Welcome to the archive of all of our past episodes. You can listen along on your smart phone or ipod, by visiting itunes or your smart phone application. You can also stream every episode on your computer by selecting the "pod" image next to each episode title. For more information and links about the episode, select the title and you will be taken to our libsyn homepage with listed links to orgs, resources and information mentioned throughout the discussion.
Episode 31: Pinkwashing  
Episode 30: Athens Boys Choir, GC Performance Series 1 |
Gendercast Episode 30: Interview with Harvey Katz, Athens Boys Choir, 1st Episode of the Gendercast Art & Performance Series
Join Gendercast for a very fun and relaxed interview with Katz as we caught up with him during a brief Seattle visit to perform at various events. We get to hear about his upcoming album he's been working on for you, living in Georgia and now Brooklyn, community, relationships, the highs and lows of performing and his take on many other topics your hosts ponder.
Guest Bio (from Athens Boys Choir) see website for full bio.
Katz's spoken-word is raw, unapologetic, witty, and soulful. As Out Magazine wrote in 2006, "Katz avoids falling into the common spoken-word trap... and instead uses engaging wordplay, razor-sharp wit, and hip-hop rhythms." He has had the honor of sharing the stage with such artists as Ani Difranco, Indigo Girls, Bitch, The Butchies, Danielle Howle, and Michelle Malone. He has also opened for poets of HBO's Def Poetry Jam on more than one occasion.
Being a out Transsexual, Katz's spoken-word often becomes a platform for education and activism, but all work and no play makes for one intense performance so he lets loose with sarcasm, pop culture references, and video's featuring Barbara Streisand as Yentl and sassy footwork by the stars of the 1979 hit "Roller Boogie."
Episode 29: GC Reflections on the 2012 Philly Trans-Health Conference 
Join Sean and Jesse as they reflect on their conference experience at the Philadelphia Tran-Health 2012 Conference, which was on May 31 through June 2, 2012. Along with Gendercast east coast intern, Gilligan, Gendercast presented a workshop, A Podcast by and for the Trans Community: Gendercast on Thursday of the conference. Podcast basics, social justice platform and the importance of independent media done by our community were among the topics. Gendercast thanks those who attended and appreciates the in-person dialogue.
Interview with Logan about TransMission
Queer Social Club’s TransMission Brings the Best of Trans and Queer Art to Seattle and Your Mouth!
TransMission is a showcase of trans and gender queer artists being held at Seattle’s Washington Hall on August 3rd and 4th. Presented by Queer Social Club, doors are at 8:30 with both shows starting at 9pm. Each evening is totally unique, featuring the best of queer performance art, film, poetry, burlesque, puppets and aerial artists. Not only can you feast your eyes on nearly two dozen performers over two nights, you can also actually feast on them! The Kitchen Sink Project will be providing concessions packs each evening, small bites and sips designed to allow the audience to taste the essence of each performer and Eat The Show. Each evening will culminate with a dance party and several special bonus performances.
So join in for two very special and amazing evenings of art, food, drink, dance, identity, possibility and community. Bring your friends, your co-workers, your family and anyone else that enjoys amazing art! You can get tickets online (and cheaper!!!) at Transmission tickets here
TransMission facebook event here and Queer Social Club fb page
Guest Bio
Boston Davis Bostian is a nature poet relentlessly bent on transition. He illustrates, through compositions of color, body, and sound, the unbounded fluidity of experimental gender. He spent 19 remarkable months working on the GENDER book, a fun, beautifully-crafted, community-based resource, which is available online in rough draft form here by creators Mel Reiff Hill, Jay Mays, and Robin Mack.
He is the manager/facilitator of Genderpedia.net, a resource wiki which began as a component of the GENDER book Project for the purpose of giving community the opportunity of co-authoring the full-length version of the GENDER book. Genderpedia.net is no longer officially affiliated with the GENDER book Project, though a huge fan, always. Boston is currently working on his first poetry collection, TransPoetica_1: The Pre-Op Version, which is the first of a trilogy of poetry manuscripts. Titles for the second and third collections are: TransPoetica_2: The Post-Op Version, and TransPoetica_3: The Final Cut. The trilogy is intended to document Boston’s physical, spiritual, and emotional transition(s) while performing his own personal gender.
