Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    Episode 179: Colby Gordon

    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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    Join our Patreon to access our monthly bonus episodes and weekly newsletter.

    Find transcripts 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: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

    7 October 2024, 7:03 am
  • 5 minutes 36 seconds
    Bonus: Anthology submissions, Boston live show, and more!

    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.) 

     

    30 September 2024, 8:51 pm
  • 40 minutes 40 seconds
    Episode 178: Yvie Oddly

    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.

    Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

    9 September 2024, 7:01 am
  • 19 minutes 11 seconds
    BONUS: Emma Specter

    Tuck chats with Vogue culture writer Emma Specter (she/they) about unionizing Condé Nast, embracing Bisexuality 2, and not monetizing their gender exploration. 

    Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Emma talk about seeing girlies from middle school at their book events; being asked about her boyfriend on the local news; and shoplifting gender from an infinite nonproblematic Sephora.

    Emma’s memoir More, Please is available now! Find Emma @specteremma / @emmaspecter.

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

    2 September 2024, 7:01 am
  • 54 minutes 6 seconds
    Episode 177: Rose Eveleth

    Tuck and Ozzy chat with Rose Eveleth (they/them), creator of Tested. Topics include:

    • Details and stories cut from Tested that Gender Reveal listeners would appreciate!
    • Why individual trans and/or intersex athletes have conflicting ideas of what “fair” competition looks like 
    • How the Paralympics can help us imagine new ways of categorizing elite sports
    • What well-intentioned people often get wrong about sex testing in sports
    • Plus: A breaking news name reveal(!?!), a Pokémon gender, and a review of Dune Messiah?

    This Week in Gender: LGBTQ Olympians and Paralympians

    Find Tested at tested-podcast.com, and find Rose at roseveleth.com.

    Here’s Tuck’s Life Kit episode that Rose mentioned.

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    Come see Tuck, Mattie & Calvin on September 22 at Union Hall

    We’re fundraising for Gaza aid in our merch shop

    Order 2 Trans 2 Furious from AllLitUp (Canada) or directly from Tuck.

    Join our Patreon to access monthly Gender Conceal episodes and our weekly newsletter.

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

    Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: “Ranch Hand” by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

    19 August 2024, 10:49 pm
  • 49 minutes 1 second
    Episode 176: Susan Stryker

    Tuck and Ozzy chat with historian Susan Stryker (she/her). Topics include:

    • Publishing old kink erotica in a new academic reader 
    • Truffle-hunting for niche trans subcommunities on Reddit
    • What does it look like to embrace monstrosity in today’s world?
    • How Susan pieced together the story of Compton’s Cafeteria Riot 
    • Plus: The literal meaning of life! 

    Find Susan at susanstryker.net. When Monsters Speak is out now. (Watch Screaming Queens for free on YouTube!)

    Come see Tuck, Mattie & Calvin on September 22 at Union Hall

    Pre-order 2 Trans 2 Furious, and learn more about Girl Dad Press via Vogue and/or Gender Conceal.

    Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to monthly Gender Conceal episodes, our weekly newsletter, and other perks.

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

    Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: “Lost Shoe” by Blue Dot Sessions

    5 August 2024, 7:54 am
  • 27 minutes 13 seconds
    BONUS: Solomon J. Brager

    Happy pub day to Heavyweight, a graphic memoir by Solomon J. Brager! Tuck chats with Sol (they/he) about the intersections of Zionism and transphobia, the need to make up true stories, and the arguments against claims of Jewish indigeneity. 

    Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of teaching a class called Graphic Sex, stealing boxing valor, navigating our mothers' feelings about our hair color, and much more.

    Find Sol at solomonbrager.com and @jbbrager. Heavyweight is available now!!! 

    Our merch shop at bit.ly/gendermerch.

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

    25 June 2024, 8:37 pm
  • 16 minutes 38 seconds
    BONUS: Lammys, Labor Solidarity, & Arlie Adlington

    Tuck shares an exciting 2 Trans 2 Furious update before chatting with Arlie Adlington (he/him) about queer labor solidarity, Pride movie recs, and normal tea. 

    Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Arlie talk about working with Sam Smith, navigating the world of UK t-shots, and writing an important song about beverages (before Sabrina Carpenter did it, even!)

    See you at the Bell House on Thursday for our Pride™ live show

    (Oh and here’s the video that Casey took hehe.)

    17 June 2024, 7:01 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    Episode 175: Checking in with Jules Gill-Peterson

    For our season finale, Tuck catches up with historian Jules Gill-Peterson (she/her). Topics include:

    • Why Jules might be writing a trilogy of books against ~transgender~
    • Why liberal trans inclusion is the “kissing cousin of fascism”
    • A list of fun hot reasons why people have transitioned throughout history
    • Is transphobia always rooted in misogyny?
    • Plus: Fighting your publisher over derogatory italics; learning the secrets of the most trans dinosaur; and once again asking whether a certain trans clothing company is a psy-op…

    Today’s Theymail message was from Thirst Pebble.

    Find Jules @gpjulesss. A Short History of Trans Misogyny is out now.

    Come see us at the Bell House on June 20! 

    Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our bonus podcasts, weekly newsletter, and other perks.

    Find our FAQ page, starter packs and transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

    Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: “Mischief Making” by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Queer Candle Co (promo code: GENDER10)

    27 May 2024, 7:01 am
  • 45 minutes 43 seconds
    Episode 174: Jane Schoenbrun

    Tuck and Ozzy chat with director Jane Schoenbrun (they/them). Topics include:

    • Working through gender feelings onscreen with Brigette Lundy-Paine
    • How did Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst end up in I Saw the TV Glow?
    • What happened to that film adaption of Nevada?
    • Why the third movie in Jane’s Screen Trilogy is actually three novels
    • Plus: The most sapphic Spielberg film; A Trip to the Moon (1902); custom Jane’s Bar Mitzvah CD booklets; and getting warped by Nickelodeon 

    This Week in Gender: None, but may I instead introduce you to Mr. Celery, Otey, Muddona, and Ballapeño?

    Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s messages were from Go Press Girl and CN Lester.

    Come see us at the Bell House on June 20! 

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    Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our bonus podcasts, weekly newsletter, and other perks.

    Find our FAQ page, starter packs and transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

    Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: “Isn’t It Always” by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Queer Candle Co (promo code: GENDER10) and DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

    13 May 2024, 7:01 am
  • 23 minutes 59 seconds
    BONUS: Checking in with LittlePuss Press

    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 stroke, [the author] as one of the great writers of her generation"(!!!)

    Support the LittlePuss Press Kickstarter by May 17, or shop all their existing titles at LittlePuss.net

    6 May 2024, 7:01 am
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