Gender Reveal
Welcome to Gender Reveal, a t4t podcast that began as a deep dive into what exactly gender... is? Since 2018, the show has evolved into an excuse to chat with a bunch of smart, funny, hot people about everything from anarchism, abolition, and organizing, to parenting, literature, linguistics, kink, drag, film, horror, healthcare, immigration, baseball, wrestling, and decades-old community gossip. (But also, still, gender!)
Episodes
In this bonus episode, Tuck chats with poet Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch (they/them) about what's going on over at Metonymy Press. Topics include:
- Metonymy's role in launching the careers of trans writers
- Advice for trans people considering their own small press
- What Metonymy is looking for in its current open submissions
- How Tuck keeps messing up on dating apps :) :) :)
- Plus: Teaching Hanif Abdurraqib & summoning Elliot P...
Tuck chats with physicist and writer Karmela Padavic-Callaghan (they/them) about science writing, quantum hacking, union organizing, and why quantum physics is sooooo queer.
Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear about Tuck being hospitalized in the multiverse, vegan restaurant hot takes, how Tumblr impacted our college experience, and more.
Send questions for Karmela via our advice/AMA form.
Find Karmela karmelapadaviccal...
Tuck chats with author Julián Delgado Lopera (he/him). Topics include:
- Why Julián chose to focus on a closeted travesti in his new novel
- Creating intergenerational trans friendships and navigating inevitable conflict
- Protesting in Bogotá and navigating Colombian gender bureaucracy
- Untranslatable Spanglish, transsexual grammar, travesti poetics, and the beautiful transfemme tradition of lying-i-mean-myth-making :)
- Plus: Alison ...
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 to the full episode on Pat...
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 nun and living an amazing life ...
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 vagina things," AOL, and th...
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 :)
Patrons can lis...
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
- Plus: Mx. Potato Head, mommy issues...
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 Patreon to hear Tempest discuss ali...
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 :) :)
- Plus: CATS, Sailor Moon, Girls, R...
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 affair(!!), whether you should fle...
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 assimilation of they/them
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 microgrant fund via PayPal.me/TWoodstock or @Tu...
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!)
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 political background check wh...
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 your nose warm in a Minnesota winter ...
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 their queerness while making Encan...
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 favorite book review of 202...
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 woke soap opera," and much more!
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