Check-in Guest
Lily Divine Productions website and the July 21 Debauchery Seattle event here and tickets here
Lily Divine Productions is a small non-profit production company committed to cultivating a vibrant and prosperous queer community by:
- Establishing sex-positive spaces that celebrate the identity and experiences of each person present
- Supporting the work of queer artists by providing opportunities for performance, shared resources and mentorship of developing artists
- Connecting our audiences with non-profits providing health and social services within the queer community, and raising funds to support these organizations’ work
Join Sean and Jesse for our interview with Walidah Imarisha and discussion of the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC), its roots in slavery and the 2.7 MILLION people in prison now in the US. We will discuss the concept of borders around identity, around physical bodies, and how it is especially harmful to trans people of color. Walidah will also cover the Black Codes and mass incarceration of people of color. We discuss prison abolition vs. criminal justice/prison reform strategies and how some abolition theory and work is coming out of queer/trans youth of color communities.
Walidah Imarisha is a writer, organizer, educator and performance poet. She is one half of the poetic duo Good Sista/Bad Sista. She has shared the stage with Kenny Muhammad of the Roots, Chuck D, Saul Williams, war resister Stephen Funk, Ani DiFranco, John Irving, dead prez and organizer and revolutionary Yuri Kochiyama. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including the hip hop anthology Total Chaos. Walidah has facilitated poetry and journalism workshops third grade to twelfth, in schools, community centers, youth detention facilities, and women’s prisons. She directed and co-produced the Katrina documentary Finding Common Ground in New Orleans. She has taught in the Portland State University’s Black Studies Department, Oregon State University’s Women’s Studies Department and Southern New Hampshire University’s English Department.
Join Jesse and Sean for a Gendercast interview with Mattilda to discuss her new book, Why are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification and the Desire to Conform. You are invited to our dialogue as we dedicate much needed air time to her radical queer analyses of gay/same sex marriage, military and the repeal of DADT, family structures, gay assimilation, and the mainstream gay and lesbian movement. Mattilda brings a widely accessable window to understanding the importance of having a critical analyses around who the mainstream gay and lesbian movement leaves out and further marginalizes.
Join Gendercast and our former (and very first!) intern, Cat, for our group interviews with some amazing young people who are part of a bright ray of sunshine in east King County (east of Seattle) called B-GLAD. Listen with us as this group of young people, self-identified BGLADIATORS, tell you their stories and talk about work they are doing as they answer these three questions they as important topics for Gendercast and our listeners to hear about:
- What is B-GLAD and what should people know about it?
- What is it like having a non-binary experience in school and work?
- What activism/social change are we working on?
Jesse and Sean were glad to be part of these refreshing and honest dialogues, and we are so very appreciate of each and every one of these individual’s willingness and courage to get behind the mic and share their voice. Special thanks to Kennedy (from episode 5) and Cat for setting up the interview and engaging Gendercast.
B-GLAD Teen Support Group
Bi-Gay-Lesbian Adolescent Drop-In Group is a drop-in support group open to kids ages 12 to 19 who may identify themselves as lesbian gay, bisexual or transgender or who may be questioning their sexuality. Co-facilitated by trained professionals, the B-GLAD group enables youth to:
- Meet their peers and share common concern
- Ask questions in a safe environment
- Receive information and support in a professional setting that encourages responsible decision-making
Join Gendercast co-host, Jessie Lee, for an intimate and stigma-busting interview with Lucien, who shares his story around his trans* gender journey, genderqueer identity, navigating coming out multiple times and his sex work practice.
Guest Bio
Lucien is a 30-year-old transgender male sex worker. He uses his work as an opportunity to observe and research gender identities, sexuality, and so much more (and to help his clients do so as well). He stumbled upon this work accidentally, although he realized that it was by no means a coincident. Participating in the sex trade offers him an experience of a lifetime, a window into the heart of humanity. It is here that he's found unremarkable truths he would never have anticipated prior to his work in this industry. Allow him to share these truths in this podcast, his observations about where the core of humanity exists on its journey toward healing gender and sexuality on this planet.
Join Gendercast for an interview with Seattle-based trans advocates and therapists, Calvin Burnap and A. Canelli, who will discuss the informed consent model for accessing trans health and their local and collaborative ICATH project. Our discussion will cover the importance of self-actualization and autonomy in decision-making (and therapy), rejection of using Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and pathologizing trans* people accessing hormomes or surgery, and the non-proprietary philosophy of ICATH.
Guest Bios
Calvin Burnap is a queer and trans therapist of color in Seattle, Washington, praciticing within a framework of collective healing and empowerment. He has been wrking as a service provider since 2007 and frames his work towards the liberation of queer and trans people of all ages and expressions of gender.
Canelli is a trans/queer therapist who is also a trans and queer advocate. Canelli's work is based in Seattle, Washington, but liberation work is portable and can traverse many spaces.
Join Jessie and Sean as they* muddle through exploring what masculinity means [and just in case you're wondering - we don't know, nor do we figure it out] and navigating it in the world. They will discuss the Tarheels and Transfags article to get started and historical butch lesbian/dyke masculinity vs. trans* and genderqueer masculinity coming from being assigned female at birth. Exploring masculinity through taking hormones, internal gender identity and [perceived] gender expression are some of the terrain they cover.
