Welcome to Gender Appeal, 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, Tuckwoodstock.

Hey, everyone.

Hope you've all been hanging in there.

This week on the show, we are sharing an excerpt from last month's episode of Gender Conceal, our Patreon-only bonus podcast. In this episode, I have a fun little in-person chat with the artist Ronnie Somm, who you might know from her books, Apsara Engine and Spellbound. If you're not familiar with her work, some quick contextual need for this episode.

Both Apsara Engine and Spellbound were books that were largely created prior to Ronnie

realizing that she was trans.

Spellbound is a graphic memoir in which Ronnie made the iconic choice to replace herself

with a cisgender woman named Anjali.

And then Apsara Engine is a really, really gorgeous sci-fi-ish short story collection

that was painted in watercolors, and most of the stories in that book are also about queer

women.

In this condensed version of the interview, you'll hear Ronnie and I talk about these two

extremely eggy books.

We also talk about Ronnie's new book,

which is exploring concepts of trans utopia and about her in-process name change. If you like what you

hear, you can find the full episode on our Patreon, and in that version, you will also hear us talk about

Kate Bush, sex scenes, misanthropy, growing up as a little goth kid in Manhattan,

working in architecture and wearing Slim Fit J-Crew, and also like the freaky pickle art on my

kitchen wall. But before we get to all that, just want to mention we have a gender ordeal live

show coming up in Philly on Tuesday, December 3rd. That features me, Maddie Lipchanski,

Calvin Kosulki, McKenzie Griffler, and a special

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