Gender Reveal

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 the pride flag 
How Writers Against the War on Gaza combats the media ecosystem's rightward drift
Plus: Mx. Potato Head, mommy issues, and Jenna Bush Hager?
This Week in Gender: Nicole Kelly highlights Colectivo Mariposa, one of the 2025 Gender Reveal grant recipients. 
Bobuq's book No God But Us is now available for preorder. 
Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's messages were from Under, Over, and Through and TRANSplants Collective.
Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes, including our recent advice episode with Mattie & Calvin!
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: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) and Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb!)

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 trans cinema has a coherent aesthetic beyond being dark and crazy :) :)
Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Tempest discuss alienating her YouTube transition vlog audience, choosing her name, and being banned by the Library of Congress?!
Find Tempest at tempestcreation.com and @tempestcreation. Birth of the Hive Queen is available to watch on our Patreon through May.
Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

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 & Violet's shared grievance against contemporary fiction 
Channelling all your evil into books :) :) 
Plus: CATS, Sailor Moon, Girls, Rejection, fanfic, heterosexuality, and the worm from Dune 
This Week in Gender: Nicole Kelly highlights Best Practices Policy Project, one of the 2025 Gender Reveal grant recipients. (Transcript here.)
Find Violet at violetallen.love and on Bluesky. Violet's new book, Plastic, Prism, Void, is now available for preorder. 
Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes, including our recent advice episode with Mattie & Calvin!
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: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) and Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb!)

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 to the full episode on Patreon to hear us discuss whether you should tell your husband about your affair(!!), whether you should flee the country(!), and how to explain FFS to your cis wife. We also share our favorite memories from the Gender Ordeal tour, including the time we met a piss ghost(!!!). 
Find Mattie on No Gods No Mayors and Temporal Culture War. Find Calvin around town idk.
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

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: Nicole Kelly spotlights QueerSouf, one of the 2025 Gender Reveal grant recipients. (Transcript here.)
Find Marquis at marquisbey.com. Marquis's new book, Nonbinary Life, will be released on April 16.
Planning a Trans Day of Snack event? Apply for a microgrant at bit.ly/TDOS2026. 
Save $5 on Sex Change and the City in the Girl Dad shop with code SNACK!
Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes, including our upcoming advice episode with Mattie & Calvin!
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: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) and Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb)