Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s so cold and everything is so bad! But it is once again time to talk about…. Podcast. lol.
This week on Gender Conceal, I chatted with Encanto’s Jess Darrow about working with Disney as an outspoken queer person. We also discussed Jess’s mission to make Captain Hook gay in 7th grade; their big di...
2026-02-01 23:36:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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 2026-01-26 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 st...
2026-01-26 02:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey 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...
2026-01-18 18:14:49 +0000 UTC View Post
(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. Sp...
2026-01-11 23:22:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt'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...
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 t...
2025-12-29 00:12:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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 to...
2025-12-21 23:25:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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
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, terraz...
2025-12-14 23:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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 2025-12-07 22:57:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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 sh...
2025-11-30 16:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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
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...
2025-11-23 23:21:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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. fou...
2025-11-23 22:22:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
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 ...
2025-11-09 21:40:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2025-11-02 23:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey 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 th...
2025-10-26 22:35:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 “sched...
2025-10-19 22:39:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2025-10-19 17:26:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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-i...
2025-10-12 22:45:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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: ...
2025-10-05 17:32:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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.
It’s the last day before the MLB playoffs, there are like six important baseball games happening right now, and I cannot possibly write a newsletter under these conditions. But I will bravely attempt.
(Speaking of baseball, only three days left to claim your FREE MONTH of Batting Around's Patreon!...
2025-09-28 22:46:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis month, Tuck chats with Denne Michele Norris about her new books, When the Harvest Comes and Both/And. Topics include:
Is this year’s trans lit boom just a publishing blip?
Transitioning alongside your novel’s protagonist
Editing stories of trans trauma without re-traumatizing the author
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Before we get started: that George Michael tweet is unrelated to the newsletter, but I saw Kendra share it and it felt spiritually correct u know? (Btw, my roommate says he has met TWO people who did not know George Michael was gay...
2025-09-21 22:57:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Tuck chats with Lauren, Jane, and Stephen on the Batting Around podcast! Topics include pocket pancakes, er...
2025-09-15 18:59:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Thank you for all of your questions for Cass! We recorded that episode on Thursday, and it was very fun and very long and will be out in the Gender Conceal feed in October.
This week on the show, I was honored to chat with activist Isa Noyola! Isa is so smart and has a ton of experience fighting for trans immigrants rights. In this ep...
2025-09-14 23:10:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. This morning, after coffee with Io, I recorded an episode of the Batting Around podcast. Imagine my surprise when the episo...
2025-09-07 22:36:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Tuck &a...