*This is a more personal episode for your gendercast hosts and they only speak from their own experiences/narratives.
Join Gendercast for our interview with Tobi Hill-Meyer as she so eloquently discusses transmisogyny, language about gender, analyses on the word *transmasculine and creates new meaning(s), pronouns, and her experiences at both Michfest and the Butch Voices national conference as a trans woman. She'll tell us all about her unique narrative, being raised by second-wave feminist parents, and expands categories beyond the limits of a binary narrative of being socialiazed according to one's sex assigned at birth. Also, there's a nice smutty treat for you at the end of the episode, compliments of BB Rydell.
Join us for the second half of our interview with Dr. Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest.
Join us for Part 1 of our interview with transhealthcare provider Dr. Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest. This interview will be aired in two separated podcast episodes chock full of great information about both trans specific healthcare and primary care for trans individuals encompassing any sex assigned at birth.
Join Sean and Jessie as they discuss the first year of Gendercast podcasting. The discussion will cover many topics including trans representation in mainstream and independent media; activist communities and making mistakes as they learn; pronoun navigation; language and labels; and reaching out to other communities. They will also discuss upcoming Gendercast internship positions, which will be available soon and will be posted on the gendercast website.
Jessie and Sean want to thank YOU for listening, learning with us, writing in, interacting on facebook and for any discussions Gendercast might have opened or reignited for you and your communities. We look forward to bringing you so much more dialogue and hearing more from you in 2012!
Join Sean for his interview with Cole from the Brown Boi Project, a community of masculine of center women, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to transforming our privilege of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving Racial and Gender Justice. See Cole's bio. We are so excited to have had this opportunity to talk with Cole about the Brown Boi Project, the new health guide they created, Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois ( to purchase), reflections on the Butch Voices conference, and a very important topic for Gendercast - reaching out to communities of color. Thank you Cole!
Warning: at about 14 minutes thru 17 minutes some mic reverb was picked up so please adjust audio volume around this time. This episode was not recorded with our usual equipment and we had some issues with the sounds quality.
Interview Panel from Across the Spectrum with Maddox, Caila and Amy
Join us for a great interview panel dialogue about sexuality with three guests who represent a continuum of sexual identities present in the trans community and in those who are interested in us. We will explore bisexual, queer and pansexual identities and how these identities are part of moving through the world of relationship with trans people and others. Maddox and Caila will discuss the political aspects of their queer and bisexual identities and elements thereof. This episode topic came out of a blog post Jessie and Sean ran across entitled, Words, Binary and Biphobia, or: why "bi" is binary but "FTM" is not from the blog Radical Bi: Love, rage and pride.
Maddox was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent much of his life the theatre, and did a brief stint in New York where he studied at an acting conservatory. While in college in San Francisco, he worked doing HIV/AIDS prevention, organizing workshops for survivors of sexual abuse, and facilitated workshops on dating violence prevention, transgender sensitivity. He worked on developing the Gender Diversity Project Resource for Educators, which provides tools for teachers wishing to make their curriculum and classrooms more inclusive for gender variant students. He is currently attending Seattle University, earning his Masters in Psychology. When he can find spare time and energy, he is also a painter and crafter.
Caila is passionate about many things including sex positivity, cooking, dog parks, exercise and volunteerism. She is happy to be living in Seattle and to work with various agencies who promote equality and the worth of all humans. She is thankful to Sean and Jessie for the opportunity to share and for their creating this great podcast.
Amy has a zest for living life full out, with passion, and an open, honest, transparent heart. A creative, multi-talented diva, Amy loves each day as a new opportunity to craft and manifest the life she dreams of!
Join us for a special film edition! Listen in to our interview with Jason Plourde, Programming Director of Three Dollar Bill Cinema, producers of the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, as we discuss some of the films in the festival this year with a flavor or flair of gender, trans, intersex and queer. There are so many to see and we hope Seattle folks can make it out to the festival October 14-23, 2011 at various theaters around Seattle.
Then join us for our HEART BREAKS OPEN interview, a film about queer life, public health and community accountability. Samonte Cruz, who plays Johnny, and Basil Shadid, producer of the film talk about the way the film was made; the actors were also writers as each brought their own life experience to the development of their characters. We also hear from Basil and Samonte about the different elements of the film, including what happens when different identities play up against each other, such as cis gay men in relationships with transmen/transfags.
