We’re celebrating Gender Reveal’s seventh anniversary by journeying into a little galaxy of gender futures. 

Join our Patreon to access Gender Conceal and discover even more futures of gender. Find episode transcripts at genderpodcast.com.

Sound Design: Arlie Adlington Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighTheme: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck chats with Basketdolls founder Devin Myers (she/her). Topics include:

• Infusing queer nightlife vibes into a streetball tournament
• Creating a sixth official job for trans women!?
• Working at the "Gay Cracker Barrel” in Tallahassee
• “If I see a need for something that doesn’t exist, I don’t care what it takes, I’m going to make it.”
• Plus: #1 Dad Dwayne Wade, the New York Liberty, and various Wallaces

This Week in Gender: We revisit Past Futures of Gender in a special segment

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s message was from @emkaisart. 

Find Basketdolls @basketdolls, @trand1streetball, and linktr.ee/Basketdolls; learn more via this beautiful profile in SELF.

Tickets for our Gender Ordeal live shows in DC, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle are on sale now!

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Tuck chats with comedian Sunny Zimmerman (they/them) about LBJ: the Play, LBJ-inspired gender, moral ambiguity in politics, and the value of slapping around yr Conventionally Hot Cis Guy Friend onstage :) 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of Oh, Mary!, Ronan Farrow’s pop single, The Power Broker, the Ship of Theseus, and a certain president’s huge hog :) :) 

Find Sunny at sunnyzimmerman.com and at @zimmer_down_ on Instagram and TikTok.

Come see us on tour in Washington DC, San Francisco, Portland(!!!!!) and Seattle! Tickets on sale now (and some are selling out just a heads up)!

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Tuck & Ozzy catch up with organizer and author Dean Spade (he/him). Topics include: 

• Tools for moving through jealousy, handling in-group conflict, and supporting someone during a breakup
• Why symbolic arrests aren’t currently an effective political strategy 
• Why mutual aid is most important when we feel scared, avoidant or isolated
• Plus: “Better” titles for Dean’s book, promiscuous friendship, and what you should do about that gender marker on your ID… 

This Week in Gender: we peek into the 2024 Gender Census results 

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s messages were from Fiona Palmer and The Dugout: a Black anarchist podcast.

Tickets for our Gender Ordeal live shows in DC, San Francisco, and Seattle are on sale now (and going fast)!

Find Dean at deanspade.net and linktr.ee/deanspade. Preorder Love in a Fucked-Up World via Bluestockings for 15% off (with code F*CKED<3), or listen to an hour of the audiobook for free. Dean’s book tour dates are listed here.

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Find transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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Tuck and Ozzy tackle advice questions about coming out (or not), accessing medical transition in This Political Moment, and dating for the very first time. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of business casual tits, getting back into domming, being normal around other trans people, brainstorming nonbinary tattoos, coming out at work, going on T, and of course, choosing one person to eat. (Who would you eat?)

Subscribe to Advice For/From the Future right now! 

Submit your own advice question here.

Come see us on tour by the way!!!!! Philly show is TOMORROW.

Tuck chats with visual artist and author Rani Som (she/her) about writing an exquisitely eggy memoir, coming out in her 40s, and exploring the inevitable failure of trans utopia.

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of growing up in Manhattan, working in architecture, drawing sex scenes (or not), Kate Bush, misanthropy, and the freaky pickle art on Tuck’s wall.

Find Rani at bishakh.com and @biche_bash.  Apsara Engine and Spellbound are both available on Bookshop.org.

Get your Philly live show tickets and come hang out with Tuck, Mckenzee, Mattie, Calvin, Sadie Dupuis and moooore on December 3! Or else! 

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Tuck chats with filmmaker and intersex activist River Gallo (they/them). Topics include: 

• Making cinema history with (and getting force-femmed by?) Indya Moore 
• How to reckon with the fact that yr genitals are on Wikipedia 
• Why growing up in restaurants made Tuck & River into storytellers
• Evolving Ponyboi from experimental John Waters-y play to Sundance-premiering comedy thriller 
• Plus: Trans Hamlet, trans Bruce Springsteen, trans Totoro, real New Jersey, and the Huff & Puff Queen.  

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s messages were from Trans Sexual Pod and I. E. Lewis Editorial.

Find River @rivergallo and keep an eye out for Ponyboi to hit theaters. 

Get your Philly live show tickets! 

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Find transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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Tuck chats with Still Life author Katherine Packert Burke (she/her) about trans lit, Austin TX, Susan's Place, and possibly getting her egg cracked by Drake. 

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of Gossip Girl, the Strand, autofiction, lesbian TTRPGs, someone Tuck dated in high school, returning to your hometown as a transsexual, and why 2 Trans 2 Furious is an Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.

Find Katherine at katherinepackertburke.com, on Twitter @katpburke and on IG @vegetasackvillewest. Still Life is available now.

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Applications for our grant program are open now through October 31.

Don’t forget to send us your SCATC submission by October 21!

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck chats with Colby Gordon (he/him), a founder of Early Modern Trans Studies. Topics include: 

• How much of Colby’s work is writing slashfic about the Bible??
• The limits of secularism in protecting trans people, and why Colby wants more trans people to have access to religion
• How the IRS randomly assigned Colby a trans name as a teen 
• Running a twitter poll to decide between rabbinical school and a neck tattoo
• Plus: Phalloplasty, Wheat Jesus, trans mayhem(!), and the return of Spinoza

This Week in Gender: We preview many new trans books! A full list with links is available here.

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s messages were from Urge Surfer and Max Burns.

Find Colby at colbygordon.com and @badinfinity2. Glorious Bodies is available now.

Applications for our grant program are open now through October 31!

Get your Boston live show tickets!

Don’t forget to send us your SCATC submission by October 21.

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Find transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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Three bits of news that couldn't wait until our next episode:

Submissions for the second Girl Dad Press anthology are open now for a limited time! Learn all about the submission process here.

WE'RE COMING TO BOSTON on 11/3! Tickets are on sale now! All ages show but no guarantees that we will behave. 

Lastly, patrons have until Sunday (11/6) to fill out our annual patreon survey and enter to win a fun prize! (If you're not a patron, it only costs $1 to join, and your feedback will be used to shape the next year of Gender Reveal/Conceal/etc.) 

Tuck chats with drag performer and artist Yvie Oddly (she/they). Topics include:

• How being on Drag Race changed the way Yvie watches TV
• An impromptu analysis of RuPaul’s memoir 
• Why dysphoria is universal and drag is inherently trans
• What Yvie and Chappell Roan have in common
• Plus: FtMtW transgender, unionizing Drag Race, bendy bones gender and accessibility at the club

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s message was from Chris Gallego.

Join our Patreon to access more of this conversation with Yvie, plus our monthly bonus episodes and weekly newsletter.

Find Yvie at oddlyyvie.com and @oddlyyvie.

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Find transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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