Rose Eveleth! New Conceal ep tomorrow! Baby Fashion Challenge!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show, it was such a treat to speak with my good friend Rose Eveleth! I just think Rose’s work is so so smart and thoughtful, and I loved getting all the behind-the-scenes industry/gender gossip from them and Ozzy.

(I don’t know if I’ve ever been able to ask a guest, like, “hi what what is the exact information that you think will be most interesting to Gender Reveal listeners?” and get an extremely informed, detailed answer — I wish interviewing was always that easy!!)

Photo: A sticker of 3 members of Dune's fictional Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The sticker is pinned to a corkboard.

For folks who have already listened: Here’s the sticker that I gave Rose, and these are the Dune stickers that Rose keeps near their desk!

Photo: A sticker of Dune's Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, who is wearing a floor-length black cloak. 

And the hits just keep rolling in, because tomorrow on Gender Conceal, I’m sharing my conversation with Emma Specter! Emma is famously the journalist who gets all the transgenders into Vogue (including me!), but did you know that they also recently published a memoir about binge eating disorder? You can learn all about it in tomorrow’s episode… and if the topic doesn’t sound fun, I promise that the interview is a great silly time :) :) :) :)

Meanwhile, I mentioned this on Instagram, but I’m going to need some babies to step up to the Family Abolition Fashion Challenge!

Photo: A 6-month-ish-old baby wearing the baby onesie version of the "get in losers, we're abolishing the family and creating something worse" merch design

Don’t you want the babies in your life to be cool like this baby??? (Especially the babies whose parents are in some kind of complicated polycule?) If so, click here.

Alsoooo, just a heads up, there are only a dozen tickets left to our Union Hall live show on September 22! :)

OK, let’s do Links & Stuff:

• I tried to beat the paywall to share this story with y’all but I failed so I guess you gotta just subscribe to Hell Gate! It’s worker-owned and I will simply keep linking there so.

• Relatedly! Defector is currently offering subscriptions for $1.04, and you should absolutely take them up on that because you gotta read Sabs’ important essays on chaotic bisexual penguins and the ethics of Neopets wealth, plus Kelsey’s piece on Chappell/fandom and anything else u want to know about sports (it’s ostensibly a sports website?) and/or not-sports.

• Speaking of sports, this is the crossover content made for me specifically but also you.

• Elle Reeve shares her secrets re: interviewing the worst people

• I’m sure you’ve already seen this video but the Veep music was made for this.

• Somehow found myself rewatching these two classic SNL game show sketches (not the Will Ferrell ones) and they still hit imo.

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

Photo: Ruby lying sort of vertically on a pillow with her face in dramatic shadow. None of her limbs are visible and her tail is poofed out, so she looks sort of like a gothic worm or maybe exactly like the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam?

Ruby’s birthday is Tuesday by the way!!! How will you be celebrating??!!!!

Xoxo.

Yr resident gender detective

PS: My internet is fully down for some reason so I’ve been hotspotting this whole time — everybody say thanks to my gf for adding me to her unlimited data cell phone plan :) :) :)