Trans Joy: Artists
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In times like these, we’re all in need of a little extra joy. This week, Imara uncovers some never-before-heard gems from the trans joy archives. With a focus on the incredible artists we’ve highlighted over the years, this special episode is the first in an ongoing “Trans Joy” series. Hear from poets, filmmakers, photographers and more about where they find inspiration, what creativity means to them, and the powerful ways art can help us find our way to a better future.
Trans joy artists include: Cyree Jarelle Johnson, George Abraham, J Mase III, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Jess T Dugan, Joie Lou Shakur, Lauren Snyder, and Lauren YS.
TransLash Podcast is produced by TransLash Media.
The TransLash team includes Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Aubrey Calaway, Hillary Esquina, and Morgan Astbury.
Lucy Little did the sound editing and engineering for this episode.
Theme music composed by Ben Draghi.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, it's me, Amara. Welcome to the Translash podcast, a show where we tell |
| 0:12.8 | trans stories to save trans lives. Well, since the beginning of the Translash podcast, five years |
| 0:18.4 | ago, we've always taken a moment at the top of our episodes to |
| 0:22.1 | celebrate TransJoy. That's because celebrating trans joy is imperative. Joy brings us to the present. |
| 0:29.2 | It keeps us going, and it helps illuminate a better world. Over the years, I've heard from so |
| 0:35.5 | many listeners about how much they love these small moments |
| 0:39.4 | of hope and inspiration. What you may not know is that these short clips you hear in our |
| 0:45.0 | trans joy segments are part of longer conversations. So we're going back into the trans slash |
| 0:50.7 | archives to dust off some never before heard parts of our favorite transjoy |
| 0:56.1 | interviews. We're turning these into compilation episodes that will occasionally come into your feed |
| 1:02.7 | like a little gift to fill your cup. For our very first TransJoy compilation episode, |
| 1:08.3 | we're starting off by celebrating some incredible artist who remind us of the power of creativity and authentic expression. So with that, let's get into it. First up, we're diving back into our award-winning episode, being autistic and trans, to hear more from poet and herbalist, Surrey Jarrell Johnson. |
| 1:43.6 | I will say that my poetry probably marks me as autistic more than anything else because I am a formal poet. |
| 1:49.7 | So, you know, I'm like holding on to that torch. |
| 1:52.2 | But I know that that is like an autism thing for me where it's like, yeah, I like that order. |
| 1:57.5 | Like I like that structure. |
| 1:58.7 | Like I like that tradition. |
| 2:00.1 | I like that rigor. I like those caveats. I like that those. Like, I like that structure. Like, I like that tradition. I like that rigor. |
| 2:01.5 | I like those caveats. |
| 2:02.7 | I like that, those limits, right? |
| 2:05.3 | Those limited options in which creativity can flourish. |
| 2:09.4 | And I think, yeah, I'm like a young black trans person or young ish, because I just turned 35. |
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