Fran Tirado! Rewards update! Are ghosts real?

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I finally remembered to finish up the very last round of $10 patreon rewards, so if I owe you one of those, keep an eye on your mail next week! Meanwhile, I’ve still got, uh, 169 (nice?) sets of stickers to send to $5 folks — they’re coming eventually, I promise.

Speaking of Patreon rewards, listener Sarah Connor very kindly made some new logo art for our patron-only podcast feed! I love it.

Photo ID: A background of a blue sky with clouds. Drawn on top of the sky is a banner that says "GENDER CONCEAL" and three balloons that say "It's a," "X" and "NOPE" 

Anyway, we’ve got Fran Tirado on the show this week! I hadn’t realized how much we had in common until I was researching the episode and was like “Wait…. This is ME????” Glad we got a chance to talk about our queer reality tv dreams, our struggles with working too much, our dilemmas over whether we should try to have human relationships (lol!), and mooooore.

Fran is in New York this month organizing a bunch of rad queer events, so definitely follow them on Instagram for updates if you’re in the area (and going to events).

Photo ID: A photo of Fran on a PBS set. She's wearing a white cami and three necklaces and white earrings and has lots of tattoos on one arm. 

Merch! We’ve still got it! I’m excited that we’ve got two designs that actually say Gender Reveal for once, with profits on those going to our grant & mutual aid funds.

Next week on the show, we’re speaking with THE filthcore queen, Gretchen Felker-Martin. (If you haven’t seen the cover of Manhunt yet, I need you to go look at it right now!!!) We start the interview with “are ghosts real” and then go from there, so get stoked.

Okay, it’s time for Links & Stuff:

• For Them.Us’s inaugural Now Awards, I wrote a profile of someone who, in a fun twist, changed their name to Cellphone immediately after publication.
• I also answered a few questions for Podchaser.
• If you read one article about the new WPATH standards of care (and surrounding discourse), make it this piece by Jo Yurcaba.
• Taylor Moore just introduced me (indirectly) to Anime Sickos, and I highly recommend this episode about “Corpse Brain” for political catharsis. (Anime is not discussed at any point, which is a pro or a con depending on your interests.)

Photo ID: This tweet. 

If you’re still here, we’ve also got:

• Heart in a Blender Guy’s latest advice column about fighting depression
• Really enjoying this 3-year-old article about bad NYT op-eds
• On the end of venture capitalists subsidizing our purchases (the Atlantic)
• ICYMI: this viral review of Top Gun Maverick
• A queer & trans Ultimate Frisbee team won the national championship!
• Me on Toad’s Turnpike

That’s it for this week! Here’s your weekly Rhubarb, taken by my roommate as usual. 

Photo ID: Ruby laying on a purple microfleece and during a little blep.

Xo,
yr resident gender detective