The TransAdvocate: Transgender, Intersex, & GenderQueer News & Essays

A trans Baby Boomer, Gen Xer, and Millennial look politics inside and outside of the community, including the nonsense we all sometimes waste our resources on, plus Gwen Smith’s Gender Nation! === TransAdvocate Giveaways === For March 2017, we're GIVING AWAY a free copy of the newly released 2nd edition of Transgender History by Susan Stryker. Enter to win your copy here: http://transadvocate.com/register-for-transadvocate-giveaways ===Get Some Help=== Apply for our trans scholarship: http://nebula.wsimg.com/5efb09b410ee55a4a064354c02ff354f?AccessKeyId=4A2B0E9AB852D91A5E43&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Apply for our trans disaster recovery assistance: http://tdrfund.us/ Register to vote: http://transadvocate.com/us-register-to-vote ===Support Us=== Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transadvocate PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&item_name=TransAdvocate&hosted_button_id=NBKW875DQYN5J Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0670632 The TransAdvocate is a project of the Transgender Foundation of America, 501c3 non-profit. Learn more about the TransAdvocate at http://transadvocate.com

A trans Baby Boomer, Gen Xer, and Millennial have an argument about the concept of "identity politics." We consider this in more. PLUS we announce the start of TransAdvocate Giveaways! For March 2017, we're GIVING AWAY a free copy of the newly released 2nd edition of Transgender History by Susan Stryker. Enter to win your copy here: http://transadvocate.com/register-for-transadvocate-giveaways ===Identity Politics=== In no insignificant way, the foundation of Western queer, gender, and feminist theory rests upon a existentialist framework that gave us the language to describe the experience of "objectification." In this way, do we sometimes objectify ourselves or are we merely recognizing what is factual about ourselves: our "facticity"? How does our generational experience with trans advocacy inform our perspectives? "Facticity includes all those properties that third-person investigation can establish about me: natural properties such as weight, height, and skin color; social facts such as race, class, and nationality; psychological properties such as my web of belief, desires, and character traits; historical facts such as my past actions, my family background, and my broader historical milieu; and so on. I am not originally aware of my facticity in this third-person way; rather, it is manifest in my moods as a kind of burden, the weight of “having to be.” However, I can adopt a third-person or objectifying stance toward my own being, and then these aspects of my facticity may appear precisely as that which defines or determines who I am... There is no sense in which facticity is both mine and merely a matter of fact, since my existence—the kind of being I am—is also defined by the stance I take toward my facticity. This is what existential philosophers call “transcendence.” https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existentialism/#FacTra ===Get Help=== Apply for our trans scholarship: http://nebula.wsimg.com/5efb09b410ee55a4a064354c02ff354f?AccessKeyId=4A2B0E9AB852D91A5E43&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Apply for our trans disaster recovery assistance: http://tdrfund.us/ Register to vote: http://transadvocate.com/us-register-to-vote ===Support Us=== Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transadvocate PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&item_name=TransAdvocate&hosted_button_id=NBKW875DQYN5J Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0670632 The TransAdvocate is a project of the Transgender Foundation of America, 501c3 non-profit. Learn more about the TransAdvocate at http://transadvocate.com

Our guest co-host is Megan Smith, co-founder of Spectrum South, plus we're rolling out our third TA Q&A annnnnd, we have an in-depth discussion of making quality community queer media work in the age of social media. Megan Smith is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Spectrum South (spectrumsouth.com), a Texas-based online publication focused on queer southern identity and culture. She is a native Houstonian and has over five years experience working in local LGBTQ media. Megan has a Bachelor of Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin (2013) and is currently pursuing her Master of Arts in Mass Communications at the University of Houston. With Spectrum South, Megan hopes to build an accessible safe space for the southern queer community to be proudly visible, share their lived experiences, and uplift one another’s voices. The TransAdvocate is a project of the Transgender Foundation of America, 501c3 non-profit. Learn more about the TransAdvocate at http://transadvocate.com Apply for our trans scholarship: http://nebula.wsimg.com/5efb09b410ee55a4a064354c02ff354f?AccessKeyId=4A2B0E9AB852D91A5E43&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Apply for our trans disaster recovery assistance: http://tdrfund.us/ Support us! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transadvocate PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&item_name=TransAdvocate&hosted_button_id=NBKW875DQYN5J Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0670632

