Hi, and welcome back to Transcripts. We’ve taken a brief hiatus-- ok, a LONG hiatus-- and now we’re back with a new model. We’re excited to be changing up the format and hopefully making this space an accessible and creative feed for trans creators in audio! But first, we’re bringing you a special piece from our friends at KCRW’s Bodies podcast. It’s a piece that’s both powerful and informative, and it does this thing that I really love: it’s reporting about a trans person, but it doesn’t do all...
Oct 21, 2021•50 min
We dropped a shortened version of this audio a few weeks ago. We're thrilled to announce that we can now present an extended version of this episode, which features all the original voices plus a new interview with Kayla Gore, Co-Founder of the Memphis-based organization My Sistah's House . We hope you take this opportunity to listen to the whole show again! But if you just want the new content-- which is amazing- - feel free to start at 29:14. More from us soon! Thanks for listening, and we're ...
Apr 14, 2021•39 min
All over the South, trans people are fighting to make their homes welcome for all. Even when finding home, or even finding a place to stay, hasn’t always been easy. With Aurora Higgs (Richmond, VA), Jay Corprew (Virginia Beach, VA), Toni-Michelle Williams (Atlanta, GA), Kya Concepcion (Marietta, GA), and Mariah Moore (New Orleans, LA). ----------- Cassius Adair is the lead producer. Myrl Beam is the senior project scholar and producer. Rachel Mattson is the managing producer. Myra Billund-Phibbs...
Mar 17, 2021•34 min
Hi listeners, a quick update from us. We'll be back in your feeds tomorrow.
Mar 17, 2021•1 min
Hi everyone, this episode I’m turning the mic over to Leo Valdes , a PhD student from Rutgers University. They’ve been working with the Voces Oral History Project at UT Austin and the Latino New Jersey Oral History Project , and recently have been conducting interviews w trans Latinx people about their experiences with Covid-19. This interview is in Spanish, with short interludes narrated in English. Even if you are a monolingual English speaker, I encourage you to listen the best you can, and h...
Feb 25, 2021•48 min
Hi! I got some logistical wires crossed on my end and I'm gonna release this week's planned episode next week instead. Stay tuned-- it'll be worth the wait. Also, shh, later this week we're soft-launching our new social media stuff, so expect to hear more about that soon. Maybe I'll even drop a little note in the feed about that. xo
Feb 17, 2021•2 min
Today, an episode of Queer The Table , a show that describes itself as about "the joyful, messy, radical magic that happens in spaces where queerness and food intersect." I met host Nico Wisler when they were working on an episode of the podcast Bodies , but they reached out recently to share this amazing interview they did with Black trans activist Ianne Fields Stewart of The Okra Project . You'll hear how the project got started, what they're doing to keep supporting Black trans people during ...
Feb 04, 2021•40 min
Welcome to a new administration, for those of us in the United States. With that in mind, it feels like today is the right day bring you a piece that focuses on thinking transness across borders. This episode is called " They / Them ," and it's from Fil Corbitt's new show The Wind . I love love love these deeply felt conversations about language beyond the gender binary in English, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Hebrew. I learned a lot, and I think you will too. We're Transcripts , a projec...
Jan 20, 2021•34 min
What a time to be gay and alive. I decided not to post yesterday on our regular every-other-Wednesday schedule because honestly, I didn't know what to say. But I definitely don't want to go another two weeks without bringing you this trailer for Transition of Style , a podcast that takes fashion seriously as a trans way of forming our identities. I really love how host Phil aka Corrine thinks about style as a way to unpack gender-- it reminds me of what the scholar Jules Gill-Peterson says about...
Jan 07, 2021•5 min
Today's episode is called "Parable and Preppers," from the new podcast Queers at the End of the World . This is show is by Nina McQuown and Nat Mesnard, and it's a show about "nerdy queer and trans folks prepping for the apocalypse [...] by talking about books, games, shows, movies and comics." This conversation really takes you on a journey: from a bunker is Southwest Virginia waiting out Y2K, to an exploration of cross-dressing as survival in Octavia Butler, to how to have your Go-bag ready. T...
Dec 23, 2020•1 hr 12 min
This week: a clip of an episode that Mara Lazer made for a mini series called "e4e", embodied 4 embodied. In conversations with trans viewers and makers of porn, Mara investigates porn as a healing portal for trans people seeking embodiment. Find Mara on Twitter @LazerMara You can listen to the whole episode on The Heart's website or by searching "stop living on video" by The Heart wherreverrrr you listen to podcasssstsss (bonus consonants added by Mara, lol) "stop living on video" was written, ...
Dec 13, 2020•10 min
You might have noticed that we took a short break last week-- we'll be back in your feeds this upcoming Wednesday with an amazing piece by friend of the show and award-winning trans audio producer Mara Lazer . In the meantime, we wanted just to let you know that féi hernandez, the illustrator who did our AMAZING show art, has a new book of poems out called Hood Criatura , and there's a virtual launch party TONIGHT (if you're hearing this on December 5th). Whether you can make the party or not, I...
Dec 05, 2020•2 min
This week, we bring you a small show that's doing an incredible job bringing the voices of incarcerated people, including trans and gender non-conforming people, to the airwaves. It's called Kite Line , and it's based at WFHB Community Radio in South Central Indiana. I love finding shows that are doing crucial justice work in so-called "red states." No one, and no place, is disposable. --------------- Original show notes: Our episode this week is a conversation between Rojas and Cyrus, two advoc...
