Gender Reveal

Tuck speaks with artist, filmmaker, and cultural producer Zackary Drucker (she/her). Topics include: How a trans con artist taught Zackary to cut herself some slack  Telling complicated trans stories on TV Creating T4T representation before “T4T” was a thing Gender clownery with Flawless Sabrina  Plus: Commissioning a transphobia montage featuring Tucker Carlson’s shitty dad This Week in Gender: New York finally repeals its Walking While Trans law.  The Lady and the Dale is streaming now on HBOMax.  Zackary is on Instagram @zackarydrucker. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.  Find transcripts of the show at genderpodcast.com. Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message was from Em Solarova and “Person Who”.  Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2. Do you have gender questions that you’d like answered on the show? Submit questions anony

Tuck speaks with Diamond Stylz (she/her), creator of Marsha’s Plate and executive director of Black Trans Women Inc. Topics include: Does trans representation actually help trans people? Why trans equity trainings don’t work The importance of spurning sea lions and building community How Lauryn Hill (of all people) helped Diamond embrace her voice How to be a true ally & co-conspirator  Plus: Coming out in the ‘90s, finding a HRT specialist in the yellow pages and being a trans YouTuber in 2008. BONUS! Other Black queer podcasts Diamond recommends: Box No. 512 Podcast: Grown Black Trans Women Talk; Inner Hoe Uprising; QueerWOC; Tea with Queen and J. This Week in Gender: We revisit Paige Kreisman’s views on trans military service and celebrate the singular talent of SOPHIE. Support Diamond’s work by donating at blacktranswomen.org/donate and supporting Marsha’s Plate on Patreon.  You can find Diamond on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube @DiamondStylz. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendere

Tuck speaks with scholar and Trans Care author Hil Malatino (he/they). Topics include: Why we can’t talk about gender without talking about race How Hil’s intersex condition—and health insurance—influenced his transition Why debates about labels are debates about belonging Trans academia and the “cannibalization” of trans scholars Plus: Dad-as-gender, the best little boy in the world, and the difference between genders and Gender This Week in Gender: Dr. Rachel Levine was nominated to be the US assistant secretary of health. Support Hil’s work by purchasing Trans Care from University of Minnesota Press and Queer Embodiment from University of Nebraska Press. There’s also an open-access copy of Trans Care available here. Authors cited: María Lugones, C. Riley Snorton (Black on Both Sides), Susan Stryker, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Care Work) You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@gendereveal). Find transcripts of the show at genderpodcast.com. Browse our January merch collection at bit.ly/gender

Tuck speaks with multimedia artist and Black Feast founder Salimatu Amabebe (he/they). Topics include: Feeling denied access to "womanhood" as a Black person Loving your body as a trans person Dating advice!  “I don’t really want terms that apply to me” Plus: Salimatu pitches you his food-dom TV pilot  This Week in Gender: Bell v Tavistock.  Support Salimatu’s work via Venmo (@blackfeast) or Cash App (@blackfeast, @salimatuamabebe). Follow Salimatu on IG @black.feast and @salimatuamabebe. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram (@gendereveal).  Find transcripts of the show at genderpodcast.com. Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message was from Heebie Jeebies Jewelry. Browse our limited-edition merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch. (Hurry, everything leaves the store on 1/31.) Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2. Do you have gender questions tha

Tuck speaks with lawyer and TLC-reality-special star Ari Robbins Greene (they/he). Topics include: Giving birth on a TV show Pregnancy advice for transmasculine folks  Raising babies without gendering them  Fighting to get insurance companies to cover FFS Plus: telling your coworkers about your secret vagina  This Week in Gender: Democrats in Congress pass a resolution to de-gender terminology in the House Rules (via Snopes). Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. We also welcome donations via PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo.  Find episode transcripts and other resources at genderpodcast.com.  We’re also on Twitter or Instagram @gendereveal. Our host is @tuckwoodstock.  Browse our limited-edition merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch.  Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2. Do you have gender questions that you’d like answered on the show? Submit questions anonymously via this Google form. Special thanks this week to Ally Stoneham. Editor: Bab

