As legislative attacks on the trans community continue across the United States, the Transgender Bill of Rights offers one path to bolstering protections on the federal level. First, Imara talks with Representative Pramila Jayapal about her work as co-chair of the Transgender Equality Task Force and her efforts to introduce the Transgender Bill of Rights in Congress. Next, Imara is joined by the Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, to discuss the need for federal action on trans rights and the success of the 2022 U.S. Trans Survey. 

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TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media.

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Aubrey Calaway. 

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Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano.

Theme Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records.

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As we look towards Trans Day of Visibility 2023, Imara examines the good and the bad of increasing trans visibility in the United States. First, she’s joined by Jeopardy Champion Amy Schneider, who discusses her experience becoming a public figure after a record breaking run on the show. Next, Imara talks with Peyton Daisy O’Conner about her experience becoming the first openly trans Asheville NC school board member, and the harassment that led her to resign.

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TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media.

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Aubrey Calaway. 

Xander Adams is our sound engineer and contributing producer.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano.

Theme Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records. 

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Day by day, the attacks on trans kids grow louder, and more anti-trans bills keep moving through state legislatures. In this season of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, Imara Jones illuminates how the right wing has fueled these bills by generating a breathtaking and wide-ranging disinformation campaign. Christian Nationalists are manufacturing pseudoscientific theories and using the entire anti-trans hate machine to pipe them out into the mainstream to create a rationale for these bills. And it’s catching on. We will show you how their anti-trans propaganda is working and ultimately being laundered by some of the most powerful newsrooms in the world. Season 2 of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine premiers March 31st.

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In our second episode of Black History Month, Imara talks with two podcasters and advocates about the power of Black trans voices. First, she’s joined by Diamond Stylz, host of Marsha’s Plate and founder of Black Transwomen Inc. Diamond shares the story of her fight for freedom of expression at high school prom and in college, and what it took to reclaim her voice with and without support from her family and peers. Next, Imara talks with host of FANTI and What A Day, Tre’vell Anderson about finding their genderqueer identity at an all-male HBCU, diversity in journalism, and trans representation on screen.

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TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media.

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Aubrey Calaway. 

Xander Adams is our sound engineer and contributing producer.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano.

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To start off Black History Month, Imara takes a look at the state incarceration and abolition for Black trans people in the United States. First she speaks with Ashley Diamond about her experiences fighting for her rights and freedom against the Georgia Department of Corrections. Next, she’s joined by artist, abolitionist, and community organizer Toni-Michelle Williams to talk about her work around criminal justice reform and leadership building for marginalized communities in Atlanta.

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Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Aubrey Calaway. 

Xander Adams is our sound engineer and contributing producer.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano.

Theme Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records. 

Music for “We Flesh Podcast” ad read was Bosch’s Garden provided by Kjartan Abel

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Imara examines trans political representation and policy on the state and local level. First she talks to Montana State Representative Zooey Zephyr about her historic win as the state’s first out trans representative. They discuss her community-based campaign strategies, how she thinks about working from within the system and across the aisle, and her hopes to win hearts, minds, and policy. Next, Imara chats with activist and Pennsylvania gubernatorial commission co-vice chair, Ciora Thomas. She highlights the need for Black trans leadership in Pittsburgh and discusses her work on issues like the housing crisis within shifting political party agendas.

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TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media.

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Aubrey Calaway. 

Xander Adams is our sound engineer and contributing producer.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano.

Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records.

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In this episode replay from 2022, Imara discusses how the idea of Black civil rights has been reduced to the idea of changes in specific laws. But the civil rights movement also included the ideas of what we now call Black liberation: a specific revisioning of what our society should look like steeped in racial justice. Consequently we can see that the civil rights movement never totally succeeded and has a tremendous amount of unfinished business that we live out every single day. 

That’s why we wanted to talk with Black trans leaders about what a new agenda for Black civil rights should look like. Our first guest, Qween Jean, is the founder of Black Trans Liberation. She’s an activist and artist who’s critical work centers Black trans people in the fight for racial equity. Then Imara talks to Kayla Gore, the co-founder of My Sistah’s House, a fully fledged aid and advocate organization that started as an emergency shelter with 8 beds.

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TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media.

Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Aubrey Calaway. 

Xander Adams is our sound engineer and contributing producer.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano.

Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records.

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Growing up in 1980’s Atlanta, TransLash creator Imara Jones was exposed to a culture around money that was rooted in fear. In this episode, she shares how decisions she’s made in the past have shaped her approach to money today – reminding us that we can all make small choices now to set ourselves up for a better future.

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Imara takes a look back at another year of the TransLash Podcast. She shares highlights from some of the most informative and inspiring episodes of 2022, including her conversation about trans motherhood, mutual aid, monkey pox, online hate and trans sex with Ceyenne Dorshow, Asanni Armon, Sydney Bauer, Ze R, Dr. Asa Radix and Dr. Elle Lett. 

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Sydney Bauer: Twitter (@femme_thoughts)

Ze R: Instagram (@ze.royale)

TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media.

The TransLash Team includes Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, and Aubrey Calaway. 

Xander Adams is our sound engineer and contributing producer.

Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano.

Music: Ben Draghi and ZZK records. 

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