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 stro…

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…

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 G…

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 w…

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 sexu…

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 ch…

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 b…

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 …

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 Activiti…

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, th…

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? …

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 rec…

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” o…

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…

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 s…

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 yo…

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…