Tuck speaks with author and community worker Kai Cheng Thom (she/her) in our longest episode ever. Topics include: The harm of problematic/pure and perpetrator/victim binaries The evolution of “femme” and “transsexual” The future of trans kids and class solidarity Losing faith, but not hope, in community justice Plus: Spicy trans memoir takes, Kai Cheng’s secret Goop life, and being the only masters-credentialed trans woman therapist in Canada This Week in Gender: A federal judge strikes down a transphobic policy in Ohio; Argentina now has a 1% employment quota for trans people in the public sector; and Joe Biden transes his transition team.   Authors referenced: Mariame Kaba, Sarah Schulman, Porpentine Charity Heartscape, adrienne maree brown, Janet Mock, Imogen Binnie (Nevada) Buy Kai Cheng’s books: A Place Called No Homeland (poetry), Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (fiction), I Hope We Choose Love (essays) and From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea (picture book).  Join our Patreon (pa

Tuck speaks with prison abolitionist and A.B.O. Comix cofounder Casper Cendre (he/they).  Topics include: Becoming a better ally for incarcerated people.  Living in a place where physical intimacy is a crime. Gender-affirming surgeries and medical care in prison.  Are queer people usually “out" in prison? Plus: an update on how prisons are handling Covid-19  This Week in Gender: It’s the happiest season, baybee! We recommend this episode of the Bechdel Cast, guest-starring Jes Tom.  Please help A.B.O. Comix's Holiday Commissary Fundraiser meet its goal! You can also order A.B.O. Comix anthologies and zines (and other fun merch) at abocomix.com. Sign up for a penpal at abocomix.com or blackandpinkpenpals.org or abolitionapostles.com. Follow A.B.O Comix on IG (@a.b.o.comix). We’re also on Twitter and Instagram (@gendereveal). Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. A.B.O. Comix is also on Patreon at patreon.com/abocomix.  Browse our limited-edition merch colle

Tuck speaks with Oklahoma representative Mauree Turner (they/she), the first openly nonbinary state legislator in the United States.  Topics include: Reimagining the justice system in the incarceration capital of the world. Working in spaces that weren’t built to accommodate your existence.  The pros and cons of representing so many different identities while your white cis coworkers get to just, like, chill.  Dress codes.... they're bad!  Plus: Which Steven Universe character is Mauree?  This Week in Gender: Send Christmas gifts to trans youth via @TranSanta. Find Mauree on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok (@MaureeTurnerOK) and hear them chat with Imara Jones on the TransLash Podcast. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram (@gendereveal). Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message was from Calcifer Somerset. Browse our limited-edition merch collection at bit.l

Tuck answers our trickiest advice questions yet with BFF of the show Z Griffler (they/them).  Topics include: How do I stop caring about what cis people think?!?  What pronouns should I use for nonbinary people in languages they don’t speak? What if I’m being misgendered at work but don’t want to lose my job? Can you be a boy without being a man? Plus: Tuck really, really rips into some guy named Mike (and also Joe Biden?) Remember, your gender isn’t conditional on whether it makes people comfortable! :) This Week in Gender: Tulsi Gabbard continues to be anti-LGBTQ. Do you have gender questions that you’d like answered on the show? Submit questions anonymously via this Google form. Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. We also welcome donations via PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo.  Browse our limited-edition merch at bit.ly/gendermerch.  We have transcriptions available for every episode, as well as “starter packs” for new listeners, at genderpodcast.com  We’r

In the Season 6 premiere, we speak with Imara Jones (she/her), founder of TransLash Media and host of the TransLash Podcast. Topics include: Why trans rights are the secret to defeating patriarchy How to be a better ally to Black trans people Why trans folks are essential leaders for building better futures The saga of Imara’s open letter to BET  Plus: we're angry about needing to be angry This Week in Gender: Celebrating the life of Monica Roberts, creator of TransGriot. Browse our limited-edition merch collection at bit.ly/gendermerch. (Hurry, everything leaves the store on 12/31.) We now have transcriptions available for every episode from Season 1-5, as well as “starter packs” for folks new to the show. Find them at genderpodcast.com  We’re on Twitter or Instagram @gendereveal. You can also follow our host's reporting at @tuckwoodstock. Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. We also welcome donations via PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo. Thank you! Submit

