This week, we’ve got a grab bag of bonus content! Topics include: Book and comic recommendations from Hal Schrieve Kurt Russell, gender roots, and movie tuberculosis with Calvin Kasulke Multiple other trans podcasts that Tuck recently guested on An important 2 Trans 2 Furious zine update A live show announcement And more! Find this month’s full Gender Conceal episode, “Managing Rihanna’s MLB expansion team with Calvin Kasulke,” exclusively on Patreon . Live show tickets available now! Find Tuck ...
Jul 31, 2023•28 min
Tuck chats with author and comic artist Hal Schrieve (ze/hir). Topics include: Growing up as a trans teen and surviving via messy queer youth spaces Writing about horny trans youth while working as a children’s librarian Emailing [redacted famous transphobe] about Kate Bush and tits Being pro-chaser and furry-adjacent? Plus: Tumblr, t4t discourse, sci-fi and Samuel Delany This Week in Gender: Gretchen Felker-Martin , Torrey Peters , Max Graves , Leo Fox , Topside Press , Hal’s new book and more....
Jul 24, 2023•58 min•Season 11Ep. 6
Ozzy and Tuck chat with author M.E. O’Brien (she/her), whose work explores trans communist futures. Topics include: What can family abolition offer trans people? The limits of chosen family under capitalism Why we shouldn’t replace family with The State, either The similarities between her psychoanalyst and oral history work Plus: Why protest camps are important visions of the future This Week in Gender: Japan’s Supreme Court lets a trans woman pee , but trans and queer Japanese people still lac...
Jul 17, 2023•58 min•Season 11Ep. 5
Tuck share their favorite episode of their new favorite podcast. Find Sounds Gay wherever you get podcasts. Sandy Stone's incredible time capsule of a website is sandystone.com .
Jul 10, 2023•45 min
Tuck chats IN PERSON with Mattie Lubchansky (they/them) about Boys Weekend, the Nib, Mattie’s next project, and also Orville Peck. Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of: Why every book Mattie has ever worked on has been banned What parts of Boys Weekend are inspired by Mattie’s life Ursula K. Le Guin vs Margaret Atwood The secrets to a successful marriage??? Like 10 minutes of Broadway reviews & Sondheim discussion The time Tuck talked about being the mayor of Portland liv...
Jul 06, 2023•13 min
Tuck chats with activist, performer, and politician Honey Mahogany (she/her). Topics include: Being one of the first official Drag Queen Story Hour performers Founding the world’s first transgender cultural district Collectively owning a queer bar with 17 other people Lip syncing to Tranny Chaser with Jinkx Monsoon on RPDR Season 5 (lol) Plus: Adopting your drag name full-time and being “too pretty, too real!” This Week in Gender: Ozzy shares good news from Arkansas and Florida . Find Honey on I...
Jun 26, 2023•45 min•Season 11Ep. 4
Tuck tackles more advice questions with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include: Is getting top surgery bad for my cool radical politics? Should I tell my dentist I’m a transsexual? Going on HRT in the public eye Embracing a complete lack of self-permanence as queer culture Being trans and closeted in Idaho Plus: zarfs, girlcotts, spiro complaints, and Meredith Brooks?? This Week in Gender: We congratulate Cat , Edgar , Sabs , J. Harrison Ghee, Alex Newell , and other recent ...
Jun 19, 2023•53 min•Season 11Ep. 3
Ozzy and Tuck chat with tattoo artist M Nijiya (they/them). Topics include: Tattoos as gender-affirming care What to know about nipple tattoos before top surgery Why introverts should get face tattoos(?!) What white people get very wrong about “Japanese-style” tattoos Plus: Choosing a new last name; “irreversible damage” but for tattoos; and the drag king to HRT pipeline This Week in Gender: Tuck reads a little story. Find M at jackalopetattoo.com and @tattoos.by.m. Get yr tickets to see Tuck at...
Jun 11, 2023•54 min•Season 11Ep. 2
Tuck chats with cartoonist A. Andrews (they/them). Topics include: Unicycling while your peers go to sex ed Dating someone with your former name Navigating the healthcare system as a disabled trans person Running afoul of state laws for drawing very normal objects (!) Plus: Ableist editor gossip, quadruple Leo status, and banning parents (lol)??? This Week in Gender: Listen to t4t , Call Me Mother , and Stealth: a Transmasculine Podcast . Find A. Andrews at heyandrews.com and @_anghost on Twitte...
Jun 05, 2023•59 min•Season 11Ep. 1
Tuck chats with Naveen Kundanmal (they/them) about doing Shania Twain karaoke at the Texas State Capitol and tracking your HRT timeline via pterodactyl screeches. (Plus, news about next season!) Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of: Trying to plan a (gender-neutral) wedding without being cringe Getting medicated out of your need to TikTok Bonding with your mom over changing your first name as an adult What does Patti Harrison have to do with our cursed friendship origin story...
