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Gender Reveal
by Tuck Woodstock
Welcome to Gender Reveal, a t4t podcast that began as a deep dive into what exactly gender... is? Since 2018, the show has evolved into an excuse to chat with a bunch of smart, funny, hot people about everything from anarchism, abolition, and organizing, to parenting, literature, linguistics, kink, drag, film, horror, healthcare, immigration, baseball, wrestling, and decades-old community gossip. (But also, still, gender!)
Episodes
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Episode 205: Oliver Hall
Tuck chats with organizer Oliver Hall (they/he). Topics include: How Elevated Access coordinates free private flights for people in need of gender-affirming care, abortion, relocation, or even a ride to camp Who are all of these volunteer pilots??? How deep canvassing can seed trans political...
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Episode 204: Anjali Rimi
Tuck chats with organizer Anjali Rimi (she/her). Topics include: Parivar Bay Area, the country's only org made by and for Hijra, Kinnar, and Global South trans immigrants Differences between anti-trans laws & attitudes in the US and India How Anjali's name was inspired by a lewd, iconic drag name...
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Bonus: Lee Arden
Ozzy and Tuck chat with author Lee Arden (any) about friendship, Quakerism, the "annoying to me personally" z-axis, and Ursula Le Guin's communal pickle barrels. Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of friendship advice questions, zines & indie publishing, prude-slut solidarity,...
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Episode 203: M. K. Thekkumkattil
Tuck and Ozzy chat with writer and nurse M. K. Thekkumkattil (they/them). Topics include: Envisioning a future without hospitals Do medical kinks hit differently as a nurse? Bringing your book tour to the salmon :) When yr doctor realizes that you're medically transitioning before you do… Plus…
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Bonus: Checking in with Katherine Packert Burke
Tuck chats with Katherine Packert Burke about All Us Saints and the cis gaze; why Narrow Rooms is more affirming than coming-out stories; and whether Tehching Hsieh is the only true artist. Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of competitive bisexual erasure, ghosts, Colombo,...
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Episode 202: Lynn Loheide
Ozzy chats with piercer Lynn Loheide (they/them). Topics include: How horny leather queers launched the modern US piercing industry Genuinely surprising ways that a genital piercing can be gender-affirming Using matching nipple rings as thruple wedding bands :) What to know before splitting your...
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Bonus: Metonymy Press (feat. Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch)
In this bonus episode, Tuck chats with poet Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch (they/them) about what's going on over at Metonymy Press. Topics include: Metonymy's role in launching the careers of trans writers Advice for trans people considering their own small press What Metonymy is looking for in…
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Bonus: Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
Tuck chats with physicist and writer Karmela Padavic-Callaghan (they/them) about science writing, quantum hacking, union organizing, and why quantum physics is sooooo queer. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear about Tuck being hospitalized in the multiverse, vegan restaurant hot takes,...
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Episode 201: Julián Delgado Lopera
Tuck chats with author Julián Delgado Lopera (he/him). Topics include: Why Julián chose to focus on a closeted travesti in his new novel Creating intergenerational trans friendships and navigating inevitable conflict Protesting in Bogotá and navigating Colombian gender bureaucracy Untranslatable...
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Episode 200C: A Bit of Advice from Mckenzee Griffler
Last chance to save 50% off Gender Reveal patreon subscriptions and Girl Dad Press books with code "PRIDE" (!!!) Tuck tackles more advice questions with BFF of the show Mckenzee Griffler. Topics include why becoming a beautiful woman is like riding a motorcycle, how to handle intrusive questions...
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Episode 200B: Jack Haven
Tuck and Ozzy chat with I Saw the TV Glow actor Jack Haven (they/them). Topics include: Wearing an A/C unit on your head, both literally (in Camp Miasma) and figuratively (at Cannes and elsewhere) Chasing shame and embarrassment as the most intense and therefore realest emotions Filming an...
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Episode 200A: Trans Healthcare Q&A with Lola Pellegrino
Every 100 episodes, we demand that Lola Pellegrino—a nurse practitioner who specializes in gender-affirming care and gynecology, mostly for trans people—answers our medical questions. Topics include: Exciting new developments in PrEP! Will crossfading hormones werewolf a doll? How important is...