In this tiny bonus episode, Tuck makes a big announcement about Season 6, and recommends a few podcasts to listen to while you wait: Tuck on Behind the Bastards (part one) Tuck on LGBTQ&A TransLash podcast Marsha's Plate -- You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also follow Tuck at @tuckwoodstock. Season Six is on the way! Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards, and to support our grant/mutual aid program.  Learn more about Tuck's trans-focused equity consulting company at Sylveon.co. Logo: Ira M. Leigh Theme Song: Breakmaster Cylinder

In which Tuck whispers to you in their closet for what might be one four-minute run-on sentence.  Share the last thing that brought you joy (or just browse a lot of very good animal photos): https://twitter.com/tuckwoodstock/status/1323663746506485760 Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org Trevor Project: https://www.thetrevorproject.org 21 trans candidates running for office this fall: https://www.mic.com/p/meet-all-21-openly-trans-candidates-running-for-office-this-fall-40830735 I love you.

This week, Tuck belatedly announces our latest grant program and mutual aid fund. (Applications due by 10/31.) Then, we listen to Jeffrey Masters interview Laverne Cox on acclaimed queer interview podcast LGBTQ&A. Apply to the Black/Indigenous Trans and Two-Spirit Grant Program: bit.ly/GR20grant Apply to the BIPOC Trans Mutual Aid Fund: bit.ly/GR20aid Learn more about our grant program: genderpodcast.com/grant Help us fund more mutual aid payments! Send payments via Venmo (@Tuck-Woodstock), Cash App ($TuckWoodstock) or PayPal. Browse our limited-edition spooky gender merch: bit.ly/gendermerch Listen to LGBTQ&A wherever you listen to Gender Reveal. -- You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also follow Tuck at @tuckwoodstock. Season Six is on the way! Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards, and to support our grant/mutual aid program.  Learn more about Tuck's trans-focused equity consulting company at Sylveon.co. Logo: 

This week, Tuck chats a bit before sharing an episode of the TransLash Podcast, a new show that covers news, culture and politics from a trans perspective, hosted by Peabody and Emmy-award-winning journalist Imara Jones. In this episode, Imara Jones talks with Kai Wright, who hosts WNYC’s The United States of Anxiety, about the links between transphobia, the history of fear in America and the 2020 elections. Plus, Marquise Vilson, a Black-trans actor and activist, opens up about the importance of transmasculine representation and using his platform to combat violence against trans women of color. Subscribe to the TransLash Podcast wherever you listen to this show, and learn more at translash.org.  This Week in Gender: "Woman who popularized the gender reveal party says enough already after latest wildfire" via CNN. We have brand-new merch in the shop available through September 15 at bit.ly/gendermerch. -- You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also follow our host's reporti

This week, Tuck shares an excerpt from Transcripts, a new trans activism podcast by the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project. Subscribe to Transcripts wherever you get podcasts. Find transcripts of Transcripts (lol) at bit.ly/transcriptspod. Donate to Brave Space Alliance and Black Transwomen Inc. This episode features hosts Myrl Beam (Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Minnesota) and Andrea Jenkins (Minneapolis City Council) plus guests LaSaia Wade, founder of the Brave Space Alliance, Diamond Stylz of Black Transwomen Inc., Gabriel Foster, founder of the Trans Justice Funding Project, Rickke Mananzala, former Executive Director of FIERCE, and Dean Spade, founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. --- You can reach us at genderpodcast.com or on Twitter or Instagram. You can also follow our host's reporting at @tuckwoodstock. Season Six is on the way! Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewards. We also welcome donations via PayPal, Cash App, or

