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

I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuckletstock.

Hey, everyone.

Hope you've all been hanging in there.

At this point, I'm sure you know all about

gender conceal, our monthly bonus podcast for the beautiful patrons who keep me in Ozzie

employed. Well, last month on gender conceal, I was lucky enough to chat with filmmaker

Connie LaPuerta. In the gender conceal episode and in the teaser we're about to play for you now,

Connie and I talk quite a bit about his new feature-length

documentary, which is called Nignes. And I only realized a few weeks ago that you cannot

currently watch Ninies because it is still in the festival circuit. So I'm going to tell you

just a tiny bit about the film, so you have some context for this conversation. And then hopefully

you can watch it in the future. There is a trailer up now.

That's at Nignesdocumental.com, N-I-N-X-S documental.com. Anyway, Nienez is a documentary made

over an eight-year span. It follows a Mexican trans girl named Carla from when she was, I think,

seven to 15, something like that.

And Carla is not only the subject of the documentary.

She is also very involved in the making of the film itself, as you'll hear Connie and I talk about in this interview.

One example of this is that there is a sort of meta-textual voiceover narration throughout the film that is a conversation between Connie

and Carla about how the film should be made. So you'll hear Connie asking Carla things like,

what scene should we go to next? And how should we end the film? I thought this was a very

fun conceit for the movie and it really emphasized how much of a collaboration the film was

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