Trans Questioning Podcast
72 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsSarah Zedig discusses her transition and interviews other trans people to figure out what it means to be transgender.
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Some Things You Learn About Yourself At Pride
July 11, 2022 19:03 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBFood is good and so are dogs, meta or otherwise. I went to Pride and felt like I was allowed to feel attraction to other people as a transgender woman! Topics include: my mom's recipe for "shit on a shingle," lessons from pride, lesser-discussed media stereotypes that had an outsized effect on my sense of self, a song i wrote called "meta dog," and what I learned about my socioeconomic upbringing from cooking aforementioned recipe. This one's packed so buckle in!!! Music by Molly Noise: ht...
Doing Dishes at the End of the World
June 28, 2022 18:35 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBThis is probably healthier than twitter, tbh. In this week's episode, I do the dishes and ramble about the overturning of Roe v Wade, the state of American labor, and the place of gender within the ongoing culture war. If you like ASMR, this one's for you. Music by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise Cover Art by Deerwitch: @deervvitch Help support Sarah financially at comradery.co/sarahzedig, patreon.com/ltas or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Sarah's Twitter: @hmsno...
Personal Responsibility (to kick your ass)
June 13, 2022 20:19 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBMy head is a blender and society is giving me too many tropical fruits This smoothie has a bit of a neapolitan flavor. Contradictions, the pandemic, rate of profit, and my own disjointed writings on The State Of Things come together in what can be resoundingly described as "an hourlong podcast episode." Death Panel podcast: Outdoor Transmission w/ Dr. Theresa Chapple Music by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise Cover Art by Deerwitch: @deervvitch Help support Sarah financially at p...
Breakfast of a Burnt-Out Worker
May 28, 2022 19:57 - 54.9 MBWake up to a world with room to spare. TQ is back! This week, Sarah makes breakfast, drinks some coffee, and then reads selections from Noel Ignatiev's Adequate Men, the memoir of a communist revolutionary working inside a steel mill in the 1970s. From there we discuss the nature of work in America today, the neoliberal project of decoupling labor from the workplace & erasing the ideological commitments of the labor movement, and why there is hope to be had for the future of the revolutiona...
The Last Episode of Trans Questioning (unless it isn't)
September 29, 2021 00:40 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBTHIS WEEK: Trans Questioning is ending, whether now or a bit later. But something new will take its place, and this episode is an exploration of what that thing will be and why I feel compelled to make it a reality. NOTE: I was high and exhausted when I recorded this episode, and I did not listen to it for errors. I know that by the end I was spewing youthfully vague political generalities. I promise these discussions on Genderpunk will be a hell of a lot more specific. Music by Molly Nois...
Where The Hell Have You Been?
May 13, 2021 23:40 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBTHIS WEEK: Wow, it sure is difficult getting your hands on the medications that make your brain work! Music by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise Cover Art by Deerwitch: @deervvitch Help support Sarah financially at patreon.com/ltas or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Sarah's Twitter: @hmsnofun Take care of yourselves.
Loud Everywhere Questions
November 12, 2020 14:00 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBSarah returns with new questions for a world on fire. THIS WEEK: What the hell she's been doing the last seven months, feelings about the pandemic and the election, weird TMI dildo-based gender euphoria, the importance of playing with your identity, and plans for the future. Music by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise Cover Art by Deerwitch: @deervvitch Help support Sarah financially at patreon.com/ltas or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Sarah's Twitter: @hmsnofun Take...
Normal Isn't Neutral (with Sage)
April 27, 2020 21:30 - 1 hour - 93.2 MBSarah is joined by locally infamous firebrand Sage to discuss life in late capitalism. Topics include: Good leftist podcasts, PHASE II, discord server politics meta, the compression of time, and VIOLENCE. If you have a story to tell or a question to ask, email us at [email protected] or send an anonymous message at curiouscat.me/transquestioning TQ Twitter: @TransQPodcast Sarah's Twitter: @hmsnofun Support Sarah Zedig on Patreon.com/LTAS or give a one-time donation at ko-...
Just Another Normal Episode
April 01, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBMars and Miles host TQ for a very standard and regular episode of the show. Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes you want to share? Email us at [email protected], or send an anonymous message to curiouscat.me/transquestioning Support Sarah at Patreon.com/LTAS or give a one-time donation at ko-fi.com/sarahz For podcast updates, follow @TransQPodcast You can find Sarah @hmsnofun INTRO MUSIC by Zoestra COVER ART by @deervvitch If you are in crisi...