Nov 12, 2020•30 min
This week, an audio meditation that my friend Arlie Adlington and I made about trans care and support across borders. We produced this short piece earlier in the pandemic for Jacobin's podcast The Dig and their series Antibody : thanks so much to everyone at The Dig, and especially Liza Yaeger , for allowing us to share this with you all. Thank you so much for listening, and I hope you're feeling able to participate in acts of solidarity and care this week, whatever that means to you. The Transc...
Oct 29, 2020•16 min
This week, we're presenting a pilot podcast episode from the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ (Plus) Oral History Project , which is based in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city in the Appalachian foothills. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, a dedicated oral historian and public scholar, is training queer and trans people to collect stories from their peers and elders, and this podcast is derived from those oral histories. I love these voices and I love the spirit in which they're collected. The tape is sometime...
Oct 14, 2020•34 min
Another installment in our Fall Anti-Fascist Radio series, this time from the Asheville-based show The Final Straw Radio. I'm so heartened by the work that audio producers are putting in so we can hear the voices of incarcerated trans people-- doing an interview with someone who's in prison takes some different methods, and I'm really grateful that we get to share this interview with you. (PS-- there are two interviews in the full episode, we cut out the second one for time, but I encourage you ...
Oct 01, 2020•17 min
Next up in our "trans anti-fascist Fall podcast series," an episode of Rustbelt Abolition Radio about how queer and trans struggles are linked to abolishing prison and detention centers. It's difficult stuff, but timely and important. Some of this audio is hard to hear: you can use the episode transcription to follow along or as an alternative method of engaging this material. Quick note: since this episode was first released, some things have changed-- Dr. Treva Ellison now works at Pomona Coll...
Sep 16, 2020•29 min
We're gonna make it through this fall, y'all. To inspire us to keep up the good fight, this episode kicks off a short series of shows about combatting fascism from a trans perspective. First up, from History is Gay , a Nazi-fighter from a century ago. (Note: this episode is slightly abridged for time.) ------------ Original show notes: Claude Cahun's name might not be well known, but their work as an artist has been hugely influential in the lives of many Western pop culture icons (David Bowie, ...
Sep 03, 2020•1 hr 20 min
This week: an amazing piece of trans experimental audio, plus a big announcement during the end credits. ************** Slow-Burn Seeking , is a short work of audio fiction inspired by text from dozens of 80's & 90's era personal ads drawn from an archive of the On Our Backs women's erotica magazine. Using only remixed text from these ads and from their own contemporary dating profile, Ariana Martinez composed this heart-to-heart conversation between a lovesick queer, nonbinary person still ...
Aug 19, 2020•10 min
On today's Transcripts , we're bringing you an episode of Tuck Woodstock's show Gender Reveal . Recently, Tuck's been on the front lines of the uprising in Portland, Oregon, reporting on racial justice in the midst of tear gas and police abuse and federal agents snatching people up in vans. But in their other life, Tuck is an amazing podcaster and overall good trans media-maker. We're especially excited to share this epsiode because Transcripts is about centering trans activism and its many hist...
Aug 05, 2020•43 min
We're back with another "Transcripts Presents" episode, bringing you the latest and greatest in trans audio. We have some amazing stuff queued up for you this summer while our team is working hard fundraising for the next few episodes. Today, we're bringing you the trailer for a brand new show that we love: Country Queers . It's about home, resilience, and building power where you are. And it's really really good. And hey, if you like what we're doing, please rate and review us in your podcast a...
Jul 22, 2020•5 min
Hi y'all, this is our first "Transcripts Presents" episode, where we bring you the latest and greatest in trans audio. First up, a sample of Diamond Stylz's show " Marsha's Plate ." Diamond was one of the guests on episode one-- she's the one who became an activist after making it big on YouTube and now runs Black Transwomen Inc . She also runs her incredible podcast along Mia Mix and Zee, fellow Houston-based digital strategists, black feminists, civil right advocates, and black trans people. T...
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr 38 min
We're dropping a bonus track today because we think you need to hear this conversation RIGHT NOW. This is the recording from our show launch event at the Minnesota Institute of Art in Minneapolis. Hear our hosts Myrl Beam and Andrea Jenkins in dialogue with LaSaia Wade ( Brave Space Alliance ) and Diamond Stylz ( Black Transwomen Inc ). They discuss the uprisings against white supremacy and police brutality, the relationship between anti-Black racism and COVID-19, and how YOU can help them in th...
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Even though transgender-themed TV shows like Transparent and Pose have achieved mainstream popularity, trans people still face huge barriers to employment, housing, and safety. In fact, many trans people of color say that their lives are harder than ever before. In this first episode, "I’m Seeing My Liberation Right Now," hosts Myrl Beam (Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Minnesota) and Andrea Jenkins (Minneapolis City Council) investigate how trans activists are grappling with ...
Jun 24, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Introducing Transcripts: a podcast about how trans people are remaking the world. Donate to Brave Space Alliance and B lack Transwomen, Inc . *********** Music: "Villian" by Jupiter Gray . Sound from 2017 trans liberation march in Chicago courtesy of Tom Callahan of Sensitive Visuals . Podcast art by féi hernandez . *********** A program of the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota. Learn more at bit.ly/transcriptspod....
Jun 15, 2020•2 min
