy   This Week in Gender: T...

Tuck speaks with Cat Fitzpatrick (she/her), author of The Call-Out and cofounder of LittlePuss Press. Topics include:   Writing about Brooklyn trans girl drama in iambic tetrameter   Searching for answers on the Transsexual Internet Circa 2001 Running a small press that doubles as a community org (aka lessons learned from Topside) Why is it so hard for (trans) people of goodwill to build a functio...

Tuck tackles more advice questions with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include: How should I balance my partner's comfort with my own transition? How can I get my family to fully accept my transition? Why does my child keep misgendering me? Would it be inconsiderate of me to share my pronouns?   Are feminine names going extinct? This Week in Gender: Listeners share their wins,...

Tuck speaks with writer and organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they). Topics include: Do non-disabled people exist? Diagnoses, autism, and how disability + transness intersect   How to build care networks without relying on social capital Why disabled people have the skills we need to survive the climate crisis, pandemics, etc.   Plus: ye olde "what does femme mean?"   This Week in Ge...

Tuck speaks with sociologist Alex Hanna (she/her). Topics include: How claiming AI is "sentient" gives big tech companies more power Privacy tips for trans folks and abortion-seekers (and why they're not enough) Using data science to predict who will win Drag Race Literally what is the point of Dall-E?   Plus: Roller derby, Star Trek, and some Macedonian teenager's repository of faces?   This Week...

Tuck speaks with pro wrestler Edith Surreal (she/her). Topics include: What happens when a masked wrestler gets an FFS consult? Combining ballroom culture with pro wrestling   Is playing a heel Bad Trans Representation?   Plus: Why wrestling is like a real-life comic book, a soap opera, a drag show, and Super Smash Bros. This Week in Gender: Justine Lindsay ; new Pew data ; Emma Corrin in Vogue ;...