Southern Transgothic Disasters (with Cassidy Claymore)
January 20, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBTHIS WEEK: Cassidy Claymore joins Sarah in that most hallowed of social activities: just vibing. Topics include: Being trans in the south, homelessness, road trips, being an animator, and various obscenities. Follow and support Cassidy on Twitter: @CassClaymore YouTube: melt Patreon: patreon.com/melt If you have a story to tell or a question to ask, email us at [email protected] or send an anonymous message at curiouscat.me/transquestioning TQ Twitter: @TransQPodcast Sar...
Conversation with a Transgender Therapist (with Rose Benjamin)
January 06, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBTHIS WEEK: Sarah talks to Rose Benjamin about her experience as a therapist specializing in transgender issues. Topics include: The application of wisdom, the truth of ourselves, passive vs active trauma, historical roles of trans people, and the pitfalls of the stereotypical trans narrative. Follow Rose Benjamin on Instagram @trans_therapist_rose "Two Spirits, One Heart, Five Genders" by Duane Brayboy. If you have a story to tell or a question to ask, email us at TransQuestioningPodcast...
Mediating Transmasculinity (with Dylan Clark)
December 23, 2019 16:00 - 59 minutes - 55 MBTHIS WEEK: Sarah is joined by video essayist Dylan Clark to discuss his videos on Contrapoints, Boys Don't Cry, Dorian Electra, and others. Topics include: redefining manhood, the invisibility of men's gynecology, fandom shipping as media analysis, media analysis as astrology, and a twenty five minute conversation about canonicity in Homestuck. Follow and support Dylan on... GoFundMe: DC Needs a Hysterectomy Youtube: Boyform Twitter: @InBoyForm If you have a story to tell or a question to...
What Is Trans Questioning?
December 09, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBSarah's back yet again, and she has even more questions. THIS WEEK: Why did this show start? What will this show become? What's Sarah even been up to??? Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes you want to share? Email us at [email protected], or send an anonymous message to curiouscat.me/transquestioning Support Sarah at Patreon.com/LTAS or give a one-time donation at ko-fi.com/sarahz For podcast updates, follow @TransQPodcast You can find Sarah @hms...
Heather Flowers: Staying Dangerous
August 15, 2019 13:14 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBYou climb into the warm crevice of your meat mech. Its pungent copper wetness fills your nose and slides down the back of your throat... it tastes like blood and cherries. It occurs to you that this nightmare of muscle and bone feels somehow more like home than anywhere else you've ever been. You whisper your name and push your neck onto the nerve spike. As the thing you call "yourself" expands, a fire lights in the pit of your stomach. Oh, of course. This is what it feels like to be alive. ...
Sarah Zedig Talks About Left-Tube
August 05, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBTime to pour some milk on our faces and talk about LEFTWING MEDIA. THIS WEEK: Sarah shares some HRT updates before diving face first into some topical internet discourse by asking: what is left-tube, and is it a movement? Covers criticism of the "dirtbag left," the differences between left-tube / breadtube, a history of the likes of ContraPoints and others, Sarah's experience on youtube, left-tube's similarities with comedy non-journalism like The Daily Show, what it does well, what it does ...
Marble Charlotte: On Conversion Therapy
July 15, 2019 16:52 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBCONTENT WARNING: This episode gets into several heavy topics, such as emotional abuse, privacy violations, homelessness, victim blaming, and conversion therapy. Please take care of yourselves. THIS WEEK: Marble Charlotte comes on the show to discuss her experience with a family-mandated therapist whose only goal was to convince her she wasn't transgender. Follow and support Marble on... Patreon: patreon.com/sweetestskull Twitter: @marblecantus Twitch: twitch.tv/marblecantus Podcast: Deck of...
Comorbid Disorderly Conduct of the Nonbinary Variety
July 08, 2019 18:24 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBUh oh, Sarah's back and this time she has EMOTIONS. THIS WEEK: We discuss the psychological experience of being off and on HRT, as well as the comorbidity of mood disorders and learning disabilities, which makes it hard to diagnose things like ADHD, BPD, or bipolar. Hormones aren't a silver bullet for mood and habit, unfortunately! ALSO: A pair of emails, first about the state of transgender rights in the military in Singapore, and then asking about finding friends and salvaging damaged rela...
