AC Dumlao! Io! Mattie Lubchansky! Sabrina Imbler!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there (and not buried under too much snow). This week, for our penultimate episode of the season, I had the pleasure of sharing our show taped live at the Bell House! This one was trickier than usual to edit for boring recording reasons and Ozzy did a really great job cutting it down to podcast length — everybody clap for them! 

This episode featured AC and Mattie and Io talking about things like, uh, changing your legal name to match your community theater role; and playing basketball with your Irreversible Damage hole; and reading the dictionary to find out if your boyfriend is queer; and also what the hell is going on with Taylor Swift and her trans party music video. Normal stuff!!!!!

Photo: The cover of Irreversible Damage with a basketball photoshopped crudely into the hole. 

(AC made that graphic for us, prompting me to ask people on Instagram what they keep in their irreversible damage holes. I gathered them in an IG collection if you want to take a peek.)

But wait, there’s more! We also released our segment with Sabrina here on the patreon as our February bonus episode! (Due to an error that I decided to Just Go Along With, all y’all should be able to access it, regardless of patreon tier.) Once you’ve listened along, feel free to use the slideshow link to play Duck Duck Gay with your friends at home. It’s fun, imho! Just put the google slides into “slideshow mode” so it doesn’t look like shit lol.

Next week, we’re closing out the season with Ryan Ken, who you might recognize from tiktok videos like this one. Ryan is a genius and I’m obsessed with their episode. I hope you love it, too.

My brain is very TIRED so it’s time for Links & Stuff.

Trans/queer stuff:

• I’m a little bit late to this, but listen to Cecilia Gentili on Latino USA! (It’s a trans-produced episode, which is presumably why it’s so skillfully put together.)
• The person who coined “cisgender” wrote about how it started and how it’s going 
• Gita Jackson wrote about what the hell is going on with that harry potter video game
• There have been one zillion articles about the various NYT letters but Drew Margary’s article is one of the most cathartic imo.

Photo: A highlight from the article with two lines highlighted. The highlights say "What the f—k do you think it is that journalists do, exactly? Do you spend every day hoping and praying that your work has NO tangible impact on people, not even yourself?"

• People continue to have very good and very bad takes in surprising ways.
• Gay baseball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Gay pride!!!!!!!!! (AKA the NYT calling us deviant homosexuals in 1964.)
• Rynn from Zoned Out asked us to share this survey about trans people on public transport, and that sounds fascinating so here it is: bit.ly/TransOnTransit

Other stuff

• Important read on the horrible living conditions experienced by workers who grow our food
• Not Kelsey making me cry with her picture book-inspired recap of Flaco’s journey!!!
• More crying (in a nice way) about animals: this earthquake cat and his friend are in love
• Speaking of earthquake cats! You can donate to help them here!!!!!

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

Photo: Ruby on top of a tall cabinet, peering down inside at a tower of cat food cans. 

XO,
Yr favorite gender detective