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Trans Lives 1

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Performing Arts, Society & Culture, Comedy, Personal Journals, Arts

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate this Pride Month by listening back to some of the most wonderful stories shared by our trans friends on the show over the years. Stories by Ts Madison, Morgan, Kris Grey, Jesse Aaron Bee and Ames Beckerman. Support RISK! on Patreon at Patreon.com/RISK Make a one-time donation to RISK! at PayPal.me/RISKshow Get tickets to RISK! live shows at RISK-show.com/tour Get the RISK! book at TheRISKBook.com Take our storytelling classes at TheStoryStudio.org Hire Kevin Allison to make a personalized video at Cameo.com/TheKevinAllison Hire Kevin Allison as a coach at KevinAllison.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, this is Kevin. On this week's episode of Riskyl here, T.S. Madison.

0:05.5

There's no more pussy out here. There's only pussy. That's boy pussy.

0:11.9

That and more. But first, the next risk live show is at caveat in New York City on Thursday,

0:19.1

June 23rd at 9.30 pm Eastern. You can also get tickets to see it live streamed.

0:26.3

The stories we're preparing are out of this world. We have Will Clegg, Matthew Dix,

0:32.0

Elsa Eli Weith, and Abby Joe Morrison, of course, myself. It makes such a difference to be in the room

0:40.2

and to see it live, to be there with us. So come on out on Thursday night, June 23rd.

0:46.7

You can get your tickets at risk-show.com slash tour. So go get them now. Now here's the show.

1:16.7

Hello kids, this is Risky. The show where people tell true stories, they never thought they'd dare to share.

1:42.4

I'm Kevin Allison. This is the hit co behind me now. We just heard a cover of the

1:48.4

risk theme song by Hope Brush. We're calling this week's episode Trans Lives Number One.

1:56.6

In honor of Pride Month, and you know, I don't know if you've noticed, but in the news lately,

2:04.0

there is a ton of scapegoating and othering and just bad faith political moral panic sort of

2:16.3

baiting going on. And whenever people use bigotry that way, it's so important to take the time

2:26.3

to hear from the human beings who are being dehumanized with all that sort of talk. It's invaluable

2:35.2

to hear the thoughts and feelings of real people who lived through real life experiences around all

2:42.8

that. So we're going to look back at five of our favorite stories by trans folks that have

2:48.8

been shared on the show over the years. And if you hear someone in your own life speaking about

2:55.7

these issues and about trans people in a certain way, you might want to share this episode with them

3:02.1

so that they too can hear from the real people being talked about. When I was a little kid,

3:09.9

I was hyper conscious of the fact that I was gay, but didn't feel like I could tell anyone that,

3:17.4

you know, in the late 70s, early 80s in Ohio. And I was so often in these conversations with people,

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