Replay: Cybersecurity for Trans People
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Online harassment against trans people has become increasingly violent and sophisticated over the last few years. In this episode replay, Imara traces the emergence of coordinated attacks against people like streamer Clara Santorini, aka Keffals. First, she discusses Kiwi Farms, “Libs of TikTok,” and the other malicious actors with Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic instructor Alejandra Caraballo. She then speaks with the lead cybersecurity instructor at Tech Learning Collective about how we can better protect ourselves online and in our private digital communication.
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TransLash Podcast is produced by TransLash Media.
The Translash team includes Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Aubrey Calaway, Hillary Esquina, and Morgan Astbury.
Xander Adams engineered the original episode, and Lucy Little engineered this replay.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, it's Mia Mara. Welcome to the TransLash Podcast, a show where we tell trans |
| 0:12.8 | stories to save trans lives. This month we're taking a much needed break here at the |
| 0:17.9 | TransLash podcast to gear up for what lies ahead. The fall is always |
| 0:22.5 | hectic. So today we were playing one of our favorite episodes from 2022 that we think is well |
| 0:29.1 | worth a listen. It's about cybersecurity for trans people, from the threat of doxing to the steps |
| 0:34.7 | that we can all take to make ourselves safer online. |
| 0:38.5 | I can't think of a more important episode for us to be re-upping into your timeline thread. |
| 0:44.5 | But before we get into it, let's start out as always with some trans joy. With so much hate on the internet, we need to look towards our own community for innovation and leadership in the technology |
| 1:12.1 | sector. Transtech is an incubator dedicated to educating and employing trans and gender nonconforming |
| 1:18.5 | people who face barriers in education and the workplace. Founded by actress and businesswoman, |
| 1:25.5 | Angelica Ross, Ms. Ross, TransTech provides career counseling and skill |
| 1:30.5 | building designed to economically empower trans people. Their executive director, EC Pizarro, |
| 1:37.1 | the third, explains how the group prioritizes accessibility in their work. I want trans people to feel that tech is a place for them, that they belong in tech, that they |
| 1:48.9 | deserve to be in tech. |
| 1:50.2 | So we make sure with all of our information that it is accessible to trans individuals that |
| 1:56.8 | are currently or formerly engaged in sex work work because we understand that that is where society |
| 2:02.4 | pushes a lot of trans people in order to survive. So if someone comes to us and they're in sex work |
| 2:09.7 | and they're like, I want to edit videos better, boost my social media engagement, all of those |
| 2:15.7 | different things are connected to tech. |
| 2:18.1 | If you're building a cosmetics line or building a clothes line, there are ways that you can |
| 2:24.6 | leverage tech in your life to go from a survival mode to thriving. |
| 2:33.6 | ECU and the other members of trans tech are TransJoy. |
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