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, at a stroke, [the author] as one of the great writers of her generation"(!!!) Support the LittlePuss Press Kickstarter by May 17, or shop all their existing ...
May 06, 2024•24 min
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 soup, King of Falafel , and securely attached Super Smash Bros characters? This Week in Gender: Kai Jacobsen brave...
Apr 29, 2024•56 min•Season 12Ep. 13
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 Corner ( lol ) Find Jerika’s events at seattletransjoy.com and @seattletransjoy . Submit a piece of Theymail : Today...
Apr 15, 2024•54 min•Season 12Ep. 12
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 first (lol). The Prospects is available now wherever books are sold! Find KT Hoffman at kthoffmanwrites.com ...
Apr 09, 2024•15 min
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-child top surgery? This Week in Gender: A Trans Day of Snack update! Find Yin @redcanarysong @kinkoutevents and @y...
Apr 08, 2024•45 min•Season 12Ep. 11
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 sjbranson.com and @shulibranson . Practical Anarchism is available f...
Mar 30, 2024•27 min
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 everyone in the trans community is annoying in different beautiful ways :) :) :) Plus: “Fake bi to real bi,” best novelty license plates, and Chaz Bono shopping in Miami? This Week in Gender: There’s new work...
Mar 25, 2024•58 min•Season 12Ep. 10
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 the Joy Luck Club (not that one) saved her life This Week in Gender: Listen to Hang Up . Find Liz at lizthegrey...
Mar 18, 2024•48 min•Season 12Ep. 9
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 Activities, and And Just Like That… This Week in Gender: Remembering Fola. A full episode transcript is available at genderpodcast.com/listen . You can find a...
Mar 11, 2024•42 min•Season 12Ep. 8
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 Spears, the “gay lisp,” and doing ethnographies in the club This Week in Gender: Get ready for Trans Day of Snack 2024! Find Ariana at arianasteele.com . Submit...
Mar 04, 2024•45 min•Season 12Ep. 7
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 entirely? Plus: Burning Man hot takes, Paul Bunyan’s BDE and the Muffler Man renaissance This Week in Gender: Krys Malcolm Belc reviews Caitlyn Jenner’s memoir....
Feb 26, 2024•1 hr•Season 12Ep. 6
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 how Harry Potter ruined a visit to a Portuguese bookstore This Week in Gender: Cecilia at St. Patrick’s. (Full video...
Feb 19, 2024•57 min•Season 12Ep. 5
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 (with transcript) “ Cecilia Gentili’s Revolutionary Ask ” on Latino USA “ History of the Stroll & Stories from a Trans Elder ” on Afterlives: The Layleen Polanco Story (w/ Raquel Willis ) Interview w...
Feb 12, 2024•15 min
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 impulses Is it actually more responsible to give away your savings right now?? Plus: Palestine solidarity, abolishing work, and signing up for your shift at th...
Feb 05, 2024•57 min•Season 12Ep. 4
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 Plus: Lexification of t4t and putting ur relationship through academic peer review This Week in Gender: Jesse Lawson & Lou Sulliva...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 12Ep. 3
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: Envisioning yourself as a house for many different / differently-gendered beings (“and they’re all employed!”) This Week in Gender: We remix a 4-year-old TSA segmen...
Jan 22, 2024•49 min•Season 12Ep. 2
We’re back, baby! Tuck chats with Lamya H (she/they), author of Hijab Butch Blues . Topics include: Discovering queer themes (and dykes!) in the Quran How having a baby helped Lamya assert their own gender identity TFW someone suggests you read your own pseudonymous memoir Finding gender euphoria in religious practice Plus: Pinkwashing, Dadaism, and subway speed challenges This Week in Gender: Dakota Hommes reports on union bargaining for trans healthcare. Find Lamya at lamyah.com and @lamyaisan...
Jan 15, 2024•53 min•Season 12Ep. 1
Tuck chats with journalist Rax Will (he/they) about queer food, pronoun-themed cocktails, and “AFAB” trans clothing brands (derogatory). Plus, news about next season! Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of: Rax’s extensive research about trans people and dog food(?!) Why the hottest new accessory is the NYC diaper Receiving the perfect “sorry I misgendered u” gift Why one of the best queer bars won’t hang a pride flag And more that we cannot even mention here!!! Find Rax @ bigf...
Jan 10, 2024•18 min
Tuck speaks with Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas way back on Trans Day of Snack 2023. It's a Gender Reveal x Gender Spiral crossover event! Find Gender Spiral at genderspiralpod.com as well as Instagram , TikTok , and Patreon .
Jan 08, 2024•53 min
A few quick announcements on what's coming up next. Thanks to Blue Dot Sessions as always for the music bed.
Dec 29, 2023•3 min
Quick announcement because I remembered that not everyone is on Instagram dot com. This year's grant applications close on Halloween night. Apply at bit.ly/GRgrant23 , and find a full list of past grant recipients at genderpodcast.com/grant . Spread the word! Grab free tickets for the November 10 2 Trans 2 Furious event (featuring Tuck, Tre'vell Anderson, and Mckenzee Griffler) at bit.ly/2T2FLA. Only a few left! Also, we've got a new Gender Conceal episode with Mckenzee and it really is somethin...
