Gender Reveal

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 tongue(!!!) 
Plus: the "gay ear," HRT's effects on piercings, and inventing a trans shibboleth? 
This Week in Gender: Take the Gender Census and explore the Nonbinary Name Survey Results (and send Tuck yr cool name!)
Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's message was from Kay Pickering. 
Find Lynn at LynnLoheide.com, @lynnloheide (IG) and @Lynn_Loheide (YT).
Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal.
Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: "On Three Legs" by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb) & DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

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 its current open submissions
How Tuck keeps messing up on dating apps :) :) :)
Plus: Teaching Hanif Abdurraqib & summoning Elliot Page??
Support Metonymy via their GoFundMe and shop their existing titles at MetonymyPress.com. Eli Tareq's newsletter is at slowsyrup.substack.com; Knot Body and The Good Arabs are available now.
Take the 2026 Gender Census here.
Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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, how Tumblr impacted our college experience, and more. 
Send questions for Karmela via our advice/AMA form.
Find Karmela karmelapadaviccallaghan.com and sign up for their newsletter, Ultracold. Entangled States is available in bookstores now.
Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

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 Spanglish, transsexual grammar, travesti poetics, and the beautiful transfemme tradition of lying-i-mean-myth-making :)
Plus: Alison Bechdel vs Carson Kressley in Provincetown?! 
This Week in Gender: We hear from a friend and supporter of Amber Kim.
Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's message was from Jaman Dunn-Danger.
Find Julián at juliandlopera.com and @juliandlopera. Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You is available now (and on sale on Bookshop!)
Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal.
Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb) & DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

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 from other trans people, and how we can support our friends when they make decisions we hate.
Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of immaculate conception mpreg Mario, ovo-lacto parkour, unappreciated Mulan jokes, and why it's so important to make a transphobic group chat. (Plus: Will trans solidarity save Tuck when he lies to the dermatologist??)
Submit advice questions or AMA prompts via our new form for a future episode like this one.
Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions