Extra advice! Long live trash! Today in gay fashion?!?!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. This week on the show, we’ve got a ~*~season finale~*~ for ya! Mckenzee is back to answer questions like “how can I make my parents accept me?” and “would it be inappropriate of me to share my actual pronouns?” and “how do I balance my gender with the fact that my girlfriend doesn’t want to be mistaken as straight?”

If I could offer one piece of overarching advice to all of those question-askers, it would be, fuck it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or, put slightly more eloquently: I have a hunch that you’re going to feel a lot better generally once you stop waiting around for cis people to see you as both fully human and fully trans. Hang out with trans people, embrace your monstrosity, eat trash, be free, etc.

Speaking of trash!!! There’s an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum right now that’s called DEATH TO THE LIVING, Love Live Trash and it rules so hard!!!! This guy makes traditional maritime crafts out of garbage he collects from beaches. He also has little bits of trans representation in his art and also his name is Duke Riley so what I’m saying is blink twice if you’re trans.

Photo ID: A huge, beautiful "sailor's valentine" made with shells, discarded syringes, tampon applicators, spoons, bottle caps, floss picks, plastic bags, and other non-biodegradable trash. 

I’m going to take a few weeks off from the podcast while I put my stuff in boxes, but I’ll still be in touch here, of course. We’ve also got a bonus episode coming up that I’m excited about. In the meantime, here’s Links & Stuff:

• Long live Puddle Kid.
• Nori Reed’s most recent appearance on StraightioLab is an absolute delight.
  
• I’m pretty sure I need this hat, but also I refuse to buy it on principle — I just think Montucky Cold Snacks should give me continual supplies of free merch after I changed my literal legal name in a weird joke tribute to them???— so instead I just look at the link like 3 times per week.
• I do need that hat but I do not need a swimsuit
• I also cannot stop thinking about this shirt but not in a good way lol.
• Actually this store has so many items that I can’t stop thinking about??? Like excuse me but what is going on here???
• Thanks to Tomás for teaching us all about this wild store, btw.

That’s it for this week! Here’s your weekly Rhubarb. Photo courtesy of my roommate while I’m out of town for a moment.

Photo ID: Ruby laying on the stairs with her lower body inside a fabric cat tunnel. Her head is under the lip of the stair and her arms are sticking straight out. It's enormous muppet energy.

Xo,
Yr resident gender detective