Aysha U. Farah: The Good and Bad of Cyberpunk
July 01, 2019 22:25 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBWhat even is cyberpunk? THIS WEEK: Writer Aysha U. Farah joins to talk a little about their experience with gender, as well as to discuss a certain high-profile cyberpunk video game currently making the promotional rounds in the game-o-sphere. We explore what the genre means to us, why we think so many people get it wrong, and offer up some atypical examples of it being done right. ALSO: Some minor discussion of Homestuck and Hiveswap Friendsim, because what's a cyberpunk discussion without ...
To Destroy Capitalism You Must First Destroy Gender
June 24, 2019 19:43 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBWhat does gender even do, anyway? THIS WEEK: Sarah lectures a room full of undergrads on her theory that the existence of transgender people undermines the foundations of so-called western civilization. We also discuss trans healthcare, public perception, the importance of internalizing genderqueer politics, and little ways you can help the trans/enby folks in your life. ---- Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes you want to share? Email us at TransQuestioningPodca...
Nonbinary Friend-Finder Blues
June 17, 2019 17:50 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBBack on meds, let's get to some questions! THIS WEEK: We dig through our backlog of anonymous curiouscat asks, which flit mostly between themes of finding community and feeling unsure how to be nonbinary in a deeply binary world. Wow, same! Can Sarah single-handedly solve these common trans problems in just thirty minutes? Guess you'll have to listen and find out! ---- Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes you want to share? Email us at TransQuestioningPodcast@gmai...
Hayley Rose: Thriving in Recovery
June 10, 2019 14:35 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBTime to roll up our sleeves and get right on into it. THIS WEEK: Guest Hayley Rose discusses the ups and downs of transitioning early in life, as well as her story of addiction and recovery. We also talk about how to find support as a gay / trans / otherwise queer person struggling with addiction. Hope you're ready to get REAL. Follow and support Hayley: Podcasts: Badvertising, Comradical, and Good Boys Girls Twitter: @Haystews Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes...
Hormonal Melancholic Ennui
June 05, 2019 13:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBNow wait just a second, this isn't a Monday! THIS WEEK: Oops, we had technical difficulties. This is a short one to discuss the mental challenges of falling off HRT, untreated ADHD, and the general depression that comes with moving. ---- Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes you want to share? Email us at [email protected], or send an anonymous message to curiouscat.me/transquestioning Support Sarah at Patreon.com/LTAS or give a one-time donation ...
Mia Mulder: The Real Nordic Model
May 27, 2019 16:07 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBThe Swedish Empire expands! THIS WEEK: Youtuber Mia Mulder joins us to discuss the politics, weather, and media in Sweden, including the national pride that is The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, as well as an accounting of the one and only comedy the country has ever produced. And then, in perhaps the most riveting moment in TQ history, Mia shares the amazing story of her time as an activist. Follow and support Mia: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MiaMulder Twitter: @PotatoPolitics Do you...
Spaces/Faces
May 20, 2019 17:45 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBHello, I'm tired and hoarse. THIS WEEK:Sarah talks about moving to a new place in THE CITY, feeling dysphoric about facial hair, the lethargy of being low on medications, and also discusses the pros and cons of snapchat's genderswap selfie filter. The takes in this one are saucy. ---- Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes you want to share? Email us at [email protected], or send an anonymous message to curiouscat.me/transquestioning Support Sarah ...
Molly.Noise: Stateside Booksmart Goth GF
May 13, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBThe commie talk is coming from inside the house! THIS WEEK: Molly.Noise is stateside and holding my hand, because we're gay! We talk about the challenges of an international long distance relationship, the importance of judgment-free conversation in intimate moments, as well as what being a nonbinary trans person means to Sarah. This, of course, leads us to talking about socialist philosophy, anarchy, and the arbitrary nature of societal norms. We couldn't be more on brand if we tried, could...
Sarah Becomes a Professional
May 06, 2019 15:01 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBWelcome back to my hovel. Do you like what I've done with the place? THIS WEEK: Sarah answers long, LONG overdue reader questions, touching on relationships troubled by dysphoria, whether to come out as trans when you have an STI, and fantasies of bodily rearrangement. ---- Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes you want to share? Email us at [email protected], or send an anonymous message to curiouscat.me/transquestioning Support Sarah at Patreon.c...
