meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones

TransLash Presents: Bad Queers

TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones

TransLash Media

Lgbtq, News Commentary, Trans, Transgender, Education, News, Society & Culture

4.3619 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

To kickoff off Pride Month, Imara shares her recent conversations about everything love and relationships on the podcast Bad Queers. She returns to the show after four years to talk with hosts Shana and Kris about everything she’s been up to, including being named one of Time Mag’s 100 Most Influential People in 2023. Other topics include the current dating scene in New York, where Imara meets people, red and green flags, dating studs and MOCs, her blind spots, harmful stereotypes of trans women and why you should get yourself a nerd. 

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hey, trans-lash fam, it's B Amara.

0:11.6

Today is the first day of pride, yay.

0:14.8

And so we wanted to do something special here on the trans-slash podcast, something different, something a little bit more informal.

0:22.8

And that's to share with you by a conversation with the Bad Greers podcast. Now, on that

0:28.1

podcast, I got to talk about things that I may not normally have an opportunity to do so,

0:32.9

including sex and sexuality and dating and love and how they're all swirling and intersecting in this moment.

0:40.3

You'll hear a totally different side of me thanks to the way in which our friends over there made me feel relaxed and I got a little loose.

0:49.9

So I hope as we begin the fun month of pride that you'll enjoy this conversation that I had with the Bad Queers podcast.

0:57.5

Let us know what you think.

1:12.7

This is Shana.

1:13.8

And Chris.

1:15.4

And we are bad queers.

1:20.2

If you came out of the closet and got put in a box of stereotypes you don't belong to, then welcome to the bad queers club.

1:21.4

All right.

1:27.3

This weekend, Queer Urban Dictionary, I have Booger Queen, which is a slur.

1:34.7

And Booger Queen is an unattractive drag queen, often intentionally unattractive.

1:41.9

My sentence is a booger queen is a drag queen whose presentation is unpolished or messy.

1:46.9

Sounds like a child who went to a drag show and said,

1:48.4

Bougar queen.

1:50.6

And it just stuck and something like that.

1:52.7

I was like, oh, okay.

1:58.4

When I was looking there, I found this on, I think it's transgender map.com where it's just a whole list of a lot of different words. But, mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Booker Queen. Yeah. They're out there. There's a lot of, you know, when we're searching for this portion of the show, there's so many different. We do go deep in the internet for our definition. It's a lot. Yeah. You have everything from the academic pages and like the colleges to like

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from TransLash Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of TransLash Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.