Bamby Salcedo: Making the World a Safer Place for Trans People

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Bamby Salcedo talks about her work as an activist and the struggles that trans people face, especially those in immigrant and latin communities. Bamby created the TransLatin@ Coalition and shares about being invited to speak with Joe Biden at the White House. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1 You can recommend a guest or let us know what you think about the show on Twitter or by emailing lgbtqashow@gmail.com More information: www.LGBTQpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Hi, this is LGBTQNA, where we get to know different members of the LGBTQ community.
0:06.2	I'm Jeffrey Masters, and I'm here today with Bambi Solcedo.
0:09.5	Bambi is a legendary activist in our community and currently leads the Transatlino Coalition.
0:14.4	Stay tuned.
0:14.8	Stay tuned. Hey Bambi.
0:27.7	Hi, Jeffrey, how are you?
0:29.9	Good. Welcome to our show.
0:31.5	Thank you so much for inviting me and for the opportunity to address the audience.
0:35.6	Oh, absolutely. I'm so excited to talk to you.
0:37.5	You know, when I first saw you,
0:38.5	a long, shoulder-length hair.
0:41.6	Yes, I did a couple of years ago.
0:45.7	Oh, it's been that long.
0:47.5	It's going to be two years in June of next year.
0:50.5	So it's a year and a half ago since I decided to chop off my hair yeah like
0:54.8	all of it I love it looks amazing yeah what made you decide to cut it um it was
0:59.7	really uh what I actually did it during a speech at in Seattle at Transpride um
1:06.0	so there was about 5,000 people there um Wow. Yeah, I did it, you know, publicly and really it was part of my message.
1:16.6	And my message was that it, like, nobody can dictate what we can do with our bodies, but ourselves.
1:23.6	And I offer my beautiful hair as a sign that I could do whatever I wanted with my body.
1:30.8	Wow.
1:33.0	And that's like to the general population.
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