Who Am I Now: Identity After Transition // Seven Months HRT and Other Updates
March 06, 2019 12:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBWoah, wait, where's the other girl? THIS WEEK: It's just Sarah! Like old times, eh? Discussing body developments after seven months on hormone replacement therapy, the stresses of being a transgender youtuber, and how to build yourself back up after years of basing your layers on other people's expectations. ---- Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes you want to share? Email us at [email protected], or send an anonymous message to curiouscat.me/tran...
We Invented Love: Remembering the Mermaids Charity Stream // FEATURING MANY GUESTS, and also hbomb
February 20, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 155 MBThe dust has settled on the DK64 Nightmare Stream that raised over three hundred thousand dollars for transgender support charity Mermaids. Now, it is time to reflect. THIS WEEK: Sarah, May, and Elliot recount their experiences interacting with the likes of Cody Johnston, Chelsea Manning, and Chuck Tingle on the stream. ALSO: Twenty-one special guests share their feelings about the stream, either as viewers or participants (or, in one case, the instigator). You can find the timecode of their...
Three Trans Friends (Part 2) // Policing Womanhood, Transmasc v Transfem, and the Hard Questions No One Asks
January 24, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBThe Discourse continues in part 2! THIS WEEK: Misogyny in the trans community, the anger of the observer, the outrage of the unhappy, what it means to build a trans community, differences between transgender men and transgender women, complicated questions about ourselves and our media that don't make for pithy youtube videos, The Elliot Test, movies as a magic trick everyone wants to spoil, youtube as a recursive echo chamber, and toxic attitudes towards fandom. Elliot and May recommend ea...
Three Trans Friends (Part 1) // Live Show Hot Takes, Butterfly Fascism, and What To Do When You Misgender Someone
January 23, 2019 14:00 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBLet's get salty. THIS WEEK: We discuss the Nyx Fears live show, May's appearance on a certain male-dominated livestream, the commonality of mansplaining, Dark Souls hot takes, why video games are bad, uncovering the awful truth behind @Mothcub's rosy exterior, how tattoos and piercings are trans body modification, the transmasculine experience, how we destroy ourselves with cynicism and self-deprecation, and we get honest about misgendering. ---- Follow Elliot on Twitter @yourparentscoke a...
Kallen Chi: Comics, Cartooning, and Ambiguous Identities
January 16, 2019 18:18 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBTime to expose the TRUTH about the Cal Arts style. THIS WEEK: Sarah has a conversation with nonbinary artist Kallen Chi (they/them), a graduate of Cal Arts and a professional cartoonist and animator. We discuss what got them into animation, the intersections of the transmasculine and transfeminine experience, the difficulties of discussing gender with your family, the importance of finding friends, and the misconceptions of hormone replacement therapy for transmasculine people. ALSO: Kallen ...
Let's Talk 2019 // Yesterday's Nightmare, Tomorrow's Dream
January 09, 2019 17:46 - 1 hour - 67.9 MBOne hell year down, another hell year begins. THIS WEEK: Sarah and May discuss the concurrent release of their latest passion projects, both of which are deeply emotional explorations of trauma and the transgender experience. We discuss some hopes for 2019, May details her brand new body modifications, we address a reader question about coming out as a teen in the American South, and generally pledge to wreck stuff. May recommends Venom and Aquaman, Sarah recommends Spiderman: Into the Spide...
Navigating Holiday Hell // May Leitz Has Joined Your Party
December 21, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBHot take, ice cream is better than Red Dead Redemption 2. THIS WEEK: It's May Leitz's first official episode as cohost! We discuss her reasons for jumping ship (in a good way), workshop future show segments, answer reader questions about how to deal with acquaintances/friends/family having an attitude about your transness, and how to feel sure in your identity when you haven't socially transitioned. May recommends Scorsese's After Hours and An American Werewolf in London, while Sarah recomme...
So You Want To Ruin Your Life: The Definitive Guide to Being a Youtuber (featuring May Leitz)
December 14, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBSometimes, the best advice is DON'T. THIS WEEK: I visited the home of May Leitz to talk about our mutual self-harm practice of making videos for the internet. In this candid, flighty, stream-of-consciousness conversation, we discuss how we choose the topics we want to cover, how to deal with weird or negative viewer feedback, what it's like to be a transgender youtuber, as well as all those wild hot tips you need to disregard in order to find your own success. Despite her wishes, you can fi...
