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Katherine Packert Burke! Jurassic Ruby! Good links!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. If you’re able, please support disaster relief mutual aid on 2024-10-05 02:11:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Did Katherine Packert Burke get her egg cracked by Drake?

This month, Tuck chats with Katherine Packert Burke (she/her), author of Still Life. Topics include:

• The transsexual privilege of being a stranger in your hometown

• Why 2 Trans 2 Furious is spiritually an Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader

• ...

  2024-09-30 13:24:44 +0000 UTC View Post

BOSTON show tix! Club Cumming! Two important deadlines!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there — and a very happy Eric Adams Indictment Week to all who observe!!!

I am thrilled to announce that we’ve got a live s...

Patreon survey! (Win a prize!) Anthology submissions open!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. As promised, I finally have news!

First and foremost, our annual patreon survey is now o...

Yvie Oddly! Dating advice? Dispatches from Colorado!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I got my vaccines this afternoon and I’m very aware that the side effects could hit at any moment, so I probably shouldn’t have waited until 9pm to write this??? Live and learn! (I will not learn.)

Before I forget: I’m recording a...

Ancient rituals in the woods with Yvie Oddly

As a treat, we're sharing an extra segment from our chat with Yvie Oddly. Topics include favorite freaky drag scenes, childhood camping memories, and the unexpected place that Yvie keeps ~almost~ having wild orgies.

today on plane, monday on pod

(Doll Invasion photo taken by Hunter Abrams for Vogue; I would buy a big print of this for my wall if I could!)

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am once again writing from plane. I believe we’re currently over Detroit? I have a sixteen-inch laptop, which means th...

Emma Specter! Buff lily pads! Trans book list in progress!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I started writing this newsletter and then somehow spent an hour messing around on Bookshop dot org, trying to make a little trans book playlist (that can’t be what they’re called? but that's the energy?) for y’all. And then… I decide...

Emma Specter pays $10/month for the Cis Expansion Pack

This month, Tuck chats with writer and iconic she/they bisexual Emma Specter. Topics include:

• Giving your childhood a letter grade on the local news

• Why Emma doesn’t do Q&As at their readings

• Did you know you can think about your gender without mo...

  2024-08-26 18:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Rose Eveleth! New Conceal ep tomorrow! Baby Fashion Challenge!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show, it was such a treat to speak with my good friend Rose Eveleth! I just think Rose’s work is so so smart and thoughtful, and I loved getting all the behind-the-scenes industry/gender gossip from them and Ozzy.

(I...

Have u ever eaten a raspberry by the lake?

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I was on vacation this week, enjoying a trip I booked way back in April when I was in the middle of a podcast-induced meltdown (lmao). I spent the week in Washington state, and boy howdy, do you know how good a blueberry can be? Or a peach, o...

Susan Stryker! Breaking breaking! Haha/ohno!

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Hope you’re hanging in there. I’m currently on a cross-country flight, and to pass the time, I’ve been streaming the Olympics. Specifically, I’ve been watching women’s breaking. Have you been watching women’s breaking??? Everyone’s extremely talented and hot and t...

Tiny live show presale! Season 13 news! Big Pigeon!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. Thanks for being so chill about the whole “making 60% less podcast” thing! Appreciate y’all very very much.

Speaking of making podcasts, did I mention that season 13 starts on Monday??? Here’s 2024-08-02 19:32:36 +0000 UTC View Post

an announcement about the future of the gender reveal podcast :)

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. Yesterday I rushed out of the house at 7am to go play in a gay softball tournament (yay) and forgot to take my meds (boo), and today my brain is Angry! So it’s a weird time to write a newsletter announcing a big pivot in the Gender Reveal M...

Restructuring our Trans Media Conglomerate with Niko Stratis

This month, Tuck & Niko share their hopes and dreams for Girl Dad Press, and Tuck makes a big announcement about the future of the podcast Gender Reveal.

Topics also include:

• Gay Cats (w/o cats) @ 9/11

• Podcast gossip and feelings :)

• Niko's up...

