In this show, we talk about our favourite seasons, our favourite things about summer and play our favourite songs of summer (listed below).

We talk about NZ following the international right-wing trend of banning puberty blockers for trans young people and discuss the impact of the UK statements on gender that may see trans people (and probably others) barred from services based purely on their appearance.

We play back an interview that Miranda did with Irish performer, Kylie Aoibheann on her other JOY show, “Geeks Out”.

We finish up by talking about the trans highlights for the upcoming Midsumma Festival in Naarm/Melbourne.

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In this show, we talk about Trans Awareness Week, culminating in Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR) and we have a minute’s silence in honour of all the members of our trans community who have lost their lives to violence.

We talk about why visibility and awareness is so important and discuss what trans awareness looks like for each of us. We then share what TDoR means to each of us and share memories of loved ones who have passed as well as other TDoR events we have attended.

We finish up by bringing up the mood a bit with a discussion about how to grieve as a community, celebrate trans life, and access community events and resources for support, respectfully led by our resident trans psychologist, Lee.

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In this week’s show, we recap our week, then discuss Transgender Victoria’s recent Gender Revel Gala, which we all attended. We also talk about what we each saw at the Tilde trans film festival, and chat with non-binary filmmaker Luka Gracie about their incredible film, “Found“, which featured at Tilde.

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In this week’s show, we recap our week, discuss the ongoing petition to reverse the QLD government’s ban on puberty blockers for trans kids, and chat to some trans creatives.

First off the rank, we chat with Mish Keating about their short film, “Bagua”.

Next we chat with Melbourne darling Naavikaran about their short film, “Where Are You From”.

We finish off the show by talking with occasional host Pharrell, about his book release, “Sleeping With Strangers”.

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In this week’s show, we recap our weeks, briefly discuss Halloween, then the latest international trans news, talk  about the Queensland government redefining “female” and having their puberty-blocker ban overturned (for a few hours, at least…) 

We chat with festival curator Ro Bright about the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and the Tilde Trans Film Festival.

We finish off the show with a discussion about trans film making.

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In this week’s show, we recap our weeks, discuss the interactions between dysphoria and sexuality, talk  about the NT prison system’s impact on trans people and celebs involved in the Harry Potter remake and their claims that they had no knowledge of JKR’s transphobia before signing on…

We also talk about Melbourne Fashion Week and the opening of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival that Quinn attended.

We finish off the show with a discussion about Ethel Cain’s album.

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It’s Festival time, so in this show, we recap our weeks, discuss the Fringe Festival shows we saw, talk some more about the upcoming TILDE TGD Film Festival and tomorrow night’s opening of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and the fact that it seems to contain more fabulous trans content every year!

We talk about Coming Out Day from the past weekend and our Trans Psych, Lee, talks us through pre-coming-out anxiety, where to seek support, surprise allies, what happens after coming out and the team discuss our common experiences.

We also talk about tomorrow’s Pronoun Day and the importance and impact of using and not using people’s pronouns.

We finish off the show with a discussion about National Give Out Day and list some of the organisations we each like to support.

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In this show, we talk about the upcoming TILDE (Trans) Film Festival running from October 31st to November 2nd, as well as looking ahead to Transgender Victoria’s “Gender Revel Gala” and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival program launch. We also discuss International Lesbian Day, which turns into a discussion about our own sexuality and how that’s affected (or not!) by our gender identities.

Qwiny talks about her music career and shares a couple of beautiful, original songs with us and Joss and Jen talk about a queer wedding they attended where the families were fully supportive of their trans and queer kids.

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In this show, Jen talks about her attendance at a discussion group debunking myths about trans women in sport, we discuss the awesome trans representation at the Melbourne Fringe Festival, we get to know a bit more about our Trans Psychologist, Lee and we pose some very interesting listener questions to them.  We finish off the show with a discussion about our “Transperations” – people that have inspired us during our trans journeys.

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Join Joss, Jen, Rebeckah and Lee as we respond to the news that co-host Quinn just got engaged – congratulations, Quinny!! So of course we have a discussion about our thoughts on getting married. We also have a report back about a panel discussion Jen attended on debunking trans myths in sport and we talk about the general state of sport around the world and the ways trans people are excluded and sometimes included. We also have a discussion about international sign language day and the intersection of trans and deaf-blind identities as well as tackling some more hairy listener questions with our resident trans psychologist.

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