
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


“STAR is into two things very heavily. One is radical politics. And the second is prostitution.” At least that’s how one journalist in the 1970s described the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a group started by Marsha and fellow trans organizers. Life on the streets and with STAR meant freedom and friendship, but it could also be really tough. Marsha was candid about that. She wanted to build a better future for unhoused trans and gender nonconforming young people, and we’ll hear stories about what that looked like day to day, from parties and puppies to “liberating” food for the kids, as Marsha would put it. The STARs had big goals. But things came crashing down as quickly as they had started. As Marsha experienced life’s hardships, we’ll examine the toll it took on her mental health.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
By iHeartPodcasts4.1
205205 ratings
“STAR is into two things very heavily. One is radical politics. And the second is prostitution.” At least that’s how one journalist in the 1970s described the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), a group started by Marsha and fellow trans organizers. Life on the streets and with STAR meant freedom and friendship, but it could also be really tough. Marsha was candid about that. She wanted to build a better future for unhoused trans and gender nonconforming young people, and we’ll hear stories about what that looked like day to day, from parties and puppies to “liberating” food for the kids, as Marsha would put it. The STARs had big goals. But things came crashing down as quickly as they had started. As Marsha experienced life’s hardships, we’ll examine the toll it took on her mental health.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

58,847 Listeners

56,868 Listeners

99,751 Listeners

12,763 Listeners

47,650 Listeners

417 Listeners

861 Listeners

1,479 Listeners

3,883 Listeners

484 Listeners

452 Listeners

103 Listeners

69 Listeners

18,473 Listeners

1,304 Listeners

1,610 Listeners

301 Listeners

13,681 Listeners

1,751 Listeners

120 Listeners

233 Listeners

113 Listeners

237 Listeners

17 Listeners

13 Listeners

379 Listeners

67 Listeners

37 Listeners