In the Season 5 finale (finally!!!), we celebrate Leo season by speaking with audio producer, stand-up comic and drag queen Hideo Higashibaba (he/him). [CW: mentions of suicide (40-41:20)] Topics include: What you might not understand about “chosen family” Growing up in a cult that hates queer and trans people Rebuilding yr entire framework for understanding the world, from scratch.  Being a transfemme man (and discovering that via drag) Plus: “The only practical idea I’ve ever had” This Week in Gender: “The Tale of Queer Appalachia” in the Washington Post. Check the Queer Appalachia website and IG page for updates. We also mention this Netflix tweet.  Find Hideo on Instagram at @dr_miyazaki and @punchupnc, and listen to his seven-part podcast, Growing Up Moonie. Take a peek at our merch shop at bit.ly/gendermerch, or submit your own design to gendereveal@gmail.com. Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2. Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to receive our weekly newsletter and other rewar

In this bonus episode, Tuck says hi because they miss you and everything happens so much. Other media referenced: Tuck on OPB's Think Out Loud (with Sergio Olmos) Strange Fruit podcast Marsha's Plate podcast Tuck on KPCC's AirTalk (with Chris David) Tuck on KPFA's Upfront "Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets" Great episodes from Season 5 (for new listeners): Morgan Givens Alyssa Pariah Vidhya Aravind Daniel M. Lavery Cyrus Dunham Follow Tuck's reporting on Twitter @tuckwoodstock. Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2. Logo: Ira M. Leigh Music: Breakmaster Cylinder (the full theme! lucky you!) Sponsors: YOU! Thank you!

This week, we speak with nonbinary advocate Addison Rose Vincent (they/them). Topics include: Rushing sororities as the only trans person on campus Being a transfeminine person with a full beard Working at Disneyland as a nonbinary person Becoming a full-time trans advocate Plus: the double-edged sword of trans visibility This Week in Gender: Disclosure (2020); Transcripts podcast; "The International Trans Person Helpline" on Jacobin's Antibody; "The Toilets at Home Are All Gender Neutral" on Short Cuts; and Graham Linehan getting banned from Twitter. Find Addison's work at @breakthebinary, Break the Binary LLC and the Nonbinary and Intersex Recognition Project. Tuesday is your LAST CHANCE to shop our limited-edition Pride Month merch at bit.ly/gendermerch. Proceeds go to great causes like BLM, Black Visions Collective, and Trans Lifeline. Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/genderslack2. Support our work! Share any amount at patreon.com/gender to receive our weekly newsletter. We also welcome donat

Tuck rambles for fifteen consecutive minutes (oops!), then shares their conversation with Callie Wright about media literacy, passive voice, “objectivity,” and whether you can trust media coverage of protests.  This interview first aired on the Queersplaining podcast on June 9. This Week In Gender: SCOTUS LGBTQ decision! Learn more by reading Katelyn Burns’ article on the topic and listening to the Queersplaining episode on the same topic, featuring an actual expert. Other podcasts referenced in today’s intro: Tuck’s Life Kit episode, 4 Ways To Make Your Workplace Equitable For Trans People. A three-minute version of the same episode for All Things Considered. Tuck on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s news roundtable. We’ve got LOADS of NEW, limited edition Pride Month merch at bit.ly/gendermerch. (Proceeds go to great causes like BLM, Black Visions Collective, and Trans Lifeline.)  Support Tuck's reporting and full-time gender detective gig! Pledge any amount at patreon.com/gender to receive our weekly new

Tuck gives a quick overview of the many breaking trans news stories from the last few days. Then, we revisit our conversation with activist and labor organizer Alyssa Pariah (she/her). Topics include: How the Black Lives Matter movement supports trans liberation better than many LGBTQ orgs How bail funds can save Black trans lives Coping with survivor's guilt as a 32-year-old trans woman of color Also: an army of trans bitches in the class war! This Week In Gender: The Trump administration's short-lived rollback of healthcare anti-discrimination protections; today's SCOTUS decision (sort of!); Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells; Riah Milton; Layleen Polanco Xtravaganza; and more. Learn more about the Black Trans Protesters Emergency Fund; Black & Pink; TJI Justice Project; Audre Lorde Project; Don’t Shoot PDX; Critical Resistance; Pride at Work; and Jobs with Justice. (Also, never cross a picket line!)    We’ve got LOADS of NEW, limited edition Pride Month merch at bit.ly/gendermerch. (Proceeds go to great cause