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A little note about next week! Gaza links!

(Yes, I'm reusing this Bodiesx3 screenshot, don't worry about it.)

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m very very sleepy and my Internet is barely working, so I’m going to skip the part where I write a news...

Yin Q! Also, Rhubarb does not care about the sun or moon.

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I still need to finish tomorrow’s episode (lol) and pay my taxes (lmao) so this is going to be a short one.

This week on the show, it was such a treat to hear Ozzy speak with Yin Q!! W...

Jamie Lauren Keiles! KT Hoffman! Trans Day of Snack Recap!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I was really uh not hanging in there for a while there, but I have emerged from the Venmo Trenches (and am crawling out of the Illness Zone), and am now almost a human being! 2024-04-05 19:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack 2024 starts NOW!

Hey everyone,

I’ll write you a proper newsletter next week, but today I want to quickly give you a sneak preview of this year’s Trans Day of Snack festivities.

Oh, but first!!!! I completely forgot to mention this las...

KT Hoffman Is Legally Allowed to Make Beaverton Jokes

Happy Opening Day to all six of you who observe! This month, Tuck chats with KT Hoffman (he/him), author of The Prospects. Topics include:

• Egg...

  2024-03-28 20:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Liz Fong-Jones! Tuck’s dating show debut! Entertainment recs!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there.

This week on the show, Ozzy and I chatted with former Google organizer Liz Fong-Jones. Liz also started this cool 2024-03-22 22:27:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Fola Francis forever.

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Well, let’s get to it… CW: death I guess!

I never figured out how to be normal about this week’s episode, and I also do not know how to be normal about this week’s newsletter. I�...

Ariana Steele! New TDoS merch! Boyfriends in little outfits?!

Okay, look, I’m starting this newsletter at 11:58pm Eastern, so it’s definitely going to be “late” by some definitions, but also yesterday at this time it was 10:58pm so like, what is time anyway!!! Pretty sure Shuli said it was bougie to ...

Shing Yin Khor! Spring! More anarchism with Shuli!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s the first spring-weather day of the year, and Ruby and I are out on the fire escape watching pigeons. It’s very nice!!! (If you ignore the pile of broken glass and the big pot full of...

Seeing the dying gasps of the state with Shuli Branson

This month, Tuck and Ozzy continue their chat with Shuli Branson, who you surely remember from a few weeks ago. Topics include: 

• An argume...
  2024-02-29 16:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Lucy Sante! Many other beautiful things!

Hope you’re hanging in there. We technically already sent a newsletter out this week, but it didn’t have a Weekly Rhubarb so it doesn’t count, ya know? So here’s another one.

It was truly such a treat to interview Lucy Sante for this...

out-of-context Lucy quotes

Welcome to a very rare public post! 

When I was researching Lucy Sante for this week's episode, I came across so many quotes that I absolutely loved but was unable to work into the interview. Just for fun, I'm ...

Shuli Branson! Best and worst trans profile headlines?

[Author's note: wrote this whole thing last night and then forgot to hit send sooooo you're getting it now! Good morning!]

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. My brain is fully powered down — and u can tell beca...

Cecilia Gentili (!)

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Also, it’s ok if you’re not! Everything is so fucking sad!

Anyway, I have a production update for you. As usual, Ozzy and I had prepared a full podcast episode to share tomorrow — ...

Cassius Adair x 2! Baby! Owl pics!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Drag Race starts in an hour, and while the show is bad — Jane was right to say it �...

Cassius Adair ultimately did not name his child after an Animorph :(

This month, Tuck continues his chat with Cassius Adair, who you may remember from Trans Studies Quarterly Quarterly and/or 2024-01-31 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Salimatu Amabebe! 10% off merch! Back-to-back BFFs?!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m currently typing this with one hand because Ruby has claimed the other one, so please forgive typos, brevity, and general incoherence.

This week on the show, we’re catching up wi...

We’re baaack! Lamya H! Bookclub chat!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there, staying warm and dry wherever you are. (Is everyone in the continental United States experiencing the same storm, or are there just several similar storms that I’m hearing about? How big is ...

Trains rights on Drag Race & nonbinary Popeye confirmed?

Hey friends,

Hope you’ve all been hanging in there. Completely understand if you’re not, tbh!!! But here we are.

This week, we released two bonus episodes in the main Gender Reveal feed:

• A crosspost of my March 2023 con...
  2024-01-12 20:02:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Season 12 launch date! First guest revealed! Book club?

Hey friends,

Happy new year! We made it to another year of whatever the hell this is*, and I finally have some concrete podcast news for you:

We have recorded four episodes (plus a Gender Conceal episode) for this upcoming sea...

Gender Reveal Unwrapped & Tuck’s 2023 Picks

All of the lists and data you never asked for! Granular podcast stats at the top, media recs at the bottom, pick your poison:

Total Gender Reveal downloads in 2023: 713,800
Countries & territories with at least one d...

Rax Will wants to ask you about eating cat & dog food

This month, Tuck chats with James Beard-nominated food writer Rax Will. Topics include:

• Why one of Brooklyn’s best queer bars refuses to hang a pride flag
• Assigning cocktails based on pronouns
• Receiving the perfect ...
  2023-12-29 18:51:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Carol and other movies! Holiday playlist! Faces quiz!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Apologies for interrupting the rare, blessed silence in your email inboxes, but it’s Sunday and that means I’m here to say… something.

Podcast-wise, we’re still mostly waiting fo...

Personally significant grocery snacks (and other lists)

Hey friends,

Hope you’re hanging in there. I try to do my holiday travel in such a way that it dodges all federal holidays — which I recommend fwiw, if you can convince the people in your life to go along with it — so this week was my ...

The cliff! The canyon! The swirling horrors?!

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Hope you’re hanging in there. We’re now two full months into me writing to you like “hey, so, there’s a genocide happening and it feels unhinged to send u a podcast newsletter in that context but here I am anyway.” An...

Exclusive new stickers! Actions for Palestine! Mail szn!

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Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m having an extra-big panic this morning, so I invited folks via Instagram stories to share what they’re doing to show up for Palestine. Here are some of the responses so far:

2023-12-03 18:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Tuck & Tre'vell Talk 2T2F (Live in LA!)

On Nov. 10, Tre'vell Anderson and I spoke with a terrific trans audience about 2 Trans 2 Furious, an extremely serious journal of transgender street racing studies, at North Figueroa Bookshop in Los Angeles. It was very fun and great! (I'm biased....

10% off on new solidarity designs, WHY NOT?

Hey everyone,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. This is a short one not because I have anything better to do, but because there’s not much to report.

First and foremost, we’ve briefly reopened the merch shop to feature two new tr...

Part II: Linkapalooza & Stuffapalooza

I ended up with a zillion Links & Stuff ideas this week, so this is an email with a long list of links and nothing else. (There should also be a normal newsletter in your inbox that I sent a minute ago.) Enjoy(?) the content if u choose to ind...

Ongoing horrors, an upcoming ‘holiday’… and fun gossip?!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re hanging in there. It feels strange to not acknowledge how incredibly heartbreaking every day is, but also, I don’t have much to add beyond that. Every day is heartbreaking. It’s Trans Awareness Week and I feel ...