today on plane, monday on pod

(Doll Invasion photo taken by Hunter Abrams for Vogue; I would buy a big print of this for my wall if I could!)

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I am once again writing from plane. I believe we’re currently over Detroit? I have a sixteen-inch laptop, which means that my computer absolutely does not fit on a main cabin tray table and I can only open the screen to like a 60° angle. I’ve also spilled my water twice due to the tray table situation. But nevertheless, she persisted.

Our September Gender Reveal episode is due to drop on Monday, featuring the one and only Yvie Oddly! Whether you care about Drag Race or are boycotting due to the fracking of it all, I think you’ll really enjoy this episode! I was surprised and delighted by both the amount of serious gender discussion and the amount of hot goss, haha.

We’ll also be sharing an extra ~7 minutes of the interview on Gender Conceal as a little thank u for ur patronage, so keep an eye out for that. If I’m remembering correctly, it’s mostly about ~places~, such as Denver and Spokane and Brooklyn and the general concept of outside.

In other news, Ozzy and I are putting together the 2024 Patron Survey, and as some of you will recall, we love to use this opportunity to survey y’all on whatever we can think of. Do you have any fun questions you’d like us to ask a thousand trans people / #allies / eggs? Let me know! :)

We will have more exciting news soon, but for now, here’s Links & Stuff:

• Boen Wang is one of my favorite active radiomakers — by which I mean, someone who hasn’t yet dropped out of the industry due to Media Collapse — and I loved his most recent This American Life episode.

• Did you know that the Blind Side family put their adopted(?) football son in a conservatorship?? The way I gasped…

• I’ve been getting a vibe from afar that ~cool Americans~ are trying to colonize Mexico City lol and, well…. Hmmmmm…..

• Which Paralympic sports have y’all been watching? I really enjoyed wheelchair rugby, especially after learning more about the scene from this profile.

• I’ve been losing my mind (complimentary) at the articles and photo shoots from Doll Invasion II. (You can grab a shirt even if you didn’t make it to the island!) (I have not bought one because I am always worried about Stolen Valor but you should grab one because it's a fundraiser and why not.)

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

Photo: Ruby looking silly in the windowsill

Xo,
Yr resident gender detective

PS: there is literally one ticket left for this show!