Hil Malatino joins Bluestockings in conversation Tuck Woodstock to present Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad. Some days—or weeks, or months, or even years—being trans feels bad. In Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing onslaught of casual and structural transphobia in order to map the intricate emotional terrain of trans survival.

Hil Malatino is assistant professor in the departments of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and philosophy at Penn State. He is author of Trans Care (Minnesota, 2020) and Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience.

Tuck Woodstock is a journalist, educator and audio producer based in Portland, Oregon. Tuck is a co-founder of Sylveon Consulting and host of the award-winning trans podcast Gender Reveal.