Welcome to Pride. You have reached a stop on our Acast Audio Pride parade, where we travel around the world to hear from our LGBTQ Plus creators on what Pride means to them.

So grab your whistle, get your face paint on, and settle into a special celebration of Pride.

And at the end of this podcast, we'll hear where our audio pride parade is

heading next. So stay tuned.

Hi there. I'm Amara Jones, the host of the Translash podcast with Amara Jones. And I'm so thrilled to be on this audio

pride parade because I have COVID now and this is the closest I'm going to get to a pride parade.

So this is extra fun for me and I'm grateful to be here with you all.

I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, mostly in the 1980s.

And it was a black suburban community.

And it was really hard for me.

I don't think I really knew about pride parades,

even though I know Atlanta had priy parades

at that time. And it just shows the power of erasure, right? That like, erasure, not talking about

things, is a form of violence. And so no reference to the pride parade where I grew up, no reference

to LGBTQ people formed the basis for me not being able to

see myself, which was very much a form of violence. And it's fascinating because when I talk to

people who were youth just 10 years ago, many of them experienced the same things. It's wild that in our current society

where there is so much visibility and so much notation around our existence, that there are still

bubbles of erasure. And it's been a fascinating part of my journey to realize how far we've come

and how far we haven't come, the fact that I

can talk to people who are in their 20s, who experience the exact same erasure that I did,

even though their coming of age was around the so-called trans tipping point.

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