Gender Reveal Creators & Guests

Tuck Woodstock is a queer biracial journalist, equity educator, and audio producer.

Da'Shaun Harrison is an author and Editor at Large at Scalawag.

Carmen Maria Machado is a short story writer, essayist, and critic.

Dean Spade is a lawyer, writer, and associate professor of law.

Torrey Peters is an author known for her debut novel Detransition, Baby.

Lewis Raven Wallace is an independent journalist and currently working on The View from Somewhere, a book and podcast.

Daniel Lavery (formerly Daniel Mallory Ortberg) is an American author and editor. He co-founded the website The Toast and has written the books Texts from Jane Eyre (2014) and The Merry Spinster (2018) as well as Slate's "Dear Prudence" advice column. He also hosts the "Dear Prudence" podcast.

Tobin Low is the co-host and co-managing editor of Nancy and also served as a producer on the first season of More Perfect.

John Paul Brammer is a writer and artist. In 2021, he became an opinion columnist at The Washington Post.Brammer writes the queer advice column "¡Hola Papi!," originally published in Grindr's magazine Into and later on Substack. His first book, the memoir: "¡Hola Papi! How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons," was published in 2022.

Lucy Sante is a Belgian-born American writer, critic, and artist.

Ryan Cassata is an American musician, public speaker, writer, filmmaker, and actor. Cassata speaks at high schools and universities on the subject of gender dysphoria, being transgender, bullying and his personal transition from female to male, including top surgery in January 2012, when he was 18 years old. He has made appearances on the Larry King Live Show & The Tyra Banks Show to talk about being transgender. He has performed at LGBT music festivals and has gone on tours across the United States of America. Cassata has performed at popular music venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Whisky a Go Go, The Saint, The Bitter End, SideWalk Cafe, Turf Club (venue) and Bowery Poetry Club. Cassata won a date on Warped Tour 2013 through the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands online competition and performed on the Acoustic Basement Stage on June 21, 2013. Cassata also won a date on Warped Tour 2015 through the Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands and performed on the Ernie Ball Stage on June 20, 2015.Cassata composed the soundtrack for the 2010 short film "Loop Planes" which screened at various film festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival, South by Southwest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and Hamptons International Film Festival. "Distraction" and "Sleeping Through" from Cassata's 2011 EP "Distraction" make up the soundtrack. Cassata is the main subject of the full feature Danish produced documentary Songs for Alexis. Songs for Alexis, produced by Copenhagen Bombay with help from the Danish Film Institute, had its world premiere at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival to a sold-out crowd on April 30, 2014. Songs for Alexis had its United States premiere at Frameline Film Festival on June 28, 2014. Songs for Alexis also screened and sold out at DOC NYC. Indiewire listed Songs for Alexis on its "10 Films You must Watch at Frameline 2014" article.

Alex Hanna is a sociologist and director of research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). She is the co-host the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast with linguist Emily M. Bender, and is the co-author of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. She also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, and sits on the advisory board for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Hanna work focuses on the data used in new computational technologies and how this data impairs racial biases in social class, race, and gender. She also works in the field of social movements in both the United States and Canada.

Mal Blum is an American songwriter, musician, writer and performer from New York. Blum has released six full-length albums, most recently Pity Boy in 2019.

Rose Eveleth is a producer, designer, and writer. Currently, they are the Executive Producer of the podcast network Flash Forward Presents. They host the podcast "Flash Forward Podcast."Previously, Evelyth was a columnist for WIRED, BBC Future, and Motherboard, the producer of the Story Collider podcast, the special media manager at Nautilus, the managing editor for LadyBits, an editor of all things animated at TED Education, and a contributing editor at Smart Planet. They also edited the Smart News blog at Smithsonian Magazine, and filled in for the Atlantic’s science editor.

Emily St. James (formerly Emily VanDerWerff) is a critic, journalist, podcaster, and writer. Currently, she is the Critic at Large for Vox. Prior to 2019, she published under her old name, Todd VanDerWerff.St. James started her career by working for the student newspaper while studying at South Dakota State University. In 2004, she graduated and began working for newspapers, writing and copy editing, while maintaining her TV blog. Later, she wrote for the A.V. Club, first as a freelance writer, and then as an editor.

Katelyn Burns is a reporter and writer. Currently, she writes for Vox and is the first ever openly trans Capitol Hill reporter. She covers politics, LGBTQ issues, and reproductive health policy.Previously, Burns was the federal policy reporter for Rewire.News, where she covered the U.S. Congress including legislation and federal policy issues. She continues to work as a freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in them.us. The Washington Post, VICE, The Establishment, and Allure. She also wrote a series on toxic call-out culture in online activism for Everyday Feminism.

Chase Strangio is an American lawyer and transgender rights activist. He is a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Sam Sanders is a journalist and audio presenter. Currently, he hosts the Vulture pop culture podcast "Into It" and the Stitcher podcast "Vibe Check." He also teaches Radio at the Columbia University School of Journalism.Previously, Sanders was the host of the NPR show "It's Been A Minute." He started his journalism career as a web producer for the Washington Post.Sanders received his B.A. in Music Composition and Political Science from the University of the Incarnate Word and his M.P.P. in Public Policy, Media, and Politics from Harvard Kennedy School.