Best Genderqueer Podcasts (2025)

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Bonus: Cassius Adair + new book tour stops! 23:44

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Tuck announces new book tour events, including a '90s-themed lit party and a trans band debut/reunion(!?!). Then, Tuck chats with Cass about the state of trans studies and why podcasts are over. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear Cass and Tuck discuss talking to kids about gender, making friends in Minnesota, wearing one hat for 15 years…

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Episode 191: Zefyr Lisowski 59:15

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Tuck and Ozzy chat with writer Zefyr Lisowski (she/her). Topics include: How horror helps us explore what we owe others in the wake of pain Zefyr's delicate decision to do a ~gender reveal~ in Uncanny Valley Girls Managing harm in t4t and crazy4crazy relationships How the Great Dismal Swamp informs Zefyr's thoughts about race and class Plus: Grave …

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Bonus: Denne Michele Norris 20:40

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Tuck chats with author Denne Michele Norris (she/her) about the future of trans publishing — is this year's trans lit boom just a outlying blip? — and why violas are the most trans instrument, among other topics. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of transitioning alongside your novel's protagonist, working on a novel for 15 …

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Episode 190: Isa Noyola 1:01:35

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Tuck and Ozzy chat with activist Isa Noyola (she/her). Topics include: What are the top priorities for trans immigrant communities and orgs? How can we best show up for our immigrant neighbors? Watching trans folks flee from the US while others flee to the US The power of Translatina (one word!) as an identity and community Plus: Beyoncé, Burger Ki…

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Short Cuts: Nico Lang 17:55

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Nico Lang is joining us for an event at Kepler's books on September 9th, 2025. Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-narratives-of-america-tickets-1485118843439 Join us for a timely evening at Kepler's Books as acclaimed authors Carolina De Robertis (So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit…

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112. RAVEN: genderqueer, relationship anarchist (bisexual) 49:49

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Raven is a creative coach, artist, parent, and LGBTQIA+ community activist. Raven's pronouns are they/them, and they are genderqueer, a relationship anarchist, and bisexual. Find out what that means to Raven in this episode. We also talk about queering everything, breaking the rules, the assumptions people make about gender in relation to bodies, h…

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Bonus: Kani Lapuerta 19:52

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Tuck chats with filmmaker Kani Lapuerta (he/him) about his new feature-length documentary, Niñxs. Topics include trans rights in Mexico, the increased popularity of gender-neutral Spanish, collaborating on a film with a literal child, and what makes a film ~trans~. Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of spiritual gentrificatio…

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Bonus: Dean Spade, Morgan Bassichis, and Tourmaline 1:04:51

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This week, we're sharing an episode of Love in a F*cked Up World, a new podcast hosted by our friend Dean Spade. In this episode, Dean chats with Tourmaline and Morgan Bassichis (our guest from last week's episode) about the many lessons they've learned from each other over the course of multiple decades of friendship, collaboration, and trans abol…

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Narrating the Mother 1:00:26

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Join the Bay Area Book Festival and Litquake for an intimate (virtual) conversation with Iman Mersal and Kate Briggs, two writers who reshape our understanding of motherhood and the art of living. Mersal, acclaimed Egyptian-Canadian poet and essayist who most recently authored Motherhood and Its Ghosts, excavates the invisible labor and haunting ab…

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So Many Stars: A Celebration of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color 45:31

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Join us for an insightful conversation surrounding So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro De Robertis. In this groundbreaking work, De Robertis brings together the voices of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and two-spirit elders of color, offering an intimate look into their personal st…

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A Memoir for Remembrance 45:01

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A shape is composed of its outline and the space inside, meaning that the people around us play an integral role in forming who we are. In navigating the questions left behind following tragic loss, the authors of this poignant memoir panel honor their loved ones through writing, and, in doing so, redefine their own selves along the way. After grie…

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Wound is the Portal: Healing into the Future and Incantation for Future: Closing Headliner & Portal Closing 1:11:56

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This poetry portal explores the wound not as an end, but as a powerful beginning. Join us for a journey where language becomes a site of transformation—where grief, memory, and survival are not just revisited, but reimagined. Mimi Tempestt breaks open conventions with a voice that insists on reclamation and the sacredness of Black queer futurity. H…

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Seeking Justice in Historical Fiction 46:21

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What lengths would you go to to prove your innocence? For Anglo-Indian nurse Sona, it's following a cryptic note and four paintings that lead her around Europe to uncover details about the complicated personal life of the renowned painter she is suspected of killing in Six Days in Bombay by Alka Joshi. The story of a wrongly accused Irish maid in S…

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Women, Cyborgs, Revolutionary Petunias, and Other Creatures 52:20

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This reading celebrates the wild, wired, and the wondrous. Inspired, and the fierce multiplicity of the natural world, this portal brings together five poets whose work transgresses borders—of body, genre, and possibility. These poets will open portals that invite us into places of resistance and rage, that when honored transform into generative an…

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In Search of Sanctuary: Stories of Migration, Hardships and Hope 44:49

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Shining a light on the often invisible and incredibly complex experience of migration, the established scholars of this panel examine migration through human-centered lenses by documenting the difficult reasons people move away from an old home and the realities they must face upon arrival in their new one. Sin Padres, Ni Papeles details Stephanie …

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Episode 189: Morgan Bassichis 1:01:00

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Tuck and Ozzy chat with comedian, organizer, and writer Morgan Bassichis (they/them). Topics include: Whether a comedy show is a good use of time in this Political Moment Lessons from Lavender Hill commune and The Faggots & Their Friends... Why "Free Palestine" is directly relevant us as trans & queer people Why are there so many trans Jews, btw? P…

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Living Legacies: Native Authors on Memoir and Memory 43:39

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From the very first contact, Indigenous people have been spoken about more than they have been heard. Early "autobiographies" of Native individuals were often penned by outsiders, distorting the essence of the genre by denying autonomy to the very subjects for whom autobiography—by definition—should uplift. In recent years, seminal works of First N…

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Essay as Form 48:32

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The essay's subjective and fragmented nature enables writers to grapple with complexities without the restrictions of systematic, traditional approaches to writing (Theodor W. Adorno, "The Essay as Form"). It liberates the essayist to take a nuanced look at the world, as cultural essayist and social critic Steve Wasserman does in Tell Me Something,…

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Chimera Space: Monstrous, Lovely, and Liminal 1:13:23

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Enter the liminal. In this portal, hybridity is power, and contradiction is poetry. Chimera Space brings together a group of poets whose work inhabits the monstrous, the beautiful, and the in-between—bodies, identities, and voices that resist categorization and embrace complexity. Cindy Juyoung Ok writes into multiplicity, turning silence into disr…

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Creators' Collective Action 42:54

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Amidst current challenges like book bans in schools and libraries across the country, record numbers of legal restrictions on the human rights of immigrants and trans people, especially trans youth, in our community, creators play a crucial role when they come together in a unified voice of resistance. We have many models of people who resisted und…

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Homeland to Home 48:13

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A sense of place is something we all deserve. For children whose roots lie in lands and cultures that are often under- or even mis-represented, the concept of home can be complex. When the politics of war propaganda and media stereotypes permeate our lives, children's books offer insight, better understanding, and for some a path home. From Iraq, P…

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Murder in Mysterious Places 43:15

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The talented woman sleuths of this panel have once again found themselves in unexpected conundrums that hit close to home. Join Parisian PI Aimée Leduc on her quest for innocence after being framed for the murder of her daughter's father in Murder at la Villette, the 21st installment of Cara Black's New York Times bestselling mystery series. Altern…

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Follow Your Heart to Graphic Novels 48:32

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Whether in a comic panel or at a panel discussion, these earnest graphic novel stories are here to remind us to stay true to ourselves, our beliefs, and our passions! Follow Huda Fahmy's exhilarating and chaotic family vacation to Disney World, where self-conscious Huda quickly realizes that her family's public prayers make them stand out; and whil…

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Healing, Activism and Collective Liberation: Strategies for Building a New World 48:32

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This panel unites four transformative leaders pioneering the incorporation of healing into activism, demonstrating how personal transformation fuels collective liberation. Their work bridges social justice and healing, emphasizing the need for community care in the fight for a just future. Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, poet laureate of Oakland and founder of…

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All Bodies All Selves 47:40

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As we face increasing attacks on our bodily autonomy from our federal and state governments, these books provide essential resources and narratives that approach the topic with acuity and compassion. Award-winning author Zetta Elliott reflects the voices of Black women and girls for whom body policing has long been an issue in Say Her Name, a colle…

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Storming the Gatekeepers: Past, Present, & Future Publishing Alternatives 48:06

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Long before politicians weaponized book bans across the country, mainstream publishers have controlled which books get published, carrying out "soft book bans" through gatekeeping. For as long as books have been published (and censored), indie and alternative publishers have challenged these gatekeepers, who have often excluded and marginalized div…

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BONUS: Marsha P. Johnson with Raquel Willis 53:16

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This week, we're sharing the first episode of Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson, a limited-run narrative series hosted by our friend Raquel Willis. Find Afterlives wherever you listen to podcasts, and find incredible archival images from Marsha's life at @afterlives.pod.

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Poetry stage: Incantations to Open Portals + Garden of Possibilities 1:49:13

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We begin with invocation—of memory, of resistance, of radical possibility. Incantations to Open Portals is the ceremonial opening of the poetry stage at the Bay Area Book Festival, co-sponsored with the Berkeley Poetry Festival, where poetry becomes spell, speech becomes spellwork, and presence becomes protest. This opening event features incantato…

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Our Beautiful, Burning World 49:37

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In the face of climate catastrophe, it's natural to react with grief, sorrow, and hopelessness to the constant reminders of how fragile and impermanent our world is. Lauren Markham reckons with her grief in Immemorial, a speculative synthesis of reporting, memoir, and essay describing her desire to memorialize something in the process of being lost…

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Coming of Age in an Unsteady World 46:15

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In a country that tries to erase our troubled history of the oppressive treatment of certain groups, today's youth are forced to find their footing in an increasingly unsteady world that rejects their exploration of different identities and experiences. Join Oakland writers Carolina Ixta (Shut Up, This is Serious) and J.R. Rice (Broken Pencils) for…

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Bridging the Gaps: Redefining Healthcare Through a Justice Lens 40:14

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The for-profit American healthcare model has left gaps in the system that harm everyone by stripping away the human element and emboldening shifty ethical and legal practices. The authors of this panel draw on their medical expertise to propose new frameworks for healing by targeting specific areas of today's complex healthcare system. In My Brothe…

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111. KELSEY BYERS: agender, asexual, disabled, neurodivergent, queer 53:51

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Kelsey J.R.P. Byers is an evolutionary geneticist and chemical ecologist, lover of all things nature, and advocate for accessibility and inclusion of minoritized groups in academia. Kelsey uses any/all pronouns, but they get a little frisson of gender-validation/euphoria when people don't use she/her. They are agender, asexual, disabled, neurodiver…

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Pages and Pictures from Early Reader to Middle Grade 40:52

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The only thing better than an awesome story? An awesome story with pictures, perfect for early readers and middle graders! Follow along with Stella & Marigold as they explore secrets involving blankets, a terrible storm, and two brave children in Annie Barrows' bright new series about a pair of sisters adventuring through their imaginary worlds. Ni…

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Problematic Reports from the Frontlines of Tech 55:20

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While the tightrope of technological advancement is proving quite difficult to navigate, experts from the frontlines of the tech industry are here to offer insights on how we can move forward as a society. First, we must look critically to the scars etched by generations of systemic segregation, as journalist Alexis Madrigal does in The Pacific Cir…