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Bonus: Inaugural Trans Book Draft! (feat. Sabrina Imbler, Calvin Kasulke, & Alma Avalle)
Save 50% off Gender Reveal patreon subscriptions and Girl Dad Press books with code "PRIDE" all June! Tuck challenges Sabs (How Far the Light Reaches), Calvin (Several People Are Typing), and Alma (Picnic Magazine) to draft the best bookshelf of trans literature. Along the way, we become cool bus...
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Episode 199: Bobuq Sayed
Tuck chats with author and organizer Bobuq Sayed (they/them). Topics include: How Bobuq's novel No God But Us addresses shortcomings in other immigrant lit Writing representation for white trans guys with a savior complex who are bad at poly :) How living in Turkey changed Bobuq's relationship to...
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Bonus: Tempest Creation & Tuck's little life
Tuck teases a very personal recent Gender Conceal episode and a big, exciting upcoming experiment. Then, Ozzy chats with Tempest Creation (she/her) about her short film Birth of the Hive Queen. Topics include how to cast moths for a movie, why Tempest's films all have "hooker brain," and whether...
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Episode 198: Violet Allen
Tuck and Ozzy chat with Violet Allen (she/her), author of Plastic, Prism, Void. Topics include: Incorporating 40+ fonts, multiple languages, three timelines, a theme song, and approx. one trillion references into one sci-fi romantasy novel Violet's personal beef with Joyce Carol Oates?! Tuck &...
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Bonus: Advice with Mattie & Calvin
Happy Trans Eve of Snack! Tuck chats with Mattie Lubchansky & Calvin Kasulke about how to know whether you're on a date, deal with ambivalence towards certain HRT effects, and cope with the fact that you didn't transition earlier. (Also: trebuchets, glory holes, and nonbinary Donald Duck.) Listen...
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Episode 197: Marquis Bey
Tuck and Ozzy chat with scholar Marquis Bey (they/them). Topics include: If we abolish gender, what will happen to sex changes? Is nonbinary bourgeois? Learning about nonbinary from incarcerated queer studies students If neither of us care about gender, then what are we doing on this gender...
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Bonus: Trans Day of Snack 2026
Tuck outlines two options for this year's Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack festivities. Want to plan your own Trans Day of Snack event? Apply for a microgrant at bit.ly/TDOS2026. A full transcript of this episode (and all of our TDOS episodes) is available on our website. Submit questions for our...
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Bonus: AK talks baseball & Heated Rivalry
Tuck chats with the internet's own AK (they/them) about baseball disease, fantasy hockey shows, and the most iconic scene from Twilight. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of the Phillies' horrible bodily fluids, Happy Feet-related top surgery, and AK's journey to becoming…
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Episode 196: Aren Aizura
Tuck chats with trans studies scholar and Minneapolis resident Aren Aizura (he/him). Topics include: How a protest camp in the Australian desert helped free dozens of immigrant detainees(!!) How Aren's kids are reacting to ICE occupying their neighborhood How Twin Cities organizing has remained...
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Episode 195: Ash Tifa
Tuck chats with human rights advocate and organizer Ash Tifa (she/her). Topics include: Do human rights laws actually ensure our rights? What media coverage is missing/misunderstanding about what's going on in the Twin Cities Are Black leaders and queer people being intentionally targeted for...
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Bonus: Jess Darrow
Tuck chats with Encanto actor Jess Darrow (they/them) about working with Disney as outspoken queer person, singing the transest possible song for their Encanto audition, being queer-awakened by a certain Disney couple, and declaring pole dancing the most they/them hobby. Listen to the full…
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Episode 194: Megan Milks
Tuck and Ozzy chat with author Megan Milks (they/them). Topics include: The queer and trans potential of milk Writing fantastical slug erotica and bull insemination scenes Dating and writing advice from Samuel Delany What even is a kink, you know? Plus: New Narrative, the "overwhelming influence…
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Bonus: Andrea Horne w/ Zen Blossom
TGIJP's Zen Blossom chats with historian, artist, and organizer Andrea Horne for the California Report Magazine podcast. Photos(!) and a full transcript are available at KQED.org. For more conversations with trans youth, plus a bonus chat with artist and activist Donna Personna, check out the...
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Bonus: Alma Avalle
Tuck chats with writer and union organizer Alma Avalle (she/her) about the Transparent finale, Trader Joe's dream to destroy the NLRB, and Alma's experience getting very publicly fired from Condé Nast in an egregiously illegal instance of union retaliation! Listen to the full episode on Patreon…
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Bonus: Lee Lai
Tuck chats with cartoonist Lee Lai (she/her) about gossip, projection, emotional journalism, toxic relationship dynamics, annoying transmascs, the hazards of being overly self-reliant, and more. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of puberty 4, comic-reading etiquette…
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Episode 193: Barry Lee
Tuck chats with artist Barry Lee (they/them). Topics include: Creating an oracle deck that doesn't shy away from difficult emotions Why Barry has moved away from mural-painting (and bisexuality lol) The toxic positivity and individualism of mainstream self-help tools Eugenics, limited autonomy…
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Episode 192: Ceyenne Doroshow
Ozzy and Tuck chat with activist and G.L.I.T.S. founder Ceyenne Doroshow (she/her). Topics include: Memories of Ceyenne's mother, Miss Major Ceyenne's 3-hour meal with Zohran Mamdani Lessons learned from a career in sex work Providing safe housing and asylum assistance through G.L.I.T.S. Plus…
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Bonus: Cassius Adair + new book tour stops!
Tuck announces new book tour events, including a '90s-themed lit party and a trans band debut/reunion(!?!). Then, Tuck chats with Cass about the state of trans studies and why podcasts are over. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Cass and Tuck discuss talking to kids about gender…
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Episode 191: Zefyr Lisowski
Tuck and Ozzy chat with writer Zefyr Lisowski (she/her). Topics include: How horror helps us explore what we owe others in the wake of pain Zefyr's delicate decision to do a ~gender reveal~ in Uncanny Valley Girls Managing harm in t4t and crazy4crazy relationships How the Great Dismal Swamp…
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Bonus: Denne Michele Norris
Tuck chats with author Denne Michele Norris (she/her) about the future of trans publishing — is this year's trans lit boom just a outlying blip? — and why violas are the most trans instrument, among other topics. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of transitioning alongside...
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Episode 190: Isa Noyola
Tuck and Ozzy chat with activist Isa Noyola (she/her). Topics include: What are the top priorities for trans immigrant communities and orgs? How can we best show up for our immigrant neighbors? Watching trans folks flee from the US while others flee to the US The power of Translatina (one word!)…
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Bonus: Kani Lapuerta
Tuck chats with filmmaker Kani Lapuerta (he/him) about his new feature-length documentary, Niñxs. Topics include trans rights in Mexico, the increased popularity of gender-neutral Spanish, collaborating on a film with a literal child, and what makes a film ~trans~. Listen to the full episode on...
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Bonus: Dean Spade, Morgan Bassichis, and Tourmaline
This week, we're sharing an episode of Love in a F*cked Up World, a new podcast hosted by our friend Dean Spade. In this episode, Dean chats with Tourmaline and Morgan Bassichis (our guest from last week's episode) about the many lessons they've learned from each other over the course of multiple...
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Episode 189: Morgan Bassichis
Tuck and Ozzy chat with comedian, organizer, and writer Morgan Bassichis (they/them). Topics include: Whether a comedy show is a good use of time in this Political Moment Lessons from Lavender Hill commune and The Faggots & Their Friends... Why "Free Palestine" is directly relevant us as trans &...
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BONUS: Marsha P. Johnson with Raquel Willis
This week, we're sharing the first episode of Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson, a limited-run narrative series hosted by our friend Raquel Willis. Find Afterlives wherever you listen to podcasts, and find incredible archival images from Marsha's life at @afterlives.pod.
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Bonus: Mal Blum's villain era
Tuck and Mal chat about how 2010s Brooklyn hurt Mal's relationship to masculinity, whether reading a book would help kids understand song lyrics, and why Mal is putting "he" pronouns in timeout until you all earn them back. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of Geminis vs...
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Episode 188: Whit Washington
Ozzy chats with Whit Washington (they/them), senior attorney for the Nonbinary & Transgender Rights Project at Lambda Legal. Topics include: Why the Skrmetti decision isn't as broadly damaging as we might think Becoming a lawyer because you're inspired by Kimberlé Crenshaw and also nervous about...
