Gendercast Episode 25: Young People's Voices, the B-GLAD Interviews

Join Gendercast and our former (and very first!) intern, Cat, for our group interviews with some amazing young people who are part of a bright ray of sunshine in east King County (east of Seattle) called B-GLAD.  Listen with us as this group of young people, self-identified BGLADIATORS, tell you their stories and talk about work they are doing as they answer these three questions they  as important topics for Gendercast and our listeners to hear about:

• What is B-GLAD and what should people know about it?
• What is it like having a non-binary experience in school and work?
• What activism/social change are we working on?

Jesse and Sean were glad to be part of these refreshing and honest dialogues, and we are so very appreciate of each and every one of these individual’s willingness and courage to get behind the mic and share their voice.  Special thanks to Kennedy (from episode 5) and Cat for setting up the interview and engaging Gendercast.

B-GLAD Teen Support Group

Bi-Gay-Lesbian Adolescent Drop-In Group is a drop-in support group open to kids ages 12 to 19 who may identify themselves as lesbian gay, bisexual or transgender or who may be questioning their sexuality.  Co-facilitated by trained professionals, the B-GLAD group enables youth to:

• Meet their peers and share common concern
• Ask questions in a safe environment
• Receive information and support in a professional setting that encourages responsible decision-making

Links

Youth Eastside Services B-GLAD website and the B-GLAD brochure

Outspoken LGBT Youth Speaker’s Bureau at the Northwest Network

Three Wings

Queer Youth Space

Youth Suicide Prevention Program

Check-in Links

Being Transgender in America on the MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry show

Give Big on May 2

Translations - The Seattle Transgender Film Festival May 3rd - 6th, 2012

Gendercast Episode 24:  Interview with Lucien on Trans* Idenity and Sex Work

Join Gendercast co-host, Jesse Lee, for an intimate and stigma-busting interview with Lucien, who shares his story around his trans* gender journey, genderqueer identity, navigating coming out multiple times and his sex work practice.

Guest Bio

Lucien is a 30-year-old transgender male sex worker.  He uses his work as an opportunity to observe and research gender identities, sexuality, and so much more (and to help his clients do so as well).  He stumbled upon this work accidentally, although he realized that it was by no means a coincident.  Participating in the sex trade offers him an experience of a lifetime, a window into the heart of humanity.  It is here that he's found unremarkable truths he would never have anticipated prior to his  work in this industry.  Allow him to share these truths in this podcast, his observations about where the core of humanity exists on its journey toward healing gender and sexuality on this planet.

Links

Lucien's blog on trans male sex work

Sex Worker Outreach Coalition in Portland, OR

SWOP-USA Sex Worker Outreach Project

Best Practices Policy Project (this site also has information on the United Nations acknowledgement of Sex Worker rights that Lucien mentioned)

Check-in Links

The Seattle Chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace

Gendercast goes to Philly! Check out our workshop at the 11th Annual Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference

For local events check out our website here (www.gendercast.com)

Gendercast Episode 23:  Informed Consent for Access to Trans Health (ICATH), Interview with Calvin Burnap and A. Canelli

Join Gendercast for an interview with Seattle-based trans advocates and therapists, Calvin Burnap and A. Canelli, who will discuss the informed consent model for accessing trans health and their local and collaborative ICATH project.  Our discussion will cover the importance of self-actualization and autonomy in decision-making (and therapy), rejection of using Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and pathologizing trans* people accessing hormomes or surgery, and the non-proprietary philosophy of ICATH.

Guest Bios

Calvin Burnap is a queer and trans therapist of color in Seattle, Washington, praciticing within a framework of collective healing and empowerment.  He has been wrking as a service provider since 2007 and frames his work towards the liberation of queer and trans people of all ages and expressions of gender.

Canelli is a trans/queer therapist who is also a trans and queer advocate.  Canelli's work is based in Seattle, Washington, but liberation work is portable and can traverse many spaces. 

Links

ICATH website and ICATH facebook page and a recent article about Informed Consent

ICATH providers page, including links to Canelli, and Calvin in Seattle and Talcott* in Olympia

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) website and the Version 7 Standards of Care that were referenced

Some information on Gender Identity Disorder and the facebook petition to remove it from the DSM-V

The Howard Brown Health Center in Chicago that Calvin mentioned and the THinC program for Transgender Health

An article Sean references about the 2002 paper from the International Journal of Transgenderism about how low post-operative regret is amongst trans* folks

*[we apologize for mis-pronouncing Talcott's name]

Check-in Links

Out of Office, the Original Plumbing article Jessie references for Workplace Woes

The Chicago ordinance we mentioned and the article in Stuff Queer People Need to Know 

Join Gendercast for our workshop at 2:15 on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at the Philly Trans Health Conference, which is May 31-June 1

Gendercast Episode 22: What IS Masculinity Anyway?  

