Episode 187: Alison Bechdel

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Lgbtq, Documentary, Queer, Personal Journals, Gender, Nonbinary, Society & Culture, Genderqueer, Transgender, Trans

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Tuck and Ozzy chat with cartoonist Alison Bechdel (she/her). Topics include:

Which Dykes to Watch Out For characters are canonically t4t-married, top surgery’d, or in a nonbinary asexual polycule
What did Alison do with that MacArthur genius grant money?
Did we successfully convince Alison that DTWOF’s Stuart is an egg?!
Dyke vs. lesbian vs. gay woman: which one is “coy and ridiculous”?
Plus: Alison’s relationships with Marx’s Capital, the 1980 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, Sex and the City, and the American Heritage Dictionary

Submit a piece of Theymail: Today’s messages were from Queering the District Podcast and the Trans Mag.

Find Alison at linktr.ee/alisonbechdel. Spent is available now at your local bookstore.

Tuck and Matte Lubchansky are chatting live in Astoria, Queens, on July 29! Tickets available now.

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Find transcripts and more at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Instagram @gendereveal.

Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional music: Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: DeleteMe (code: TUCK20) and Max Burns UX.

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0:33.2	Thanks. Welcome to Gender Appeal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding what the hell gender is.
0:55.1	I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuck Woodstock.
1:07.2	Hey, everyone. I hope you're all hanging in there.
1:10.0	Today on the show, I am absolutely thrilled to share our conversation with the one and only Alison Bechtel. Now, you may be asking, what is Alison Bechtel doing on this podcast? And to that, I would say, imagine a world in which I get a PR email asking if I want to interview Alison Bechtel and I say no.
1:29.8	Why would I possibly say no to that?
1:31.7	And I know you're asking, okay, but is Allison Trans?
1:35.9	You're simply going to have to listen to the podcast.
1:38.2	We're going to ask it right up front.
1:39.2	You know we are.
1:40.4	Anyway, in this episode, we talk about everything from the 1980 Michigan Women's Festival
1:45.5	to Allison's relationship to Marxism.
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