Tuck chats with Sawyer K. Kemp about the news that Ian McKellan is involved in an all-trans staged reading of Twelfth Night. Topics include whether Twelfth Night is trans, what baseball and Shakespeare plays have in common, and what prison has to do with any of this.

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of West Virginia, trans cringe, 17th-century trans intra-community conflict, which Shakespearean role Shohei Ohtani would play, and whether acting is good or bad :)

Find Sawyer at sawyerkkemp.com and at Queens College.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck chats with Niko about coming out as a grocery store cashier, deterring ghosts and bears, writing memoir with a bad memory, and misspelling Neko Case’s name on your bloody arm.

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Tuck and Niko’s favorite musical covers, plus discussions of Wilco, Meg 2, Ohio for girls, Canada’s Boston pierogi pizza, Guy Fieri sparkling water, Yukon tourism, trans buffer names, and childhood autism lore.

Niko’s book The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman is on sale now.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Blue Dot Sessions

Tuck and Ozzy chat with cartoonist Alison Bechdel (she/her). Topics include:

• Which Dykes to Watch Out For characters are canonically t4t-married, top surgery’d, or in a nonbinary asexual polycule
• What did Alison do with that MacArthur genius grant money?
• Did we successfully convince Alison that DTWOF’s Stuart is an egg?!
• Dyke vs. lesbian vs. gay woman: which one is “coy and ridiculous”?
• Plus: Alison’s relationships with Marx’s Capital, the 1980 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Sex and the City, and the American Heritage Dictionary

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s messages were from Queering the District Podcast and the Trans Mag.

Find Alison at linktr.ee/alisonbechdel. Spent is available now at your local bookstore.

Tuck and Matte Lubchansky are chatting live in Astoria, Queens, on July 29! Tickets available now.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: Blue Dot Sessions
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