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

stories to save trans lives. It's been a challenging year, but we wanted to take a moment

to celebrate how our community is spreading love and hope during the holiday season with

this episode replay from 2022.

Now, since the beginning of December, we have encouraged you to shop trans for the holidays.

And even though it might be too late to buy gifts in time to put them under the tree this year,

we want to encourage you to shop trans all year long.

So head on over to our shop trans business directory at translash.org to discover tons of

incredible products and business owners. They include the talented Mars Wright, who I chatted

with last year to talk about his streetwear brand, Life on Mars.

I remember one of my teachers told me, we all have millions of bad pieces of art in us.

So if you can be the kind of person that gets the bad ones out the fastest,

you're going to be there when the good stuff hits.

Then I spoke with journalist, Inna Fre Reed, about her viral social media campaign, hashtag

Letters for Trans Kids.

I appreciate and love all of the youth that have bravely spoken out, and they shouldn't

have to.

I'm angry that they've had to, that youth have to do anything other than being kids.

Kids should just get to be kids.

But before we get to these incredible conversations,

let's start out as always with some trans joy,

which, of course, is what the holidays are all about.

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