Interview with the mother of a trans man in rural Iowa (Other Conversations May 2023)

I will complete a description when I have more time.

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Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested in being interviewed sometime in the future, please email me (see below) and we can talk about that privately.

I've interviewed transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conformist, agendered, neutrois, and intersex people who are anarchist, independent, conservative, egalitarian, progressive, free speech and gun rights enthusiasts, rural, religious, atheist, voluntaryist, mutualist, apolitical, skeptical, constitutionalist, classic liberal, libertarian, small political party members, socialist, DSA, communist, radical, revolutionary, or have a mixture of right/left views etc.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I haven't allowed comments because I want to limit harassment of my interviewees. This means that my project is barely treading water in the tsunami of anti-trans content on social media. If you've found these interviews interesting, please "like" and share them. If you are interested in starting your own interview project, you are welcome to contact me if you think my experience might be useful to you and you want some advice.

My email address is [email protected]

Thanks!

Interview with a trans woman in SW Missouri (Other Conversations May 2023).

I'm experimenting with stripping the audio out of my videos and then uploading to podcasting forums, if I just leave them in video formats it takes forever. With the mp3 format, I believe there's a loss in audio quality, but it cannot be helped. I'm crossing my fingers that this will be easier to upload.

Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested in being interviewed sometime in the future, please email me (see below) and we can talk about that privately.

I've interviewed transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conformist, agendered, neutrois, and intersex people who are anarchist, independent, conservative, egalitarian, progressive, free speech and gun rights enthusiasts, rural, religious, atheist, voluntaryist, mutualist, apolitical, skeptical, constitutionalist, classic liberal, libertarian, small political party members, socialist, DSA, communist, radical, revolutionary, or have a mixture of right/left views etc.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I haven't allowed comments because I want to limit harassment of my interviewees.

If you've found these interviews interesting, please "like" and share them. If you are interested in starting your own interview project, you are welcome to contact me if you think my experience might be useful to you and you want some advice.

My email address is shbrodie1 at gmail.

Thanks!

This is an example of a KWRK-LP PSA that I recorded in my voice with text from a community group.

This is an example of a PSA that I recorded in my voice last year for KWRK-LP in Fairbanks with text provided from the organization.

I usually ask people from an organization to come into the studio to record their own PSAs with my help so that there are more community voices on the radio, but this PSA needed to be done more quickly.

Interview with a trans teenager and his father in Oklahoma (Other Conversations, May 2023). Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested in being interviewed sometime in the future, please email me (see below) and we can talk about that privately.

I've interviewed transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conformist, agendered, neutrois, and intersex people who are anarchist, independent, conservative, egalitarian, progressive, free speech and gun rights enthusiasts, rural, religious, atheist, voluntaryist, mutualist, apolitical, skeptical, constitutionalist, classic liberal, libertarian, small political party members, socialist, DSA, communist, radical, revolutionary, or have a mixture of right/left views etc.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I haven't allowed comments because I want to limit harassment of my interviewees. This means that my project is barely treading water in the tsunami of anti-trans content on social media. If you've found these interviews interesting, please "like" and share them. If you are interested in starting your own interview project, you are welcome to contact me if you think my experience might be useful to you and you want some advice.

My email address is [email protected]

Thanks!

Interview with a trans advocate in Kansas (Other Conversations, May 2023). My guest Kathryn Redman's writing: https://medium.com/@kj.redman

Description and tracking of Kansas Bill SB 180 from the Kansas Legislature

http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/SB180/

https://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/summary_sb_180_2023

RE: Kansas Bill SB 180 - the ACLU agreed to represent Ms. Redman and 4 others in challenging the constitutionality of the bill.

Article written by the KC Star newspaper "Trans Kansans launch court fight against Kobach effort to reverse gender changes on IDs"

https://amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article277207363.html

Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested in being interviewed sometime in the future, please email me (see below) and we can talk about that privately.

I've interviewed transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conformist, agendered, neutrois, and intersex people who are anarchist, independent, conservative, egalitarian, progressive, free speech and gun rights enthusiasts, rural, religious, atheist, voluntaryist, mutualist, apolitical, skeptical, constitutionalist, classic liberal, libertarian, small political party members, socialist, DSA, communist, radical, revolutionary, or have a mixture of right/left views etc.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I haven't allowed comments because I want to limit harassment of my interviewees. This means that my project is barely treading water in the tsunami of anti-trans content on social media. If you've found these interviews interesting, please "like" and share them. If you are interested in starting your own interview project, you are welcome to contact me if you think my experience might be useful to you and you want some advice.

My email address is [email protected]

Thanks!

Interview with Olliever Buchanan, a queer, intersex, trans man in Oklahoma City, OK. We discuss using they/them pronouns at work, coming out as different identities, dealing with chest dysphoria, finding out they are intersex, endogenous and exogenous hormones, DNA/genetic tests, anti-trans bills and intersex exclusions, autonomy vs control of bodies, how testosterone therapy affected their body, gender affirming care, and being perceived as a cisgendered gay man out in public.

