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
Tuck chats with organizer Oliver Hall (they/he). Topics include:
- How Elevated Access coordinates free private flights for people in need of gender-affirming care, abortion, relocation, or even a ride to camp
- Who are all of these volunteer pilots???
- How deep canvassing can seed trans political support for the future
- Lesser-discussed connections between abortion and gender-affirming care (beyond bodily autonomy)
- Plus, which is m...
Tuck chats with organizer Anjali Rimi (she/her). Topics include:
- Parivar Bay Area, the country's only org made by and for Hijra, Kinnar, and Global South trans immigrants
- Differences between anti-trans laws & attitudes in the US and India
- How Anjali's name was inspired by a lewd, iconic drag name
- Reinventing yourself in Boise and realizing that the US is "all a sham" :)
- Plus: Titanic, mutual aid, and remembering Naga Gouri...
Ozzy and Tuck chat with author Lee Arden (any) about friendship, Quakerism, the "annoying to me personally" z-axis, and Ursula Le Guin's communal pickle barrels.
Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of friendship advice questions, zines & indie publishing, prude-slut solidarity, Margaret Thatcher, and more!
The Politics of Lonely is available via Fernwood Publishing and Bookshop.org. Find Lee's zines at SheerS...
Tuck and Ozzy chat with writer and nurse M. K. Thekkumkattil (they/them). Topics include:
- Envisioning a future without hospitals
- Do medical kinks hit differently as a nurse?
- Bringing your book tour to the salmon :)
- When yr doctor realizes that you're medically transitioning before you do…
- Plus: We return to Drew's Giving Poppers to Cis Women, M. K. explains why sepsis is femme, and Tuck does a pronouns crime to Ms. Bloo...
Tuck chats with Katherine Packert Burke about All Us Saints and the cis gaze; why Narrow Rooms is more affirming than coming-out stories; and whether Tehching Hsieh is the only true artist.
Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of competitive bisexual erasure, ghosts, Colombo, Vegeta, "Sapphic new releases for May," KPB's book list, and a special message for our 11 or 12 cisgender listeners.
All Us Saints is availa...
Ozzy chats with piercer Lynn Loheide (they/them). Topics include:
- How horny leather queers launched the modern US piercing industry
- Genuinely surprising ways that a genital piercing can be gender-affirming
- Using matching nipple rings as thruple wedding bands :)
- What to know before splitting your tongue(!!!)
- Plus: the "gay ear," HRT's effects on piercings, and inventing a trans shibboleth?
This Week in Gender: Take the Ge...
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!)
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