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Colby Gordon! [Redacted] on KCRW! Grants & mutual aid!

Added 2024-10-13 00:14:03 +0000 UTC

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there, staying safe and dry. I’m once again encouraging donations to Mutual Aid Disaster Relief or any of these mutual aid efforts. (Kaon City Medics is a bipoc + trans-led group that has received a Gender Reveal grant in the past, if you’re looking for a GR-endorsed group to support.)

Speaking of Gender Reveal grants: the application for our 2024 grant — our 10th grant cycle, if you can believe it!!! — is now open, and we’ve already received 110 applications! (For context, we received only 166 total applications in 2023, and there are 3 weeks left to apply.) The application form is available on our website, as is a list of all previous grant winners.

We’re also always accepting donations to fund additional grants, if that’s something you’re able to do. (As always, I understand that many of you are prioritizing direct donations to Gaza and/or hurricane relief, and that makes so much sense! But we have a few consistent grant donors and I’m deeply grateful to them.)

Meanwhile, on the podcast part of the podcast, I’m so delighted to share this week’s episode with Colby Gordon! Topics include (brace yourself):

Asking for a vaginoplasty and being offered a lobotomy instead
Being assigned the name “Charles” by a random IRS worker
Keeping your gender opaque to other trans people / resisting the sexologist in your head
Giving students permission to force-trans anyone in the Renaissance
Exploring the intersecting histories of transphobia and antisemitism
Why it was mistake to cede religion to the repressive right wing
A firsthand endorsement of phalloplasty
Naming yourself after your hometown that u feel very complicated about
Using the trans method of the twitter poll to choose your neck tattoo??
Employing “the trans method of fucking with you” in yr academic book
Writing slash fic about the Bible in yr academic book :)
Spinoza, again! (He still doesn’t know what a body can do.)
And of course… Wheat Jesus!

Photo: A billboard of Jesus popping out of a field of wheat

Also! If you’re the type of person who is nervous about this episode because your religious trauma is triggered by pro-Christianity content, I have to say, I do not think we say anything positive about Christianity in here, so I think it should be ok! But also, please wait for the transcript if you’re concerned, no worries at all. (If you’re LOOKING for pro-Christianity content in the ep, well, what we can offer you is that Jesus lactates blood and Samson was in a BDSM relationship… are you into that?)

In other news: I said the phrase “sucking and fucking” on KCRW this week and I’m really proud of that :) :) :) (I want it on the record that the name of the episode is from a listener question, not a statement from me, lol.)

Other plugs & deadlines while I’m here:

We’ve sold 2/3rds of the tickets to our Boston show (THANK YOU!) so if you wanna join us at the Rockwell on Nov 3, grab those tickets soon!
Philly pals, please mark your calendars for December 3, no reason!!!!
Sex Change and the City is accepting submissions until Oct 21, and we’re still low on visual art / poetry / other non-essay formats. Send us something silly and specific, why not!
Reveal Yourself is almost sold out! I have no idea what anybody else’s sets are like, but I have to assume it will be a good time. (That’s this coming Wednesday, October 16.)

Okay, let’s do Links & Stuff:

Young people, please confirm or deny that you can’t read books
Speaking of books, tho: has anyone else read Martyr!? Someone please talk about this book with me.
Also speaking of books: We’re getting a Wachowski adaptation of Manhunt!!!!!
Should I make a separate newsletter that’s just gay baseball updates? Anyway here’s a gay baseball update and another gay baseball update.
A stranger made a website that tells you whether he is currently on tiktok (in an attempt to shame himself from spending 24/7 on tiktok) and now I like to check and see whether he’s on tiktok. (He was on tiktok 12 minutes ago fwiw.)
Thank u to everyone who sent me this :)
Today in Tuck’s Creature Corner btw