Oct 27, 2023•3 min
Tuck chats with activist Raquel Willis (she/her). Topics include: Why having the ~most radical gender~ isn’t a useful standard Reconciling your feminism with your transsexual desires Parental loss, and death as an animating force How to choose a good beneficiary for trans fundraising Plus: Afrotransmisogyny, Janet Mock, and… Fortnite?? This Week in Gender: Girlfriends by Emily Zhou; Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas; People Collide by Isle McElroy; Laugh Riot by Io & Jonas Goonface. Find Raqu...
Oct 02, 2023•59 min•Season 11Ep. 14
Tuck and Ozzy chat with author Alison Rumfitt (she/her). Topics include: When people fail to recognize their kink as simply a kink Letting go of the need to ~understand~ TERFs What makes a good trauma narrative? Reappropriating an accidentally-trans Eminem lyric Plus: Utopian organ dreams and trans slug allyship? (Also: worms!) Find Alison @alison.zone (IG) and @hangsawoman (Bluesky/Twitter). Preorder Brainwyrms before Oct 10. Come see Tuck & Mckenzee at North Figueroa Bookshop on Nov 10! Jo...
Sep 25, 2023•40 min•Season 11Ep. 13
Tuck chats with drag performer Chiquitita (she/her). Topics include: Why trans people make the best drag performers (even w/o clothes) Dealing with family members who don’t grow alongside you A romcom-worthy t4t meet-cute An exclusive future name change announcement(!) Plus: Nicki, Lana, TS Jackson, getting FFS in Spain and tranifesting a trans magician?? This Week in Gender: Should you let an app trace your gender? Part 3! Find Chiqui @chiquitettas on IG. Join our Patreon ( patreon.com/gender )...
Sep 18, 2023•49 min•Season 11Ep. 12
Tuck chats with Casey Plett (she/her), Fran Tirado (she/they) and Kendra Wells (they/them) live at the Bell House. Topics include: Gossip from the Fire Island Doll Invasion Is Fast & Furious more like Shakespeare or Dante’s Inferno? Casey’s very secret fan fiction Kendra's book title reveal! Plus: Elf pervert gender, Che Diaz redemption arc, and a fast(!) reading from Casey Find Kendra at kendrawcandraw.com . Find Fran @fransquishco and Like a Virgin . Find Casey at caseyplett.com (and last ...
Sep 11, 2023•37 min•Season 11Ep. 11
Tuck and Ozzy chat with author Casey Plett (she/her). Topics include: Is queer community… bad for us? Is it finally time to talk about Topside? The present and future of trans publishing Accidentally teaching girlies about the COGIATI(!?) Plus: Mennonite masculinity, Super Smash Bros, and Taylor Swift’s Red This Week in Gender: Niko Stratis shares the latest from Autostraddle’s ongoing implosion . Read more via MB’s thread . Find Casey at caseyplett.com and preorder On Community . Submit a piece...
Sep 04, 2023•51 min•Season 11Ep. 10
Tuck catches up with cultural critic Soleil Ho (they/them). Topics include: Doing secret drag at an anti-trans fundraising dinner Should we abolish restaurants? Why insisting on “authentic” recipes is... fascist Soleil’s takes that are too spicy for a mainstream newspaper Plus: Strikes at the pronoun factory and worldwide socialist revolution This Week in Gender: Breaking down a new study about top surgery regret (or a complete lack thereof). Find Soleil at soleilho.com and read their work at SF...
Aug 21, 2023•49 min•Season 11Ep. 9
Tuck chats with actress Nicole Maines (she/her). Topics include: The long, slow process of transitioning in elementary school Picketing with the WGA even before the SAG-AFTRA strike Writing a trans superhero’s origin story Getting name inspiration from Nickelodeon & Disney Channel Plus: vampire hot takes and Danny Phantom Tumblr discourse?! This Week in Gender: A moment from the O’Shae Sibley vigil Get your tickets to our August 28 live show! 2 Trans 2 Furious PDFs and physical copies availa...
Aug 14, 2023•53 min•Season 11Ep. 8
Tuck chats with sports journalist Katie Barnes (they/them). Topics include: Will “the science” ever be settled re: trans athletes? How coordinated are all these anti-trans sports bills? Why most teams should be co-ed (and why most elite sports shouldn’t be) What makes a bad interview question? (Asking for a friend lol) Plus: Getting banned for your bones, interviewing trans kids, and a reminder that sports are hard! This Week in Gender: Joan Summers on Barbie (2023) Find Katie @katie_barnes3 and...
Aug 07, 2023•59 min•Season 11Ep. 7
The most recent episode of the Anti-Trans Hate Machine is a banger, and we thought you should hear it. Listen to the Anti-Trans Hate Machine (a TransLash production) wherever you get your podcasts, or read the transcript here .
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 29 min
