Harron Walker! + can you guess our June guest?

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show, I was thrilled to chat with the one and only Harron Walker! Topics include Simpsons DVD commentary tracks, high school GSA rituals, Cecilia Gentili, Greer Lankton, political optimism, Wellbutrin, the New York Times, Sex and the City, Martha P. Johnson Park, Sleepaway Camp (1983), They/Them (2022), the Gift of the Magi, Prometheus, Bill Clinton’s death in a tragic saxophone accident, and women of “woman of faggot experience” experience. Also: more tips for being normal!!!!

Harron’s book officially comes out on Tuesday, but you can preorder it now at thisistrans.info. (I think I will eventually change the redirect on this URL to other books you can preorder. Does that sound fun? Like a roving link? Sure why not.) I also recommend reading this interview transcript between Harron and Cecilia as a supplement to this week’s episode.

I also finally MET NIKO IN PERSON (wow!) and recorded a very fun IRL Gender Conceal in my living room, so keep an eye/ear out for that episode to drop later this month. In the meantime, you can read Niko’s cute interview with Luke O’Neil via Hell World!

Photo: Niko is holding the 2T2F Lammy award for LGBTQ+ anthology, and Tuck is standing next to her and smiling. Niko is wearing sunglasses indoors and Tuck is wearing a killdozer shirt that Io made.

Also, I got close to catching up on physical Patreon rewards :) and then I ran out of stickers :( so I will finish mailing those out as soon as the stickers show up.

We’ve got a huge guest on deck for next month’s episode! If you want to take a guess, this person’s name anagrams to “banished cello.”

I think those are all my production updates. Here’s Links & Stuff, which I tried not to make toooooo bleak okay???

Horrifying:

• Read this and then presumably you’ll want to do this immediately

• 10 writers in US prisons respond to photos from the El Salvador mega prison

Political commentary:

• Soccer fans protest in solidarity with their Latine comrades

• Hamilton Nolan on the best strategy for the next uprising

• Kate Wagner against the fleeing to Europe industrial complex

• Margaret Killjoy on the dangers of false nonviolence

Everything else:

• 1000 internet users are driving around Maine together and listening to local radio and it's very very very cute.

• This headline (“He Hears Voices in His Head. He Also Helped Win an Election.”) is quite wild but I appreciated the article itself (NYT guest link)

• Today in trans + baseball: Lauren Theisen being a Savannah Bananas hater

• RIP José Mujica, one of the greatest to ever do it

That’s it for this week. Here’s your Weekly Rhubarb, courtesy of my downstairs Gay Neighbors! (Ruby goes to their apartment for parties sometimes hehe.)

Photo: Ruby walks along the back of a couch beneath a large framed painting.

Xo,
Yr resident gender detective