Our guest co-host is Ali Lozano, an out queer activist, plus we're rolling out our second TA Q&A! Ali Lozano is a community activist with a strong passion for civic engagement. Since moving to Houston in 2013, she has been named a Rising Star by the League of Women Voters and was on OutSmart Magazine’s list of Top LGBTQ Women Leaders. Ali is a former staffer of the Victory Fund and Texas Freedom Network and has served on the Board of Trustees for the Houston GLBT Political Caucus. She is an alumni of the George Washington University (2012) and the Women’s Campaign School at Yale (2015). Ali will be finishing her first year of graduate school at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work this Spring where she is among the first class of scholarship recipients from the UH LGBT Alumni Association. Currently, she also serves as the Outreach Director for Laura Moser running for Congress in the 7th district. The TransAdvocate is a project of the Transgender Foundation of America, 501c3 non-profit. Learn more about the TransAdvocate at http://transadvocate.com Apply for our trans scholarship: http://nebula.wsimg.com/5efb09b410ee55a4a064354c02ff354f?AccessKeyId=4A2B0E9AB852D91A5E43&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Apply for our trans disaster recovery assistance: http://tdrfund.us/ Support us! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transadvocate PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&item_name=TransAdvocate&hosted_button_id=NBKW875DQYN5J Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0670632

Our guest co-host is Dylan Forbis, an out trans man running for a seat in the Texas House, plus Gwen Smith's Gender Nation! The TransAdvocate is a project of the Transgender Foundation of America, 501c3 non-profit. Learn more about the TransAdvocate at http://transadvocate.com Apply for our trans scholarship: http://nebula.wsimg.com/5efb09b410ee55a4a064354c02ff354f?AccessKeyId=4A2B0E9AB852D91A5E43&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Apply for our trans disaster recovery assistance: http://tdrfund.us/ Support us! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transadvocate PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&item_name=TransAdvocate&hosted_button_id=NBKW875DQYN5J Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0670632

Today we discuss how to overcome the anti-trans smear campaigns that make all our lives more difficult. We also have the inaugural edition of the TransAdvocate Q&A and some word from America's first out trans judge, the grandmother of the trans movement, Phyllis Frye. The TransAdvocate is a project of the Transgender Foundation of America, 501c3 non-profit. Learn more about the TransAdvocate at http://transadvocate.com Apply for our trans scholarship: http://nebula.wsimg.com/5efb09b410ee55a4a064354c02ff354f?AccessKeyId=4A2B0E9AB852D91A5E43&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Apply for our trans disaster recovery assistance: http://tdrfund.us/ Support us! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transadvocate PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&item_name=TransAdvocate&hosted_button_id=NBKW875DQYN5J Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0670632

You've heard the lies they spread about us now hear how to stop them in their tracks. Plus, Gwen Smith's Gender Nation, term-limited Houston Mayor Annies Parker, the news affecting our community. The TransAdvocate is a project of the Transgender Foundation of America, 501c3 non-profit. Learn more about the TransAdvocate at http://transadvocate.com Apply for our trans scholarship: http://nebula.wsimg.com/5efb09b410ee55a4a064354c02ff354f?AccessKeyId=4A2B0E9AB852D91A5E43&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Apply for our trans disaster recovery assistance: http://tdrfund.us/ Support us! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transadvocate PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&item_name=TransAdvocate&hosted_button_id=NBKW875DQYN5J Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0670632