2018: The Year That Just Won't Quit // A Happy Trans Holiday, Six Months on HRT, and a Very Special Announcement
December 12, 2018 12:11 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBAlternate title: This Is Fine (Take 3). THIS WEEK: It's been a hot minute since the last episode went up, huh? Sorry about that, life's been a hell. But the hell is almost over! We're near enough yet that we don't have to contemplate the worse damnation that will assuredly follow. In this episode, I discuss why I had to record this episode three separate times before being happy with it; some observations about hormone replacement therapy as I approach the six month mark; the weirdness of an...
Tomorrow Isn't Written // 49 Percent of the Electorate Showed Up, and We Are Alive
November 14, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBSo many people engaged in their civic duty! THIS WEEK: Discussing the lunacy of "identifying" as a younger person; a crisis of mental health among trans people; good news from Massachusetts and Colorado; discussing the truly historic turnout of the 2018 midterms and how people disappointed by the "blue wave" aren't looking close enough; perhaps fascism can be stopped before it causes truly irreparable harm? ALSO: Reader questions about the distinction between nonbinary people and transgender...
Molly.Noise: Ironic Self-Deprecation is OUT, Actually Liking Yourself is IN
November 07, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 81 MBYou're not garbage, okay? THIS WEEK: A conversation with transgender musician & political theorist Molly.Noise! We discuss the subtle ways language assumes maleness, the insidious ways we destroy ourselves to fit in, how we systematically devalue our art and our work in order to seem humble, the ways we apologize for existing, the ways we situate ourselves as closeted trans people in sex and relationships, the mirror phase of development in relation to gender performance, and so much more. W...
This Is Just An Advice Show Now // "What If I'm Not Trans?" and Other Reader Questions
November 05, 2018 12:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBI have finally embraced the inevitable evolution of this podcast into a self-help advice show. THIS WEEK: The fear of coming out and transitioning even when support is likely; the gravity of secrets and the allure of questions left unanswered; the complications of being a transgender man and the child of immigrants; how to con your ungrateful parents out of money and live your best life; why your ungrateful parents are trash and how you don't owe them a dang thing; reiterating the fact that ...
Emergency Episode: Terror and Despair in the Transgender Community
October 26, 2018 16:20 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBAs this week comes to a close, it's hard not to feel like the US government is openly loading the gun they'll soon use for our execution. It's hard not to feel like you're going crazy as everyone else gaslights you by insisting that it's just a distraction from whatever the real problem is. Violence against transgender people is all too present already, but now we face the prospect of a mob of emboldened, bigoted blackshirts (or, in this case, redhats) taking their frustrations out on us wit...
My Existence is Non-Negotiable, Even In 2018 // DHS Gender Memo & Reader Questions
October 24, 2018 13:56 - 1 hour - 72.2 MBThat's right, you've been reading this podcast all along! THIS WEEK: Is it time to panic yet? Are we allowed to panic? Is it time to finally start saying, hey, maybe the States are in a bit of a pickle vis-a-vis fascism and blackshirt violence? Is the alarm only valid when it's rung by a straight cis able-bodied white guy? Am I being sensationalist by earnestly googling how to gtfo of the country? Am I losing my mind right now? Because it feels like I'm losing my mind right now. ALSO: Coming...
Life Complicates; Life Simplifies // Nonbinary Vagaries and Listener Questions
October 10, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBSometimes, things are okay. THIS WEEK: Discussing the sudden quintupling of my audience following the release of a video about Natalie Wynn of ContraPoints; answering listener questions about nonbinary identity, internal transgender repression, and the need for identifying one's birth gender within the discourse; the nasty insinuations of the healthy that one needs only to just "do it" to get healthy, and how difficult it truly is for someone with a mood disorder to live a healthy lifestyle....
Do you Need to Suffer to be Transgender? - EPISODE 30 // Genderqueer
September 27, 2018 15:35 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBIt's the thirtieth episode, and a full year after recording episode one! THIS WEEK: Answering more spam mail, answering an actual listener question about whether one can be too well off to call themselves trans and begin transitition; discussing what has changed in the year since I came out, including the recent revelation that I am genderqueer; talking about the recent Contrapoints video "The Aesthetic" and some criticisms of it (I ended up making a video about this, which you can find righ...
