Fall grant! Counting clothes? Season 10 news!?

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. First of all, thank you so much for all of your feedback on the grant, mutual aid, and merch programs!!! I did not anticipate that outpouring of kind words and it really truly helps so much — both in that it gave us a clear path forward, and in that it just made me feel better about the work we’re doing here. Y’all are truly the best.

Speaking of the grant program, we did open applications for a new round of grants. Folks can find all our past winners on our grant page, or go straight to the application at bit.ly/gr22grant. We already have 210 applications(!!) and we’ll keep applications open until midnight ET on Halloween. Please tell your friends.

Speaking of Halloween, that’s also the day that we are hoping to launch Season 10 of Gender Reveal. Will we pull it off? Time will tell! But keep an eye in your podcast feeds, just in case.

I don’t have much in the way of Links & Stuff for you today, because I’ve mostly been busy being sad about baseball. The links I do have ended up being mostly NYT, unfortunately: I enjoyed this feel-good piece, and I loved learning about these cool French teens using parkour to protest energy waste. (You can see non-paywalled clips of this here and here.)

This morning, I saw this article about how many clothes a person needs, and while the article itself isn’t that important, it did cite questionable data that says that the average person owns like ~100 items of clothing. I’m not really sure what counts as clothing and what’s, like, an accessory, but either way, that seems low? (Maybe these people hadn’t accumulated multiple genders’ worth of clothes and were not collecting trans novelty t-shirts… but still.) So my challenge for you this week is: how many clothes do you own? Report back if you’re bored and need something to count.

That’s it, I think. Here’s a cool jellyfish, and here’s a real slide I made for a presentation this week, hehe. 

Photo: A slide that says "trans story tropes" with four pictures of people waving a trans flag at protests. It's a very strange version of the trans flag that has the trans symbol on it really big in white.

This flag is in like 50% of all banner images for trans news articles and I've never seen it in my life.

Here’s your weekly Rhubarb.

A photo of Ruby stretched very very long on a bed with her belly floof pointing up at the ceiling/camera. 

Xo,
Yr resident gender detective