Transgender Warriors

Transgender Warriors is back for Season 2!

We’re kicking off the season with a special two part episode with Professor Noah Riseman and Geraldine Fela, who are academics  researching the history of transgender Australians. Check out part one here, and see you next week for part 2!

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It’s our last episode of the season! As Sam and Gemma settle into Summer, we thought we’d share Sam’s extensive list of books by trans masc and non-binary writers worthy of your attention. Let us know what your favs are at @trans_warriors on twitter and we’ll share them around.

Also, if you have an idea for our show next season, or even want to come in and be a guest host we’d love to have you. Get in touch at [email protected]

FICTION

Stone Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl – Andrea Lawlor

Confessions of the Fox – Jordy Rosenberg

Sisters of No Mercy – Vincent Silk (AUS)

YOUNG ADULT

One in Every Crowd – Ivan E. Coyote

NON-FICTION

The Making of a Man – Maxim Februari

All the Beginnings: Quinn Eades (AUS)

Eugenia: A Man – Suzanne Falkiner (note: cis author, misgendering throughout)  (AUS)

Trans Like Me: C N Lester

Masculinity Crisis: How it Feels When you Start to Look Like them – Oliver Reeson (AUS)

We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan – Lou Sullivan, Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma

From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland – Louis Sullivan

The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male – Max Wolf Valerio

TRANS LEGAL THEORY

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law – Dean Spade

GRAPHIC SHORT STORY

How to be a Gender Explorer – Samuel Luke (AUS)

PLAYLIST:

I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend – Ezra Furman 

When You Were Mine – Lambchop

Warrior Heart – Shawnee

I Love Hot Nights – Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

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This week we interview Associate Professor Sandy O’Sullivan, who is a Wiradjuri and trans academic. Their research and teaching include queer studies, art and design, built environment, music, performance, and cultural representation, with a particular focus on First Nations’ agency and aspiration. Sandy is the Deputy Head of School at the School of Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast. On this episode we have a fascinating chat about museums, trans representation and the need for more storytelling and representation of older trans and non-binary folks in the media.

You can keep up to date with Sandy’s work on their twitter account, @sandyosullivan.

Sandy is also an advocate and ambassador for Indigenous X. You can see their contributions on the Indigenous X website. Indigenous X also has an excellent rotating twitter account, @IndigenousXLtd.

PLAYLIST:

Night shift: Lucy Dacus

Straight Boy: Shamir

Walking in Memphis: Cher

Pop Song: Perfume Genius

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Sam, Joe and Gemma

On this episode we chat with J.R Latham, an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, and Honorary Fellow in Cultural Studies at The University of Melbourne, Australia. He is an interdisciplinary researcher and feminist philosopher whose expertise combines critical concepts of ‘drugs’, ageing and narrative with bioethics, queer theory, and science and technology studies (STS) via a focus on gender, sexuality and medicine. We have a fascinating discussion with Joe about trans narratives and medicine, and how that intersects with how people think about their own sexualities and life stories.

PLAYLIST: 

Keane: Somewhere only we know

Metric: Eclipse

Kesha: Your Love is my Drug

The Honeybees: She Don’t Deserve You

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Sam, Anastasia and Gemma

On this episode Sam and Gemma sit down and chat with Anastasia Le, who is the co-host of another excellent Joy radio show Trans P.O.V.

We discuss the political situation for trans folks in Vietnam, the joys of being a community broadcaster and why the western suburbs of Melbourne are a great place to live!

Finally, Sam and Gemma chat about the tilde trans and gender diverse film festival, and why you should definitely go.

PLAYLIST: 

Nina Simone: I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free

Janelle Monáe: Q.U.E.E.N

Sinéad O’Connor: No Man’s Woman

Grace Jones: Slave to the Rhythm

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 On this episode we chat with Associate Professor Dr Angela Dwyer about her career as an Associate Professor in Policing Studies and Emergency Management, School of Social Sciences, at the University of Tasmania.  Her current research interests are focused on how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender young people experience policing, and the broader impact of sexuality and gender diversity on criminal justice processes. On the second half of the show we discuss the importance of researching the experiences of trans and gender diverse people facing incarceration.

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On this episode Sam chats with Jess Mattar from Transgender Victoria, Austin Fabry from the Australian Services Union and Laura McLean from the Finance Sector Union about the role that unions can play in our working lives better.

We discuss how each our our guests got into the union movement, how trans and gender diverse people experience sexual harassment in the workplace, whether Pride networks can really save us and how we need to keep fighting for gender-affirming healthcare under Medicare. Finally, to bring us home the gang tell us a few heartwarming union tales.

Sam, Jess, Laura and Austin

PLAYLIST:

Billy Bragg: Sexuality

Cable Ties: Say What You Mean

George Michael: Flawless

Crass: Do they Owe us a Living?

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Photo credit: Peter Hall

On episode 12 Sam interviews Professor Emerita Raewyn Connell, who  has had a long and distinguished  academic career as a sociologist. On the show we discuss feminist theory, sociology, and the ongoing struggle for trans rights across the globe.

We couldn’t fit in our full discussion on this episode so we’ll play Sam’s discussion about Professor Connell’s newest publication The Good University: What universities actually do and why it’s time for radical change  on next weeks episode.

In the meantime, you can check out more of Professor Emerita Connell’s work here:

Website

Twitter

PLAYLIST: 

Anna Calvi – Don’t Beat the Girl out of my Boy

Linn da Querbrada – Alavanco

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In this episode we were  lucky enough to get to chat with Julie Peters, who is one of the co-founders of Transgender Victoria and the first openly trans person to run for parliament in Australia for the Australian Democrats.

In this episode Julie also takes us on a journey through Jungian psychoanalysis, academic writing as performance art, and leads us on a potted history of trans politics in Victoria, including the formation of the Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, Transgender Victoria and important law reform efforts that led to our current federal protections against discrimination on the grounds of gender identity.

Julie’s thesis works to shed light on the  experiences of trans and gender non-conforming people with the aim of helping health professionals deal with their trans clients as well as shedding light on the normative operation of gender in the social world. Read Julie’s dissertation. 

You can also check out Julie’s PhD is which is intriguingly titled “A feminist post-transsexual auto-ethnography on challenging normative gender coercion.”

If you’d like to know more about Julie’s fascinating life please check out Julie’s video filmed for Deakin University Health students about gender identity and sexuality.

PLAYLIST:

Lou Reed: Walk on the Wild Side

Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus: I am What I am

Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus: Under Pressure

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On 24 September 2019 Melbourne University hosted an important lecture about transgender communities, law reform and feminism featuring a number of academics including Michelle McNamara, Dr Sandy O’Sullivan, Professor Raewyn Connell, Professor Angela Dwyer, Amao Leota Lu and  J.R Latham. On tonight’s show we play Michelle McNamara and Professor Angela Dwyer’s lectures, and over the next few weeks we’ll be interviewing the other panelists!

PLAYLIST:

Le Tigre – Dyke March 2001

June Jones – Here Something

Beyonce – Formation

Shea Diamond – I am Her

SPECIAL FEATURE: On the podcast, you can hear Sam and Gemma go on an exciting aural journey back through our first 9 episodes as we celebrate lucky episode 10!

Dr Sandy O’Sullivan

Amao Leota Lu

Dr Angela Dwyer

Michelle McNamara

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