What does it mean to write yourself into the world when the world tries to write you out of it?  First, Imara honors the late Andrea Gibson with a special trans joy segment. Then in an intimate conversation, Imara sits down with poet and multidisciplinary artist Golden to explore the power of trans poetry as a vehicle for kinship building and identity formation. Together, they dig into how Golden’s work weaves together themes of family, legacy, and justice through both words and photography. Golden also reflects on poetry as a practice of mapping the past and future and what role it can play in understanding anti-trans and anti-Black violence.

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TransLash Podcast is produced by TransLash Media.

The Translash team includes Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Aubrey Calaway, Hillary Esquina, and Morgan Astbury. 

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Theme music composed by Ben Draghi.

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