We’re coming up on Valentine’s Day. This can be a difficult time for trans people, because the love our culture celebrates on that day so rarely reflects us. So this week the TransLash Podcast invites two incredible guests to talk about the power and the freedom to be found in T4T (Trans For Trans) love, sex, and relationships.

First Imara talks to artist, producer and trans woman Zackary Drucker. In 2016, she coauthored a book with her ex partner Rhys Ernst called Relationship. It’s a deeply intimate look at two trans lives undergoing radical change, and their relationship with each other in that moment. Then you'll hear from author and essayist Britni de la Cretaz. Britni wrote an essay for Catapult called “How Queer Sex Liberated Me” about their journey finding sexual freedom and fulfillment through sex with other trans people.

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Follow TransLash Media @translashmedia on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Follow Imara Jones on Twitter (@ImaraJones) and Instagram (@Imara_jones_)

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Zackary Drucker: @zackarydrucker (Twitter) @zackarydrucker (Instagram)

Britni de la Cretaz: @britnidlc (Twitter) @britnidlc (Instagram)

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TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media. 

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Callie Wright, Montana Thomas, and Yannick Eike Mirko. Our intern is Mirana Munson-Burke. 

Alexander Charles Adams does the sound editing for our show.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano. 

Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records.

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In this first episode of 2022, Imara looks back on the first year of what the Biden Presidency has meant at the national level for trans and queer communities, especially those at the intersections of race and immigrant status, with groundbreaking journalist Farai Chideya.  For a different perspective of what it’s like politically at the state level, we hear from Oklahoma Representative, Mauree Turner.

You can connect with us on social media!

Follow TransLash Media @translashmedia on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Follow Imara Jones on Twitter (@ImaraJones) and Instagram (@Imara_jones_)

Follow our guests on social media!

Farai Chideya:  @farai (Twitter)

Our Body Politic: @ourbodypolitic (Twitter) @ourbodypolitic (Instagram)

Mauree Turner:  @MaureeTurnerOK (Instagram) @MaureeTurnerOK (Twitter)

LGBTQ Victory Fund: @VictoryFund (Twitter) @VictoryFund (Instagram)

TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media. 

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Callie Wright, Montana Thomas, and Yannick Eike Mirko. Our intern is Mirana Munson-Burke. 

Alexander Charles Adams does the sound editing for our show.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano. 

Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records.

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The Holidays can be a tough time for trans people which is why taking care of ourselves is so important this time of the year. In this last episode before the New Year, Imara sits down to talk with Chase Strangio about the ways in which trans people are leading with love through the Trans Santa, mutual-aid fund for trans youth. And with Emanuel Brown, Executive Director of the Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom about ways that we can ground ourselves against a backdrop of pain and loss.

You can connect with us on social media!

Follow TransLash Media @translashmedia on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Follow Imara Jones on Twitter (@imarajones) and Instagram (@imara_jones_)

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Chase Strangio: @chasestrangio (Instagram) @chasestrangio (Twitter)

Emanuel H. Brown: @emanuelhbrown (Instagram) @blacklovecon (Twitter)

Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom: @acorncenter4freedom (Instagram)

TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media. 

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Jaye McAuliffe, Montana Thomas, and Yannick Eike Mirko. Our intern is Mirana Munson-Burke. 

Alexander Charles Adams does the sound editing for our show.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano. 

Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It was supposed to be a reality show with a twist. In a sun-drenched villa in Ibiza, six hot guys compete for a cash prize and for the love of the beautiful and mysterious Miriam. It’s meant to be her big break: the moment she becomes the superstar she was born to be. But this is the era of “cruel reality TV” and the show producers have a different goal: they want to surprise the men with the fact that Miriam is trans. A new six-episode investigative series from Wondery, the makers of The Shrink Next Door and The Apology Line, and from Novel, HARSH REALITY is the story about love, lies, reality TV and a woman before her time: Miriam Rivera. Written by Agnes Borinsky and hosted by Trace Lysette. 

Listen to Harsh Reality: 

 http://wondery.fm/HR_Translash 

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In this week’s episode, as healthcare open season starts across America, Imara Jones engages in conversations on new, emerging options for the trans and queer community with the Co-Founder of the gender-affirming telehealth startup Plume, Dr. Jerrica Kirkley and the CEO of Transhealth Northampton, Dallas Ducar. They talk about the missions of both companies, their lives as trans physicians, and explain the benefits--as well as challenges-- that could come from using programs like Plume and Transhealth Northampton.

You can connect with us on social media!

Follow TransLash Media @translashmedia on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Follow Imara Jones on Twitter (@imarajones) and Instagram (@imara_jones_)

Follow our guests on social media!

Dr. Jerrica Kirkley: @doctorjerrica (Twitter)

Plume: @getplume (Instagram) @get_plume (Twitter)

Dallas Ducar: @dallasducar (Instagram) @dallasducar (Twitter)

Transhealth Northampton: @ourtranshealth (Instagram) @ourtranshealth (Twitter)

TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media. 