May Leitz: Embracing Vulnerability, and the Freedom of Performance
September 19, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBWhen you come out as transgender, the freedom of Halloween is every single day. THIS WEEK: I talk to video essayist and host of youtube show Nyx Fears, May Leitz! We discuss the hell that is life in the DFW metroplex, what it's like coming out as trans to an existing fanbase, how she figured out her transness, how she navigates dysphoria, the ambiguities of identity and the challenges of articulation, where she got her name, what the heck a "woman" looks like, and how Halloween is basically ...
One Simple Trick for the Cis to Help their Trans Friends -TERFs Hate It!
September 12, 2018 12:00 - 56 minutes - 51.6 MB#ihaveagramophone. Make it trend, or I walk. THIS WEEK: Melancholy in the Sarah's world; the loneliness of Italy without friends at home to talk to; revisiting your journal is ALWAYS a bad idea; reflections on my conversation with Shannon Strucci in the previous episode; fear of asking friends and colleagues to respect your new name and chosen pronouns; the stress of being a stealth transgender person in college; good reactions from friends and family; how cis people can help trans people. ...
Shannon Strucci: The One-Way Road to Obsession
September 05, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBIt's time to dish about the creeps that make life miserable for women on the internet. THIS WEEK: I talk to youtuber Shannon Strucci, hot off the release of her feature-length video essay about parasocial relationships. We discuss how death in the family (especially parents) can other you from friends and colleagues, the gross and creepy harassment a successful woman gets, how gender affects one's success on a public media platform, the weird real life fanfic written about Jacksepticeye and ...
Under the Influence of Estrogen (or, A Body Changes) // A Mailbag Tragedy
August 29, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBTwo months on HRT and second puberty is in full swing. THIS WEEK: I discuss the various changes I've noticed after two months on feminizing hormones; suddenly Sarah is starting to exist; a series of digressions on topics various and sundry. ALSO: Very few people have sent me emails, so I've decided to give the spammers their due. It's time to discuss the tragedy of the late Dr. George Pascal, whose affairs in Burkina Faso promise to be profoundly lucrative. Do you have questions, stories, o...
Emily Lynch: The Secrets that Made Us / How To Trans
August 23, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBTips and tricks from a 19 year old film nerd. THIS WEEK: The wonderful Emily Lynch stops by to talk about her experiences coming out as transgender to her parents, presenting full time, and the various strategies of making oneself accustomed to their new identity. There are many jokes and japes along the way (bonus points if you get my sick Dark Souls reference), including tales of sperm donation and movie journies. ALSO: I recount my final days in Italy, and preface the next episode, which ...
Transgender Existence is Fascist Resistance // HRT Diaries 003
July 25, 2018 12:00 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBWhen they demand that you disappear into the shadows again, the only choice is illumination. THIS WEEK: The GOP doesn't want LGBT people to adopt children, and of course this will disproprtionately effect the T; what happens when a fascist dictator blames a minority group for society's ills, cons the people into persecuting them, persecutes them successfully, and the ills of society remain unaddressed? Why, it's time to pick another minority, of course! Given the current political climate, i...
Update from the Italian Front // HRT Diaries 002
July 10, 2018 15:10 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBI'm elsewhere! Wow! THIS WEEK: A shorter episode digging into the conflicted feelings of an early transition trans person having to go boymode in another country for a month, looking for changes from HRT, and maybe feeling a little more calm? Hmmm. Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes you want to share? Email me at [email protected] INTRO/OUTRO MUSIC is the Mii Channel Theme JAZZ COVER by insaneintherainmusic. COVER ART is by the wonderful Emilee ...
#DropTheT and Queer Respectability Politics // HRT Diaries 001
June 27, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBAm I emotions because drugs, or am I emotions because sad? THIS WEEK: My first ten days on hormone replacement therapy. What has changed? Has anything changed? How do I feel? Am I more irritable? Has my beard melted off yet? We also talk about #DropTheT, a twitter campaign by some in the LGBT community to drop the T, because unlike the lesbians, gays, and bis, the transgenders are [insert tired offensive anti-minority scapegoats that have been reused for every group to ever demand visibility...