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An Oral History of Trans Income Project w/ Natalie Rupp

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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This episode was originally released November 13, 2025 and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Natalie Rupp of Trans Income Project about their work providing cash transfers, meals, medication and more to trans people in Louisiana and how Trans Income Project is stepping in to try to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicaid. Find Trans Income Project here: www.transincomeproject.org/ MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

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Mutual aid is embedded in the lifework of almost every marginalized community.

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It's part of how we exist and thrive and survive.

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So what we do is we are just an additional infusion into that mutual aid network.

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The aid network exists.

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It's already here.

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It's not going anywhere, right?

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Death Panel underscore.

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I'm Beatrice Soutler Bolton, and I'm really excited to be joined by my guest today, Natalie

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Rupp.

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Natalie is the executive director of the

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Trans Income Project, a really important and interesting organizing effort based in New Orleans,

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Louisiana, that combines an incredibly comprehensive approach to making care accessible with direct

1:39.1

unconditional cash support. It's a really cool project, so I asked Natalie if she could come on the show

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to tell

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