Tuck speaks with Cat Fitzpatrick (she/her), author of The Call-Out and cofounder of LittlePuss Press. Topics include: Writing about Brooklyn trans girl drama in iambic tetrameter Searching for answers on the Transsexual Internet Circa 2001 Running a small press that doubles as a community org (aka lessons learned from Topside) Why is it so hard for (trans) people of goodwill to build a functional community, let alone a just one? Plus: Cameoing in your fiction using the meanest DM you’ve ever rec...
Oct 31, 2022•58 min•Season 10Ep. 1
Tuck tackles more advice questions with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include: How should I balance my partner's comfort with my own transition? How can I get my family to fully accept my transition? Why does my child keep misgendering me? Would it be inconsiderate of me to share my pronouns? Are feminine names going extinct? This Week in Gender: Listeners share their wins, including Carl Charles , Naseem Jamnia and Queer Society Yukon . Listen to Tuck’s Life Kit episode ab...
Aug 08, 2022•46 min•Season 9Ep. 15
Tuck speaks with writer and organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they). Topics include: Do non-disabled people exist? Diagnoses, autism, and how disability + transness intersect How to build care networks without relying on social capital Why disabled people have the skills we need to survive the climate crisis, pandemics, etc. Plus: ye olde “what does femme mean?” This Week in Gender: The San Francisco Marathon offered a nonbinary division , which led us to 2 Hot 4 Hoodies . Find Lea...
Aug 01, 2022•50 min•Season 9Ep. 14
Tuck speaks with sociologist Alex Hanna (she/her). Topics include: How claiming AI is “sentient” gives big tech companies more power Privacy tips for trans folks and abortion-seekers (and why they’re not enough) Using data science to predict who will win Drag Race Literally what is the point of Dall-E? Plus: Roller derby, Star Trek, and some Macedonian teenager’s repository of faces? This Week in Gender: A brief message from Charles Barkley . Find Alex on twitter @alexhanna and at alex-hanna.com...
Jul 25, 2022•43 min•Season 9Ep. 13
Tuck speaks with pro wrestler Edith Surreal (she/her). Topics include: What happens when a masked wrestler gets an FFS consult? Combining ballroom culture with pro wrestling Is playing a heel Bad Trans Representation? Plus: Why wrestling is like a real-life comic book, a soap opera, a drag show, and Super Smash Bros. This Week in Gender: Justine Lindsay ; new Pew data ; Emma Corrin in Vogue ; and lots of news from Germany . Find Edith @edithsurreal on Twitter and IG and at edithsurreal.com . Sub...
Jul 11, 2022•41 min•Season 9Ep. 12
Tuck speaks with historian and writer Jules Gill-Peterson (she/her). Topics include: Do cis people exist? Why the United States hates children The very unequal histories of trans men and trans women How both sides of the trans youth debate are failing trans kids Plus: Patti Harrison, FFS @ CVS, and “If this is what being an ally is, I am an enemy.” This Week in Gender: Listen to Jules on Death Panel instead! Find Jules on Twitter @gp_jls and subscribe to her newsletter on Substack . Histories of...
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 9Ep. 11
Tuck speaks with UK-based writer Jackson King (he/him). Topics include: Structural barriers to gender-affirming care faced by fat trans people Visiting Europe’s largest gay sauna What's going on in the UK!?! Can men be redeemed?! Plus: Evangelical kink and RuPaul’s egg detector This Week in Gender: Trans listeners share their wins. Join our Patreon ( patreon.com/gender ) to get access to our new bonus podcast feed, plus our weekly newsletter and other fun perks. Browse our nonprofit merch shop a...
Jun 27, 2022•45 min•Season 9Ep. 10
Tuck and Ozzy speak with Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin (she/her). Topics include: Writing a book for trans freaks Reclaiming the gender-plague genre from TERFs Horror movies as exposure therapy Can art be dangerous? Plus: Supermasochist, spitting, shrooms, and “my biological father, David Cronenberg” This Week in Gender: Addressing a few common talking points about how there are so many trans kids these days. Find Gretchen on Patreon and Twitter @scumbelievable . Manhunt is out now in pa...
