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Jess Darrow is the they/them who played the butch dyke in Encanto

This month, Tuck chats with actor Jess Darrow. Topics include:

• Booking an interview by goofing off on Letterboxd

• Coming into queerness while doing press for a blockbuster children’s movie

• Creating an elaborate gay backstory for Capt. Hook in yr middle school play

• How Jess’s queer/transness has affected their relationship with Disney

• Jess’s big discovery re: all comedians???

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  2026-01-26 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Megan Milks! Minneapolis! Media recs from y’all! (Also, Casa Susana!)

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am effectively snowed in—as in, I could technically make it down the block to the bodega, but not too much further than that—and have spent most of the last 24 hours texting and reading about what’s going on in Minneapolis. I suspect that many of you are in a similar position: either snowed in & glued to your phones or on the street yourselves, defending your neighbors from kidnapping and worse. More on that in a minute. In the meantime, let’s talk about a podcast, I guess?...

Patron survey findings! Bi is back?? Geese and/or Goose!

Hey friends,

Hope you’ve all been hanging in there(!!!). Thank you again to everyone who filled out our 2025 patron survey—I’ve really enjoyed reading through your responses. I’m hoping to talk about this more in a future Gender Conceal, but in the meantime, here are a bunch of stray findings:

• The majority of respondents have been listening to the podcast for 4+ years, which is wild to me. Thank you so much for sticking around!

• More than 1/3 of respondents ...

  2026-01-18 18:14:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Big Baltimore book news! Grant winners! A new newsletter segment!

(Image by sweatermuppet, maker of incredible trans stickers.)

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. We haven’t had a normal newsletter in a few weeks, so before we get going, I’d like to belatedly thank everyone who sent Sag season mail—a true bright spot in a deeply weird holiday season. Special shout-out to these fun handmade cards:

A...

Gender Reveal Unwrapped + Tuck's 2025 Picks

It's that time again! Before we start: you have one week left to take our annual patron survey! Thank you so much to the 261(!) patrons who have already completed the survey.

Total Gender Reveal downloads in 2025: 322,841
Countries & territories with at least one download in 2025: 165

Gender Reveal episodes released: 12 (+ 16 bonus) 2026-01-02 19:48:19 +0000 UTC View Post

2025 patron survey! (Win a prize!)

Hey friends,

Hope you’re hanging in there. Now that we are ~77 hours away from 2026, I’m finally sending the 2025 patron survey! If you’ve never taken one of our annual patreon surveys before, here’s what you need to know:

• It’s long but every question is optional

• You can almost always write in your own answer under “other”

• We use the bulk of this information to (try to) improve our podcast/patreon/spinoff offerings, but sometimes I’m just being nosy! (Like there’s a question...

  2025-12-29 00:12:47 +0000 UTC View Post

a chic way to inconvenience everyone

Hi friends,

Hope you're all hanging in there. Happy solstice! I typically do my holiday travel a week or so before the holidays because I'm an iconoclast and/or a child of divorce and/or don't want to deal with peak holiday flights. This is inconvenient for everyone — taking a week off right before everyone else takes two weeks off is not great business practice, and flying back into town right as all yr friends leave is not ideal — and yet I keep doing it.

All that to say! I took most of this week off, so I do not have much...

Alma Avalle rocked an elite fiefdom with her woke soap opera

This month, Tuck chats with writer and union organizer Alma Avalle. Topics include:

• Getting very publicly fired from Condé Nast in an egregiously illegal instance of union retaliation :)

• Key takeaways from a Transparent rewatch (incl. its many similarities to Emilia Pérez)

• Anna Wintour’s genuinely surprising coffee order

• Trader Joe’s dream to destroy the National Labor Relations Board

• Visiting other countries as a trans adult

• Why ...

  2025-12-15 11:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Barry Lee! One more playlist! PDX on Thurs!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. The big news today is that it snowed. :)

This week on the show, it was an absolute joy to chat with artist Barry Lee. We talked about Strega Nona, Keith Haring, the Muppets, self-help pitfalls, bodily autonomy, spiritual bypassing, terrazzo flooring, noses, Atlanta, and more! Barry is in the midst of migrating their newsletter off Substack (yay!), so you can sign up for the NEWsletter ...

Lee Lai! Tuck’s top tracks!

Hey friends,

Hope you’ve all been hanging in there. I was very surprised to see how many people still posted Spotify Wrappeds this year, given everything going 2025-12-07 22:57:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Lee Lai is great with a knife 🔪

This month, Tuck chats with cartoonist Lee Lai about her graphic novels Stone Fruit and Cannon. Topics include:

• She/her mustache, Puberty 4, and being mistaken for transfemme

• How gossiping helps Lee develop her characters

• Do hormones affect where your feelings physically sit in your body?

• The hazards of thinking you should be rewarded for being overly self-reliant(!!!)

• “I have a lot of mechanisms for navigating cis spaces that I wouldn’t advise”...

  2025-11-30 16:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Another gift guide but this one has adventure cats.

