Episode 197: Marquis Bey
Gender Reveal
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 podcast?! Plus: Burner genders, replacing “community” with “swarms,” and pushing back against the assimilation of they/them This Week in Gender: spotlights , one of the 2025 recipients. () Find Marquis at . Marquis’s new book, Nonbinary Life, on April 16. Planning a Trans Day of...
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Bonus: Trans Day of Snack 2026
Gender Reveal
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 . A full transcript of this episode (and all of our TDOS episodes) is . Submit questions for our upcoming Gender Conceal episode with Mattie and Calvin at . Donate to the microgrant fund via or @Tuck-Woodstock on Venmo. Read more about Trans Day of Snack's history and . ~ Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Music: Additional Music:
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Bonus: AK talks baseball & Heated Rivalry
Gender Reveal
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 to hear discussions of the Phillies’ horrible bodily fluids, Happy Feet-related top surgery, and AK’s journey to becoming a jumpsuit influencer on January 6. (Plus, more baseball!) Find AK @dumplingmenace and . Submit advice questions or AMA prompts ! Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Music: Additional Music:
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Episode 196: Aren Aizura
Gender Reveal
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 leaderless and decentralized Being subjected to archaic HBIGDA “true transsexual” guidelines and a political background check while trying to access top surgery!? Plus: Australian hippies, tear gas, Tim Walz, the YMCA sauna, and audio of a baby talking to a cat in a bag :) Through...
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Episode 195: Ash Tifa
Gender Reveal
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 arrest? Plus: Ireland vs US immigrant detention, living in a post-constitutional state, and keeping your nose warm in a Minnesota winter [Note: This episode was updated on 02/17/2026 to remove a question per Ash's request.] : Today’s message was from Find Ash at and . Sex Change...
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Bonus: Jess Darrow
Gender Reveal
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 to hear how Tuck and Jess met via … plus Jess coming into their queerness while making Encanto; their mission to make Captain Hook gay; their big discovery about comedians; their takes on RATS and GREECE; their hot take on cishet relationships; and much more!!! Find Jess at on IG and Find Tuck on book...
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Episode 194: Megan Milks
Gender Reveal
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 of The Argonauts,” and finally getting out of high school This Week in Gender: Tuck reads their . Find Megan and . Mega Milk is . Sex Change and the City or catch Tuck in Baltimore on Feb 12. to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes,...
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Bonus: Andrea Horne w/ Zen Blossom
Gender Reveal
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 . For more conversations with trans youth, plus a bonus chat with artist and activist , check out the California Report Magazine's series.
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Bonus: Alma Avalle
Gender Reveal
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 to hear discussions of Emilia Perez, paywalled Condé gossip, “Anna Wintour’s elite fiefdom rocked by woke soap opera,” and much more! Find Alma at @goodbyealma across platforms and on IG. for pay-what-you-want, and don’t forget to to reinstate the Fired Four. ~ Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo:...
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Bonus: Lee Lai
Gender Reveal
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 to hear discussions of puberty 4, comic-reading etiquette, she/her mustache, maladaptive trans coping mechanisms, creative dialogue bubbles, and whether hormones physically relocate your feelings in your body. Find Lee Lai at , on IG , and . Find Tuck on book tour in Portland on Dec 19! (For real this time.) . ~ Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Music:...
info_outlineTuck 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 full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of West Virginia, trans cringe, 17th-century trans intra-community conflict, which Shakespearean role Shohei Ohtani would play, and whether acting is good or bad :)
Find Sawyer at sawyerkkemp.com and at Queens College.
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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions