Hey fam, it's me Amara.

Welcome to the TransLash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives.

Well, as we mentioned in our last episode, we're taking a much needed break here at Translash. September and the rest of the fall

is always hectic, so we need a little space and time. So we're bringing you some of our

favorite episodes from years past that you might have missed, or that are just worth a re-listen.

We talked amongst ourselves about which these should be, so they are carefully curated

for your ears.

Today, I'm excited to share two conversations with historian Susan Stryker and see Riley Storton,

whose perspectives are really grounding, especially given the extremely challenging moment

we're living through right now. But before we get to these incredibly contextualizing

and historic conversations about how we've gotten here

and the fact that trans people have a past that is worthy of recognition,

let's start out as always with some trans joy. When you think of Trans History, you might picture places like New York City or San

Francisco in the 1960s.

But our community's story has been shaped by people all across this country, from coastal

cities to rural towns.

Once in the beginning of the pandemic,

the Louisiana Trans Oral History Project documented and preserved the stories of trans and gender non-conforming Louisianaans in the first 20 years of the 21st century.

They interviewed dozens of people across five parishes,

worked with the LSU library to preserve these stories

for future generations, and launched three podcasts. Here's one of their members, Sophie Ziegler,

to tell us more. We were basically just collecting stories and asking people about their

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