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Bonus: Sawyer K. Kemp
Tuck chats with Sawyer K. Kemp (they/them) about the news that Ian McKellan is involved in an all-trans staged reading of Twelfth Night. Topics include whether Twelfth Night is trans, what baseball and Shakespeare plays have in common, and what prison has to do with any of this. Listen to the…
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Bonus: Niko's advice for ghosts and/or bears
Tuck chats with Niko about coming out as a grocery store cashier, deterring ghosts and bears, writing memoir with a bad memory, and misspelling Neko Case's name on your bloody arm. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Tuck and Niko's favorite musical covers, plus discussions of Wilco…
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Episode 187: Alison Bechdel
Tuck and Ozzy chat with cartoonist Alison Bechdel (she/her). Topics include: Which Dykes to Watch Out For characters are canonically t4t-married, top surgery'd, or in a nonbinary asexual polycule What did Alison do with that MacArthur genius grant money? Did we successfully convince Alison that...
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Episode 186: Harron Walker
Tuck chats with writer Harron Walker (she/her). Topics include: Sleepaway Camp (1983) vs They/Them (2022) Making sense of GSA Day of Silence circa 2007 Advice for women who keep accidentally dating eggs Ways that even "supportive" adults influence trans kids' genders Plus: The Marshafication of...
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Bonus: Mckenzee Griffler + Tuck AMA
Tuck and Mckenzee chat about the big knife in Moonstruck (1987), pizza mnemonics, blue foods, trans vibing, and the special cat that David Lynch invented for Dune (1984). Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear additional movie reviews and recommendations, plus our medical histories(?!)…
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Episode 185: Caro De Robertis
Tuck chats with author Caro De Robertis (they/them). Topics include: Caro's oral history work with trans, genderqueer, and two-spirit elders of color Why Spanish can be more gender-affirming than English How Caro's knowledge of South American dictatorships informs their perspective on US politics...
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Bonus: Jeanne Thornton
Happy Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack! In this bonus episode, Tuck and Ozzy chat with author Jeanne Thornton (she/her) about '90s chatrooms, masking quizzes, community open mics, second-person narration, a possible Plot Conflict Trans Misery Industrial Complex, and hidden crossover events in the...
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Episode 184: Talia Mae Bettcher
Ozzy and Tuck chat with philosopher Talia Mae Bettcher (she/her). Topics include: Creating a theory of trans oppression beyond the "wrong body" and "beyond the binary" accounts How clothing can be part of an abusive system of forced disclosure "Let's meditate on genitalia if we can for a moment"...
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Bonus: Trans Day of Snack 2025 with Jerika Che
Tuck explains this year's Trans Day of Snack celebrations — which includes the opportunity to organize a Gender Reveal-funded gathering! — before chatting with Seattle Trans Joy's Jerika Che (they/them). Topics include: How do I organize a Trans Day of Snack event in my area? How do I choose a...
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Bonus: Yaffa
Tuck chats with Palestinian activist Yaffa (they/she) about their experiences with last year's student encampments, their belief in collectivism, and their journey to mononymity. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear what Yaffa learned about gender from Palestinian elders, among other...
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Episode 183: Vera Blossom
Tuck and Ozzy chat with writer Vera Blossom (she/her). Topics include: Being the hottest girlie at the men-only bathhouse Writing a memoir-grimoire complete with magic spells What did estrogen teach Vera about the life cycle of pigeons??? Is Shrek the ideal man? (And are straight roommates...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Gender Reveal, a t4t podcast that began as a deep dive into what exactly gender... is? Since 2018, the show has evolved into an excuse to chat with a bunch of smart, funny, hot people about everything from anarchism, abolition, and organizing, to parenting, literature, linguistics, kink, drag, film, horror, healthcare, immigration, baseball, wrestling, and decades-old community gossip. (But also, still, gender!)
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Tuck Woodstock
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Welcome to Gender Reveal, a t4t podcast that began as a deep dive into what exactly gender... is? Since 2018, the show has evolved into an excuse to chat with a bunch of smart, funny, hot people about everything from anarchism, abolition, and organizing, to parenting, literature, linguistics, kink,...
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