Gender Reveal

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

December 2, 2024 23 mins

Tuck and Ozzy tackle advice questions about coming out (or not), accessing medical transition in This Political Moment, and dating for the very first time. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of business casual tits, getting back into domming, being normal around other trans people, brainstorming nonbinary tattoos, coming out at work, going on T, and of course, choosing one person to eat. .css-1t8gq41{border:none;background-image:none;background-color:transparent;box-shadow:none;color:#2F3133;cursor:pointer;font-size:inherit;padding:0;-webkit-text-decoration:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;width:-webkit-max-content;width:-moz-max-content;width:max-content;}.css-1t8gq41:hover,.css-1t8gq41:focus{-webkit-text-decoration:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;}

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Tuck chats with visual artist and author Rani Som (she/her) about writing an exquisitely eggy memoir, coming out in her 40s, and exploring the inevitable failure of trans utopia.

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of growing up in Manhattan, working in architecture, drawing sex scenes (or not), Kate Bush, misanthropy, and the freaky pickle art on Tuck’s wall.

Find Rani at bishakh.com and @biche_bash.

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November 11, 2024 62 mins

Tuck chats with filmmaker and intersex activist River Gallo (they/them). Topics include: 

  • Making cinema history with (and getting force-femmed by?) Indya Moore 
  • How to reckon with the fact that yr genitals are on Wikipedia 
  • Why growing up in restaurants made Tuck & River into storytellers
  • Evolving P...
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October 14, 2024 19 mins

Tuck chats with Still Life author Katherine Packert Burke (she/her) about trans lit, Austin TX, Susan's Place, and possibly getting her egg cracked by Drake. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of Gossip Girl, the Strand, autofiction, lesbian TTRPGs, someone Tuck dated in high school, returning to your hometown as a transsexual, and why 2 Trans 2 Furious is an Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.

Find Katherine at k...

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October 7, 2024 63 mins

Tuck chats with Colby Gordon (he/him), a founder of Early Modern Trans Studies. Topics include: 

  • How much of Colby’s work is writing slashfic about the Bible??
  • The limits of secularism in protecting trans people, and why Colby wants more trans people to have access to religion
  • How the IRS randomly assigned Colby a trans name as a teen 
  • Runni...
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Three bits of news that couldn't wait until our next episode:

Submissions for the second Girl Dad Press anthology are open now for a limited time! Learn all about the submission process here.

WE'RE COMING TO BOSTON on 11/3! Tickets are on sale now! All ages show but no guarantees that we will behave. 

Lastly, patrons have until Sunday (11/6) to fill out our annual patreon survey and enter to win a fun prize! (If you're not a patro...

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September 9, 2024 40 mins

Tuck chats with drag performer and artist Yvie Oddly (she/they). Topics include:

  • How being on Drag Race changed the way Yvie watches TV
  • An impromptu analysis of RuPaul’s memoir 
  • Why dysphoria is universal and drag is inherently trans
  • What Yvie and Chappell Roan have in common
  • Plus: FtMtW transgender, unionizing Drag Race, bendy bones gender and accessibility at the club

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September 2, 2024 19 mins

Tuck chats with Vogue culture writer Emma Specter (she/they) about unionizing Condé Nast, embracing Bisexuality 2, and not monetizing their gender exploration. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Emma talk about seeing girlies from middle school at their book events; being asked about her boyfriend on the local news; and shoplifting gender from an infinite nonproblematic Sepho...

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August 19, 2024 54 mins

Tuck and Ozzy chat with Rose Eveleth (they/them), creator of Tested. Topics include:

  • Details and stories cut from Tested that Gender Reveal listeners would appreciate!
  • Why individual trans and/or intersex athletes have conflicting ideas of what “fair” competition looks like 
  • How the Paralympics can help us imagine new ways of categorizing elite sports
  • What well-intentioned people oft...
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August 5, 2024 49 mins

Tuck and Ozzy chat with historian Susan Stryker (she/her). Topics include:

  • Publishing old kink erotica in a new academic reader 
  • Truffle-hunting for niche trans subcommunities on Reddit
  • What does it look like to embrace monstrosity in today’s world?
  • How Susan pieced together the story of Compton’s Cafeteria Riot 
  • Plus: The literal meaning of ...
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June 25, 2024 27 mins

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...

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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!)

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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...
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May 13, 2024 45 mins

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...
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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...
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Tuck tackles more advice questions with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include:

  • What if my partner doesn’t want me to come out to their parents?
  • Are we sure that cis people don’t think about gender this much?
  • Can my gender be “boy” if I’m in my thirties? 
  • Should I live the plot of Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky?
  • Plus: wedding photos, astrology, nonprofits, FFS...
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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?

This Week in Gender: The Girls & Gays Movie...

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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...

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April 8, 2024 44 mins

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-...
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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...

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