Bonus: Checking in with Krys Malcolm Belc

Tuck and Ozzy chat with intersex activist Sean Saifa Wall (he/him). Topics include: Why "intersex people are as common as red hair" needs to stop  How trans and queer people have exploited intersex identities for their own gain How androgen insensitivity syndrome can affect HRT results How PCOS explodes the category of intersex Plus: Transsexual Menace, Raquel Willis, and therapist Maura? This Week in Gender: How did trans electoral candidates and anti-trans ballot measures fare in the US elections? Learn more about SLIM at slimstrategy.org and via Hermaphrodites Fight!, a digital museum of intersex resistance. Find Saifa at seansaifa.com. Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes. Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Submit a piece of Theymail, a short message we read on the show. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional music: "Vine Crawler" and "Fornax Dittie" by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb) & DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) 

Tuck chats with author Krys Malcolm Belc about "one of the ultimate taboos of writing," white tradwife behaviors (transmasc edition), disability and parenting, the trans two-memoir tradition, and Hailey Bieber's fake bathroom. Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of rainbow bookshelf controversy, gender-swapped incompetent husbands, friends advising each other not to have kids, gender PSA moratoriums, and, ofc, "FEED ME HOT DOGS. IF YOU DON'T I WILL KILL YOU." Find Krys at krysmalcolmbelc.com. What I Made for Dinner is available in stores and on Bookshop.org. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck chats with organizer Oliver Hall (they/he). Topics include: How Elevated Access coordinates free private flights for people in need of gender-affirming care, abortion, relocation, or even a ride to camp Who are all of these volunteer pilots???  How deep canvassing can seed trans political support for the future Lesser-discussed connections between abortion and gender-affirming care (beyond bodily autonomy) Plus, which is most stereotypically trans: BSDM educator, leatherworker, or chronic wrist issues? :)  Find Elevated Access at elevatedaccess.org and @elevatedaxs. Oliver is on LinkedIn. Apply for our grant for trans organizers of color at bit.ly/GRgrant26 or learn more on our website. You can also help us fund additional grants. Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes. Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck chats with organizer Anjali Rimi (she/her). Topics include: Parivar Bay Area, the country's only org made by and for Hijra, Kinnar, and Global South trans immigrants Differences between anti-trans laws & attitudes in the US and India How Anjali's name was inspired by a lewd, iconic drag name  Reinventing yourself in Boise and realizing that the US is "all a sham" :) Plus: Titanic, mutual aid, and remembering Naga Gouri Devi Apply for our grant for trans organizers of color at bit.ly/GRgrant26 or learn more on our website.  Find Parivar Bay Area at parivarbayarea.net and @parivarbayarea. Anjali is @anjalirimi on Instagram and LinkedIn. Submit a piece of Theymail. This week's message was from Fiona Palmer Mediation. Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes. Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional music: "Mt. Livermore" by Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb) & DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) 

Ozzy and Tuck chat with author Lee Arden (any) about friendship, Quakerism, the "annoying to me personally" z-axis, and Ursula Le Guin's communal pickle barrels.  Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of friendship advice questions, zines & indie publishing, prude-slut solidarity, Margaret Thatcher, and more!  The Politics of Lonely is available via Fernwood Publishing and Bookshop.org. Find Lee's zines at SheerSpite.ca. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck and Ozzy chat with writer and nurse M. K. Thekkumkattil (they/them). Topics include: Envisioning a future without hospitals  Do medical kinks hit differently as a nurse? Bringing your book tour to the salmon :) When yr doctor realizes that you're medically transitioning before you do… Plus: We return to Drew's Giving Poppers to Cis Women, M. K. explains why sepsis is femme, and Tuck does a pronouns crime to Ms. Blood Submit a piece of Theymail: Today's messages were from Recovery Demystified and Bruno George. Find M. K. at thekkumkattilmk.com, on Patreon, and @thekkumkattilmk on IG. The Sexuality of Care is available now, as is their chapbook Weaving Liberation and the collection In The Future There Are No Hospitals.  Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes, including our chat with Jeanne Thornton, M. K.'s editor! Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional music: Blue Dot Sessions Sponsors: Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb) & DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) 

Tuck chats with Katherine Packert Burke about All Us Saints and the cis gaze; why Narrow Rooms is more affirming than coming-out stories; and whether Tehching Hsieh is the only true artist.  Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of competitive bisexual erasure, ghosts, Colombo, Vegeta, "Sapphic new releases for May," KPB's book list, and a special message for our 11 or 12 cisgender listeners.  All Us Saints is available in bookstores now. Find Katherine at katherinepackertburke.com, @katpburke on twitter, and ofc @vegetasackvillewest on IG. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

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). Join our Patreon to access our weekly newsletter and monthly Gender Conceal episodes. Find transcripts and starter packs at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal. Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional 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. LeighMusic: 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. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: Blue Dot Sessions