  2024-07-27 21:39:37 +0000 UTC View Post

weird time to send a newsletter!

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Hope you’re hanging in there. I had a big, multi-part announcement planned, but it seems like there’s other stuff going on right now?? So let’s save it for next week, which is great because I’ll have a Gender Conceal episode ready for y’all by then as well.

I wi...

Tuck’s creature corner!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I had a very chill week, a very normal weekend, nothing to report! We are so so close to being able to actua...

New family abolition shirt! Secret link drop!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s gross outside and I’m trying to go to the beach, so let’s get right to it.

All physical patreon rewards at the $5-10 tier have been mailed! (Unless you joined this week.) I still owe four $40+ rewards that are coming very soo...

Solomon J. Brager! Live show pics! Scrub Daddy Pride :)

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. Happy last weekend of pride! What deadly sin will you choose to celebrate next month? I know wrath is the classic, but I think everyone should get to pick their own :)

This week, to celebrate the release of 2024-06-29 16:50:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Solomon J. Brager is not selling out to Big Font

This month, Tuck speaks with Sol Brager (they/he) about their graphic memoir, Heavyweight, which comes out tomorrow btw(!!!!). Topics include:

• ...

  2024-06-24 15:13:22 +0000 UTC View Post

Villains playlists! Signed posters! New ep tomorrow!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there and staying cool. Thank you to everyone who came to our show on Thursday!! :) :) :) It was such a treat to see so many familiar faces there, including many from the Gender Detective Slack. (Btw, the current link to join the slack 2024-06-24 02:01:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Lammys! Posters! Prophesies foretold?!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m realizing that I have gone a little too hard and overbooked myself every day until July, but at this point the only way out is through!! So!! Let’s get to it!

My big news this week is that 2 Trans 2 Furious won a L...

Live Show Lineup Additions! Gender Conceal Sneak Peek!

Before we get started, can anyone explain this Instagram post that the Giants made for pride? You are SAN FRANCISCO. Why did you ERASE THE RAINBOW. What's going ON. Okay, here's the newsletter:

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Hope you’ve all been hanging in there. And, hey, welcome to all the...

Jules Gill-Peterson! Arlie Adlington! More Resources for Gaza!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am once again struggling to write anything that isn’t about The Horrors, but also, what is the good of writing about how genocide makes me, personally, feel upset? Who cares?! Instead, let’s start off with some relevant Links & Stuf...

Arlie Adlington Is a Normal T(ea) Boy

This month, Tuck chats with Arlie Adlington about how their vacation is going. Topics include:

• Tuck’s search for iced coffee and Arlie’s search for normal tea

• A very powerful story of queer labor solidarity that we love!

• Keeping your Duolingo streak...

  2024-05-30 20:32:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Jane Schoenbrun! Season finale! Gender Census 2024!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. Gotta be honest: I got home from the airport at 6pm last Sunday, and several times was like “OK, should I write a newsletter? I could still write a newsletter!” And then I very intentionally was like "TUCK what if you TOOK A WEEK OFF, nob...

LittlePuss sneak peeks! Live show lineup! Tuck go to the airport challenge!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I need to leave for the airport in an hour, which means that my brain is absolutely short-circuiting as I try to write any words at all. What if I start typing and forget to go to the plane????? (I was going to say “shout-out ADHD hive” b...

More Advice with Mckenzee! Crazy Crab! Possum Kingdom! Bee Delay?!

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Hope you’re hanging in there. Here’s my regular Operation Olive Branch plug — if you have anything to spare, your donations can truly ...

Transvestigating Every Major League Baseball Mascot with AK

We did it, folks — we ranked every MLB mascot from transest to cissest. Sort of. Topics include:

• The Phillie Phanatic doing trans social contagion

• 1984 Crazy Crab: the most hated mascot in sports history

• A cocaine-dealing pirate parrot I’m not jokin...

  2024-04-30 16:18:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Show Announcement! Jerika Che + Trans Land 2!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. Statistically, at least one of you is probably occupying a college campus right now to protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and we love to see it!!! More about that later, but first, an announcement on a much less sign...