Replay: A New Black Trans Civil Rights Agenda
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
As the TransLash Podcast takes a break for the holidays, we’re sharing some of our favorite episodes from the archive. In this replay from 2022, Imara discusses how the idea of Black civil rights has been reduced to the idea of changes in specific laws, but the civil rights movement also included the ideas of what we now call Black liberation: a specific revisioning of what our society should look like steeped in racial justice. That’s why she wanted to talk with Black trans leaders about what a new agenda for Black civil rights should look like. First, she’s joined by Qween Jean, the founder of Black Trans Liberation. She’s an activist and artist whose critical work centers Black trans people in the fight for racial equity. Then Imara talks to Kayla Gore, the co-founder of My Sistah’s House, a fully fledged aid and advocate organization that started as an emergency shelter with 8 beds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, it's Mia Mara. Welcome to the Translash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives. |
| 0:17.1 | While the Translash team is taking some needed time off this holiday season, so we've gone back |
| 0:22.7 | into our bag, into the archive, and picked out some of our absolute favorite episodes that you |
| 0:28.5 | might have missed and which are really relevant to the moment that we're in. So I'm really excited |
| 0:34.7 | to share our episode, a new Black Trans Civil Rights Agenda from 2022, |
| 0:40.4 | which underscores that even during really difficult times, we can imagine what an expanded universe looks like for us. |
| 0:47.7 | And we think that that is a really important lesson for us to keep in mind. |
| 0:52.4 | And so are happy to share this episode. We promise you, |
| 0:55.9 | you're going to be inspired and uplifted by every voice that you hear. So sit back, make some egg |
| 1:02.8 | nog, and take a listen. First, we speak with Queen Jean, founder of Black Trans Liberation. |
| 1:10.8 | Liberation is a daily affirmation Liberation is a daily affirmation. |
| 1:14.6 | It is a declaration to the rest of the world that we are on a mission for our freedom. |
| 1:21.7 | Next, we speak to Kayla Gore, co-founder of My Sister's House. |
| 1:26.2 | A lot of organizations, a lot of individuals. |
| 1:29.7 | They want to continue the work until they can say, |
| 1:32.9 | oh, we've been doing this 400 years. |
| 1:34.7 | And that's not my plan. |
| 1:37.1 | My plan is not to do this work 400 years. |
| 1:39.7 | My plan is to build up my community to a point where they are sufficient enough to stand on their own. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm so excited to share these powerful visions of Black Trans Liberation with you, |
| 1:50.3 | but first, let's celebrate some trans joy. A vital piece of liberation is physical safety. |
| 2:09.7 | Part of the work we need to do is making the world safer to move through for black |
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