We also discuss the term abrosexual, some discomfort between the intersex and trans communities, the multitude of identities they embody, appreciating femininity, family support, and their trans and intersex activism.

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Links related to this interview.

Olliever's Instagram account

https://www.instagram.com/findingollie/

Olliever's TikTok account

https://www.tiktok.com/@laughsinintersex

#4intersex rights

https://4intersex.org/

InterACT Advocates for Intersex Youth

https://interactadvocates.org/

Abrosexuality

https://www.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Abrosexual

Genderflux

https://www.lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/Genderflux

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Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested in being interviewed sometime in the future, please email me (see below) and we can talk about that privately.

I've interviewed transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conformist, agendered, neutrois, and intersex people who are anarchist, independent, conservative, egalitarian, progressive, free speech and gun rights enthusiasts, rural, religious, atheist, voluntaryist, mutualist, apolitical, skeptical, constitutionalist, classic liberal, libertarian, small political party members, socialist, DSA, communist, radical, revolutionary, or have a mixture of right/left views etc.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I haven't allowed comments because I want to limit harassment of my interviewees. This means that my project is barely treading water in the tsunami of anti-trans content on social media. If you've found these interviews interesting, please "like" and share them. If you are interested in starting your own interview project, you are welcome to contact me if you think my experience might be useful to you and you want some advice.

My email address is [email protected]

Thanks!

Part 2 of 2. Interview w/ Paula Sophia Schonauer, LCSW, a trans woman who is a former police officer in Oklahoma City. We discuss her coming out trans at work as a police officer, discrimination from local police officers as well as police associations, the hardnose tactics of some academy trainers and officers, the concept of "good activity" in policing (e.g. traffic stops, tickets, arrests), and her own philosophy of working as a police officer.

We also further discuss her relationships to local churches and her role as a deacon and storyteller and how this influenced her work style of community policing, her eventual career change to social work as she became more involved with social justice activists (e.g. the Occupy Movement), her volunteer work at a refugee center, and examples of and the need for restorative justice.

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Links to topics in our interview.

Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma

https://www.epiok.org/

Church of the Open Arms, United Church of Christ (UCC)

https://www.openarms.org/

Robert Bly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bly

Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_ask,_don%27t_tell

Social Gospel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Gospel

Hull House

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_House

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Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested in being interviewed sometime in the future, please email me (see below) and we can talk about that privately.

I've interviewed transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conformist, agendered, neutrois, and intersex people who are anarchist, independent, conservative, egalitarian, progressive, free speech and gun rights enthusiasts, rural, religious, atheist, voluntaryist, mutualist, apolitical, skeptical, constitutionalist, classic liberal, libertarian, small political party members, socialist, DSA, communist, radical, revolutionary, or have a mixture of right/left views etc.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I haven't allowed comments because I want to limit harassment of my interviewees. This means that my project is barely treading water in the tsunami of anti-trans content on social media. If you've found these interviews interesting, please "like" and share them. If you are interested in starting your own interview project, you are welcome to contact me if you think my experience might be useful to you and you want some advice.

My email address is [email protected]

Thanks!

Part 1 of 2. Interview w/ Paula Sophia Schonauer, LCSW, a trans woman who is a former police officer in Oklahoma City. We discuss how she was ordained and then defrocked by the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma, her military career, her deployment in Desert Shield and Storm in Iraq, her desire to spend more time with her son, some tropes about how gay and trans people's identities, her involvement of the early men's movement (e.g. Robert Bly) before it became misogynistic and "red pilled", her experience with Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT), her first encounters with other trans women, her popular youth program teaching low income kids martial arts, how she was non-consensually outed as a trans person, and the awards she won for her work as a police officer.

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Links to topics in our interview.

Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma

https://www.epiok.org/

Church of the Open Arms, United Church of Christ (UCC)

https://www.openarms.org/

Robert Bly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bly

Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_ask,_don%27t_tell

Social Gospel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Gospel

Hull House

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_House

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Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested in being interviewed sometime in the future, please email me (see below) and we can talk about that privately.

I've interviewed transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conformist, agendered, neutrois, and intersex people who are anarchist, independent, conservative, egalitarian, progressive, free speech and gun rights enthusiasts, rural, religious, atheist, voluntaryist, mutualist, apolitical, skeptical, constitutionalist, classic liberal, libertarian, small political party members, socialist, DSA, communist, radical, revolutionary, or have a mixture of right/left views etc.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I haven't allowed comments because I want to limit harassment of my interviewees. This means that my project is barely treading water in the tsunami of anti-trans content on social media. If you've found these interviews interesting, please "like" and share them. If you are interested in starting your own interview project, you are welcome to contact me if you think my experience might be useful to you and you want some advice.

My email address is [email protected]

Thanks!

Part 2 of 2. Interview w/intersex and endosex nonbinary activists, Mo