Hey everyone,
Hope you're hanging in there. I am thrilled to announce what you likely already know, which is that Gender Reveal is officially BACK for our sixth season.
We're starting off strong with a conversation with TransL...
2020-12-13 01:02:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends!
Hope you're all hanging in there. I'm trying really hard to finish this episode for you for Monday, so we're going to do a lightning round of news without the color commentary. Apologies, but also โ maybe you'll like it better this way, even! Who knows?
(Also, hey, did I share that Drake meme alread...
2020-12-06 05:07:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're hanging in there.
Since our viewing of Mulan a week or two ago (what is time?), I've been collecting gay & trans Mulan memes. Send them my way if you've got any!
OK, let's get down...
2020-11-27 23:19:27 +0000 UTC View PostHey friends,
Just a quick update: thanks to the outpouring of support from everyone, the surf don't terf sweatshirt is back in the store again! Please enjoy if you have not already partaken in the shark hoodie:
Hey friends,
I was technically one newsletter behind, and even though I'm sure nobody was counting, I'm making it up to you here with this unfortunate This Week in Transphobia update.
It appears that the folks at Teespring are deeply confused about what "we love and support the LGBTQ+ community" means. They took d...
2020-11-17 17:45:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. I am here to let you know four things:
1. Thanks to the generosity of all y'all as well as people on twitter, we were able to successfully raise $15,700 for the mutual aid fund! That means that all 157 applicants will be receiving $100. Y'all, that is INCREDIBLE. Than...
2020-11-17 05:25:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there.
I've been putting off writing this newsletter for a few days because I was hoping to eventually have something to say. But lately, it feels like the more that happens, the less I want to speak about it. Maybe because there are more people listening now. Maybe because ...
2020-11-12 21:47:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there on this day of all days.
Apologies that I missed last week's newsletter. I have lost track of how time and space work. Will try to get a second newsletter out this week, but also, does anyone want another email to deal with right now?!?
Anyway, if you check...
2020-11-03 17:59:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Hope you're all hanging in there.
I've got some reminders about upcoming deadlines (is that the right word? Things are ending, idk) but first... happy belated birthday to Zee Griffler, our beloved gender detective!
2020-10-26 01:19:50 +0000 UTC
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Hi bbs,
Hope you're hanging in there. I have many things to announce, so let's get started:
As you may recall, I'd been going back and forth between making our fall grant program into a grant (as the name implies) or a mutual aid fund.
On Indigenous Peoples Day, I asked twitte...
2020-10-18 23:18:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Hope you're all hanging in there. Last week, I wrote about how everything was Incredibly Bad. Since then, I've been trying to take my wins where I can get them โ spending as much time as possible in the sun, several feet away from people I love, and minimal time on the Hell Sites other than to...
2020-10-06 00:42:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Boy howdy, everything's just really absurdly bad, huh?
Well, not everything. Someone sent me that meme (above) that made me laugh and also feel v flattered.
Also I went to the farmers marke...
2020-09-29 05:38:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Hope you're all safe and healthy and breathing some good good air. I am thrilled to say that after ten days of barely leaving the house (and looking like this when I did)...
...and then having a big panic a...
2020-09-20 04:12:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
I feel like every time I say "I hope you're all hanging in there," I get one notch more emphatic. But, hey, I really hope you're all hanging in there.
I write to you (as always) from Portland, Oregon, where the air quality is currently (definitely not always) at 246 AQI ("very unhealthy"), due ...
2020-09-11 23:28:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey babes,
If you have not received your Patreon rewards yet, can you please check to make sure that we have the most current address and name for you? I'm about to start sending these out again, and I want to make sure I'm not sending your stickers, thank you note, pins, etc. to the wrong place.&...
2020-09-04 03:31:44 +0000 UTC View Post
FRIENDS! Hello!
I want to start by apologizing for the long break between newsletters. The short explanation is that the Portland protests started making national news (and I started working 11am-4am); then I took some time away to recover from that; then I got back into covering the protests, and at no p...
2020-08-31 22:12:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all hanging in there. I thought I sent this newsletter last week and I thought I would have time to make an episode for today and neither of these are true!
It's really incredible how literally every day I think, "Today is the day that I start shifting away from protest cove...
2020-07-13 22:27:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
I owe you two newsletters this week, but I only have one newsletter's worth of podcast news. So! Here's a slideshow of flowers I've seen since coronavirus hit the US back in March. It's good to see that some of us are still thriving.
While we're here, here are some miscellaneous trans thoughts:
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2020-07-08 07:17:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends.
Hope you're hanging in there. I was out until 4am last night covering the protests happening at the North Portland police precinct. If you'd like to see me deliriously greet a tear gas canister like an old friend, 2020-06-27 00:50:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
This is last week's newsletter. Oops.
Last week on the show, we did a quick overview of several notable pieces of trans news, including the fact that Boris Johnson may be blocking plans to make it easier to be declared legally trans in the UK (Did that sentence make sense? 2020-06-24 01:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends. Hope you're all hanging in there.
I know it's weird to promote a podcast in the middle of... *gestures at everything*... but I cannot recommend this week's interview with Vidhya Aravind highly enough. I learned so mu...
2020-06-14 02:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
I hope you'll accept last week's newsletter a little bit late. Truthfully, I doubt anyone's sitting around impatiently waiting on the Gender Reveal newsletter ever, let alone right now, but I do try to hold up my end of the bargain when y'all are so incredibly generous in your support of my w...
2020-06-08 17:59:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey friends,
Hope you're all doing OK out there (in there?). This week, I'm thrilled to share my chat with friend of the show Beth Easton. You may know...
2020-05-28 01:41:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, friends. Hope you're all hanging in there. I am doing... shockingly OK, given the state of the world. I hope you're finding moments of joy and levity as well.
But who cares how I'm feelingโthe big news is that THE PODCAST IS BACK, BABY. I'm diving back into your podcast feeds to share the last fi...
2020-05-21 01:07:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends! I hope you're all safe and healthy and hanging in there.
First and foremost, I was devastated today to learn that Aimee Stephens h...
2020-05-13 00:32:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, friends.
I apologize for missing last week's newsletter, and the one before that. The truth is that I was a) very busy with the trans mutual aid fund b) very busy with the Life Kit episode I'm hosting, and, most of all, c) honestly doing very badly in my brain. Whoops!
The good news is that I'm...
2020-05-05 05:02:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends! I'm bummed that there's no new podcast episode this week โ between the trans survival fund, the Life Kit episode I'm hosting, and some wild personal stuff, I wasn't able to record anything for Gender Reveal. I'm really hoping that by next week, I'll at least be able to piece together a bonus episode. We'll se...
2020-04-19 02:05:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends! It's good to talk to you again.
This week on the show, we chat with Danny Lavery, co-founder of The Toast, advice-giver @ Dear Prudence, and author of the new Something That May Shock and Discredit...
2020-04-10 03:55:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Friends! Happy belated Trans Day of Visibility! I hope you all enjoyed your special day of being seen before returning to your transparent spectral forms ๐
But, truly, I hope you had a wonderful day yesterday, whether you are able to be proudly and openly trans or whether you're not yet ready or able to share your tr...
2020-04-02 00:38:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hiiiiii friends. Hope you're all hanging in there. Please, please let me know if there's anything I can do to support you (other than make podcasts sometimes).
As you have no doubt noticed, this week's episode is very special....
2020-03-28 23:34:23 +0000 UTC View Post
