Hey, fam, it's me, Amara. Welcome to the Translash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.

In celebration of Autism Awareness Month, we're bringing back one of our most

powerful episodes from last year, being autistic and trans. I'm excited to announce that this episode

was a Webby Honorary for Best Podcast Episode in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and inclusion, and belonging category, and because you

make up our audience, we are sharing this award with you. In this episode, we feature Dr. Devin

Price, who explores how ableism and transphobia intersect, how neurodivergent trans people

are creating new ways of being in the world, and what

happens when we stop trying to fit into boxes that were never built for us in the first place?

If we don't see autism as a pathology, as something wrong with someone, then we don't necessarily

need to believe that it needs to be diagnosed, right?

Like, I also self-diagnosed my transness.

Now, whether you miss this the first time or just need to hear it again, this conversation, of course, is as important now as ever, especially in light of recent comments from the

current Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert

Kennedy Jr., who had some things to say that were not in line with what we discussed

about autism, and those comments have wide-ranging implications for our community and beyond.

And with that, let's start out as always with some trans joy. So often autistic people are reduced solely to their autism, but there are so many brilliant

autistic writers, thinkers, and artists in our communities. Take Ceri Jarrell Johnson.

He's an award-winning poet, writer, and spiritualist.

His time-traveling and deeply embodied work has appeared in publications like The New York Times,

The Yale Review, and Granta, just to name a few. He's also an award-winning author. His work

Slingshot, which explores black Sexual and Gender Deviance and

the Value of Manhood, was awarded a 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction.

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