Latinx Heritage Month
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Host Imara Jones sits down to discuss the importance of Latinx trans identities in the fight for transgender rights overall with Jennicet Gutiérrez, National Organizer at La: Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement and Joela Rivera, Co-Founder of Stonewall Protests. For our TransJoy segment we revisit the vital of work of Trans Queer Pueblo in Arizona.
With anti-trans violence and political backlash at all-time highs, award-winning journalist Imara Jones hosts this podcast where trans people and allies talk back about what matters most and discuss how to create a fairer world for all.
Follow our guests on social media!
Dagoberto Bailon: @dagoduagin (Instagram) @dagobertobailon (Twitter)
Trans Queer Pueblo: @tqpueblo (Instagram) @tqpueblo (Twitter)
Jennicet Gutiérrez: @jennicetguti (Instagram) @jennicetg (Twitter)
Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement: @familiatqlm (Instagram) @familiatqlm (Twitter)
Joela Rivera: @joelariveraaa (Instagram)
TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media by Futuro Studios.
Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Montana Thomas, and Yannick Eike Mirko. Our intern is Mirana Munson-Burke.
Alexander Charles Adams does the sound editing for our show.
Digital strategy by Daniela Capistrano.
Music: Ben Draghi and also courtesy of ZZK records.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, fam, it's Amara Jones. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the TransLash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives. |
| 0:16.0 | This week, we're not talking about Dave Chappelle. |
| 0:20.0 | We're celebrating a Latino slash Latinx Heritage Month, |
| 0:24.8 | which means that I get to talk to some incredible leaders working at the intersection of trans |
| 0:29.7 | and Latinx liberation. First, I'm sitting down with Genesec Gutierrez, the groundbreaking |
| 0:35.1 | leader in the fight for trans, migrant, and immigrant rights. |
| 0:39.3 | She's been working for years to free trans people and ICE detention and to preserve the human rights and dignity of all. |
| 0:47.3 | A lot of people, I don't see, you know, immigration as an LGBTQ issue in the end. |
| 0:53.3 | Actually, it is. Immigration is an LGBTQ issue in the end. Actually, it is. |
| 0:55.3 | Immigration is an LGBTQ issue. |
| 0:58.0 | Then I would be speaking with Afro-Caribbean activist Joella Rivera, co-founder of the Stonewall |
| 1:03.5 | protest in New York City. |
| 1:05.5 | To them, I'm like a goddess that my transness is a gift. |
| 1:11.3 | Now, before we get started, I want to thank all of our listeners who are writing short |
| 1:16.2 | podcast reviews and tweeting out about our show. |
| 1:19.6 | It really helps get the word out and helps Translash grow. |
| 1:23.4 | One comment from Yoda 4U really brightened my day, and it's not only because I'm a Star Wars fan. |
| 1:30.4 | Yota 4U says, y'all, this podcast is everything. |
| 1:33.9 | I learned so much from each episode and can't get enough of Amara's love and wisdom right back at you, Yota 4U. |
| 1:41.3 | I will never stop listening and recommending much love to the translash team. |
| 1:46.3 | Now, if you tweet at translash media or leave a review on Apple Podcasts, we might read |
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