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Jackson King! Grant winners! Happy birthday, Niko!

Added 2022-07-01 22:33:17 +0000 UTC

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I’m currently watching the hummingbird family that lives outside my house and thinking about how they don’t know about the Supreme Court. Truly blessed! (The little babies are so cute and one day I will show you a picture.)

This week on the show, we’ve got Jackson King answering many of life’s big questions:

What the heck is going on with trans healthcare in the UK?
Is it possible to get around the fatphobic barriers to gender-affirming surgery?
Do we think RuPaul has changed his mind about trans people yet?
What is Europe’s largest gay sauna like?
How much of Evangelicalism is just kink?
Can men be redeemed?!?
And more!

Plus, we’ve also got an iconic chat with Niko Stratis for everyone on the $5+ tiers. Niko’s birthday was yesterday, and what better way to celebrate than to hear her talk about turning 40, interviewing Liz Phair / Angel Olsen / Imogen Binnie / Papa Roach / etc., and entering the Mario Kart Cinematic Universe?! Plus, I sing a song that will ruin your life.

Photo ID: Niko in her home wearing a red hoodie, with her bangs covering her eyes.

Hey, you know how this patreon also funds our TPOC grant program? We were finally able to announce our 14 spring winners! You can find the full list on our website as well as in our Instagram story collection. (Thank you so much as always for allowing us to do this by supporting the patreon. We literally actually couldn’t do it without you.)

Next week on the show, we’ve got the Jules Gill-Peterson, who you may know from Framing Agnes or Histories of the Transgender Child or Outward or Sad Brown Girl or Twitter or just being a person in the world. Get hyped.

It’s time for Links & Stuff, but speaking of links! I had to change the Gender Detective Slack link again, so if anyone is looking to join, it’s now bit.ly/gender-slack. Anyway, more links:

If you read one thing today, let it be the DIY trans orchi barn story, featuring a cameo from Jules herself. (If you don’t want to mess with the fake paywall, click here instead.)
In elaborate feel-good news: The Mariners & Angels got in a big fight (I’ll spare u the context), and then a cool gay fan sent one of the Mariners players a pizza as a consolation, and then we all tipped the driver like $1000, and then he donated a bunch of that money to a children’s hospital, and then the pizza place matched the donation? It was just all very good!

Unrelated, but here's my favorite Mariners player holding a puppy. You can't tell me that this is a heterosexual man, I'm sorry!!!!

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My friend Vanessa made a list of a bunch of new-ish queer books I love (including some Gender Reveal alum), several I haven’t read, and a couple I didn’t personally care for! And I just thought that would be a funny way to frame this article but will never reveal which is which :)
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Speaking of TikTok, here’s a great one of a cop getting foiled in a very cartoony way.
Everything happens so much. (Unfortunately, as you probably already know, people.)