Jun 20, 2022•54 min•Season 9Ep. 9
Tuck speaks with Fran Tirado (she/they), co-host of Like a Virgin and Food 4 Thot . Topics include: Queer reality show concepts and non-monogamous TV representation Writing a book about “when activism gets wrapped up in capital” A quick and easy guide to reclaiming Pride from corporations Self-work, community care, and how to stop working all the time Plus: Mustache privilege(?!) and f@gg0try as a gender This Week in Gender: Rynn shares a heartwarming dispatch from Madison. Find Fran @fransquish...
Jun 13, 2022•54 min•Season 9Ep. 8
Tuck and Ozzy speak with Jeopardy champion Amy Schneider (she/her). Topics include: How going on national TV helped with vocal dysphoria (and gave Amy hope for trans people’s political future) Grappling with the constant threat of milkshake-ducking The history and future of Trans Jeopardy Why are so many trans women coders? Plus: Kafka, Tarot, fame, orgies, and the gay green couch This Week in Gender: An exclusive clip of our new bonus episode with Cassius Adair! Join our Patreon ( patreon.com/g...
Jun 06, 2022•49 min•Season 9Ep. 7
Tuck speaks with Imogen Binnie (she/her), author of Nevada . Topics include: Revisiting Nevada 10-15 yrs later, obvi! MichFest, Trans Camp, and womyn with a y Playing doom metal by candlelight as a queer bonding activity Watching horror movies to feel something Plus: Piss Christmas, John Darnielle, Gene Belcher, and Melissa???? This Week in Gender: Heartstopper and the possibility of something good. Preorder Nevada here . Find Correspondences on Bandcamp . Listen to Imogen Watches Classic Films ...
May 23, 2022•59 min•Season 9Ep. 6
Tuck speaks with writer and researcher Jo Krishnakumar (they/them). (CW: anti-trans violence 37-42) Topics include: The neurodivergent need to take your pain and put it into ~projects~ How casteism continues to impact queer and trans spaces Reimagining “the closet” as a cave, a balcony, or a nest How different trans communities interact in India Plus: Googling "Am I gay?” This Week in Gender: New study shows that trans kids stay trans. (Riley MacLeod weighs in .) Find Jo (and Almaarii and Transf...
May 16, 2022•54 min•Season 9Ep. 5
Tuck speaks with musician, drag performer, and community organizer TAYLOR ALXNDR (they/she) Topics include: Drag as a political organizing tool “I feel like gender is still a competition… especially on social media” Collaborating on hundreds of Southern Fried Queer Pride events without collapsing from burnout or internecine squabbles. Gender social contagion (Would I want tits on a desert island?) Plus: Lumpy Space Princess gender, the RuPaul Industrial Complex, and MITOCHONDRIHANNA! This Week i...
May 09, 2022•58 min•Season 9Ep. 4
Tuck speaks with Avery Tucker (he/him) from Girlpool . Topics include: Losing control of your voice… as a touring musician. Learning to accept the existence of your pre-transition self The joys and fears of “trans voice” Plus: Juno, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Theypool? This Week in Gender: Wales banning conversion therapy ; Montana judge blocking birth certificate law ; doctor suing UT-Southwestern ; sanctuary state bills to support trans families; MCR wants to sell binders Find Girlpool music &...
May 02, 2022•44 min•Season 9Ep. 3
Tuck speaks with Edgar Gomez (he/she/they), author of the memoir High-Risk Homosexual. Topics include: TFW Facebook suggests that you friend-request the Pulse shooter The pros & cons of Latinidad (the concept) and Latinx (the word) Writing about your family’s homophobia without making them into telenovela villains The intersections of class/poverty and queerness Plus: Sporty Spice, trans villain representation, and post-credits Drag Race goss. This Week in Gender: Rebecca Kling critiques the...
