Tuck and Ozzy chat with comedian, organizer, and writer Morgan Bassichis (they/them). Topics include:

• Whether a comedy show is a good use of time in this Political Moment
• Lessons from Lavender Hill commune and The Faggots & Their Friends...
• Why “Free Palestine” is directly relevant us as trans & queer people
• Why are there so many trans Jews, btw?
• Plus: Personalized bar mitzvah boxers, the Gay Who Cried Wolf, voting gay people back into the closet, and an erotic sexual relationship with a ghost?

This Week in Gender: The 2025 Gender Census is open! Plus, new books by Denne Michele Norris, Lee Lai, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Hal Schrieve, Rose Dommu, Grace Byron, Zefyr Lisowski, and LittlePuss.

Find Morgan in Can I Be Frank? and at morganbassichis.com.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: “Little or Nothing” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20)

This week, we're sharing the first episode of Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson, a limited-run narrative series hosted by our friend Raquel Willis.

Find Afterlives wherever you listen to podcasts, and find incredible archival images from Marsha's life at @afterlives.pod.

Tuck and Mal chat about how 2010s Brooklyn hurt Mal’s relationship to masculinity, whether reading a book would help kids understand song lyrics, and why Mal is putting “he” pronouns in timeout until you all earn them back.

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of Geminis vs Cancers, personal gossip, new transmasc slurs, Hatchet (1987), stolen transfeminine valor, TikTok, touring, getting physically cut out of childhood photos, and deciding how mean and messy to get in a breakup album. Plus, Tuck tells Mal a secret they’ve been holding for five years wow.

Find Mal on tour now! Mal is also at malblum.com and ffm.bio/malblum.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Mal Blum