River Gallo! 40% off Niko’s new book!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. (I sort of forgot that I started saying this in late 2017, but it’s all making sense now.)

This week on the show, I chatted with the wonderful River Gallo about:

• Getting glamorously force-femmed by Indya Moore in an historic Ponyboi scene

• Realizing that your genitals are in the second paragraph of your Wikipedia page

• Why Republicans are seemingly more aware of intersex people than liberals are?

• How growing up in a restaurant led us both to film school somehow

• Connecting to the ethereal and embracing the inherent witchiness of gender

• Totoro, Bruce Springsteen, New Jersey, Hamlet, Sex and the City, and much much more!

Speaking of Sex and the City, Niko and I are working hard at putting the new anthology together. It's so funny how, even when we’re editing joke essays about old TV, I want them to really work on a sentence level, you know? But that’s the Girl Dad Press commitment to the bit, I guess.

And speaking of Girl Dad Press: bookstores can finally finally finally finally order 2 Trans 2 Furious easily — I could explain why this took four months, but ultimately nobody cares except me! — so if you see a copy floating around in the world, could you send me a picture or otherwise let me know? It would mean A Lot to know that the book is finally making its way into the wider world.

By the way, if you’re looking for a gift for a freak in ur life, you can still order 2T2F copies directly through us, and I will sign them with whatever message you want. I also recommend pre-ordering Niko’s new book, The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, while it’s fully 40% off!!!! A steal!!!

And of course, I’m sure you’ve heard this 100 times, but our Philly show is on December 3rd, which is SOON! I just roped Kirby Conrod into joining the show! Mckenzee is gonna play a bonus game! It’s gonna be sort of my birthday! We are gonna have fun! Tickets available now!

Okay, let’s do Links & Stuff.

Queer stuff:

• Jewish Currents published a beautiful interview with Shoog McDaniel, a photographer whose work I hope you’re already familiar with

• A newsletter reader recently plugged Queer Liberation Library, a free library of queer books and audiobooks that you access via Libby.

• Maddy Court shared more advice for making queer friends

Organizing dept:

• The Wired guide to protecting yourself from government surveillance is rly good! I’ve read a bunch of these and I still learned new stuff.

• Mariame Kaba shared this robust list of suggested actions that are not protesting or voting

• Dyke Domesticity published a history piece on coalition-building and the 1970 Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention, which I was not previously familiar with

• Them.Us put together a short list of mutual aid funds that assist trans people

• And speaking of, our longggg list of resources from Trans Day of Snack is still available!

Everything else:

• A 22-year-old New Zealand MP led a haka in Parliament in protest of a bad bill, and it ruled!! The beaming elder makes me so so happy.

• I know we’re all tired of AI discourse but the Anime Sickos’ specific critiques of AI slop are refreshing imho! (You can skip past the cold open.)

• From PJP, a short piece on the lives of women aging in prison

• This Arab Israeli college student had her life destroyed for reposting four memes

• I put together a list of Gaza GoFundMes that I support, and it’s gotten a lot of shares on Bluesky but very few donations. If you can share $10 with one of these families, please do.

Tuck’s Creature Corner:

• A crow befriended a baby :)

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

Photo: Ruby (on top of blanket) snuggling with legs (under a blanket) 

Xo,
Yr resident gender detective