Elle Halo! Gay Praxis! Personal news!

Friends! I'm back and gayer than ever.

This week on the show, we spoke with LGBTQ advocate and Gender Reveal grant winner Elle Halo about rad organizations like BTAC (the Black Trans Advocacy Conference) and SHEBA (Sister Helping Each other Battle Adversity), and about how we can all do a better job showing up for trans women. Elle does so much incredible work for her community, and I'm obsessed with this rad photo of her and the Progress pride flag! 

In other podcast (or at least podcast-adjacent) news, we were featured in ~ the media ~ twice last week:

First, thank you so much to Vanessa and the whole Autostraddle crew for choosing Gender Reveal as this week's Insta Crush! It's frankly an honor to be featured in such a pioneering publication. The interview is more or less entirely unedited, so enjoy my unfiltered thoughts 🙃

And speaking of unfiltered thoughts....

...guess who was a guest on the Gayish podcast last week? I had a super fun time talking to Kyle and Mike about gender, sexuality, and what the gayish thing I did last week was. Listen on their website or on (I assume) any podcast app.

In merch news, you've got a couple weeks left to order Support Trans Media shirts and totes! Grab one while you can at bit.ly/gendermerch. Proceeds go to trans artists and orgs!

In non-podcast news, Ruby had a birthday party! Yes, she is my cat. Yes, I am gay. (Pictured is my roommate, purchaser of the world's largest balloons.)

Also, some personal news: I'm taking September off from my day job! My intent was to focus on the podcast and other gender work, but I accidentally filled the whole thing up with queer adventures and workshops and now I don't even know how I'm going to find the time to make all of the remaining episodes in the season.

If I skipped a week of the podcast because I was doing gay praxis, would you be down with that? Be honest 🤠

(Me, yesterday, outside, doing gay praxis.)

My intention, starting in October, is to take less time for my day job and more time for the podcast. To do that, I really really need this support, so thank you so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so SO much for being here with me.

Okay, next week on the podcast, we chat with an amazing queer, non-binary therapist of color! Really really stoked for this one. Talk soon, I love you!

xoxo,
Yr favorite gender detective