Chiquitita! LA event! Fridge-free food recs!?

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. My big news is that our fridge broke and now we don’t have a fridge for the next week, and it turns out that fridges are actually really useful? If anyone has suggestions for (vegan) food to eat that does not require a fridge at any point, please let me know. So far, I’ve been eating:

• Popcorn
• Can of soup
• Bodega smoothie
• Takeout but you gotta eat it all fast because you can’t refrigerate leftovers

Send help lol.

ANYWAY, we’ve got Chiquitita on the pod this week! Chiqui’s great. We talked about trans drag, naked drag, misogyny in drag, changing your drag name multiple times… and also lots of non-drag things, like Spanish FFS and unsupportive family members and meeting your cute trans boyfriend on a train (which I am now always on the lookout for, by the way!!! Train boyfriends where u at.)

We also put out another segment about another gender-tracking app — which STILL hasn’t answered any questions that it promised to answer weeks ago, by the way! Mattie made a comic that said the same thing but faster and funnier.

Photo: A comic panel of mattie tapping on their phone and saying "yes, it's an app and subscription service that tracks my gender journey. for only a large monthly fee and also all of my data!"

Next week, we’re speaking with horror author Alison Rumfitt. Alison’s new book has a cover that looks like this so obviously I was a squeamish little baby about it all, but luckily we have Horror Correspondent Ozzy around to chat as well! Hope u enjoy it.

In breaking live event news, Mckenzee and I are doing a 2 Trans 2 Furious book event on November 10 at North Figueroa Bookshop in Los Angeles. It’s gonna be free, so come on by! There will be an official announcement soon but I wanted youuuu to know first.

Oh, speaking of 2 Trans 2 Furious, here’s the current list of spots to buy the book. We aren't offering individual US orders anymore, but you can still place an online order from like, Moon Palace or Powells or wherever, for as long as those shops have them in stock. I've also set aside a stack for future events and future $40+ patreon rewards, so they'll be around here and there for a while. 

(I also set aside about 100 more copies for wholesale orders, so if you have a local queer bookstore that you love, it would mean a lot if you'd request the book! I know it's so annoying to ask this, but being self-published means that they literally do not listen to me when I'm like "hello wanna carry this book?" because they do not believe that anyone will want it, which is fair! So I gotta ask the readers to prove that there is demand, lol lmao.)

OK, here’s Links & Stuff:

• I see these children on the 7 all the time, and after reading this, I guess I’m going to give them all my money??
• Mexico City opened a mausoleum for trans women, which is obviously very beautiful and heartbreaking and many other feelings that you can experience for yourself here.
• Tonal shift: do you also read all of apple’s fake texts and try to piece together some lore?
• I just started watching Taskmaster because it turns out I had a completely wrong idea of what that show's whole deal is. It's a delight! And you can start with like, literally any episode. Love zero-stakes brainless programming.
• This is old but I can’t stop thinking about $2 per bone.

Photo: An article with the headline "I bought 6 things at Martha Stewart's Tag Sale, but I could have stolen any number of them" by Choire Sicha, accompanied by a photo of a big pile of plastic(?) bones and a stack of paper bags labelled "$2 per bone."

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

Photo: Ruby is standing on the cat tree on her hind legs, with her front paws holding onto the top tier of the cat tree. It looks weird!  (Complimentary.)

Xo,
Yr resident gender detective