Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is.

I'm your host and resident gender detective, Huck Woodstock.

Hey everyone. I hope you've all been hanging in there. Later this month, we will be sharing

interviews with folks on the ground in Minneapolis, but today we have just a fun, quick,

bonus episode for you. By now, you're surely familiar with Gender Conceal, our monthly

bonus podcast that we make for the folks who make it possible for us to make this show.

Last month on Gender Conceal, we spoke with Encanto actor Jess Darrow.

And this was the first for us because never before have I booked an interview by fucking

around on Letterbox. Honestly, it wouldn't even have happened if Alaska Airlines had a more

robust movie section, but that's a story for the main gender conceal episode. Today on the show, we're just sharing a little preview of that conversation,

which includes Just Talking About Working with Disney as an Outspoken queer person,

singing the transest possible song for their Encanto audition,

and being queer-awakened by a certain Disney couple.

If you would like to hear the full episode, you can sign up for Gender conceal at patreon.com slash gender. In the full episode, Jess talks about

coming into their queerness while making and promoting Enkanto, their mission to make

Captain Hook gay in the seventh grade, their big discovery about comedians, their hot

take on cis-hept relationships that I'm still not like totally clear on,

and much, much more. But before we get to that interview, two quick things. First and foremost,

you may have noticed that we haven't been doing advice episodes lately. This is mostly because

we were using the same advice form for the entire history of the show, which grew to be 50 pages of advice questions.

And every time I looked at it, I got really stressed out and just kind of gave up.

So now we have a new advice form, which is very exciting.

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