Gender Reveal

Tuck chats with organizer Oliver Hall (they/he). Topics include: How Elevated Access coordinates free private flights for people in need of gender-affirming care, abortion, relocation, or even a ride to camp Who are all of these volunteer pilots???  How deep canvassing can seed trans political support for the future Lesser-discussed connections between abortion and gender-affirming care (beyond bodily autonomy) Plus, which is most stereotypically trans: BSDM educator, leatherworker, or chronic wrist issues? :)  Find Elevated Access at elevatedaccess.org and @elevatedaxs. Oliver is on LinkedIn. Apply for our grant for trans organizers of color at bit.ly/GRgrant26 or learn more on our website. You can also help us fund additional grants. Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes. Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional m

Tuck chats with organizer Anjali Rimi (she/her). Topics include: Parivar Bay Area, the country's only org made by and for Hijra, Kinnar, and Global South trans immigrants Differences between anti-trans laws & attitudes in the US and India How Anjali's name was inspired by a lewd, iconic drag name  Reinventing yourself in Boise and realizing that the US is "all a sham" :) Plus: Titanic, mutual aid, and remembering Naga Gouri Devi Apply for our grant for trans organizers of color at bit.ly/GRgrant26 or learn more on our website.  Find Parivar Bay Area at parivarbayarea.net and @parivarbayarea. Anjali is @anjalirimi on Instagram and LinkedIn. Submit a piece of Theymail. This week's message was from Fiona Palmer Mediation. Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes. Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional music: "Mt. L

Ozzy and Tuck chat with author Lee Arden (any) about friendship, Quakerism, the "annoying to me personally" z-axis, and Ursula Le Guin's communal pickle barrels.  Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of friendship advice questions, zines & indie publishing, prude-slut solidarity, Margaret Thatcher, and more!  The Politics of Lonely is available via Fernwood Publishing and Bookshop.org. Find Lee's zines at SheerSpite.ca. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck and Ozzy chat with writer and nurse M. K. Thekkumkattil (they/them). Topics include: Envisioning a future without hospitals  Do medical kinks hit differently as a nurse? Bringing your book tour to the salmon :) When yr doctor realizes that you're medically transitioning before you do… Plus: We return to Drew's Giving Poppers to Cis Women, M. K. explains why sepsis is femme, and Tuck does a pronouns crime to Ms. Blood Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's messages were from Recovery Demystified and Bruno George. Find M. K. at thekkumkattilmk.com, on Patreon, and @thekkumkattilmk on IG. The Sexuality of Care is available now, as is their chapbook Weaving Liberation and the collection In The Future There Are No Hospitals.  Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes, including our chat with Jeanne Thornton, M. K.'s editor! Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira

Tuck chats with Katherine Packert Burke about All Us Saints and the cis gaze; why Narrow Rooms is more affirming than coming-out stories; and whether Tehching Hsieh is the only true artist.  Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of competitive bisexual erasure, ghosts, Colombo, Vegeta, "Sapphic new releases for May," KPB's book list, and a special message for our 11 or 12 cisgender listeners.  All Us Saints is available in bookstores now. Find Katherine at katherinepackertburke.com, @katpburke on twitter, and ofc @vegetasackvillewest on IG. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Ozzy chats with piercer Lynn Loheide (they/them). Topics include: How horny leather queers launched the modern US piercing industry Genuinely surprising ways that a genital piercing can be gender-affirming Using matching nipple rings as thruple wedding bands :) What to know before splitting your tongue(!!!)  Plus: the "gay ear," HRT's effects on piercings, and inventing a trans shibboleth?  This Week in Gender: Take the Gender Census and explore the Nonbinary Name Survey Results (and send Tuck yr cool name!) Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's message was from Kay Pickering.  Find Lynn at LynnLoheide.com, @lynnloheide (IG) and @Lynn_Loheide (YT). Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional music: "On Three Legs" by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb) & DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) 

In this bonus episode, Tuck chats with poet Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch (they/them) about what's going on over at Metonymy Press. Topics include: Metonymy's role in launching the careers of trans writers  Advice for trans people considering their own small press What Metonymy is looking for in its current open submissions How Tuck keeps messing up on dating apps :) :) :) Plus: Teaching Hanif Abdurraqib & summoning Elliot Page?? Support Metonymy via their GoFundMe and shop their existing titles at MetonymyPress.com. Eli Tareq's newsletter is at slowsyrup.substack.com; Knot Body and The Good Arabs are available now. Take the 2026 Gender Census here. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster Cylinder

Tuck chats with physicist and writer Karmela Padavic-Callaghan (they/them) about science writing, quantum hacking, union organizing, and why quantum physics is sooooo queer.  Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear about Tuck being hospitalized in the multiverse, vegan restaurant hot takes, how Tumblr impacted our college experience, and more.  Send questions for Karmela via our advice/AMA form. Find Karmela karmelapadaviccallaghan.com and sign up for their newsletter, Ultracold. Entangled States is available in bookstores now. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck chats with author Julián Delgado Lopera (he/him). Topics include: Why Julián chose to focus on a closeted travesti in his new novel  Creating intergenerational trans friendships and navigating inevitable conflict  Protesting in Bogotá and navigating Colombian gender bureaucracy  Untranslatable Spanglish, transsexual grammar, travesti poetics, and the beautiful transfemme tradition of lying-i-mean-myth-making :) Plus: Alison Bechdel vs Carson Kressley in Provincetown?!  This Week in Gender: We hear from a friend and supporter of Amber Kim. Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's message was from Jaman Dunn-Danger. Find Julián at juliandlopera.com and @juliandlopera. Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You is available now (and on sale on Bookshop!) Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional music: Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb) & Delet

Last chance to save 50% off Gender Reveal patreon subscriptions and Girl Dad Press books with code "PRIDE" (!!!) Tuck tackles more advice questions with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler. Topics include why becoming a beautiful woman is like riding a motorcycle, how to handle intrusive questions from other trans people, and how we can support our friends when they make decisions we hate. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of immaculate conception mpreg Mario, ovo-lacto parkour, unappreciated Mulan jokes, and why it's so important to make a transphobic group chat. (Plus: Will trans solidarity save Tuck when he lies to the dermatologist??) Submit advice questions or AMA prompts via our new form for a future episode like this one. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck and Ozzy chat with I Saw the TV Glow actor Jack Haven (they/them). Topics include: Wearing an A/C unit on your head, both literally (in Camp Miasma) and figuratively (at Cannes and elsewhere)   Chasing shame and embarrassment as the most intense and therefore realest emotions  Filming an improvised movie guerrilla-style with friends & family Jack's grandmother falling in love with another nun and living an amazing life :) Plus: Little Death, actual death, Leatherface, Kate Berlant, Paul Preciado, bouillon chunks, a tour of Jack's tattoos, and a surprising amount about Nuts4Nuts  Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's message was from Zap Daddy Electrolysis. Find Jack on YouTube @JackHaven42. Read Waif Magazine at iswaif.com, and watch October Crow on Vimeo.  Get 50% off Gender Reveal patreon subscriptions and Girl Dad Press books with code "PRIDE" all June!  Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Special thanks this week to Lola and to Frankie F

Every 100 episodes, we demand that Lola Pellegrino—a nurse practitioner who specializes in gender-affirming care and gynecology, mostly for trans people—answers our medical questions. Topics include: Exciting new developments in PrEP!  Will crossfading hormones werewolf a doll? How important is freezing your eggs/sperm prior to HRT?  How does testosterone affect menopause? Plus: "Weird/bad vagina things," AOL, and the Mucinex guy jerking it? This Week in Gender: Nicole Kelly highlights Trans Florida Resources, one of the 2025 Gender Reveal grant recipients.  Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's message was from Jaman Dunn-Danger. Get 50% off Gender Reveal patreon subscriptions and Girl Dad Press books with code "PRIDE" all June!  Submit advice questions or AMA prompts for Mckenzee (and other future guests) via this form. Here is Lola's important meme. Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic:

Save 50% off Gender Reveal patreon subscriptions and Girl Dad Press books with code "PRIDE" all June!  Tuck challenges Sabs (How Far the Light Reaches), Calvin (Several People Are Typing), and Alma (Picnic Magazine) to draft the best bookshelf of trans literature. Along the way, we become cool bus perverts, travel to the Swiss Alps, and discover which recently published books are about Calvin :) Patrons can listen to the full, 8-round draft and then vote on the winner of the episode! Wow!  Find Alma's work at linktr.ee/PicnicMagazine, Sabrina's work at defector.com, and Calvin's work at Kasulke.co.