Apr 25, 2022•56 min•Season 9Ep. 2
Tuck speaks with stand-up comic and actor River Butcher (he/they). Topics include: Bisexual men of dyke experience If men have hurt me, how do I come to terms with being a man? Being a comic who is trans, not a trans comic (and also not Che Diaz) Embracing perpetual transition and life in “the middle time” Plus: “Can I just say on this podcast… and hopefully it doesn’t become like a viral moment…” This Week in Gender: The Biden administration marked TDoV by trying to make TSA stop doing gender-b...
Apr 18, 2022•57 min•Season 9Ep. 1
After Tuck makes a few exciting announcements, Vidhya Aravind and Erique Zhang share their perspectives on what trans visibility means and who it serves. Find Erique Zhang at eriquezhang.com and @er_ique . Find Vidhya Aravind at @kid_vidh and on Episode 74 of our podcast. Donate to our spring mutual aid drive via PayPal , Cash App ( $TuckWoodstock ) or Venmo ( @Tuck-Woodstock ). Trans folks of color can apply to receive mutual aid funds at bit.ly/tdos22 . Our limited edition Trans Day of Having ...
Mar 31, 2022•19 min
Afte an exciting merch announcement , Tuck shares a new episode of the Homo Schedule, featuring queer actors Jasmin Savoy Brown, Liv Hewson and Leo Sheng. ----- What's it like being cast in a show that influenced your identity as a kid? How do you make space for yourself while growing up as one of the only queer and Asian kids in your town? And where are all the queer Disney royals? All that and more as Liv and Jasmin talk to Leo Sheng! Citations - In Hollywood, Asian American stories are rare, ...
Feb 22, 2022•47 min
Tuck speaks with sex educator and ~sensualist~ Ev’Yan Whitney (they/she). Topics include: What sensuality looks like when it’s painful to be in your body The superpower of being an asexual sex educator Advice for folks worried that transitioning will harm their romantic relationships Is it fine to dissociate our way through the pandemic? Plus: We’ve been eating apples wrong this whole time?! This Week in Gender: Watch Framing Agnes and don’t reinvent the wheel. (Trans elder podcasts include Stea...
Jan 31, 2022•51 min•Season 8Ep. 15
Tuck speaks with Krys Malcolm Belc (he/him), author of The Natural Mother of the Child . Topics include: Parallels between being pregnant and starting HRT Parenting a trans femme child as a trans masc parent The value of disagreeing with other trans people(!) Creating trans pregnancy representation without becoming a cis spectacle Plus: gender-y childhood photos; bottom growth; real apologies; and why we’re wearing Carhartts right now(?) Find The Natural Mother of the Child at Bookshop.org . Kry...
Jan 24, 2022•59 min•Season 8Ep. 14
Producer Ozzy(!) speaks with actor, writer and comic D’lo (he/him). Topics include: Creating a trilogy of solo shows about transition & queer life Queer community as a spiritual practice Using art and comedy to reshape traumatic narratives “Nobody can touch us, the more vulnerable we are” Plus: The god/freak complex and the short hair to transmasc pipeline This Week in Gender: Mr. Manley makes Ohio history ; Andrea Jenkins becomes president of the Minneapolis Council; Mj Rodriguez wins a Gol...
Jan 17, 2022•50 min•Season 8Ep. 12
Tuck speaks with printmaker, comic-doer, and A.B.O. cofounder Io (they/them) , who also started the whole “be gay do crime” thing. Topics include: The origins of “Be Gay, Do Crime” What we mean when we say do crime! Train-hopping to outrun your gender feelings A.B.O. Comix and trans prisoner support Plus: gender nihilism, anarchist D&D, bike helmet phrenology, 3 futures of gender, and a debate over the transness of Dune. This Week in Gender: Amy Schneider makes more Jeopardy history ; Lithua...
Jan 10, 2022•47 min•Season 8Ep. 12
Tuck speaks with writer, organizer, and #8toAbolition cofounder K Adetoyin Agbebiyi (they/them) . Topics include: An abolitionist take on “cancel culture” The difference between nonprofits and mutual aid The connections between disability justice, reproductive justice, and prison abolition Supporting incarcerated trans people without giving more power to the prison industrial complex Plus: treating work like a video game, navigating the perils of leftist twitter, and relearning being gay. This W...
