Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I have been doing a cute little morning routine lately where I log into twitter and it ruins my entire day. I have this print (by a trans artist!) in my bathroom and y...
2022-01-28 01:53:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’ve all been hanging in there. I’ve spent the entire last week mostly watching Yellowjackets and reading about Yellowjackets and thinking about Yellowjackets and then very occasionally doing my job. So please know how hard I had to focus to make this newsletter not jus...
2022-01-20 05:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am eating cereal for dinner, like an adult professional.
This week on the show… actually, I’m just going to let Io tell you:
“I’m on this week’s Gender Reveal and ...
2022-01-12 03:07:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. I feel like the 😶🌫️ emoji. It’s taken me three days to write this because every time I think about putting paragraphs together my brain goes 😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️. [If you don't have that emoji, it's 2022-01-07 02:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I know I’m always like “I feel like we’re in an extra weird section of the Weird Times” but I do feel that way. I can’t stop looking at this line?!?
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s, as always, a very weird time!!! It’s Christmas Eve Eve Eve, and half of the New Yorkers I know have Covid, and Portland is allegedly about to get snowed in for at least a week (because we are always really bad at snow and because the labor shortage extends to pl...
2021-12-23 04:32:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m typing to you from a weirdly shaped ergonomic keyboard because my carpals are threatening to tunnel again, or however that works. I want to say it’s flaring up because I’ve been hard at work making podcasts and such, but unfortunately I suspect it’s due to me ...
2021-12-17 00:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. Have you heard this week's episode yet? I literally have not — by which I mean, I did listen a zillion times during edits, but I always listen to the final cut on either Sunday or Monday and I just...... didn't this week. So, um, if there's a weird cut or blip somewhere, ...
2021-12-08 08:04:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I have mostly been watching Sondheim clips and by “clips” I mean a “bootleg copy of the 2011 New York Philharmonic Concert version of Company with Spanish subtitles.” I won’t link to that but I will link to the 2021-11-30 03:38:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re hanging in there. It’s so funny being an independent trans show, making it up as we go along… conventional wisdom says that “holiday” weekends would mean a drop in podcast downloads, but I tend to assume that while you (the listener) might be too busy to listen to Gender Reveal this we...
2021-11-25 02:42:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I just got a new computer(!!!!!!!) and am now terrified that it will break if I like, type? or breathe wrong? or something? So I’m writing this very gingerly and feel very silly about it.
This week on the podcast, I had the privilege and the delight of chatting wi...
2021-11-18 05:45:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. Phew, it’s dark out there, huh???? I meant literally — it’s pitch black at 5:13pm — but figuratively we probably aren’t doing great either. It's brutal out here, as (I assume) the teens say.
You know what is great, though? This week’s episode wi...
2021-11-11 01:47:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week is one of those “six 12-hour day” podcast work weeks (possibly should be seven but also my girlfriend is allegedly visiting and I simply refuse?) so I’m running low on brain juice (GROSS) to write this newsletter but I will try my best.
(Six 12-hour ...
2021-11-04 04:10:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Long time no see! As you may have gathered, we just released a complete overhaul of our first episode, Gender 101. The process of releasing this episode was considerably more elaborate than our typical interviews and advice episodes, where I just click “publish” on Libsyn and go to sleep. Here’s what ...
2021-10-25 21:44:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. A big gust of wind knocked my power out for five hours so I'm having a weird one. Still managed to get an episode up for tomorrow, though!
In fact, it's actually a...
2021-10-25 04:58:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. We’re eight days away from our aspirational Season 8 premiere date. Will we make it? I truly have no idea. Stay tuned!
I’m writing this on my phone in a sculpture garden slash mini-golf park in Minnesota — I’m here for 2021-10-18 02:41:07 +0000 UTC View Post
(Thank you to our friend Rose for the meme, and sorry to Rose about the crisis.)
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. Julia and I have been hard at work on Season 8; we've got two interviews d...
2021-10-10 01:51:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. It is 69° here (nice) which is undoubtably bad for the planet long-term but is somewhat ameliorating my depression in the very short term so maybe it's good actually. (It's not.) (But maybe!)
We just launched our Fall 2021 grant program, which ...
2021-10-03 00:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. It's been a while!
Our Fall 2021 mutual aid program opened and closed in a quick 48-hour sprint! In that time, we were able to send $14,300 in mutual aid payments to trans people of color in the US, the UK, Canada, the Philippines, and more. (Thanks to everyone ...
2021-09-26 03:06:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. Got a real quick one for you this week. A few things:
1. Our New York City live show is in less than a week! This show sold out in less than two days(!), and since then, a couple f...
2021-09-11 06:45:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
If you've already received your physical Patreon rewards, feel free to delete this. Congratulations on reading one less email today!
Everyone else — hey, hi. Hope you're all, you know, hanging in there.
Since the season ended, I have been torn between the desire to Not Make My Carpal Tunnel Wo...
2021-09-06 02:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
I hope you're hanging in there. Sorry for skipping last week's newsletter — I was trying to "take some time off" and "not exacerbate my carpal tunnel" and I would say I've been like 44% successful in those goals on the average day.
I'm back because my wrists and arms are still doing bad but I played...
2021-08-31 02:06:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there.
I’m really bummed to announce that we’re going to be cutting this season short due to an intense carpal/cubital tunnel flareup that has made it really difficult for me to work for more than like 30 minutes a day. Most of you probably know how much I typica...
2021-08-17 03:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. It’s 100° here but only 89° inside (lol), and my roommate is hanging out with their partner in one room, and my other roommate is hanging out with her friend in another room, and I’m sitting in front of a fan, trying to make y’all a podcast, but my brain is liquif...
2021-08-13 02:59:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey again,
Monday's episode features an excellent essay by Tobi Hill-Meyer about the history of "autogynephilia" as a concept. I'm posting the full transcript below, including Tobi's citations and an extended bio, in case it helps to follow along or refer...
2021-08-09 06:24:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there.
It’s been a weird week over here, but we managed to release a bonus episode featuring our friends over at 2021-08-09 01:39:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. As you may have seen, we did something weird this week — we interviewed two cis guys. This, understandably, confused a subset of listeners and social media followers and people who just wandered by us on the internet. Below, we attempt to explain ourselves:
Q:...
2021-07-31 00:47:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. I took the last week off(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and am now hustling to finish up tomorrow's podcast in the next few hours. So, instead of your usual scheduled content, here is a slideshow of my f...
2021-07-26 04:43:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’ve been trying to write this newsletter for fully five days but every time I look at the screen I can’t think of how to make words into sentences.
This week on the show, I was very excited to of...
2021-07-18 03:02:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. As you may have heard, we somewhat accidentally did a celebrity gender reveal this week.
You may have thought that Gaby Dunn was already out as nonbinary. I, too, thought this when I invited them back onto the show to update their hilariously trans "token cis" <...
2021-07-09 22:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
