Trans Radical Activist Network: Recent Episodes
Trans Radical Activist Network
TRAN (Trans Radical Activist Network) provides space and opportunities for members of the LGBTQIA+ community to share their stories, highlight the struggles they face in today's society and celebrate the strengths and creativity of their spirit. Our mantra is "Use your voice." We dare ourselves and others to engage in difficult conversations so we may build bridges between different groups in the LGBTQIA+ community and educate individuals not part of the community. Our current programming includes "Trans Files" and "Up Close and Personal."
We invited to the studio one of our own, Rhea Morningstar, a fabulous chapter lead for TRAN PA. She told us about her experience of coming out as a transgender woman, her ideas about the path to transgender liberation and more!!!
Join Noah "The Stigma Fighter" and Tsukuru Fors as we sit down with fellow TRAN member Jdog. Jdog provides perspectives what it was like transitioning as a trans youth. Jdog provides words of encouragement to the youth who are having challenges.
We had Bo Belott, a trans masculine policy advocate and community organizer in the studio. We talked about the National Day of Action to End Violence and Genocide on Transgender People that he and his comrades organized in Richmond, VA, his love and passion for the South, the trans rights movement's need to appeal to the "movable middle," and his vision for the future of the trans rights activism.
We had a very special conversation with Billy Yates, an LA-based labor organizer who currently is the U.S. director of the Adidas #PayYourWorkers Global Campaign. We talked about how queer labor organizers have always been at the forefront of the fight for human rights for all. Based on personal anecdotes from his organizing experiences and also knowledge drawn from the history of labor organizing, Billy paints a picture of the roles that we queers can play in the current, expansive movement for all working people worldwide, to usher a new era of justice, equality and a more dignified life for all. Check out the campaign that Billy is currently working on: https://www.payyourworkers.org/adidas
Tonight Noah "the stigma fighter" , Millenium Jess, and Jdog will be discussing the trans lives that have been lost in 2022.
The non-binary identity is not understood very well even within the transgender community. Through this episode of Trans Files, we try to de-mystify and open up dialogues about what it means to be non-binary and the support that the non-binary trans community needs from their binary trans siblings.
In this episode of Trans Files, the co-hosts, Noah the Stigma Fighter and Tsukuru Fors, discuss the issues within the lesbian community with a new member of T.R.A.N., @millenniumjess.
Glen and Yolanda, a queer power couple in Brooklyn, NY, invited us to their living room to talk about the fabulousness of living as your authentic self! We discussed how it is important and inevitable for all of us to be larger and louder than life and be visible. The key mantra of the day is "I want to live the best life possible being me. Why don't I want that for everyone else?" Join us for 90 minutes of pure joy and celebration of life!!!
Join Noah "The Stigma Fighter" and Tsukuru Fors as we discuss transitioning. We will discuss the challenges of transitioning and the gatekeeping that surrounds it. We will revisit the topic of gender norms and the impact it has made on this particular topic.
We had a 105 minute convo with @millenniumjess during which she allowed us to take a peak into her personal herstory, in addition to her vocal and eloquent stand for women, transgender folks, LGBTQIA+, and overall human rights. Jess is definitely fiery and has the uncanny verbal dexterity to use her fire to cut the bs and put bigots in their place. Without apologies or reservations, she dives right into difficult conversations about the sense of entitlement, self-protectionism, and collective inertia that divide us within the LGBTQIA+ community. Served up with tough love, it is a call for solidarity to dismantle systems of oppression that will doom us all. Gotta love Jess, a self-proclaimed "angry," aggressively-out lesbian radical feminist! (After talking to Jess, I am now 120% convinced that we must stop calling TERFs "radical feminists." Can't we just call them Trans-Exclusionary Faux Feminists instead???) Get ready to listen with a beverage of your choice or a joint. It's like a shot in the arm for your brain!!!
Join Noah "the stigma fighter" as he discusses overall experience since coming out as his authentic self. Noah discusses his challenges since medically transitioning in 2019. Noah also discusses his journey as a mental health provider and the challenges he has experienced. In this message, Noah discusses his motivations for wanting to start Trans Radical Activist Network. We encourage you all to use your voice and never allow anyone to silence you.
Join Noah "The Stigma Fighter" and Tsukuru Fors as we discuss the intersex community. The intersex community is not discussed and we all need to acknowledge they are human beings. We will be discussing the challenges that the intersex community struggles with.
Last Friday, our world was shaken up by MTG's introduction of an anti-Trans bill to the House. The bill is disguised to "protect children's innocence," while essentially aiming to erase transgender people out of existence. Co-hosts Noah the Stigma Fighter and @tsukuru_agender discuss where to go from here and how to fight back.
In this very full, deliciously irrelevant and serious at times one hour and forty five minute conversation, we talked about cis men, creativity in activism, sexuality and being a top-tier cat lady. It is a perfect listening pleasure when you want to be intellectually stimulated, laugh at the outrageousness of life and leave with the feeling of ultimate optimism.
Eric Curry, a mixed-race, 6th generation gay Latino San Franciscan, was inspired to run for the House seat to represent the city of his birth in 2021. He saw it as his duty to unseat the current representative, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, so people in his generation and beyond will have a chance in building a better future for the planet. What followed was an absolutely insane, gut-wrenching roller coaster ride, to put it mildly. In this episode of "Up Close and Personal," he bares it all. What he's learned about learning for office as an independent and darkness that lurks inside the pantheon of progressive politics that San Francisco has come to be known for.
This is the premiere show of the TRAN (Trans Radical Activist Network) Relaunch! Co-hosts Noah Buchanan (aka. Noah the Stigma Fighter) and Tsukuru Fors discuss the state of the world today through the lenses of the two transgender activists and what they hope to see in the near and far future of the network.
Misha, a TikTok star known as @dontcrossagayman, christened us with his first-ever appearance on a podcast! Noah Buchanan, founder of T.R.A.N (Trans Radical Activist Network), and a co-host J-Dog, had lots of fun with their new bestie through this 46-minute super-candid conversation. They shared their rather awkward coming-out stories (with happy endings!) and discussed the need for all of us to come together to weave a flaming homo blanket to fight bigotry! Have a listen, and you will find yourself 47% lighter and hopeful in such confusing and overwhelming times as these....