Lee Lai! Tuck’s top tracks!

Hey friends,

Hope you’ve all been hanging in there. I was very surprised to see how many people still posted Spotify Wrappeds this year, given everything going on. (No shade! But also.) My brand-new idea, which nobody has ever done before, is to just like write down the songs that l had on heavy rotation this year.

1. She’s Leaving You by MJ Lenderman

2. Hallways by PUP

3. Gemini v. Cancer by Mal Blum

4. Relationships by HAIM

5. Model Train Town by Petey USA

6. Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation by Jasmine.4.t

7. Starburster by Fontaines DC

8. Born Yesterday by Gladie

9. Lightsaber Cocksucking Blues by Mclusky

10. Relatable by Buddy Wynkoop

11. Legs by Annie DiRusso

12. Garden of Eden by Rachel Chinouriri

13. Getting Killed by Geese

14. TRUST! by Rebecca Black

15. Running/Planning by CMAT

All of these tracks are either in the best playlist I made this year or in my new playlist that is not quite finished yet, but you can also find them here or transfer the playlist into ur app of choice.

Ok thank u for indulging me; let’s talk about podcast! This week on Gender Conceal, I had the delight of chatting with cartoonist Lee Lai. We talked about puberty 4, gossip, emotional journalism, toxic relationship dynamics, she/her mustache gender, tokenization, inventive dialogue bubbles, thinking you deserve points for self-reliance, keeping ur organizing work and your creative work separate, and much mooooooore. (The self-reliance points part specifically seemed to resonate with a lot of folks, and them, I say: thank you and I’m sorry!)

If you haven’t read Stone Fruit and Cannon, I highly recommend tracking them both down either before or after you listen to the episode. Look at this little guy :)

from Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

Next week (tomorrow) on the main show, we’ll be sharing my conversation with Atlanta artist Barry Lee! Barry first reached out to us almost exactly one year ago, so thank goodness they are a deeply patient person. Very excited have them on the show!!!

by Barry Lee

Okay, let’s do Links & Stuff.

• Since last week’s gift guide, I have learned about this shop, this shop, and also Dean Spade’s shop/new expanded edition of Mutual Aid.

• I read this decade-old blog post about how we should all use Webster’s 1913 dictionary as our default computer dictionary and it totally convinced me so now I am doing that.

• I recently got back on dating apps but then my friend shared this article and now I’m kind of like lol, lmao, fuck, nvm :)))))))

• Jackie Ess wrote about attending her first Quaker meeting

• Seems bad!

• I should’ve plugged this last week, but: follow UFW! (IG / bsky)

• Did you hear about those nuns who broke back into their convent and started a TikTok? Divas, icons, legends.

• Trans rights and trains rights are once again colliding in beautiful ways

That’s it for this week. Here’s your weekly Rhubarb.

And also Puffin, ofc.

Xo,
Yr resident gender detective