Jun 02, 2023•14 min
Happy Fast X Day! We're celebrating chosen familia by sharing Mckenzee's essay "Letty Did Not Trans Me But Maybe She Did" from our upcoming anthology 2 TRANS 2 FURIOUS, now available for preorder! (Note: Tuck's audio quality got messed up but we're just rolling with it, OK?) Preorder 2 TRANS 2 FURIOUS at 2trans2furious.bigcartel.com . Get your 10% off discount code at patreon.com/gender . Find Mattie Lubchansky on tour , and especially in Queens with Tuck ! Listen to Tuck on You're Wrong About ....
May 19, 2023•16 min
Tuck chats with Mckenzee about basement pizza, intrusive thoughts, the PTW slur, our college radio origin story, and a partial list of ways to be "more transsexual." Find the full episode on Patreon for discussions of: Joyce Carol Oates tweet crimes Winning with your real tits and ass Femboy vs rosboy?? Celebrity posting allyship Oakland possums and NYC rats (complimentary) To Wong Foo vs Priscilla Queen of the Desert Moaning like a cop Luigi, a famous trans woman Is it valid to say that things ...
May 13, 2023•11 min
Happy Trans Day of Snack! We’re explaining today’s mutual aid campaign (including FREE SNACKS for trans people in 26 US states) and sharing a sneak peek of our snack-packed chat with Lilith K, tweeter of that famous tweet . Our full interview with Lilith is available here . Find Lilith at @deathcarpets and on the podcasts Ghostpuncher Corps and Diet Coke & Lilith’s House of Snax . Sign up to receive your snack and/or financial aid at bit.ly/tdos2023 . View our list of trans resources at bit....
Mar 31, 2023•19 min
Tuck chats with actor and writer Ryan Ken (they/them). Topics include: Why a TikTok can be more useful than a DEI training Using fashion strategically as a fat, Black, queer, nonbinary person When astrology can be reminiscent of Evangelical Christianity Why masculinity, not femininity, felt fragile and delicate as a child Plus: classical violin, Last Week Tonight, and moving beyond allyship This Week in Gender: Ryan’s TikTok videos about The New York Times and Beauty & the Beast . Find Ryan ...
Feb 27, 2023•56 min•Season 10Ep. 17
Tuck chats live in Brooklyn with AC Dumlao (they/he), Mattie Lubchansky (they/them) and Io (they/them). Topics include: Changing your legal name to facilitate your Wendy’s order Why gaslighting your family is the transmasc experience Reading the dictionary to find out if your boyfriend is queer Putting a basketball in your Irreversible Damage hole Plus: Gaylor thoughts, community theater gender journeys, swiping on Grimblr, and establishing a parliament of gender failures. This Week in Gender: S...
Feb 20, 2023•58 min•Season 10Ep. 16
Tuck checks in with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler (she/her). Topics include: Speedrunning gender Special girl bottom surgery Getting comfortable with public voice training Finally not thinking about gender at all times constantly(!) Plus: toe gender, breakfast sandwich crimes, and gender podcast good actually?! This Week in Gender: Unholy underwhelms Satanists, per TMZ . (Learn more on Eating for Free .) Find Mckenzee at mckenzeegriffler.com and opensanctuary.org . Her Gender Conceal advice ...
Feb 13, 2023•42 min•Season 10Ep. 15
Tuck speaks with hacktivist maia arson crimew (it/she). Topics include: Takeaways from the No Fly List leak Why “white hat” and “black hat” hacking is another false binary An argument against copyright laws Which came first, the hacker or the catgirl? Plus: bi lesbians, bingle, and the one time horseshoe theory was real?? Find maia @_nyancrimew and at maia.crimew.gay . Its excellent merch is available on Teepublic . Tickets for our Feb. 1 Brooklyn live show are on sale now ! Submit a piece of Th...
Jan 30, 2023•30 min•Season 10Ep. 14
Tuck speaks with DEI strategist Lily Zheng (they/them). Topics include: Why pizza can be more useful than a 60-minute workshop Can we DEI our way out of transphobic workplaces? What makes allyship performative? (It’s not what you think!) Should corporations be hosting Trans Day of Remembrance events? Plus: does DEI work delay the proletarian revolution?? This Week in Gender: an exclusive Gender Conceal clip with Kirby Conrod about all things -ussy. Find Lily at lilyzheng.co and on LinkedIn . Lis...
Jan 23, 2023•57 min•Season 10Ep. 13
Tuck speaks with gender-affirming voice teacher Renée Yoxon (they/them). Topics include: How do we modify the perceived gender of our voices? What exactly causes a “t-voice”? What does nonbinary vocal training sound like? How do mobility aids affect the way your gender is perceived? Plus: Maverique gender, jazz, and how the two dogs inside of you can change your vocal resonance!? This Week in Gender: Elevated Access and the International Society of Nonbinary Scientists ( ISNBS ) Find Renée at re...
Jan 16, 2023•54 min•Season 10Ep. 12
Tuck speaks with author and podcast host Margaret Killjoy (she/they). Topics include: What to consider before moving to a queer off-grid land project Suing RENT (2005) to get credit for playing melodica!? The secret rules of writing heterosexual romance novels Easy, actionable ways that we can all prepare for disasters Plus: Feminazgûl, high school GSAs, anarchism, and exploding the czar This Week in Gender: It’s our fifth anniversary, baby! Find Margaret on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff and Li...
