Part 1 of 2. Interview w/intersex and endosex nonbinary people. Jet

Part 2 of 2. Interview with Hayden Cohen, an 18yo trans youth advocate

Part 1 of 2. Interview with Hayden Cohen, an 18yo trans youth advocate

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Interview with a trans man in a small town in East Texas. 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.

Part 2 of 2. Interview with a gay Christian trans man in Houston Texas. We discuss the church and related activist communities he's been involved with, his history with conservative and liberal Lutheran churches, the Seminex movement and the schism within American Lutheranism, accepting the harmful status quo or proactively changing things for the better, his shift toward involvement in the Episcopal Church, and how his faith grew from being accepted as a gay trans man.

I also talk a little bit about a Quaker organization's early and very open acceptance of gay people during the height of the AIDS/HIV crisis in the mid-to-late 80s.

We further discuss other individual welcoming/affirming denominations in Houston and their struggles with their governing bodies, AIDS/HIV hospice care by churches, how pastors pushed back on gay marriage restrictions, struggles with welcoming churches not being public about LGBT+ acceptance, the Integrity USA movement within Episcopal churches, participating in Pride events and being asked about why he's a Christian, the harm of quietism, how well-to-do, liberal Christians sometimes hide out and don't do progressive activism even when it's desperately needed, and how the Religious Right effectively pushes their regressive anti-gay and anti-trans agendas.

We also discuss privilege, diversity, and opening up the trans group he helps lead (TMAH, see link below) by directly addressing issues of race and ethnicity, the difficult topic of being a "white savior", and sharing power and leadership with POC.

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Links to topics in part 2.

LCMS - Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (conservative)

https://www.lcms.org/

ELCA - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (liberal)

Seminex movement in the Lutheran Church

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

St. Stephens Episcopal Church

https://ststephenshouston.org/

Bering UCC (United Church of Christ)

Trinity Episcopal

https://www.trinitymidtown.org/

Integrity USA movement within the Episcopal Church

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

Saving our Sisters United (SOSU)

https://sosuinc.org/

Saving Our Brothers

https://sosuinc.org/new-houston-social-org/

Houston Activists Launch New Organization for Transgender Men of Color

Trans Masculine Alliance of Houston, TMAH

https://transmasculinehouston.com/

The Montrose Center

https://montrosecenter.org/

Houston LGBT history timeline, the 2000's (mentions formation of the STAG group)

https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/timeline2000.html

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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.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I also 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.

In this project, I 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.

If you want to contact Shane, please email him at [email protected]

Thanks!

Part 1 of 2. Interview with a gay Christian trans man in Houston Texas. We discuss the trans masculine groups he's helped form and lead (STAG, Be Free and TMAH) and how the focus and demographics of these groups changed over time.

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Links to topics in part 1 of our interview.

Trans Masculine Alliance of Houston, TMAH

https://transmasculinehouston.com/

The Montrose Center

https://montrosecenter.org/

Houston LGBT history timeline, the 2000's (mentions formation of the STAG group)

https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/timeline2000.html

Old webpage for STAG (now re-fromed as TMAH)

https://www.transhouston.com/stag/

Marsha Botzer, founder of Ingersoll Gender Center

https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/botzer.htm

Ingersoll Gender Center in Seattle, WA

https://ingersollgendercenter.org/who-we-are/about-us/

The Empire of the Royal Sovereign and Imperial Court of the Single Star, Inc

https://www.ersicss.org/index.php/ersicss-history

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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.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I also 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.

In this project, I 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.

If you want to contact Shane, please email him at [email protected]

Thanks!

Part 2 of 2. Interview with a revolutionary communist person who identifies as neutrois and trans masculine (transmasc). In part 2, we discuss Trump and how his presidency inspired many people to become politically active, the erosion of confidence in electoral politics, how covid allowed people be off work and re-evaluate their lives, formation of the Trans Masculine Alliance of Houston, the big can of worms of how the Right works together vs how the Left works together, subjectivity vs objectivity, why it's important to have a trans masculine focused group, our philosophies of doing activism, how the institution of slavery is still active in US prisons, clashes within US communism, misconceptions about China after Mao (e.g. realism, imperialism, robust capitalism, US 2.0), and Confucius Institutes at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

We also discuss Black Lives Matter (#blm) "Democratic Socialism" (DSA), the lack of a strong Leftist movement, how it's difficult to break from capitalism, and the need to constantly interrogate what you are doing and if it's helpful.

