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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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