Jan 09, 2023•58 min•Season 10Ep. 11
Tuck speaks with musician Alynda Mariposa Segarra (they/them) of Hurray for the Riff Raff. Topics include: Crashing a blockbuster film set in a jangly key bikini Refusing to be made a spectacle (as a nonbinary Puerto Rican and a former train-hopping crust(y) punk) What do adrienne maree brown, Julian Casablancas, Sylvia Rivera and the Young Lords have in common? Coming back into your body after dissociating for a decade Plus: pisces vs cancers, getting middle-name deadnamed, and walking knowingl...
Jan 02, 2023•51 min•Season 10Ep. 10
Tuck speaks with māhū artist Lehuauakea (they/them). Topics include: Should you be going to Hawaii???? Being cornered, exotified and spat on(!) by white patrons Native Hawaiian gender terms and cultural roles The past, present, and future of kapa-making Plus: Finding faith that the world will continue to exist, lol? This Week in Gender: More about drivers license gender markers, including stats from California and another story from Rosemary. Find Lehuauakea’s work at lehuauakea.com and @_lehuau...
Dec 26, 2022•50 min•Season 10Ep. 9
It's a Christmas miracle — we've got tickets on sale to our February 1st live show, feauting four of your favorite Gender Reveal alumni. Get your tickets here while you can!
Dec 22, 2022•5 min
Tuck speaks with organizer and educator Dean Spade (he/him). Topics include: Why civil rights laws won’t save us Common mutual aid struggles: money, security culture, etc. Why does burnout convince us that we can’t take a break? Reflections 20 years after founding the Sylvia Rivera Law Project Plus: dinosaur gender, x markers, and talking people out of law school This Week in Gender: The Texas government tried to make a database of residents who changed their gender markers . Find Dean’s work at...
Dec 19, 2022•57 min•Season 10Ep. 8
Tuck speaks with writer and creature enthusiast Sabrina Imbler (they/them). Topics include: A Who’s Who of the ocean’s notable transsexuals Writing about trans youth for the New York Times (lol, lmao) Seeking gender role models from creatures, plants, and fungi Why is a sad octopus more heartbreaking than a sad human? Plus: Neopets, the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, and a goldfish driving a tank(?!) This Week in Gender: Carl Charles shares a trans Supreme Court update . Find Sabrina on Twitter @aznfus...
Dec 05, 2022•59 min•Season 10Ep. 7
Tuck speaks with Eating for Free cohost Joan Summers (she/her) Topics include: Getting outed by your pastor’s wife in a movie theater parking lot Why celebrities should come out via strategic trips to CVS Union organizing for trans healthcare… and how it can go wrong Why do famous people love the word pansexual? Plus: Should we put Harry Styles on trial for gender crimes? This Week in Gender: You can read the Daniel Aston tributes here and here and read another special message here . (Also: oh, ...
Nov 28, 2022•58 min•Season 10Ep. 6
Tuck speaks with poet and drag artist Wo Chan (they/them), who performs as the Illustrious Pearl. Topics include: Re-evaluating the narrative of your book after starting psychoanalysis Combining poetry and drag performance into… PowerPoint drag! Creating art out of testimonials from your family’s deportation proceedings Learning to share without oversharing — and without judging yourself for oversharing Plus: Ostrich feathers, Cantopop, loneliness, poop poems, and the stage as a sacrificial alta...
Nov 21, 2022•50 min•Season 10Ep. 5
In the second half of this special two-part episode, Tuck speaks with organizer and library worker Dakota Hommes (she/her). Topics include: Organizing the first library union in the state(!) Missouri’s ban on “explicit” books in schools Transition as a spiritual experience Plus: Narwhal facts, TikTok, and trans Harry Potter fanfic. Find Dakota on Instagram @dakotahommes and on TikTok @dakota.danger . (Visit her Linktree for the merch and fanfic that we reference in the interview.) Join our Patre...
Nov 17, 2022•28 min•Season 10Ep. 4
In the first half of this special two-part episode, Tuck speaks with Starbucks Workers United organizer Spencer (they/she). Topics include: Maintaining a 24/7 picket line for a 64-day-long strike(!) What is the best way to support the Starbucks union and employees? Why are union organizers disproportionately trans? Plus: The literal Pinkertons and the future of labor. Find Spencer and their coworkers on Twitter at @bostonsbwu . Join our Patreon ( patreon.com/gender ) to get access to our monthly...
Nov 14, 2022•36 min•Season 10Ep. 3
Tuck speaks with comedian, performer, and event producer Howie Echo-Hawk (they/them). Topics include: What do pronoun go-arounds and land acknowledgements have in common? Is it even possible to decolonize gender? Why your comedy can’t come solely from suffering Using nature to explore identity beyond language Plus: Dance parties, autism superpowers, and punishment comedy This Week in Gender: The past and future of the US Trans Survey, which is available until November 21 at ustranssurvey.org . (...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr•Season 10Ep. 2
