Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. I have a headache that has shut off my ability to think thoughts, so we’re only doing Links & Stuff today. Your regularly scheduled Everything Else will be back next week.
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. My roommate was just like “Wow, Daylight Saving Time ending is hitting hard, huh?” And I was like “Yes, I’m going to skip most of this newsletter I’m writing because I am too sleepy” and he said “Don’t skip the Ruby p...
2023-11-06 01:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. This is a quick one because I simply don’t have much to tell you. I’m at a little café and there are two young gays here talking through every single party drug one at a time, including acronyms I have never heard, and I’m like, ah, ye...
2023-10-29 16:32:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode was recorded on August 29. I was running on three hours of couch sleep. It’s a fine episode tho!!! I think I maybe undersell it in the intro. Or maybe I accurately sell it. You, the listener, can decide.
Topics include:
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I went to the Trans Art Bazaar (excuse me, BOO-zaar) today and met so many nice people! (I learned that the secret to talking with everyone is to wear a 2023-10-23 01:48:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Tuck pits a married couple against each other by asking a series of trivia questions about Fast, Fast & Furious, and Transgenderism. A live audience reacts. Losing is rewarded. Chaos reigns.
Find Jaya @jayasax and jayasaxena.com...
2023-10-17 13:29:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Happy Friday the 13th! No new eps, obviously, but we’ve got some fun stuff happening behind the scenes (and… in front of the scenes? In the scenes? What’s the opposite of that, do you think?).
Anyway, a bunch of updates for ya: 2023-10-13 17:34:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Welcome to our season 11 finale!!!
Before I forget: I’m FINALLY catching up on Patreon rewards for the first time since last season. So if you joined a $5+ tier in the last, uh, six months?? (SORRY!) , please check that your a...
2023-10-08 16:07:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s wet here!!!! (Also, thank you to everyone who sent fridge-free food recs: I still don’t have fridge and y...
2023-09-30 19:55:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, we're sharing Kendra Wells's frankly life-changing presentation from our August live show at the Bell House. You can follow along with the visuals 2023-09-29 15:06:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. My big news is that our fridge broke and now we don’t have a fridge for the next week, and it turns out that fridges are actually really useful? If anyone has suggestions for (vegan) food to eat that does not require a fridge at any point, ...
2023-09-24 02:22:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. The new Mitski album dropped and I haven’t gotten to listen to it yet but I hope you are all doing ok about it emotionally.
I realize I’m often like “gonna make this one quick” and then that’s a lie but I really actually am going ...
2023-09-18 02:16:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m very almost asleep so this is going to be a short one.
(Did I just pause for 10 minutes to text friend-of-the-pod Kirby about the grammar of very almost asleep? Don’t worry about it!)
This week on the show, we chatted with...
2023-09-11 01:26:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Great news: the NYC live show is over, so you don’t have to listen to me talk about buying tickets anymore!!!
We’ll drop a short, abridged version of the live show in the main feed in a couple weeks, but the show included no fewer t...
2023-09-02 19:53:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m doing a wild new thing called “writing the newsletter from my phone at the bodega while I wait a very long time for a breakfast burrito” so let’s see how that goes.
This week on the show, we spoke with returning guest Soleil...
2023-08-26 19:52:25 +0000 UTC View PostThis month, we chat with Julien (they/them), a nursing student who has changed their name and their career three times each (so far!)
As the title implies, we talk about sex in this one! Also, very briefly, drugs. Skip 33:33-43:20 if you aren’t into that today.
Topics include:
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. My big news is that I finally spotted a bar in NYC that serves Montucky Cold Snacks, but it cost $7 before tip for a 12oz can???? So anyway, I’m moving back to Portland**, see you soon.
2023-08-20 16:32:42 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I literally just had to check the calendar because it feels like it’s been a million years since we put out the Katie Barnes episode, but apparently it has only been six days???
Anyway, we got a great compliment about the Katie ep tod...
2023-08-13 20:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I just got back from beautiful Seattle, Washington, where I hung out with at least two former Gender Reveal guests and lots of other assorted pals. (Speaking of — I went to the Seattle Trans Beach Day and a Gender Reveal listener said hi an...
2023-08-07 00:05:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
We've got another live show coming up and it's our most high-concept event yet. Tickets for Gender Reveal presents: SPEED/READING — a high-octane show about authors and also fast things — are available now, and I wanted y'all to be the first to know!
Th...
2023-07-31 17:17:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m flying across the country tomorrow, but before I do, I have hastily been putting the finishing touches on three bonus episodes!
This month, Tuck and Calvin (of Several People Are Typing fame) hung out in Tuck’s living room for three hours... and we recorded the first hour, so here’s that. Topics include:
Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. Very hyped to share this week’s Very Special Family Abolition episode with M.E. O’Brien! I pulled a few of my favorite quotes and stuck them on2023-07-22 17:41:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I was sick for a couple days, which led me to Sit At Home Doing Nothing, and I’m immediately overcompensating from that by drinking a cold brew and planning a sort of untenable number of future plans. So, keep an eye out for updates on [red...
2023-07-14 18:02:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Congratulations to everyone in the US for making it through another Suffering Day for every animal and also many humans with PTSD. (This week's banner image is by Gender Reveal alum Demian Dinéyazhi')
As you’re aware, there’s no ne...
2023-07-06 17:16:20 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Tuck returns to their friendship chatcast era— and this time, we’re chatting with Mattie Lubchansky! Topics include but are not limited to:
Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. Before I go any further, I need you to know that we’re putting out a Gender Conceal episode tomorrow, and it’s called “High-Fiving Mattie Lubchansky through Keith Haring’s Irreversible Damage Hole.” I love making a normal podcast!!!!! 2023-06-29 20:26:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I Dyke Marched* for like five hours today and now my brain is completely empty and yet I need to write something here for you now. Did you know that the Los Angeles Angels are currently winning a baseball game 24-0 in the 6th inning? Did you ...
2023-06-25 04:21:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Rhubarb and I have successfully relocated from Queens to Brooklyn, and after few days of moving way way way too hard, I am now starting to regain the rhythms of normal life (eating, working, etc.).
The most exciting thing about this new...
2023-06-16 17:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. Here’s the thing about the air: it’s bad! (Although getting better the longer I procrastinate on sending this.) There seems to be some arguments online about whether east coasters are allowed to complain about 300 AQI air when west coasters h...
2023-06-08 18:43:11 +0000 UTC View Post