Gender Reveal
Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast about nonbinary and transgender folks. Join us as we interview notable trans guests, analyze current events, answer advice questions and get a little bit closer to understanding what the heck gender is.
Episodes
Happy pub day to Heavyweight, a graphic memoir by Solomon J. Brager! Tuck chats with Sol (they/he) about the intersections of Zionism and transphobia, the need to make up true stories, and the arguments against claims of Jewish indigeneity.
Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of teaching a class called Graphic Sex, stealing boxing valor, navigating our mothers' feeling...
Tuck shares an exciting 2 Trans 2 Furious update before chatting with Arlie Adlington (he/him) about queer labor solidarity, Pride movie recs, and normal tea.
Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Arlie talk about working with Sam Smith, navigating the world of UK t-shots, and writing an important song about beverages (before Sabrina Carpenter did it, even!)
For our season finale, Tuck catches up with historian Jules Gill-Peterson (she/her). Topics include:
- Why Jules might be writing a trilogy of books against ~transgender~
- Why liberal trans inclusion is the “kissing cousin of fascism”
- A list of fun hot reasons why people have transitioned throughout history
- Is transphobia always rooted in misogyny?
- Plus: Fighting your publisher over derogatory italics; learning the secrets of the...
Tuck and Ozzy chat with director Jane Schoenbrun (they/them). Topics include:
- Working through gender feelings onscreen with Brigette Lundy-Paine
- How did Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst end up in I Saw the TV Glow?
- What happened to that film adaption of Nevada?
- Why the third movie in Jane’s Screen Trilogy is actually three novels
- Plus: The most sapphic Spielberg film; A Trip to the Moon (1902); custom Jane’s Bar Mitzvah CD booklets; a...
In this bonus episode, Tuck chats with Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett about what's going on over at LittlePuss Press post-SPD collapse. Topics include:
- What’s next for LittlePuss?
- How can we learn to log off?
- Wouldn’t it be mortifying to win a Nobel Prize?
- Cat’s thoughts on historical fell type??
- Plus: An upcoming book that "establishes...
Tuck tackles more advice questions with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include:
Tuck catches up with organizer Jerika Che (they/them). Topics include:
- Creating an abolitionism-inspired trans summer camp
- What’s up with all the gender-segregated trans picnics?
- Advice for creating your own trans community events
- Learning to successfully collaborate with co-organizers
- Plus: Xenogenders, Transoween, and Warrior Cats?
Tuck chats with author KT Hoffman (he/him) about trans romance novels, egg & cheddar gender, egg behavior, and not being Assigned Mariners At Birth.
Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of bagel recipes, real-life baseball romance (in our dreams), local queer softball leagues, formative gay YA novels, and which marginalized group will get to play professional baseball f...
Ozzy and Tuck chat with with Yin Q (they/them). Topics include:
- How parenting changed Yin’s relationship to gender and kink
- What queer people still need to learn about kink and consent
- How the Red Canary Song documentary honors its subjects’ privacy and agency
- Decriminalizing sex work — and then taking the “work” part out of it
- Plus: Spiritual sexuality, the kink-o-meter, and parent-...
Happy (almost) Trans Day of Snack! We’re explaining this weekend’s mutual aid campaign (including FREE SNACKS for trans people in 26 US states) and sharing part two of our chat with Shuli Branson.
Sign up to receive your snack and/or financial aid at bit.ly/tdos24. View our list of trans resources at bit.ly/tdos24links. Spread the word!
Our full chat with Shuli is available here. (Part one is available here.)
Find Shuli at sjbran...
Tuck chats with with writer Jamie Lauren Keiles (he/him). Topics include:
- Writing a nonbinary history book that eschews common trans identity rhetoric
- Reporting on phallo and blowjob jokes for the New York Times Magazine
- Why Jamie will never run another Most Transgender Name Competition
- Why every...
Tuck and Ozzy chat with Liz Fong-Jones (she/her). Topics include:
- Creating a Coworker Solidarity Fund to support worker organizing and potential strikes
- Organizing your Google colleagues so hard that you crash Google Docs
- Being realistic about your security threats (e.g., is it safe to organize in Google Docs?)
- Ways that (trans & cis) tech workers can support trans people
- Plus: How t...
Tuck shares last year’s conversation with Nigerian fashion designer and activist Fola Francis (she/her/they). Topics include:
- Dodging a blacklist to walk in Lagos Fashion Week
- Advice for other people living under anti-LGBTQ laws
- “Queerness has always been very African”
- Hosting several of Lagos’s first balls
- Plus: Nigerian healthcare, Dolls...
Tuck chats with linguist Ariana Steele (they/them). Topics include:
- Studying ways that Black nonbinary people degender themselves via language
- Developing a “chill vs loud” nonbinary fashion taxonomy
- How Ariana’s autism and gender relate to each other…
- …and how all this ties into their mixed identity and Aquarius-Pisces cusp
- Plus: Britney Sp...
Tuck chats with artist and experience designer Shing Yin Khor (they/them). Topics include:
- The memoirist’s dilemma: narcissism vs turning other people into Content™
- “The long human tradition of grabbing some clay and making a little guy”
- Shifting your approach to activism in order to (hopefully!) avoid burnout
- Transitioning out of gender e...
Tuck chats with writer Lucy Sante (she/her). Topics include:
- Why Lucy finally transitioned after avoiding it for nearly 60 years
- Why the worst trans memoirs are like pre-cooked bacon
- What does it mean to identify as a bohemian?
- Reading about the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries in the newspaper as a high school student
- Plus: Trans lit recs; vibe shifts at the Strand; and ho...
This week, we remember advocate, storyteller, and mother Cecilia Gentili.
Cecilia resources & links:
- Cecilia’s legacy fund!!!
- Faltas (published by our friends at LittlePuss Press)
- Full videos of Cecilia’s 2/7 memorial service
- Speaking with M. E. O’Brien for the NYC Trans Oral History Project (w...
Tuck chats with Shuli Branson (she/they), author of Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life. Topics include:
- Transition as a form of anarchist refusal (and why transition itself isn’t liberatory)
- Breakup theory: letting go of the expectation that everything needs to last forever
- How raising kids can help you catch your authoritarian im...
Tuck finally chats with academic and occasional Gender Reveal producer Cassius Adair (he/him). Topics include:
- His role in the Twin Flames cult documentary
- Getting mpreg (lol) 12 years after being told that HRT would sterilize him
- Joining trans studies because he got on the wrong flight in 2011
- Writing about whiteness, tech history, and hot trans social contagion
Tuck catches up with multidisciplinary artist Salimatu Amabebe (he/they). Topics include:
- Barracuda, an it/its drag monster and perverse people-pleaser
- Should you retcon your dead dad into someone more convenient?
- Demanding better (and more creative) gender-affirming surgeries
- The pros and cons of making earnest, vulnerable art
- Plus: Envi...
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