Monkeypox and the Trans Community
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
As the United States struggles to contain the outbreak of Monkeypox, trans people are once again sidelined in our public health response. Amidst this sea of misinformation and erasure, Imara talks with two experts about the disease’s spread and its impacts on our community. First, she sits down with physician and researcher Dr. Asa Radix to discuss Monkeypox’s origins, symptoms, treatment options, and why the medical system has been so slow to respond. Next, Imara has an eye-opening conversation with statistician-epidemiologist Dr. Elle Lett about the disproportionate impact on Black trans people, the flaws in the public health response, and the stigma of a new “gay disease.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, TransLash family. It's me, Amara Jones. Welcome to the TransLash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives. Well, we're back. We're back after our summer vacation. We hope that you were able, |
| 0:24.2 | as well, during the summer, to take some time out and to be restored and to get restoration. |
| 0:31.6 | It's so important during this really difficult time. And I know that on behalf of all of us at |
| 0:36.9 | TransLash Podcast, we're hoping that you |
| 0:38.6 | are able to get it in. We also hope that you've been able to note and see all of the love we've |
| 0:44.6 | been getting from Apple Podcast and the way in which we are the spotlight of Apple Podcast this |
| 0:49.2 | month. That shine is also yours. So we're all entering the fall now. Well, kind of sort of technically |
| 0:58.6 | fall, I think, in a couple of weeks, but, you know, basically for us, it's fall. And this is a third fall |
| 1:05.1 | where we are facing a pathogen. And not only is that COVID, which may or may not be on the wane, but also |
| 1:14.5 | now monkeypox, which has quite frankly exploded over the summer. And monkeypox is a disease |
| 1:22.0 | like COVID that is disproportionately impacting our community, particularly those of us who are black and brown. |
| 1:31.0 | That's why we wanted to start out this fall with an emphasis on the ways that we can learn about what |
| 1:37.5 | Monkey Pax is, figure out how to respond to it, and learn the ways that we can continue to protect |
| 1:43.6 | ourselves at a really critical time. |
| 1:46.6 | This is an essential episode. We've spent a lot of time on it. And I think the urgency that we feel |
| 1:54.1 | is something that you'll be able to connect to. There's a lot of hope in the way that trans people |
| 1:59.1 | have been responding to monkeypox. |
| 2:04.0 | And so we know that that will inspire you too. |
| 2:10.5 | First, we'll talk to Dr. Aseratix, who's been on our podcast before about the outbreaks' origins and the current state of treatment and vaccine options. |
| 2:13.9 | There are still questions, but this is definitely in an emergency and in a time of scarcity, |
| 2:20.4 | like one way to be able to give this vaccine that's so urgently needed to more people. |
| 2:25.9 | Then we'll talk with Dr. L. L. Lett, an epidemiologist about how and why our public health systems |
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