Welcome to Trans Sister Radio Season 5, Episode 12!

This week, Athena and Quinn discuss how transitioning impacts one’s role as a caregiver and how to balance your needs against those in your care.

Main Topic: Caregiving as a Trans Person

Really Silly Thing: Dispatch

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Welcome to Trans Sister Radio Season 5, Episode 11!

This week, Athena and Quinn discuss how horror, and especially movie monsters, remind us of our own gender journeys.

Main Topic: Allegorical Monsters - The Intersection of Gender and Horror

Citations:

Barbara Creed’s "Monstrous-Feminine": Trans and gender-nonconforming bodies as sites of horror and fascination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Creed#Work

Julia Kristeva’s "Abjection": Society rejects what blurs boundaries, including gender. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Horror

Frankenstein: A Feminist Interpretation of Gender Construction: Using Judith Butler's concept of Gender as performative, making the monstrous body a form of rebellion. https://idun.augsburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?bcs-agent-scanner=18a1fc3d-75a7-514a-98e2-dd6097899b22

Really Silly Thing: Sorcery: Contested Realm - Gothic

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Welcome to Trans Sister Radio Season 5, Episode 10!

This week, Athena interviews Quinn about her experience transitioning in a small, rural town, and dives in deep on advice for those doing the same.

Main Topic: Small Town Trans

Really Silly Thing: A “Mini” Tainted Grail Review

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Welcome to Trans Sister Radio Season 5, Episode 9!

This week, Quinn and Athena discuss something they’ve covered only in passing, but that deserves its own episode: do you have to medically transition to be trans?

Main Topic: Do You Have to Medically Transition to Be Trans?

Really Silly Thing: No Man’s Sky

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Welcome to Trans Sister Radio Season 5, Episode 8!

This week, Quinn and Athena discuss the parallels between two of their journeys of self-discovery: accepting their gender identity, and accepting their own neurodiversity.

Main Topic: Masc off: The Overlap of Gender and Neuro Diversity

Really Silly Thing: Kill the Crows

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Welcome to Trans Sister Radio Season 5, Episode 7!

This week, Quinn and Athena tackle a question that seems obvious, but isn’t everything it seems to be: do they ever forget they’re trans?

Main Topic: Do You Ever Forget That You’re Trans?

Really Silly Thing: Haste

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Welcome to Trans Sister Radio Season 5, Episode 6!

This week, to celebrate 100 episodes of Trans Sister Radio, Quinn and Athena turn their introspective lens on a different topic - what the show has taught them about themselves.

Main Topic: What Podcasting Has Taught Us About Ourselves

Really Silly Thing: The Really Silly Things That Still Matter to Us

Quinn

Star Citizen (RST for Episode 52)

Athena

Sorcery: Contested Realm (RST for Episode 88)

Cyberpunk 2077 (RST for Episode 47)

LoadingReadyRun (RST for Episode 4)

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Welcome to Trans Sister Radio Season 5, Episode 5!

This week, Quinn and Athena discuss why we misgender ourselves, and why it may not be as big a deal as we make it out to be.

Main Topic: There I Go Misgendering Myself Again!

Really Silly Thing: Dune: Awakening

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Welcome to Trans Sister Radio Season 5, Episode 4!

This week, Quinn and Athena discuss how negative self-talk can seep into everyday life, and ways to help mitigate it.

Main Topic: Why Negative Self-Talk Is So Harmful

Mental Health Resources:

https://www.hrc.org/resources/mental-health-resources-in-the-lgbtq-community

Really Silly Thing: Superman Discussion

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Welcome to Trans Sister Radio Season 5, Episode 3!

This week, Quinn and Athena discuss how fatigue and burnout can set in unexpectedly, especially as a trans person, and strategies to mitigate it.

Main Topic: Managing Trans Fatigue

Really Silly Thing: Outward

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