JESSIE GENDER YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Jessie Gender is a YouTube channel exploring sci-fi, pop culture, politics, and queer identity through long-form video essays. With over 300k subscribers, Jessie approaches media with depth, humor, and a firmly trans, feminist perspective. This channel is about finding meaning in the stories we love — and imagining the better, queerer futures they point us toward.
ADDITIONAL YOUTUBE WORK
Advocate People
Advocate People is a documentary series for the world's oldest LGBT magazine showcasing the lives and stories of inspiring members of the LGBT community. Jessie served as producer, editor and director on several of the videos in this series.
GAMESPOT
At GameSpot, Jessie worked as a Features video producer on the Features team, creating long-form essays that explored how video games shape our understanding of intimacy, identity, and community. Her work looked at how games imagine bodies and desire, how players build meaning in shared worlds, and how queer and marginalized people carve out space in gaming culture.
Microsoft Unboxed
Jessie was the creator, producer, director and editor of Microsoft’s 2019 YouTube series Microsoft Unboxed hosted by Sonia Dara and Colleen O’Brien that looked at the latest technology, and the people and stories behind the tech.
PRIDE.COM’s NERD OUT
A 2018 series from Pride.com discussing queer topics and issues within the pop culture and nerdy space! Written and hosted by Jessie Earl.
Skybound Entertainment
Jessie wrote video essays on nerd topics for the entertainment company that created The Walking Dead and Invincible.