What's the safety of our queer youth worth to you? What happens when they won't let you vote? What's happening now will shape our future and we discuss it all during this post-flupocalypse edition of the TransAdvocate podcast! The TransAdvocate is a project of the Transgender Foundation of America, 501c3 non-profit. Learn more about the TransAdvocate at http://transadvocate.com Apply for our trans scholarship: http://nebula.wsimg.com/5efb09b410ee55a4a064354c02ff354f?AccessKeyId=4A2B0E9AB852D91A5E43&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Apply for our trans disaster recovery assistance: http://tdrfund.us/ Support us! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transadvocate PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&item_name=TransAdvocate&hosted_button_id=NBKW875DQYN5J Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0670632

On this Great Flu Epidemic of 2018 edition, a lone podcaster drags herself out of bed to present: + A new segment examining the avalanche of sex abuse scandals in the anti-queer movement. + Ray Hill's 2007 Transgender Unity Banquet speech on remembering who we are. + An essay by the radical feminist John Stoltenberg titled What the trans moment has to offer radical feminism. + And Gwen Smith’s Gender Nation The TransAdvocate is a project of the Transgender Foundation of America, 501c3 non-profit. Learn more about the TransAdvocate at http://transadvocate.com Apply for our trans scholarship: http://nebula.wsimg.com/5efb09b410ee55a4a064354c02ff354f?AccessKeyId=4A2B0E9AB852D91A5E43&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Apply for our trans disaster recovery assistance: http://tdrfund.us/ Support us! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transadvocate PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&item_name=TransAdvocate&hosted_button_id=NBKW875DQYN5J Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0670632

While we've seen it before, we sometimes don't see the political forest for the trees. The TransAdvocate crew reviews both local and national news and Dr. Gillian Frank helps us recognize the political tactics that are being used against the trans community by noticing that the exact same tactics were used against numerous other groups. Also, get a trans scholarship or get help recovering from a disaster. Narration: Vanalosswen and Ray Bader Music: Daniel Berch and the 126ers Archival Material: Archive.org, NBC, and CNN Hosts: Robin Mack, Alexis Melvin, and Cristan Williams Production and Sound Design: Cristan Williams The TransAdvocate is a project of the Transgender Foundation of America, 501c3 non-profit. Apply for our trans scholarship: http://nebula.wsimg.com/5efb09b410ee55a4a064354c02ff354f?AccessKeyId=4A2B0E9AB852D91A5E43&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Apply for our trans disaster recovery assistance: http://tdrfund.us/ Learn more about the TransAdvocate at http://transadvocate.com Support us! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transadvocate PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&item_name=TransAdvocate&hosted_button_id=NBKW875DQYN5J Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0670632

It turns out that basically everyone running the anti-trans campaign against Houston's equal right's ordinance is a sexual harasser, pedophile, or sex abuse apologist. Also, we answer your questions in our 2017 year-end special!

Today’s show focuses on self-care as a form of Resistance plus the local and national news and Gwen Smith's Gender Nation! Show notes: http://transadvocate.com/fear-and-our-future-2_n_21183.htm Music: Whole Cloth by Daniel Birch & Ben Pegley The End by The Doors Parade

Today’s show focuses on dealing with fear, both personally and as a community. Moreover, we have an audio essay the titled The Real Housewives of Gilead: The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t as Fictional as you Thought. Music: Lurking Beneath the Surface, Lurking Beneath the Surface by Daniel Birch & Ben Pegley

The podcast crew reviews national and local politics and discusses some of the nuances of community and transition. Also featured: the first installment of Gwen Smith’s Gender Nation and bonus material.

The TransAdvocate crew records live in Houston's Montrose. Today's topics include the stupidity of the Trump administration, an awesome hip-hop track MIC did for the TransAdvocate, and we talk about World AIDS Day coming up on December 1. On the pod: Cristan Williams, Robin Mack, and Alexis Melvin