Hey, fam, it's me, Amara.

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

Well, next week is New York Fashion Week, where some of the world's leading designers will show us what's next.

But our community has a very strange relationship to the fashion community.

On the one hand, we have helped to shape the designs and the images that make what we know as fashion, but have

often been excluded. Nothing shows this more than the history of the ballroom scene, which is

modeled after fashion, has shaped fashion, but where many of those people for decades were

left out and left behind.

But one of the most enduring elements of Fashion Week are the images of the photography,

because let's face it, most of us won't be under those white tents that will dot New York City.

And so what we know about Fashion Week will come from its representation. So what does it mean to be a trans person capturing images of models, of the fashions, and of famous people, which are so tied to Fashion Week? So to explore all of this, we will be talking to two stand-out trans fashion photographers.

First I'll talk with visual narrator, Texas Isaiah, about his work to continue building

on the archive of trans images, raining from stars to everyday people.

I try my best to meditate on the importance of all of the work that we're doing now and not simply just for this

singular moment, but also what it would mean five, 10, 15, 20 years down the line because everything

that we're doing is legacy work. Next, I'm joined by fashion photographer Leah Clay Miller,

who shares her experience of shooting cover photos

for some of the country's top magazines.

I think I literally texted one of the photo directors,

and I was like, am I their first trans woman to do this?

And they were like, we don't know.

And they kind of looked into it. And it was like this moment of like, oh, wow, this I their first trans woman to do this? And they were like, we don't know. And they kind of looked into it.

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