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Jaye McAuliffe, Montana Thomas, and Yannick Eike Mirko. Our intern is Mirana Munson-Burke. 

Alexander Charles Adams does the sound editing for our show.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano. 

Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this Native American History Month replay special from 2020, Imara discusses with Deb Haaland, now Secretary of the Interior and former Congresswoman, how her Navajo heritage inspires her to fight for trans rights. Geo Neptune, the first out Two-Spirit, non-binary and trans elected official in Maine, also discusses the importance of teaching indigenous culture in schools.

You can connect with us on social media!

Follow TransLash Media @translashmedia on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Follow Imara Jones on Twitter (@imarajones) and Instagram (@imara_jones_)

Follow our guests on social media!

Deb Haaland: @DebHaalandNM (Instagram) @DabHaalandNM (Twitter)

Geo Neptune: @niskapisuwin (Instagram) @passamahottie (Twitter)

Melania Brown: @melania__brown (Instagram) @melaniabrown11 (Twitter)

TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media. 

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Jaye McAuliffe, Montana Thomas, and Yannick Eike Mirko. Our intern is Mirana Munson-Burke. 

Alexander Charles Adams does the sound editing for our show.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano. 

Music: Ben Draghi and also courtesy of ZZK records.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Imara Jones peers behind the curtain of Netflix to see what the Dave Chappelle controversy reveals about the operations and values of the streaming giant, as well as what the fallout might signal for Hollywood overall. Imara sits down with B Pagels-Minor, the Black trans employee fired by the company at the height of the public backlash surrounding the comedian, and Zoë Schiffer, Senior Reporter at The Verge, who broke story after story about Netflix's handling of the criticism.

Follow our guests on social media!

B. Pagels-Minor @bpagelsminor (Twitter) @bpagelsminor (Instagram)

Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer (Twitter)

TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media. 

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Jaye McAuliffe, Montana Thomas, and Yannick Eike Mirko. Our intern is Mirana Munson-Burke. 

Alexander Charles Adams does the sound editing for our show.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano. 

Music: Ben Draghi and also courtesy of ZZK records.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Imara Jones sits down with the groundbreaking intersex activist Sean Saifa Wall. Saifa, who is Black, intersex and trans discusses how those who are intersex shift our fundamental understanding of gender and the promise that this community holds for all of us. Saifa also delves into the importance of realizing the intersectionality of those who are trans and intersex. He also calls for the trans community to learn more about what it means to be intersex both to better support intersex people and to grow personally in their own trans identity.

Follow our guests on social media!

Sean Saifa Wall @SeanSaifaWall (Twitter) @saifaemerges

Interconnect @interconnectsupportgroup (Instagram) @interconnect_sg (Twitter)

Courtney Skaggs @courtney.skaggs (Instagram)

TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media. 

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Jaye McAuliffe, Montana Thomas, and Yannick Eike Mirko. Our intern is Mirana Munson-Burke. 

Alexander Charles Adams does the sound editing for our show.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano. 

Music: Ben Draghi and also courtesy of ZZK records.

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Imara sits down with Cancel Me, Daddy hosts Oliver-Ash Kleine and Katelyn Burns to talk about Dave Chappelle’s hate-speech in his special “The Closer” as well as the greed of Netflix and how Donald Trump’s shadow is all over this controversy.

Follow and listen to Cancel, Me Daddy wherever you listen to podcasts, as well as on Instagram and Twitter!

Follow the hosts: Oliver Ash-Kleine @oliverashkleine (Instagram) @oliverashkleine (Twitter)

Katelyn Burns @katelynburnswrites (Instagram) @transscribe (Twitter)

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Host Imara Jones sits down to discuss the importance of Latinx trans identities in the fight for transgender rights overall with Jennicet Gutiérrez, National Organizer at La: Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement and Joela Rivera, Co-Founder of Stonewall Protests. For our TransJoy segment we revisit the vital of work of Trans Queer Pueblo in Arizona.

With anti-trans violence and political backlash at all-time highs, award-winning journalist Imara Jones hosts this podcast where trans people and allies talk back about what matters most and discuss how to create a fairer world for all. 

Follow our guests on social media!

Dagoberto Bailon: @dagoduagin (Instagram) @dagobertobailon (Twitter)

Trans Queer Pueblo: @tqpueblo (Instagram) @tqpueblo (Twitter)

Jennicet Gutiérrez: @jennicetguti (Instagram) @jennicetg (Twitter)

Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement: @familiatqlm (Instagram) @familiatqlm (Twitter)

Joela Rivera: @joelariveraaa (Instagram)

TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media by Futuro Studios. 

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Montana Thomas, and Yannick Eike Mirko. Our intern is Mirana Munson-Burke. 

Alexander Charles Adams does the sound editing for our show.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano. 

Music: Ben Draghi and also courtesy of ZZK records.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.