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. We’ve got a fun Gender Conceal episode with Lee Lai(!) all ready for you rn, but I didn’t want it to get lost in the weekend slush pile, so I’m holding onto it for now and we’ll talk about it next week.

In the meantime, I thought it would be fun to make a little gift guide… and then I remembered that I 2025-11-30 03:21:41 +0000 UTC View Post

an immediate portland event update

Hey everyone!

Greetings to our paid members, who received another email from me like 20 minutes ago, and to our handful of free members, who did not.

As soon as I sent our weekly newsletter, I received confirmation that our Portland event rebooking was ready to launch! And since I always try to give Patrons first dibs — and since this event will absolutely hit capacity — I wanted to let you know ASAP.

The Sex Change and the City Portland tour event will take place on Friday, Dec. 19, from 7-8 pm. Yo...

Ceyenne Doroshow! Sagittarius season!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s finally Sagittarius season! Among other things, that means it’s time to remind everyone of our mailing address, in case you’d like to loop me into your holiday card list or just say hi :)

PO Box 50297
Brooklyn, NY 11205

This week on the show, Ozzy and I had the honor of chatting with G.L.I.T.S. founder Ceyenne Doroshow. We spoke with Ceyenne about her mother Miss Major, her 3-hour conversation with Zohran, and her work providing safe, stable hou...

A legendary guest! More Oakland tickets! Sorry, Portland!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. Thank you so so so much to everyone who came to our Chicago, Minneapolis, and Brooklyn tour stops! So far, I am 4-for-4 on having an absolutely incredible time, and I hope y’all had fun also. It was great to see so many of you in person!

Tuck & Vera Blossom at Skunk Cabbage Books in Chicago :)

Hoping to see many of you in 2025-11-16 18:06:37 +0000 UTC View Post

big week for culture, bad week for planes!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. What a wild week!!!! Zohran was officially elected mayor, Gendertrash From Hell was published, Sex Change and the City was published, Signal Hill Issue 2 was released, Skin Graft EP was released, the gays of Philadelphia gathered for a dreamy SCATC launch event, and I found perfect pants at the thrift store for $5.99. Huge!

On the other hand, the government shutdown ...

Early Portland tix! Other events selling out! Halloween pigeon!!!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. My friend Jesse is currently visiting from London, and yesterday we dressed up as each other for Halloween, which was incredible for me because not a single person at any of the parties we went to had ever met Jesse before. The ultimate niche costume! I assured them that I was, in fact, nailing it, and who were they to argue?? (I gave Jesse my extra “I voted” sticker and it was spectacular how many drunk people wer...

tuck plays a gig! halloween playlist returns! also, the usps.

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am currently in a standoff with the United States Postal Service. Every two days, I call and say “please pick up all of these packages?” and they say “ok!” and then they do not do that. And I get it! It’s annoying to have a job! But I have so MANY books, and I do not want to carry 300 books to the post office, and I know that they do not want me to show up with 200 packages. Anyway, if you haven’t received your Sex Change yet (lol), know that it is coming as soon ...

More tour dates!!! Cass returns early!!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am thinking about walking into the ocean again. :) <paragraph of complaining deleted because who cares ultimately!!!!>

Thinking about this banger btw.

I accidentally toggled tomorrow’s Gender Conceal episode from “schedule” to “publish” so it’s available now for anyone bored on a Sunday afternoon! This episode makes me so happy. I love to hang out with my fri...

Cass is easy to draw, like Doug from the cartoon Doug

This month, Tuck asks Cassius Adair if Gender Reveal should be replaced with ChatGPT interviewing Alok. Topics also include:

• Coaching your child into autism through positive affirmation and Pokémon (JOKE! LEGALLY THIS IS A JOKE!)

• How scholarly fight-or-flight and ignorant cis academics leads to boring trans studies papers

• What do we mean when we say podcasts are over???

• What you personally have in common with the 15th-century Medici family :)

• Projecting your trauma an...

  2025-10-19 17:26:50 +0000 UTC View Post

Zefyr Lisowski! A salmon/baseball update!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am still thinking about Humpy.

What am I talking about? Thanks so much for asking! For two years, the Seattle Mariners (I know, I’m sorry) have been staging a “salmon run” at every home game, in which four salmon mascots compete in a between-innings footrace. One of the salmon has a septum ring and wears a flannel, and yet, that is not the one we are rooting for. We are always rooting for H...

Three tour dates! 2025 grant! SCATC essay exclusive!

Hi friends,

Hope you’re hanging in there. I’m on a whirlwind cross-country jaunt to watch the Mariners lose a playoff game (classic!) so this is gonna be a short one.

Due to travel, I haven’t had a chance to promote this yet, but: applications for our 2025 grant cycle are open now! As always, we’re looking for trans folks of color (anywhere in the world) w...

girl dad press 10% off update :)

The 10% off promo code has broken containment and escaped the patreon audience, so I gotta mix it up.

Promo code is now PERVERTS, plural. good for all purchases in da girl dad shop until I have to change it again someday.

here's one page of the book for fun.

Photo: A black-and-white illustration of Carrie Bradshaw and Charlotte York as anthropomorph...