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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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 Instagram @gendereveal.

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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.

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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!

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Tuck chats with trans studies scholar and Minneapolis resident Aren Aizura (he/him). Topics include:

• How a protest camp in the Australian desert helped free dozens of immigrant detainees(!!)
• How Aren's kids are reacting to ICE occupying their neighborhood
• How Twin Cities organizing has remained leaderless and decentralized
• Being subjected to archaic HBIGDA "true transsexual" guidelines and a political background check while trying to access top surgery!?
• Plus: Australian hippies, tear gas, Tim Walz, the YMCA sauna, and audio of a baby talking to a cat in a bag :)

Through The Wire, a 10-min independent documentary about the 2002 breakout from Woomera Detention Center, is available to stream here. (cw: incarceration, injury, police violence)

Find Aren on Bluesky @incommensurati. Aren's book, Mobile Subjects, is available from Duke University Press.

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.

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Tuck chats with human rights advocate and organizer Ash Tifa (she/her). Topics include:

• Do human rights laws actually ensure our rights?
• What media coverage is missing/misunderstanding about what's going on in the Twin Cities
• Are Black leaders and queer people being intentionally targeted for arrest?
• Plus: Ireland vs US immigrant detention, living in a post-constitutional state, and keeping your nose warm in a Minnesota winter

[Note: This episode was updated on 02/17/2026 to remove a question per Ash's request.]

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's message was from Roguish Goblin Stories.

Find Ash at ashtifa.com and outfront.org.

Order Sex Change and the City or catch Tuck on book tour in Baltimore on Feb 12.

Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes, including last month's episode with Encanto's Jess Darrow.

Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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Tuck chats with Encanto actor Jess Darrow (they/them) about working with Disney as outspoken queer person, singing the transest possible song for their Encanto audition, being queer-awakened by a certain Disney couple, and declaring pole dancing the most they/them hobby.

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear how Tuck and Jess met via goofing off on Letterboxd… plus Jess coming into their queerness while making Encanto; their mission to make Captain Hook gay; their big discovery about comedians; their takes on RATS and GREECE; their hot take on cishet relationships; and much more!!!

Find Jess at @jessdarrow_ on IG and on IMDb.

Find Tuck on book tour in Baltimore on Feb 12: RSVP here.

Submit advice questions or AMA prompts via our new form!

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Tuck and Ozzy chat with author Megan Milks (they/them). Topics include:

• The queer and trans potential of milk
• Writing fantastical slug erotica and bull insemination scenes
• Dating and writing advice from Samuel Delany
• What even is a kink, you know?
• Plus: New Narrative, the "overwhelming influence of The Argonauts," and finally getting out of high school

This Week in Gender: Tuck reads their favorite book review of 2025.

Find Megan @sklimnagem and meganmilks.com. Mega Milk is available now.

Order Sex Change and the City or catch Tuck on book tour in Baltimore on Feb 12.

Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes, including last month's episode with Alma Avalle.

Submit a piece of Theymail.

Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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