Just a heads up. Today's podcast includes details about graphic violence. We're cautioning you, the listener, in advance.

Hi, fam. Welcome to the Translash podcast. I'm your host, Amara Jones, fresh from my vacation, which was my couch. But these days, you gotta take what you can get.

If you're just tuning in for the first time, this show is all about putting trans voices

and our allies front and center in conversations about news, politics, and culture.

This week, I'm having some very important conversations about the intersection of immigration

and trans experiences.

First, I sit down with Maria Hinojosa, the Emmy Award-winning founder of Fututo Studios

to discuss her new book.

When you are ready to take some space to look at that trauma and to understand that it

is actually moving you

in ways that you can't even imagine.

Plus, you'll hear from the incredible activist Isanoyola about the important work she's doing

to end the detention of trans immigrants by ICE.

ICE and these detention systems are new formations and not necessarily as old as people

would like to think they are as, you know, kind of embedded and they're actually meant

to be destroyed and actually not exist.

But first, we're going to start out with a little bit of trans joy.

Music with a little bit of trans joy. Today, something that's making me smile, is the mutual aid efforts of a justice organization in Arizona.

Trans Queer Pueblo is a collective of trans and queer migrants of color.

They've raised over $200,000 to support those in their community who've been impacted by the

pandemic. The organization has also liberated at least eight immunocompromise people from

ICE detention centers since the pandemic started.

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