Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. As of yesterday, my whole thing is asking everyone if they know about Dead Horse Bay. 2025-08-31 23:02:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Tuck chats with filmmaker Kani Lapuerta (he/him) about his new feature-length documentary, Niñxs. Topics include:
What makes a film trans???
Differences between trans life in Mexico vs Spain
2025-08-26 22:18:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am trying to write this newsletter while also learning the Jumanji line dance and also watching my son Cal Raleigh hit 2025-08-24 23:00:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there.
This week on the show, we shared an episode of our friend Raquel Willis’s Afterlives podcast. The first season of Afterlives explored the life and legacy of 2025-08-17 22:56:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. I had planned for this to be a big fun announcement, but then I got food poisoning (shout out to staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins!) and then I had to fly across the country while still poisone...
2025-08-09 15:33:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I had so much fun at Mal’s show last Sunday! There were old songs, new songs, jokes, props, audience members line-dancing… what’s not to love? I also became an instant fan of M...
2025-08-03 21:06:20 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Tuck chats with Mal about their new album, The Villain. Topics include:
Deciding exactly how mean and messy to get in yr breakup album
How 2010s-era Brooklyn messed up Mal’s relationship to mascu...
2025-07-28 03:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Yesterday was softball playoffs, which means I played in five consecutive softball games, and now my legs don’t work and neither does my brain :) but we persist!
This week on the podca...
2025-07-27 22:14:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Yesterday I messed up my shoulder so badly that I now can’t raise my arm above my shoulder, fresh-top-surgery-style. Then I hit a home run and went to a hot dog party and worked on the podca...
2025-07-20 23:12:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’ve been running around all week, so here’s a little personal update why not. This week, I:
played 4+ hours of softball and hit two triples :)
melted a new Chapstick all over tw...
2025-07-13 22:46:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I started writing this on a plane on Friday, but I really just wanted to talk about the man next to me on the plane, so I had to save it. But now that it’s just us…. have you noticed...
2025-07-06 22:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I just got back from Dyke March, where I chaotically introduced Ozzy to Mckenzee in the middle of an intersection :) and now Mckenzee is reading Niko’s book on my couch :)
2025-06-29 02:56:46 +0000 UTC
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This month, Tuck chats with Sawyer K. Kemp (they/them) about the news that “Ian McKellen Will Open All-Trans Production of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s Most Trans Play.” Topics also include:
Intra-trans-community confl...
2025-06-24 16:05:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What else is there to say?
Gender Conceal subscribers can expect a new episode sometime next week. I intended to release it tomorrow, but then I spent Friday going to gay...
2025-06-22 21:14:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Happy Pride! Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show, we finally shared our chat with Alison Bechdel, a carto...
2025-06-14 19:30:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m back from vacation, and the good news is that nobody did anything weird to me during any border crossing. The bad part (not news, obvi) is that everyone seems to have pivoted to a sort o...
2025-06-06 21:07:24 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Tuck talks with Niko about her new book, The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman. Topics also include:
Coming out as a girl by becoming a grocery store cashier
Choosing your name by misspelling a musicia...
2025-05-26 05:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am so sorry about how everything is bad. But I have great news, which is: Puffin!!!
Puffi...
2025-05-24 00:46:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show, I was thrilled to chat with the one and only Harron Walker! Topics include Simpsons DVD commentary tracks, high school GSA rituals, Cecilia Gentili, Greer Lankton, polit...
2025-05-18 22:48:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Thanks so much to everyone who came to our final Gender Ordeal show!!!!!! (And thank you to everyone else for sticking with me as I promoted all our shows one zillion times — it simply had t...
2025-05-11 22:59:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I just gave myself a headache by looking at too many hyper-niche pride flags online, which technically counts as a workplace injury, I think.
If you’ve been to a Gender Ordeal show, th...
2025-05-04 20:47:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I love to be like “Gotta do a short one today” and then not write a short one but I have 30 minutes to whip this up so it simply must be a short one!!!
This week on Gender Conc...
2025-04-27 22:31:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Tuck and Mckenzee answer your questions about movie reviews, cat dynamics, blue foods, trans emotions, and detective catchphrases. Topics also include:
Three tips for being normal :)
A mnemonic for...
2025-04-22 09:00:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. This is your final reminder :) that we will be performing our little Gender Ordeal show 2025-04-20 22:37:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s been cloudy and drizzly for like a week and my brain has reverted back to its old ways — namely, saying “I should throw myself in to the ocean” every time I experience a teeny tin...
2025-04-13 01:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Babes, you KNOW it's gonna be at the Bell House! With multiple special guests TBA, and they're gonna be GOOD! Honestly, even if you don't live in New York, you might wanna pop over for this if u haven't seen Gender Ordeal before?? Wild idea but it...
2025-04-07 18:18:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m out of Insanity Hours for now, so that’s huge. I also went to the A/S/L book launch event at Hive Mind (cute queer bookstore in Bushwick), and it was such a blast — 2025-04-05 23:16:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. To the twelve baseball people in the chat: happy (belated) opening day!! I keep saying that I can’t wait to be loballtomized but that joke doesn’t really scan via text does it? Anyway...
2025-03-29 03:12:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, Tuck and Ozzy chat with author Jeanne Thornton (she/her). Topics include:
Do trans books need to be so sad???
What’s up with Jeanne’s new book, and was the ending “ontologically evil” ???
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I have been experiencing what can only be described as Insanity Hours. (No worries lol!) My two coping strategies have been 1) spending a small fortune on fancy hippie 2025-03-22 18:26:21 +0000 UTC View Post