Welcome to Gender Review, 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. I hope you've all been hanging in there.

Today on the show, I am very excited to share my conversation with Vera Blossom.

Vera is the author of the new essay collection, How to Fuck Like a Girl, as well as the blog of the same name. And in today's episode, Vera and Ozzy and I talk about gay bathhouses, gay ghosts, monstrosity, magic spells, embodiment, estrogen, Pokemon boarding school

online roleplay. It's got it all. We do talk about some serious topics. This is really

vulnerable. This is our Oprah Winfrey moment, our Drew Barrymore on the couch holding hands moment.

But there's also a lot of like this stuff. Shrek is low-key, the ideal man. Like,

he's interrogating his own masculinity. He's huge. I know you're dying to hear more about Shrek,

but before we get to that, it is time for one last plug for the West Coast Gender Ordeal

tour. Gender ordeal, of course, is a comedy show that I do with Maddie Libchansky and Calvin Kosulki. It is not a podcast. It will never be recorded. You have to go see it live. So if you're listening to this on Monday,

February 10th, which is the day the podcast drops, please note we will be performing in San

Francisco tonight at El Rio. Tickets are sold out in advance, but we'll have like 40 at the

door, so come anyway. We will also be in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday and Seattle,

Washington on Wednesday. Tickets for Portland and Seattle are on sale now and almost gone,

but they're on sale now at genderpodcast.com slash live. And now it's time for this week

in gender.

Hey, so last week I published a gender reveal newsletter that was titled, Literally What Can We Do? And as you might have guessed, the focus of the newsletter

was to try to figure out what trans people in the U.S. can do right now. I realize not all of you are trans

people in the U.S., but, you know, that's how it goes, and I've been told it's relevant to other

people as well. Anyway, unlike 99% of our newsletters, I made this one free for everyone to read,

whether or not you're a patron. So if you haven't taken a look yet, I would suggest taking a look. There's a lot of resources in there. I've gotten a lot of

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