Tranos & the Lived Experience

Tranos is back with a new theme song and new attitude! This week, Kamryn wants to talk about the fruit borne by the last episode. She gets to the root of her “inability to feel joy,” how that has served her and how it’s harmed her and she talks about the self-care she hopes to do to repair that harm. And some of that healing will happen on this podcast, so stay tuned.

This episode is musically inspired by “Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart” by Stone Temple Pilots

This episode’s strain is GMO Kush

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This is a special episode of Tranos & The Lived Experience. A recent conversation sparked an epiphany for Kamryn: She works the soil but joy isn’t flourishing. The world is a hurtful place with no shortage of tragedy, and that overabundance of tragedy makes it hard to produce a podcast that doesn’t reflect personal, societal and global tragedy. But for the health of our host, our producer, our audience and our greater communities, Tranos & the Lived Experience is going to try some things.

This episode’s strain is Forbidden Fruit

This episode is musically inspired by “Alkaline” by Sleep Token

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“In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it”- James Baldwin

Tranos presents yet another reminder that marginalized people can and will carry water for their oppressors. Kamryn talks about how she was pushed to activism by circumstance, how some activists never want to get too active and the tensions that arise when there are serpents in these social circles.

This episode’s strain is Grapes of Wrath

This episode is musically inspired by “Passive” by A Perfect Circle

On January 7, Tyre Nichols was caught up in an “officer involved murder” in Memphis. Five Black cops assaulted him and he succumb to his injuries in the hospital three days later. A 29-year-old Black father was killed as part of a traffic stop that wasn’t even provably justified. But the cops were Black, so who can even tell if it was racist for the police to murder a Black person? Tranos can. Kamryn explains the history of Black slave catchers, how slave hunters became professional police officers and how doing racism is what makes a person racist, regardless of the color of their skin.

This episode is musically inspired by “Sun Killer” by Spiritbox

This episode’s strain is Garlic

“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This episode is musically inspired by “Milquetoast” by Helmet

This episode’s strain is Jealousy

For the first Tranos & The Lived Experience for 2023, Kamryn presents a case study in white saviorism. She recounts her personal history with a white person for whom friendship is not an end in itself but a hobby from which they harvest self-esteem.

This episode was musically inspired by “Shame” by Stabbing Westward

This episode’s strain is Death Star

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After a series of uncomfortable interactions, Kamryn unpacks demands of compromise with friends Dani and Brandon. Kamryn tries to demonstrate how it feels to have your identity up for debate with strangers who couldn’t possibly know what they think they know and with people as close as family members who have no excuse not to know better.

This episode contains frank discussions of misgendering, dysphoria and transphobic violence in service of Kamryn’s point that treating a person like their whole self isn’t worthy is harmful and disgusting.

“I Don’t Care About Anyone Else But Me” Drowning Pool

This episode’s strain is Grape Vine

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Today, Tranos brings you an extra long but extra serious episode. Producer Bee joins the show to talk about the shooting at Club Q. Kamryn and Bee talk through how they’ve been processing this tragedy, the people who did what they could to make this happen and what people who want to live in a better, safer world might consider to get us all there.

This episode was musically inspired by “Get Up Again” by Flaw

This episode’s strain is Snoop Dogg OG

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Tranos returns from some long, late hours in the lab to speak on some behaviors that trigger dysphoria. Kamryn took her time on this topic because she knew what she wanted to say, but it was hard to get the words out smoothly because she recounts a slew of painful, transphobic interactions.

She runs down a short list of "compliments" and other comments that diminish and deny trans identity. And she does so to remind cis people that, very often, no one asked!

This episode was musically inspired by “The Spell of Mathematics” by Deftones

This episode’s strain is Slurricane

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Tranos is back with an ambush episode! Kamryn chats with Louis Javier Mason about the downfall of Kanye West. They try to find the line of cancelability and discuss its malleability with regard to how consequences seem to never come for people who can still be profitable. They cover intersectionality, the overlap of antisemitism with baseline racism and how capital interests prefer itemized bigotry.

This episode was musically inspired by “Chop Suey” by System of a Down

This episode’s strain is Garlic Cookies

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