Interview with Debbie Carlsen, Director of LGBTQ Allyship
"Allyship is about growth...and humanizing each other" [from Debbie's interview]
Join us for an important interview with Debbie Carlsen, founder and Director of LGBTQ Allyship; a Seattle-based non-profit organization focused on organizing around social and econnomic justice issues facing the LGBTQ community. Debbie discusses the mission of Allyship, which is that all oppressions are interconnected and there is a possibility of a world free of oppression and the liberation of all people. Debbie has been organizing in Seattle since 1995 and talks about allyship as "a lifelong learning cycle of learning about others' perspectives" and hopes to organize deeper in coalition with other communities. Sean also interviews Seattle's own Ruby Rouge the producer of Pink Taco which takes place every first Tuesday at the Wildrose.
Join Jessie as they discuss the 2011 Butch Voices National Conference with Kari Kesler, our guest from Episode 9 on Feminism and Jay Walls, who served the programming chair for the conference. Jessie and Kari provide some reflection and discussion about the charged divisiveness which occurred at the conference in relation to the "Masculine of Center" terminology in the Butch Voices mission statement as well as some women-identified butches forming a split off group, Butch Nation. Sean weighs in as our resident butch!
Join Jessie and Sean as they discuss their disparate experiences of the Gender Odyssey conference in the context of the new genderqueer track juxtaposed against FTM orientation. We will reflect on our experience of Chaz Bono's workshop Q&A session as well as Dean Spade's keynote address, whick left us in awe and inspired. We will mention briefly various workshops we attended.
Join us for the audio version of a gender identity forum that both Jessie and Sean participated in for King County in Seattle, WA along with several other Trans and gender non-conforming identified folks. Marsha Botzer provides the introduction and moderation of the panel, which occurred on June 20, 2011. This is unedited as it was broadcasted on King County television. The panel was titled: A Focus on Gender Identity: Understanding Discrimination and Workplace Issues for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals and is part of King County's larger Equity and Social Justice Initiative.
Dialogue and discussion of privilege in regards to race, class, ability and gender. Join us in a sometimes difficult conversation around white privilege [and the importance of owning our own] as we discuss bell hooks' poignant writing on white supremacy, women of color feminism and the importance of an anti-racist agenda as a fundamental foundation to any movement of social justice. We also discuss this as it relates to the trans/gnc movement, cisgender privelege and binary supremacy.
Dialogue and discussion about inclusion of Transgender/gender nonconforming in LGBT communities and organizations. We will focus in on June and Pride month as a jumping off place for specific examples of inclusion/non-inclusion and look at several areas' trans specific events and existence of Trans marches in GLBT pride events.
Kari Kesler joins us to give an overview of the first, second and third waves of feminism and to discuss identity, organizing around a shared oppression, the rub between lesbian feminists and transgender, standpoint feminism, women only spaces and the unique experiences transmasculine individuals have that can be the foundation for being great feminists.
Self-Care, It's not just about Gender.
We discuss various risk factors trans individuals face in addition to and as part of the stress of everyday life. We will cover some of our methods of how we take care of ourselves in relation to, and within the context of, having a transgender identity, being a member of the transgender and queer communities, and being a human in general. We'll cover spiritual practice, self-advocacy, educating about gender, nutrition, exercise, sleep, artistic expression, alternative practices and more.
TRANSLATIONS - The Seattle
Our interview with Cresdan Maite, co-founder of Translations and Jason Plourde, Programming Director of Three Dollar Bill Cinema. We discuss the 2011 Translations festival coming up in May (12-15) as well as transgender film in general, current themes and future directions.
PUT THIS ON THE {MAP}: Youth Voices
Part 2: Our Intervew with Quinn and Zane
In part 2 of our focus on youth in March, we hear from Quinn and Zane, two of the youth who were in the PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} documentary. They talk about their experiences with the film and how life is now.
PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} and the Reteaching Gender and Sexuality Campaign
Part 1: Our Interview with Sid and Kennedy
March marks our month of focusing on queer and transgender youth. In Episode 5, we embark upon part 1, which is our interview with Sid and Kennedy, the producers and directors of the PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} film about queer youth in East King County
Our discussion of media and social networking as tools for building transmasculine community. We explore many kinds of resources as well as other forms of building community through the result of our community being discriminated against and our own divisiveness.
A special valentine's episode from us to you! Our take on our gender identity and gender expression though navigating attraction and desire in the romantic sense. A great episode to get to know us and respond by telling us your experiences!
The Hormone and Surgery Dilemma
Our discussion and information about the options and decisions around taking hormones, having surgery, natural transitioning and challenging the binary from a no/ho, no/op transmasculine genderqueer identity.
The Gender Conundrum
Books we Referenced:
- PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, Edited by Carol Queen
- GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, Edited by Joan Nestle, Clare Howell and Riki Wilchins
- Lynnee Breadlove's One Freak Show, By Lynn Breedlove
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