Tuck chats with author and organizer Bobuq Sayed (they/them). Topics include: How Bobuq's novel No God But Us addresses shortcomings in other immigrant lit Writing representation for white trans guys with a savior complex who are bad at poly :) How living in Turkey changed Bobuq's relationship to the pride flag  How Writers Against the War on Gaza combats the media ecosystem's rightward drift Plus: Mx. Potato Head, mommy issues, and Jenna Bush Hager? This Week in Gender: Nicole Kelly highlights Colectivo Mariposa, one of the 2025 Gender Reveal grant recipients.  Bobuq's book No God But Us is now available for preorder.  Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's messages were from Under, Over, and Through and TRANSplants Collective. Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes, including our recent advice episode with Mattie & Calvin! Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Log

Tuck teases a very personal recent Gender Conceal episode and a big, exciting upcoming experiment. Then, Ozzy chats with Tempest Creation (she/her) about her short film Birth of the Hive Queen. Topics include how to cast moths for a movie, why Tempest's films all have "hooker brain," and whether trans cinema has a coherent aesthetic beyond being dark and crazy :) :) Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Tempest discuss alienating her YouTube transition vlog audience, choosing her name, and being banned by the Library of Congress?! Find Tempest at tempestcreation.com and @tempestcreation. Birth of the Hive Queen is available to watch on our Patreon through May. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck and Ozzy chat with Violet Allen (she/her), author of Plastic, Prism, Void. Topics include: Incorporating 40+ fonts, multiple languages, three timelines, a theme song, and approx. one trillion references into one sci-fi romantasy novel Violet's personal beef with Joyce Carol Oates?!  Tuck & Violet's shared grievance against contemporary fiction  Channelling all your evil into books :) :)  Plus: CATS, Sailor Moon, Girls, Rejection, fanfic, heterosexuality, and the worm from Dune  This Week in Gender: Nicole Kelly highlights Best Practices Policy Project, one of the 2025 Gender Reveal grant recipients. (Transcript here.) Find Violet at violetallen.love and on Bluesky. Violet's new book, Plastic, Prism, Void, is now available for preorder.  Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes, including our recent advice episode with Mattie & Calvin! Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy

Happy Trans Eve of Snack! Tuck chats with Mattie Lubchansky & Calvin Kasulke about how to know whether you're on a date, deal with ambivalence towards certain HRT effects, and cope with the fact that you didn't transition earlier. (Also: trebuchets, glory holes, and nonbinary Donald Duck.) Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear us discuss whether you should tell your husband about your affair(!!), whether you should flee the country(!), and how to explain FFS to your cis wife. We also share our favorite memories from the Gender Ordeal tour, including the time we met a piss ghost(!!!).  Find Mattie on No Gods No Mayors and Temporal Culture War. Find Calvin around town idk. Submit advice questions or AMA prompts via our new form for a future episode like this one! Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck and Ozzy chat with scholar Marquis Bey (they/them). Topics include: If we abolish gender, what will happen to sex changes? Is nonbinary bourgeois? Learning about nonbinary from incarcerated queer studies students If neither of us care about gender, then what are we doing on this gender podcast?!  Plus: Burner genders, replacing "community" with "swarms," and pushing back against the assimilation of they/them  This Week in Gender: Nicole Kelly spotlights QueerSouf, one of the 2025 Gender Reveal grant recipients. (Transcript here.) Find Marquis at marquisbey.com. Marquis's new book, Nonbinary Life, will be released on April 16. Planning a Trans Day of Snack event? Apply for a microgrant at bit.ly/TDOS2026.  Save $5 on Sex Change and the City in the Girl Dad shop with code SNACK! Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes, including our upcoming advice episode with Mattie & Calvin! Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instag

Tuck outlines two options for this year's Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack festivities. Want to plan your own Trans Day of Snack event? Apply for a microgrant at bit.ly/TDOS2026.  A full transcript of this episode (and all of our TDOS episodes) is available on our website.   Submit questions for our upcoming Gender Conceal episode with Mattie and Calvin at bit.ly/GCadvice.  Donate to the microgrant fund via PayPal.me/TWoodstock or @Tuck-Woodstock on Venmo. Read more about Trans Day of Snack's history here and here.  ~ Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck chats with the internet's own AK (they/them) about baseball disease, fantasy hockey shows, and the most iconic scene from Twilight. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of the Phillies' horrible bodily fluids, Happy Feet-related top surgery, and AK's journey to becoming a jumpsuit influencer on January 6. (Plus, more baseball!) Find AK @dumplingmenace on IG and Bluesky. Submit advice questions or AMA prompts via our new form! Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions