Gender Reveal Unwrapped + Tuck's 2025 Picks

It's that time again! Before we start: you have one week left to take our annual patron survey! Thank you so much to the 261(!) patrons who have already completed the survey.

Total Gender Reveal downloads in 2025: 322,841
Countries & territories with at least one download in 2025: 165

Gender Reveal episodes released: 12 (+ 16 bonus)
Gender Conceal episodes released: 12
Gender Ordeal live shows: 8
Sex Change and the City book events: 7

Most downloaded Gender Reveal episodes in 2025:

1. Alison Bechdel
2. Vera Blossom
3. Talia Mae Bettcher
4. Harron Walker
5. Caro De Robertis

Number of Gender Reveal grants awarded: 20
Gender Reveal grant money awarded: $16,000
Mutual aid money sent: $4,768

New Gender Reveal patrons: 386
Cancelled Gender Reveal patrons: 283

Gender Conceal episode names that made me laugh the most despite having written the titles myself:

• Mal Blum is taking away “he” until you’ve earned it back 😤

• Alma Avalle rocked an elite fiefdom with her woke soap opera

• Cass is easy to draw, like Doug from the cartoon Doug

Podcasts I listened to in 2025: 102
Podcast eps listened to in 2025 (not counting Gender Reveal/Conceal): 708

Movies watched in 2025: 23
Every movie I rated 4.5-5 stars on Letterboxd in 2025:

• Moonstruck (1987)

• My Cousin Vinny (1992)

• Princess Mononoke (1997)

• Sing Sing (2023)

• The Stroll (2023)

Audiobooks that I listened to in 2025 (thank u Libby app!!!): 54
Books that I read in 2025: 35
Books I read/listened to by trans people in 2025: 26+ (more if u count Bechdel lol)

<<The following picks do not include Gender Reveal guests bc I cannot have favorite children>>

World’s most basic list of favorite books read in 2025:

• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

• God of the Woods by Liz Moore

• James by Percival Everett

• North Woods by Daniel Mason

• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Favorite books read in 2025 that were actually published in 2025:

• Actress of a Certain Age by Jeff Hiller (audiobook version specifically!)

• Big Chief by Jon Hickey

• Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman

• Worthy of the Event by Vivian Blaxell

Other books I’d like to shout out:

• Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch (audiobook specifically!)

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

• A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire (nobody likes this one but they’re wrong)

• Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

• The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Audiobooks I should’ve DNF’d in 2025 but finished :(

• Remarkably Bright Creatures (my #1 least favorite book of the year! congrats to everyone nominated but this one ran away with it)

• This Is How You Lose the Time War

• Havoc

• The Measure

• The Dream Hotel

• Olga Dies Dreaming

• Margo’s Got Money Troubles

Baseball games attended in 2025: 16
Mets games attended: 7
Cyclones games attended: 4
Mariners games attended: 6
Cal Raleigh home runs witnessed IRL: 3

Line dances learned: 136+
Line dances choreographed: 1

Happy new year. Hang in there. Here’s your weekly Rhubarb.

And a belated happy holidays from Puffin.

Xo,
Yr resident gender detective