Gender Reveal

This week, we remember advocate, storyteller, and mother Cecilia Gentili.

Cecilia resources & links:

• Cecilia's legacy fund!!!
• Faltas (published by our friends at LittlePuss Press)
• Full videos of Cecilia's 2/7 memorial service
• Speaking with M. E. O'Brien for the NYC Trans Oral History Project (with transcript)
• "Cecilia Gentili's Revolutionary Ask" on Latino USA
• "History of the Stroll & Stories from a Trans Elder" on Afterlives: The Layleen Polanco Story (w/ Raquel Willis)
• Interview with Harron Walker for Interview Mag (2023)
• Profile by Harron in Vulture (2022)
• Interview with Grace Byron for Xtra (2022)
• Interview in Paper about COIN, a free healthcare program for sex workers (2021)
• Our Cecilia story collection on Instagram (@gendereveal)
• More links and videos

Posts cited:

• Fran Tirado
• Cyd Nova
• Chiquitita
• Peppermint

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman Logo: Ira M. LeighMusic: Breakmaster CylinderAdditional Music: "On the Hour" & "Lean Dream" by Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck chats with Shuli Branson (she/they), author of Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life. Topics include:

• Transition as a form of anarchist refusal (and why transition itself isn't liberatory)
• Breakup theory: letting go of the expectation that everything needs to last forever
• How raising kids can help you catch your authoritarian impulses
• Is it actually more responsible to give away your savings right now??
• Plus: Palestine solidarity, abolishing work, and signing up for your shift at the depression factory

This Week in Gender: Conflict with Lantern and Moss??

Find Shuli at sjbranson.com and @shulibranson. Practical Anarchism is available from Pluto Press. Support The Breakup Theory on Patreon and subscribe wherever you're reading this.

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Tuck finally chats with academic and occasional Gender Reveal producer Cassius Adair (he/him). Topics include:

• His role in the Twin Flames cult documentary
• Getting mpreg (lol) 12 years after being told that HRT would sterilize him
• Joining trans studies because he got on the wrong flight in 2011
• Writing about whiteness, tech history, and hot trans social contagion
• Plus: Lexification of t4t and putting ur relationship through academic peer review

This Week in Gender: Jesse Lawson & Lou Sullivan on "How to Look 30 When You Are 30" (listen here).

Find Cassius at cassiusadair.com, and find us both at sylveon.co.

We've got three Palestinian solidarity designs (plus trains flag restocks) in the merch shop this month. Get 10% off everything with code TRAINS.

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Find our FAQ page, starter packs and episode transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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Tuck catches up with multidisciplinary artist Salimatu Amabebe (he/they). Topics include:

• Barracuda, an it/its drag monster and perverse people-pleaser
• Should you retcon your dead dad into someone more convenient?
• Demanding better (and more creative) gender-affirming surgeries
• The pros and cons of making earnest, vulnerable art
• Plus: Envisioning yourself as a house for many different / differently-gendered beings ("and they're all employed!")

This Week in Gender: We remix a 4-year-old TSA segment.

Find Salimatu on Instagram @salimatuamabebe and @black.feast.

We've got three Palestinian solidarity designs (plus trains flag restocks) in the merch shop this month.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's message was from Max Burns UX.

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Find our FAQ page, starter packs and transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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We're back, baby! Tuck chats with Lamya H (she/they), author of Hijab Butch Blues. Topics include:

• Discovering queer themes (and dykes!) in the Quran
• How having a baby helped Lamya assert their own gender identity
• TFW someone suggests you read your own pseudonymous memoir
• Finding gender euphoria in religious practice
• Plus: Pinkwashing, Dadaism, and subway speed challenges

This Week in Gender: Serena Hommes reports on union bargaining for trans healthcare.

Find Lamya at lamyah.com and @lamyaisangry. Paperbacks are available for preorder.

We've got three Palestinian solidarity designs (plus trains flag restocks) in the merch shop this month.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we'll read on the show. Today's message was from Luke Dani Blue.

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Find our FAQ page, starter packs and episode transcripts at genderpodcast.com. We're also on Instagram @gendereveal.

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Tuck chats with journalist Rax Will (he/they) about queer food, pronoun-themed cocktails, and "AFAB" trans clothing brands (derogatory). Plus, news about next season!

Listen to the full episode on Patreon for discussions of:

• Rax's extensive research about trans people and dog food(?!)
• Why the hottest new accessory is the NYC diaper
• Receiving the perfect "sorry I misgendered u" gift
• Why one of the best queer bars won't hang a pride flag
• And more that we cannot even mention here!!!

Find Rax @bigfoodie69. Articles mentioned in this episodes include:

• "The Best Shorts for Trans Men and GNC Badboyz" (lol)
• "The Next Generation of 'Lesbian Bars' Is Here. What Should We Call Them?"
• "When Sir and Ma'am Miss the Mark: Restaurants Rethink Gender's Role in Food Service" (gift link)

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Tuck speaks with Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas way back on Trans Day of Snack 2023. It's a Gender Reveal x Gender Spiral crossover event!

Find Gender Spiral at genderspiralpod.com as well as Instagram, TikTok, and Patreon.

A few quick announcements on what's coming up next.

Thanks to Blue Dot Sessions as always for the music bed.

Quick announcement because I remembered that not everyone is on Instagram dot com.

This year's grant applications close on Halloween night. Apply at bit.ly/GRgrant23, and find a full list of past grant recipients at genderpodcast.com/grant. Spread the word!

Grab free tickets for the November 10 2 Trans 2 Furious event (featuring Tuck, Tre'vell Anderson, and Mckenzee Griffler) at bit.ly/2T2FLA. Only a few left!

Also, we've got a new Gender Conceal episode with Mckenzee and it really is something.

Tuck chats with activist Raquel Willis (she/her). Topics include:

• Why having the ~most radical gender~ isn't a useful standard
• Reconciling your feminism with your transsexual desires
• Parental loss, and death as an animating force
• How to choose a good beneficiary for trans fundraising
• Plus: Afrotransmisogyny, Janet Mock, and… Fortnite??

This Week in Gender: Girlfriends by Emily Zhou; Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas; People Collide by Isle McElroy; Laugh Riot by Io & Jonas Goonface.

Find Raquel on Instagram and Twitter. Preorder The Risk It Takes to Bloom before Nov 14.

Find a copy of 2 Trans 2 Furious here, and join us on Nov 10 at North Figueroa in LA! (RVSP HERE.)

Check out our nonprofit merch store by October 15!

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to access our bonus podcast, newsletter, and other fun perks.

Find us genderpodcast.com (for starter packs, FAQ, grant info, transcripts, etc) and @gendereveal.

Join the Gender Detective Slack here (link expires in 28 days).

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