Basketdolls! Past Futures of Gender!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show — truly cannot believe it was this week, so much has happened??? — I spoke with Devin Myers about Basketdolls, Florida, Dwayne Wade, various Wallaces, and the gay Cracker Barrel of Tallahassee.

This interview really made me wish we could bring back Who Wants To Hoop! Alas, RIP to the merch store. (I still use this mug all the time, personally.)

Image: A black mug that says "who wants to hoop?" with an illustration of a trans guy dunking a basketball through the hole of the Irreversible Damage girlie. 

We also shared a Very Special Episode that doubled as our This Week in Gender segment, in which we swam through a lazy river of past Ideal Futures of Gender. I had SO much fun making this little piece! We only had a couple of days to whip it together, so I’m sure we overlooked many beautiful and silly Gender Futures, but I’m proud of how it turned out regardless. HUGE shout out to Arlie Adlington for taking on a sound design project that I pitched with absolutely zero notice. (I believe the text was: “what are you up to literally today right now?”)

Next week (tomorrow? Or or do you think tomorrow’s a weird day to drop a pod?), we’ll be sharing a really delightful/deranged Gender Conceal episode with Mattie Lubchansky & Calvin Kasulke, in which I ask them why they agreed to do a touring comedy show with me. Topics and digressions include: AccuWeather FuckCast, modern vs traditional anniversary gifts, erotic landlord chocolate, the watermelon splash zone, 66ing, Mattie’s secret tour talent, Tuck’s Travel Zone, Gender-Swapped Holes cast ideas, Lodge City Kansas [sic], the Estonian flag, and the most advanced way of being gay for girls. Oh, also I float a new definition of bisexuality and a theory about what gay guys are up to :)

Oh and hey speaking of Mattie and Calvin and me all hanging out, did you know that our Gender Ordeal show in Washington DC is NEXT FRIDAY? Like, not this coming Friday, but the next one? I guess it really depends how you define “next Friday” which is a whole thing but it’s on the 31st, if that helps, and there are SO many tickets, so please tell your friends that they deserve a little treat for making it through tomorrow.

Image: The poster for the Gender Ordeal show at Union Stage in DC on January 31, which is at 7pm and cost $20

Wait, I forgot the most exciting part, which is that our DC guest will allegedly be Lauren Sandwiches aka Lauren Baseball aka Lauren from Internet! Does she have a canonical last name? I guess I can ask on stage.

We also still have Seattle (late show) and Portland tickets. San Francisco is “sold out” but I’m told there will be like 40 tickets at the door, so please show up anyway. (FYI, the San Francisco show will have ASL interpretation! Exciting.)

Oh hey, by the way, thank you to everyone who supported Adunni’s fundraiser! That means a lot. Okay, let’s do Links & Stuff.

Law & disorder:

• The details in this one are absolutely haunting

• I guess international maritime law means cruise ships really can just do whatever

• Today in true crime / landlord nightmares

• A good suggestion

Everything else:

• Hey do you wanna see the most maximalist house in the world ?

• Theo Von is the absolute worst and yet I fear this gender advice clip will never be beat

• Dalton doing B-52s doing Charli XCX doing 365 is also hard to beat

• If you’re a Severance head (or wanna hear a story about Kubrick in the 90s) u gotta listen to John Turturro on the Severance pod

Tuck’s Creature Corner:

- RIP to a real one

That’s it for this week. Good luck out there! Here’s your Weekly Rhubarb, courtesy of my roommate.

Image: Ruby in motion blur as she crawls out from under a blanket.

Xo,

Yr resident gender detective