Trans Mother's Day
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The word “mother” hits differently for trans folks. Traditional notions of motherhood are very in racialized and heterosexual norms. But what does motherhood look like when you’re trans and what does being mothered look like when you’re trans? To explore these questions and more, we spoke to the woman GQ magazine called a godmother of the Black Trans Lives Matter Movement, Ceyenne Doroshow.We also get some trans joy from from Ngozi Nnaji, the mother of trans track star and trailblazer Andraya Yearwood.
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TransLash Podcast is produced by Translash Media.
Translash Team: Imara Jones, Oliver-Ash Kleine, Callie Wright. Our intern is Mirana Munson-Burke.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, it's Amara. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the trans-spotash podcast where we tell trans stories to save trans lives. |
| 0:16.6 | Well, Mother's Day is on Sunday, May 8th. |
| 0:19.9 | That's just one day before my birthday of May 9th. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm just saying. |
| 0:24.7 | And Mother's Day raises the essential question for everybody. |
| 0:28.5 | What does it mean to be a mother and what is mothering all about? |
| 0:32.3 | You know, in our community, it means so many different things. |
| 0:36.3 | Some of us can have fractured relationships with our |
| 0:39.0 | mom, or we can have people who stepped into the role who are not our biological mothers, who |
| 0:44.1 | are a part of our chosen family of parents be important, or we could have lost a parent. And that |
| 0:50.3 | brings up so many different things, regardless of what type of relationship we have, or how they came to be our parents, either through chosen family or through biological family. |
| 1:01.7 | And the mere presence of trans women in particular shifts totally what it means to be a mother overall, |
| 1:09.1 | the ability to be able to fill so many roles that are not linked to |
| 1:12.7 | biology, underscoring this fundamental question for us of what does it mean to be a mother? |
| 1:19.8 | So today we're going to talk to Transmother writ large Kayandor show to unpack all of this |
| 1:26.8 | and to get new insights into mothering for our community |
| 1:29.9 | in all of its various ways. I have to say that this episode is slightly hard for me because |
| 1:35.8 | of the connection between Mother's Day and my birthday. My mom died 10 years ago and that |
| 1:42.3 | connection sometimes is a sad one. |
| 1:48.2 | And so for all of you all have experienced that lost, my heart goes out to you as well. |
| 1:53.7 | But we're going to learn a lot from talking to Kayan, and I can't wait for you to hear our conversation. |
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