Gender Reveal Unwrapped + Tuck's 2024 Picks

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week, instead of Links & Stuff, we’ve got Lists & Stats! I fudged a couple numbers because we’ve got one more Gender Conceal episode coming out tomorrow and also the grants haven’t been all paid out — hey btw if anyone is good at sending money to Nigeria or Cameroon lmk lol, it’s so confusing to me — but assuming all goes well, this is all correct! And if not, nobody cares except me anyway :) :) :)

Total Gender Reveal downloads in 2024: 460,129
Countries & territories with at least one download in 2024: 176

Gender Reveal episodes released: 23
Gender Conceal episodes released: 13
Gender Reveal/Ordeal live shows: 4

Most downloaded Gender Reveal episodes in 2024:

1. Checking in with Jules Gill-Peterson
2. Lamya H
3. Jane Schoenbrun
4. Susan Stryker
5. Shuli Branson

Number of Gender Reveal grants awarded: 16
Gender Reveal grant money awarded: $12,600
Mutual aid money sent: $34,800
Matching funds sent to the Cecilia Gentili Legacy Fund: $9,000
Gender Reveal merch shop profits for artists/orgs: $1400

New Gender Reveal patrons: 396
Cancelled Gender Reveal patrons: 282

Gender Conceal episode names that made me laugh the most despite having written the titles myself:

• Cannibalism Kink at Fag CVS with Ozzy Llinas Goodman

• Cassius Adair ultimately did not name his child after an Animorph :(

• Did Katherine Packert Burke get her egg cracked by Drake?

Podcasts I listened to in 2024: 81
Podcast eps listened to in 2024 (not counting Gender Reveal/Conceal): 722

Audiobooks that I listened to in 2024 (thank u Libby app!!!): 36
Books that I read in 2024: 42
Books I read/listened to by trans people in 2024: 28+

Five books published in 2024 that I relished from a craft perspective (even though some of them made me sad or the characters were all deliberately unlikeable or etc):

• Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele

• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

• The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft

• How It Works Out by Miriam Lacroix

• Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

Five audiobooks that I particularly enjoyed in a turning-off-my-brain way:

• The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

• Good Material by Dolly Alderton

• The Book of Love by Kelly Link (still have 1/3 left but so far so good!)

• Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (aka the book in every Hudson News)

• Wicked by Gregory Maguire lol

Movies watched in 2024: 36
Every movie I rated 4.5 stars on Letterboxd in 2024 for some unknowable reason:

• Burden of Dreams (1982)

• Erin Brockovich (2000)

• Challengers (2024)

• Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

Seasons of Sex and the City watched in 2024: 5.25
Seasons of all other TV shows, combined, watched in 2024: ~5

Baseball games attended in 2024: 15

Happy new year. Hang in there. Here’s your weekly Rhubarb.

Photo: Ruby talking to some blue jays thru the window screen, with a beam of warm light falling on her and some snow in the background (outside the window)

Xo,
Yr resident gender detective

PS: Feel free to share your own Lists & Stats, and/or what you think any of this says about me lol.