Gender Reveal Unwrapped & Tuck’s 2023 Picks

All of the lists and data you never asked for! Granular podcast stats at the top, media recs at the bottom, pick your poison:

Total Gender Reveal downloads in 2023: 713,800
Countries & territories with at least one download in 2023: 179

Gender Reveal full episodes released: 22
Gender Conceal episodes released: 13
Gender Reveal live shows: 2.5
Most downloaded Gender Reveal episodes in 2023:

1. Ryan Ken
2. Lily Zheng
3. Renée Yoxon

Note: those 3 eps were all released in Jan-Feb, so they had an advantage over other episodes! For this reason, let’s also list the episodes with the biggest 90-day download totals in 2023, which is a nerdier but maybe more relevant metric:

1. Ryan Ken
2. Spicy Advicey w/ Mckenzee
3. Raquel Willis

Number of Gender Reveal grants awarded: 16
Gender Reveal grant money awarded: $12,100
Mutual aid money sent: $37,800
Gender Reveal merch shop profits for artists/orgs: $7,533

Gender Reveal newsletters sent: 55
New Gender Reveal patrons: 556
Cancelled Gender Reveal patrons: 291

Gender Conceal episode names that made Tuck laugh the most despite having written the titles himself:

1. High-Fiving Mattie Lubchansky through Keith Haring’s Irreversible Damage Hole
2. The ISIS Tweet to Trans Ally Pipeline with Mckenzee Griffler
3. Kirby Conrod Put Their Whole Podcussy Into This One

Most popular tweet of the year: oh ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Most popular non-mutual-aid IG post of the year: Transsexuality is good, actually. 

Tuck’s top appearances on other podcasts:

1. “We Need to Talk About the New York Times” on You’re Wrong About
2. “Am I Cis Now?” on Big Mood, Little Mood 
3. “Making Podcasts for Trans People” on Gender Spiral
4. It’s so funny that I was on the Brian Lehrer Show!!!

Podcasts Tuck listened to in 2023: 100
Podcast eps listened to in 2023 (not counting Gender Reveal/Conceal): 800
Are you rounding? Those numbers seem really convenient!: No, I just did a great job! Ask PocketCasts:

Books that Tuck read in 2023: 35
Books that Tuck read by trans people in 2023: 25 or maybe more who knows
Books that Tuck published by trans people in 2023: 1 :)

Tuck’s favorite books of 2023:

1. Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky
2. Open Throat by Henry Hoke
3. Vivian’s Ghost by Hal Schrieve
4. Strong Female Character by Fern Brady (audiobook specifically)
5. Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt (tbh this one really challenged me but now I think about it all the time and that’s art, baby!)

Zines that Tuck read in 2023: 33+
Tuck’s top zine rec of 2023: Join Shay Mirk’s zine-of-the-month club on Patreon!

Movies that Tuck watched in 2023, total: 29
Movies that Tuck watched in 2023 that are specifically about muppets, toys, dolls, or anthropomorphized animals: 11 but don’t worry about it
Tuck’s top 2023 movie recommendation for this newsletter specifically: The Aggressives (2005) + Beyond the Aggressives (2023) double feature!!!!! Strongly encouraged!!!!

People killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023: 21,672+
People injured in Israeli attacks since Oct 7, 2023: 56,165+
Annual aid that US sends to Israel: $3.8 billion
Additional aid Biden wants send to Israel, pending Congressional approval: $14.3 billion
People who signed the Queer Artists for Palestine letter last week: 3800+

Happy new year. Don’t give up. Hang in there.

Here’s your weekly Rhubarb.

Photo: Ruby sleeping peacefully on a rainbow, sun-dappled wool blanket.

Xo,

Yr resident gender detective