Join Jessie and Sean as they* muddle through exploring what masculinity means [and just in case you're wondering - we don't know, nor do we figure it out] and navigating it in the world.  They will discuss the Tarheels and Transfags article to get started and historical butch lesbian/dyke masculinity vs. trans* and genderqueer masculinity coming from being assigned female at birth.   Exploring masculinity through taking hormones, internal gender identity and [perceived] gender expression are some of the terrain they cover. 

*This is a more personal episode for your gendercast hosts and they only speak from their own experiences/narratives.  

Links

Check out our new web url www.gendercast.com

Crappy wiki definition for masculinity so you can see for yourself

The Tarheels and Transfags article by Joshua Bastian Cole we discuss from Beyond Masculinity: Essays by Queer Mean on Gender and Politics and their itunes link here for the articles via podcast

The FAQ: Gay Men and Gay FtMs Redux article from Not Another Aiden: Life of a Non-Standard Gay (trans)Guy where the sissyphobia concept was raised

The Charles Asher video about The Binds of Masculinity

The What Real Men Do youtube video we reference

MAKE A MAN OUT OF YOU! youtube video

Ira Gray's Transgender (Mis)Education article

The Trans Infighting youtube video (it may now be login protected)

Gendercast Episode 21: Transmisogyny: Interview with Tobi Hill-Meyer

Join Gendercast for our interview with Tobi Hill-Meyer as she so eloquently discusses transmisogyny, language about gender, analyses on the word *transmasculine and creates new meaning(s), pronouns, and her experiences at both Michfest and the Butch Voices national conference as a trans woman.   She'll tell us all about her unique narrative, being raised by second-wave feminist parents, and expands categories beyond the limits of a binary narrative of being socialiazed according to one's sex assigned at birth.   Also, there's a nice smutty treat for you at the end of the episode, compliments of BB Rydell.

Episode Links

Tobi also talks about some of her projects, including:

Handbasket Productions and Tobi's tumblr and her Girl Talk 2011 performance

her zine, Trans Sexuality: A Safe Sex Guide for Trans People and Their Partners

her film, Genderfellator

her article What Transmisogyny Looks Like in the Bilerco Project

the Brazen safe sex guide for Trans women Tobi mentions

the No More Apologies: Queer Trans and Cis Women Coming/Cumming Together! conference Tobi tell us about (this fb event for the conference in is the past, but has all the info)

and

The Gender Ternery: Understanding Transmisogyny blog post from A Radical TransFeminist (when I said fuck the patriarchy, I didn't mean it literally) we reference

Julia Serano's book The Whipping Girl

Check-in Links

The Genderfellator

If you liked his closing piece, also check out BB Rydell's film Robin Hood is So Gay

Gendercast Episode 20: Trans Healthcare and the Medically Assigned Binary, Part 2 of our Interview with Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest, MD

Join us for the second half of our interview with Dr. Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest. 

Links

The Organizing for Transgender Healthcare: A Guide for Community Clinic Organizing and Advocacy from the Transgender Law Center (based in California)

Check-in Links

Transgender in the Workplace: Are People Ready for This? article from Transbliss

City of Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative conference Jessie reports out on

Why there's no such thing as "Reverse Racism" article we discussed

Sweden keeps forced sterilization law for trans people article from Feministing and a youtube response to it called A Message of Love in Stockholm, Sweden

Massachusetts transgender equality law and don't forgot that public accomodations (bathrooms) are NOT included, see this FAQ

You Don't Get to Tell us When to Be Offended, Rupaul, Rebecco Juro's article in response to Rupaul's use of the word "tranny"

Hot Trans Guys

Events

Brown Boi Project 2012 Application form 

February 5, 2012 Make The Things: A Card Making Party for Prisoners facebook event 

February 25, 2012 "We Are Family" Community Roundtable on the Queer Host Home Model facebook event

Gendercast Episode 19:  Trans Healthcare and the Medically Assigned Binary, Interview with Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest, MD

Join us for Part 1 of our interview with transhealthcare provider Dr. Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest.  This interview will be aired in two separated podcast episodes chock-full of great information about both trans specific healthcare and primary care for trans individuals encompassing any sex assigned at birth. 

Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest MD, MPH. Speciality Family Medicine 

Links Jennifer mentions

Southern Arizona Gender Alliance

University of California San Francisco Center for Excellence in Transgender Health

TransYouth Family Allies

Family Acceptance Project

Vancouver Coastal Health Transgender Health Program

Transgender Veterans of America

Check in Links

January Seattle Spit Featuring rogue pinay!! on Thursday, January 12, 2012

Debauchery on Thursday, January 19, 2012

Broken Bodies, PBP" & "Under 1 Nation: Zulu & Krip-Hop on February 10 and 11, 2012 at University of Washington

The Queer Art of Failure by Judith "Jack" Halberstam and a youtube video of Jack talking about the book

Gendercast Episode 18: Gendercast Year One in Review

Join Sean and Jessie as they discuss the first year of Gendercast podcasting. The discussion will cover many topics including trans representation in mainstream and independent media; activist communities and making mistakes as they learn; pronoun navigation; language and labels; and reaching out to other communities.  They will also discuss upcoming Gendercast internship positions, which will be available soon and will be posted on the gendercast website.

Jessie and Sean want to thank YOU for listening, learning with us, writing in, interacting on facebook and for any discussions Gendercast might have opened or reignited for you and your communities.  We look forward to bringing you so much more dialogue and hearing more from you in 2012!

Gendercast Episode 17:  Brown Boi Project Interview with B. Cole, Project Director

Join Sean for his interview with Cole from the Brown Boi Project, a community of masculine of center women, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to transforming our privilege of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving Racial and Gender Justice. See Cole's bio here.  We are so excited to have had this opportunity to talk with Cole about the Brown Boi Project, the new health guide they created, Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois (one of many articles here, purchase here), reflections on the Butch Voices conference, and a very important topic for Gendercast - reaching out to communities of color.  Thank you Cole!

Warning: at about 14 minutes thru 17 minutes some mic reverb was picked up so please adjust audio volume around this time. This episode was not recorded with our usual equipment and we had some issues with the sounds quality.

Check-in Links

Gendercast has created the facebook event page for the Trans Bodies, Trans Selves forum we are hosting in Seattle on Monday, December 12, please join us!  See the book outline here, what a great opportunity to inform a book about us BEFORE it is published!

The Seattle Quickball tournament was a huge success!  Over 250 people participated and they earned over $5,000 for the Reteaching Gender and Sexuality campaign

LGBTQ Allyship, a Seattle-based social and economic justice organization (see episode 15) is looking for board members!  Contact Debbie Carlsen at allyship@yahoo.com

The US Department of Health and Human Services Region 10 listening session for LGBT issues, contact gendercast@gmail.com if you want more information on the priorities or other information from they provided.

Gendercast Episode 16:  Bisexuality and the Binary or Are We Queer?  Interview Panel from Across the Spectrum with Maddox, Caila and Amy

Join us for a great interview panel dialogue about sexuality with three guests who represent a continuum of sexual identities present in the trans community and in those who are interested in us.  We will explore bisexual, queer and pansexual identities and how these identities are part of moving through the world of relationship with trans people and others.  Maddox and Caila will discuss the political aspects of their queer and bisexual identities and elements thereof.  This episode topic came out of a blog post Jessie and Sean ran across entitled, Words, Binary and Biphobia, or: why "bi" is binary but "FTM" is not from the blog Radical Bi: Love, rage and pride.

Maddox was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent much of his life the theatre, and did a brief stint in New York where he studied at an acting conservatory. While in college in San Francisco, he worked doing HIV/AIDS prevention, organizing workshops for survivors of sexual abuse, and facilitated workshops on dating violence prevention, transgender sensitivity. He worked on developing the Gender Diversity Project Resource for Educators, which provides tools for teachers wishing to make their curriculum and classrooms more inclusive for gender variant students. He is currently attending Seattle University, earning his Masters in Psychology. When he can find spare time and energy, he is also a painter and crafter.

Caila is passionate about many things including sex positivity, cooking, dog parks, exercise and volunteerism.  She is happy to be living in Seattle and to work with various agencies who promote equality and the worth of all humans.  She is thankful to Sean and Jessie for the opportunity to share and for their creating this great podcast. 

Amy has a zest for living life full out, with passion, and an open, honest, transparent heart.  A creative, multi-talented diva, Amy loves each day as a new opportunity to craft and manifest the life she dreams of!

Links

Some differences and similarities between bisexuality and pansexuality, another post from Bi Radical related to this topic

What Queerness Means To Me blog post from Tranarchism

Queer vs. bi identity from www.unchartered-worlds.org

Bisexuality does not reinforce the gender binary from The Scavenger

The essay on heteropatriarchy that Maddox references is Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing by Andrea Smith from the blog Love Harder: Women of Color Working it Out

Check-in Links

Occupy Seattle website and the Queering Occupy Wall Street facebook group

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves website and facebook page

November 21, 2011 at 7 pm, Dean Spade's book reading at Elliot Bay Books for his new book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

November 18, 2011 at 8 pm is the Bent's 11th Annual Mentor Showcase featuring Storme Webber