Jan 03, 2022•55 min•Season 8Ep. 11
Tuck catches up with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her) before tackling another stack of advice questions. Topics include: How do I know if my loved ones are really seeing me? Should I risk parental support to explore my gender? Can my cis girlfriend use all pronouns? How can demisexuals explore their queerness? Plus: When becoming a girl is like cutting out egg (lol) in bread products. This Week in Gender: Here’s the New York Magazine phallo essay . Don’t read the comments :) Do you ha...
Dec 27, 2021•41 min•Season 8Ep. 10
Tuck speaks with musician Ezra Furman (she/they) . Topics include: Gender as a religion; transness as a mystical cult The power of taking control (and overcoming HRT hang-ups) Trans voice feelings as professional voice-users A collection of genders based off Billy Joel lyrics Plus: sympathetic pregnancy, Lou Reed, rabbinical school, and coming out as a mom. This Week in Gender: New Zealand unanimously passes its self-ID law ; a trans student in Missouri wins a sex-discrimination lawsuit ; Chile ...
Dec 20, 2021•43 min•Season 8Ep. 9
Tuck speaks with theorist, author, and abolitionist Da’Shaun Harrison (they/them) . Topics include: The way fatness functions as its own gender Working towards a better world without hope that we’ll achieve it Why the concept of health is unsalvageable Why we’re tired of talking about pronouns with cis people Plus: destroying gender! This Week in Gender: WPATH’s Standards of Care 8 is open for public comment through Dec 16. Find Da’Shaun and Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as An...
Dec 13, 2021•44 min•Season 8Ep. 8
Tuck speaks with Calvin Kasulke (he/him), author of Several People Are Typing. Topics include: The secret(?!?) baby-trans subtext of Calvin’s debut novel Writing fiction (about Slack dot com) vs journalism (about bodega dick pills) Parallels between sobriety and transitioning Calvin asks Tuck a question (a.k.a. “there’s cops here and I’m gay”) Plus: GLAAD Awards Travis Bickle // nu-metal Big Bird // cyberpunk Rodney Dangerfield This Week in Gender: A town in Bangladesh elects a hijra mayor (ish)...
Dec 06, 2021•42 min•Season 8Ep. 7
Tuck speaks with game designer and cultural consultant Yeonsoo Julian Kim (they/she). Topics include: Creating games where every playable character is nonbinary (or, in other cases, Korean) The joys of BDSM tea party games and horror erotic fiction Why “romanticizing colonialism” is a surprisingly common game plot Playing to win vs. playing to process your feelings and maybe have a nice cry Plus: divorcing fear from gender; and the DnD to HRT pipeline This Week in Gender: Iowa Medicaid must star...
Nov 29, 2021•49 min•Season 8Ep. 6
Tuck speaks with lawyer and trans advocate Chase Strangio (he/they). Topics include: Why everything is going to keep getting worse (sorry!) How “biological” sex only exists in the law to exclude trans people Trans joy as a political counterpoint to right-wing legislation Cis women’s crucial role in combatting transphobia Plus: Throwing yourself on the ground screaming at the gender binary This Week in Gender: The IOC releases new guidelines for trans & intersex athlete eligibility; and Calif...
Nov 22, 2021•55 min•Season 8Ep. 5
Tuck speaks with Jackie Ess (she/her), author of Darryl . Topics include: The future of trans literature (whatever that means) Writing from the outside and avoiding tokenization How to avoid being the worst kind of reader Hints to the subjects of Jackie’s next two books Plus: Jonathan Franzen, Jack Harlow, Casey Plett, Torrey Peters, Hugo Grotius, and the Situation? This Week in Gender: Para sports and the Paralympics. (You can read WBC’s trans inclusion policy here .) Find Jackie on Twitter @ja...
Nov 15, 2021•51 min•Season 8Ep. 4