I really learned a lot in this interview!

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Links from part 2.

Opposition to the Willow Project

https://www.nativemovement.org/willow-project

Refuse Fascism

https://refusefascism.org/

Trans Masculine Alliance of Houston

https://transmasculinehouston.com/

Bob Avakian

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

The Confucius Institute Comes to Prairie View

https://www.prairieviewtexas.gov/newsdetail_T2_R17.php

Closing a Confucius Institute, at Congressmen's Request

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/04/09/texas-am-cuts-ties-confucius-institutes-response-congressmens-concerns

H.Con.Res.9 - Denouncing the horrors of socialism, from the 118th Congress (2023-2024)

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/9/text

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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.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I also 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.

In this project, I 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.

If you want to contact Shane, please email him at [email protected]

Thanks!

Part 1 of 2. Interview with a revolutionary communist person who identifies as neutrois and trans masculine (transmasc). We talk about their move from Chicago to Houston, their work in Chicago with gang members, and their work in Houston with the transmasculine community. We also discuss their political beliefs in revolutionary communism, the anarchist concept of unschooling, their work with gang members, some big protests they've been involved in (e.g. Kenosha, Standing Rock), having different roles in protest movements (e.g. frontline protestors, medics, legal support, people who are armed for self defense), state surveillance and violence, neo-nazi organizing and violence (e.g. Proud Boys), their conflicts with other Leftist organizers, and how we should interrogate certain concepts like "coming out". I really learned a lot in this interview!

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Links to topics in part 1of this interview.

Neutrois (from wikipedia)

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrois

Neutrois (from neutrois.com)

https://www.neutrois.com/?fbclid=IwAR0q8lqKCi_bksRYM9lw3E-dRPg4IKnLpgVTiDnNXycz0WqoZTeefP5pygM

Revolutionary Communist Party USA wikipedia entry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party,_USA

Revolutionary Communist Party USA homepage

https://revcom.us/en

War Resisters League

https://www.warresisters.org/

Annise Parker

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

Friedrich Engels

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

Dakota Access Pipeline protests #nodapl

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/22/514988040/key-moments-in-the-dakota-access-pipeline-fight

"Standing Rock: A case study in civil disobedience" from the American Bar Association

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/gpsolo/publications/gp_solo/2018/may-june/standing-rock-case-study-civil-disobedience/

"Documenting hate: Charlottesville" from PBS

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/documenting-hate-charlottesville/

"Torch-carrying white nationalists indicted in 2017 Charlottesville rally" from PBS News Hour

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/torch-carrying-white-nationalists-indicted-in-2017-charlottesville-rally

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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.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I also 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.

In this project, I 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.

If you want to contact Shane, please email him at [email protected]

Part 2 of 2. Interview with a trans man living in rural Texas. We discuss his relationships including how I'm the second trans person he's ever met, the stress that trans people endure, how he deals with friends of his who are anti-trans, dealing with addiction in his family, the need for and how to increase healthcare access, libertarian vs anarchist ideas, his desire to start testosterone, head hair loss and growing facial hair, how we still have shame and don't look at ourselves in mirrors, modern dating via apps, how Texas and Alaska (and rural communities) are often ignored by the media, the hypocrisy of "green" gentrification in former ranching areas, his advice for living as a trans person in a rural area, and his dreams of owning his own ranch.

We go on a lot of tangents and had a good time talking since we both grew up in rural areas.

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Links to topics in interview.

Balcones Canyonlands Preserve

https://www.austintexas.gov/department/balcones-canyonlands-preserve

Cowbirds!

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

Austin parks directory

https://www.austintexas.gov/page/park-directory

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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.

In this project, I've striven for thoughtful content from a variety of points of view. I also 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.

In this project, I 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.

If you want to contact Shane, please email him at [email protected]

Thanks!

Part 1 of 2. Interview with a trans man living in rural Texas. We talk