Tuck chats with trans studies scholar and Minneapolis resident Aren Aizura (he/him). Topics include:

• How a protest camp in the Australian desert helped free dozens of immigrant detainees(!!)
• How Aren's kids are reacting to ICE occupying their neighborhood
• How Twin Cities organizing has remained leaderless and decentralized
• Being subjected to archaic HBIGDA "true transsexual" guidelines and a political background check while trying to access top surgery!?
• Plus: Australian hippies, tear gas, Tim Walz, the YMCA sauna, and audio of a baby talking to a cat in a bag :)

Through The Wire, a 10-min independent documentary about the 2002 breakout from Woomera Detention Center, is available to stream here. (cw: incarceration, injury, police violence)

Find Aren on Bluesky @incommensurati. Aren's book, Mobile Subjects, is available from Duke University Press.

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

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

Tuck chats with human rights advocate and organizer Ash Tifa (she/her). Topics include:

• How Minneapolis today compares to the 2020 protests — and why referring to what's going on as "protests" misses the mark
• Do human rights laws actually ensure our rights?
• What media coverage is missing/misunderstanding about what's going on in the Twin Cities
• Are Black leaders and queer people being intentionally targeted for arrest?
• Plus: Ireland vs US immigrant detention, living in a post-constitutional state, and keeping your nose warm in a Minnesota winter

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Find Ash at ashtifa.com and outfront.org.

Order Sex Change and the City or catch Tuck on book tour in Baltimore on Feb 12.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

Tuck chats with Encanto actor Jess Darrow (they/them) about working with Disney as outspoken queer person, singing the transest possible song for their Encanto audition, being queer-awakened by a certain Disney couple, and declaring pole dancing the most they/them hobby.

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear how Tuck and Jess met via goofing off on Letterboxd… plus Jess coming into their queerness while making Encanto; their mission to make Captain Hook gay; their big discovery about comedians; their takes on RATS and GREECE; their hot take on cishet relationships; and much more!!!

Find Jess at @jessdarrow_ on IG and on IMDb.

Find Tuck on book tour in Baltimore on Feb 12: RSVP here.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck and Ozzy chat with author Megan Milks (they/them). Topics include:

• The queer and trans potential of milk
• Writing fantastical slug erotica and bull insemination scenes
• Dating and writing advice from Samuel Delany
• What even is a kink, you know?
• Plus: New Narrative, the "overwhelming influence of The Argonauts," and finally getting out of high school

This Week in Gender: Tuck reads their favorite book review of 2025.

Find Megan @sklimnagem and meganmilks.com. Mega Milk is available now.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) and Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb!)

TGIJP's Zen Blossom chats with historian, artist, and organizer Andrea Horne for the California Report Magazine podcast.

Photos(!) and a full transcript are available at KQED.org.

For more conversations with trans youth, plus a bonus chat with artist and activist Donna Personna, check out the California Report Magazine's Love You For You series.

Tuck chats with writer and union organizer Alma Avalle (she/her) about the Transparent finale, Trader Joe's dream to destroy the NLRB, and Alma's experience getting very publicly fired from Condé Nast in an egregiously illegal instance of union retaliation!

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of Emilia Perez, paywalled Condé gossip, "Anna Wintour's elite fiefdom rocked by woke soap opera," and much more!

Find Alma at @goodbyealma across platforms and @picnic_mag on IG.

Download issue 1 of Picnic Magazine for pay-what-you-want, and don't forget to sign the petition to reinstate the Fired Four.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck chats with cartoonist Lee Lai (she/her) about gossip, projection, emotional journalism, toxic relationship dynamics, annoying transmascs, the hazards of being overly self-reliant, and more.

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of puberty 4, comic-reading etiquette, she/her mustache, maladaptive trans coping mechanisms, creative dialogue bubbles, and whether hormones physically relocate your feelings in your body.

Find Lee Lai at lee-lai.cargo.site, on IG @_leelai, and on Patreon.

Find Tuck on book tour in Portland on Dec 19! (For real this time.) RSVP here.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck chats with artist Barry Lee (they/them). Topics include:

• Creating an oracle deck that doesn't shy away from difficult emotions
• Why Barry has moved away from mural-painting (and bisexuality lol)
• The toxic positivity and individualism of mainstream self-help tools
• Eugenics, limited autonomy, and other enemies of trans & disabled people
• Plus: Atlanta, Keith Haring, Strega Nona, noses, and queer Muppets

Find Barry @barryleeart and barryleeart.com.

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Order Sex Change and the City today, or catch Tuck on book tour in Portland on Dec 19.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) and Max Burns UX (mention Rhubarb!)