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We're back!!! Featuring Vico Ortiz!

Added 2020-05-21 01:07:09 +0000 UTC

Hey, friends. Hope you're all hanging in there. I am doing... shockingly OK, given the state of the world. I hope you're finding moments of joy and levity as well.

But who cares how I'm feeling—the big news is that THE PODCAST IS BACK, BABY. I'm diving back into your podcast feeds to share the last five episodes of Season 5, starting with this gem of an interview featuring Vico Ortiz.

You might recognize Vico from American Horror Story, Vida, These Thems, or last week's newsletter. They're a Puerto Rican actor who acts in both English and Spanish, and I loved chatting with him about his dedication to learning gender-inclusive Spanish. They even wrote the Spanish captions for These Thems... which, as you'll hear in the episode, was a challenge at times!

Episode highlights also included learning about two Vico's drag personas (Vico Suave and AJ of the Backstreet Butches) and hearing the touching impact that drag has had on Vico's own gender and sexuality. Can't wait for you to listen!

In other podcast news, we've got eight items in the merch shop through May 31. Everything's under $20, so check it out if you're feeling it at bit.ly/gendermerch.

And speaking of merch! Next week on the show, I'm planning to share a chat with friend of the show Beth Easton, who you know as the designer of our iconic Support Trans Media merch! Here I am in my closet, recording an interview with Beth while wearing a shirt that they designed. :)

Thanks so much for being here to support trans media in this truly wild time. You know this already, but you're literally the reason why I can be a full-time gender detective, even in a pandemic, and it truly means the world to me.

(Speaking of which: we're coming up on Pride Month, aka the only time that anyone pays attention to trans people, so I extra-appreciate you recommending me for any Zoom speaking gigs / workshops / consulting gigs / promo opps that you may run across! No pressure! Just throwing it out there! 😬)

That's it for this week! Patreon is trying to break, so I'm attaching your weekly Rhubarb instead of embedding. Photo credit to my roommate.

xoxoxo,

Yr resident gender detective