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Transgender Warriors: Fury

Sam — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:09:10 +0000

On our last episode of season 2 we interview the Melbourne-based writer, performer and graphic novelist Fury, one of the stars of the smash-hit show Gender Euphoria.

Fury is the queer, non-binary author of the stunning graphic memoir “I Don’t Understand How Emotions Work” that weaves straight forward dialogue with emotive imagery to mimic the drifting and coming-together of the conscious and subconscious; thought and emotion. It interrogates the notion of selfhood, asking the question: if who we are is constructed through our memories, what does that say about the integrity of our identities?

You can buy a copy of “I Don’t Understand How Emotions Work” here.

Fury is also a prolific writer, whose work you can read on their website Fury Writes.

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Transgender Warriors: Dr Yves Rees

Sam — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:00:53 +0000

On this episode Sam chats with Dr Yves Rees, a writer, podcaster and award-winning historian based at at La Trobe University, where they are a Lecturer in History.

We discuss what Yves’s gender journey, what it’s like being a historian, their podcast Archive Fever, life over at the ABC and their upcoming gig at Queerstories.

Sam also gives a shout out to Trans Pride March, organised by Trans Sisters United, which is happening on Sunday 29 March 2020 from 12pm to 1pm at the State Library, followed by a celebratory concert at Fed Square.

PLAYLIST

Saada Bonaire – More Women

Christine and the Queens – Five Dollars

Electric Fields – Don’t You Worry

Too Attached – Diversity

Rich, White, Straight Men – Kesha

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CN Lester

Sam — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:02:42 +0000

In this episode we interview CN Lester, a musician, academic, activist and author of their best-selling book of essays Trans Like Me.

PLAYLIST:

CN Lester – Aether

R.E.M – Sad Professor

Nina Simone – I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free

CN Lester – Come Home

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Transgender Warriors: Trans Masc Summer Reading List

Sam — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:27:01 +0000

It’s our last episode of the season! As Sam and Gemma settle into Summer, we thought we’d share Sam’s extensive list of books by trans masc and non-binary writers worthy of your attention. Let us know what your favs are at @trans_warriors on twitter and we’ll share them around.

Also, if you have an idea for our show next season, or even want to come in and be a guest host we’d love to have you. Get in touch at transgenderwarriors@joy.org.au

FICTION

Stone Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl – Andrea Lawlor

Confessions of the Fox – Jordy Rosenberg

Sisters of No Mercy – Vincent Silk (AUS)

YOUNG ADULT

One in Every Crowd – Ivan E. Coyote

NON-FICTION

The Making of a Man – Maxim Februari

All the Beginnings: Quinn Eades (AUS)

Eugenia: A Man – Suzanne Falkiner (note: cis author, misgendering throughout) (AUS)

Trans Like Me: C N Lester

Masculinity Crisis: How it Feels When you Start to Look Like them – Oliver Reeson (AUS)

We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan – Lou Sullivan, Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma

From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland – Louis Sullivan

The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male – Max Wolf Valerio

TRANS LEGAL THEORY

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law – Dean Spade

GRAPHIC SHORT STORY

How to be a Gender Explorer – Samuel Luke (AUS)

PLAYLIST:

I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend – Ezra Furman

When You Were Mine – Lambchop

Warrior Heart – Shawnee

I Love Hot Nights – Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

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Transgender Warriors Local Hero Edition: Oliver Reeson

Sam — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:00:10 +0000

Oliver Reeson is an essayist and screenwriter. They co-created and wrote Homecoming Queens, a web series commissioned by SBS about chronic illness in your 20’s.

On our show we discuss trans narratives, the power of stories in forming identity, health battles and the complexity of traversing the world as a non-binary person.

One of Oliver’s essays can be found in the new collection Growing Up Queer in Australia, which assembles voices from across the spectrum of LGBTIQA+ identity. On our show, Oliver reads some passages from their touching essay from this collection. You can find more of Oliver’s writing in the Melbourne-based literary journals Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings and The Lifted Brow.

Follow Oliver Reeson on Instagram and twitter

Subscribe to Oliver’s tiny letters about their experiences on T.

TRACKLIST:

Belle and Sebastian: Storytelling

Tami T: Trans Femme Bonding

The Replacements: Androgynous

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Transgender Warriors Local Hero Edition: Vincent Silk

Sam — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 03:40:06 +0000

On Episode 4 of Transgender Warriors Sam and Gemma interview Vincent Silk, a writer working in fiction and non-fiction, and living in Naarm, Melbourne. His work has been published in the UTS Writers Anthology, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Archer and Seizure. In his non-fiction he blends poetics and facts and in his fiction he explores possibilities. Sisters of No Mercy is his first novel. Vincent also treats us to a reading of one of his earlier works (from year 3!) and the trans history training that he ran for LGBTIQ+ teens at Camp Out in NSW.

TRACK LIST:

Show me Love: Robin S

Fantasy: Mariah Carey

Silver Springs: Fleetwood Mac

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Transgender Warriors – Leslie Feinberg

Sam — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:00:49 +0000

Transgender Warriors is a brand new show covering a different trans and gender diverse writer, artist, activist, musician and thinker each week.

In our first episode of Transgender Warriors we delve into the life, writing and political activism of Leslie Feinberg, the late American author of Stone Butch Blues and Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman.

FURTHER VIEWING:

You can watch the entirely of Leslie Feinberg’s lecture at Sonoma State University Conference “The Transgender Movement, Yesterday, Today and the Future” here.

If you want to learn more about the Free CeCe campaign that Leslie Feinberg was heavily involved in, check out the Free CeCe documentary hosted by Laverne Cox, as well as the film-clip of B.Dolan’s “Which Side are You on?” which features Leslie Feinberg heirself spray-painting “Free CeCe” in gold paint on a courthouse wall.

Thanks for listening, and stay fierce warriors!

TRACK LIST:

Blacklash Blues: Nina Simone

Sally Go Round the Roses: The Jaynetts

Glad to Be Gay: The Tom Robinson Band

Walk on the Wild Side: Lou Reed

Revolution: Tracy Chapman

Which Side are you on?: B.Dolan

Gemma and Sam with Leslie Feinberg’s (very hard to find!) copy of Stone Butch Blues

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