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Gendercast Episode 23:  Informed Consent for Access to Trans Health (ICATH), Interview with Calvin Burnap and A. Canelli Join Gendercast for an interview with Seattle-based trans advocates and therapists, Calvin Burnap and A. Canelli, who will discuss the informed consent model for accessing trans health and their local and collaborative ICATH project.  Our discussion will cover the importance of self-actualization and autonomy in decision-making (and therapy), rejection of using Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and pathologizing trans* people accessing hormomes or surgery, and the non-proprietary philosophy of ICATH. Guest Bios Calvin Burnap is a queer and trans therapist of color in Seattle, Washington, praciticing within a framework of collective healing and empowerment.  He has been wrking as a service provider since 2007 and frames his work towards the liberation of queer and trans people of all ages and expressions of gender. Canelli is a trans/queer therapist who is also a trans and q

Gendercast Episode 22: What IS Masculinity Anyway?   Join Jesse and Sean as they* muddle through exploring what masculinity means [and just in case you're wondering - we don't know, nor do we figure it out] and navigating it in the world.  They will discuss the Tarheels and Transfags article to get started and historical butch lesbian/dyke masculinity vs. trans* and genderqueer masculinity coming from being assigned female at birth.   Exploring masculinity through taking hormones, internal gender identity and [perceived] gender expression are some of the terrain they cover.  *This is a more personal episode for your gendercast hosts and they only speak from their own experiences/narratives.   Links Check out our new web url www.gendercast.com Crappy wiki definition for masculinity so you can see for yourself The Tarheels and Transfags article by Joshua Bastian Cole we discuss from Beyond Masculinity: Essays by Queer Mean on Gender and Politics and their itunes link here for the a

Gendercast Episode 21: Transmisogyny: Interview with Tobi Hill-Meyer Join Gendercast for our interview with Tobi Hill-Meyer as she so eloquently discusses transmisogyny, language about gender, analyses on the word *transmasculine and creates new meaning(s), pronouns, and her experiences at both Michfest and the Butch Voices national conference as a trans woman.   She'll tell us all about her unique narrative, being raised by second-wave feminist parents, and expands categories beyond the limits of a binary narrative of being socialiazed according to one's sex assigned at birth.   Also, there's a nice smutty treat for you at the end of the episode, compliments of BB Rydell. Episode Links Tobi also talks about some of her projects, including: Handbasket Productions and Tobi's tumblr and her Girl Talk 2011 performance her zine, Trans Sexuality: A Safe Sex Guide for Trans People and Their Partners her film, Genderfellator her article What Transmisogyny Looks Like in the Bilerco

Gendercast Episode 20: Trans Healthcare and the Medically Assigned Binary, Part 2 of our Interview with Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest, MD Join us for the second half of our interview with Dr. Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest.  Links The Organizing for Transgender Healthcare: A Guide for Community Clinic Organizing and Advocacy from the Transgender Law Center (based in California) Check-in Links Transgender in the Workplace: Are People Ready for This? article from Transbliss City of Seattle Race and Social Justice Initiative conference Jessie reports out on Why there's no such thing as "Reverse Racism" article we discussed Sweden keeps forced sterilization law for trans people article from Feministing and a youtube response to it called A Message of Love in Stockholm, Sweden Massachusetts transgender equality law and don't forgot that public accomodations (bathrooms) are NOT included, see this FAQ You Don't Get to Tell us When to Be Offended, Rupaul, Rebecco Juro's article in response to Rupaul's use of the wor

Gendercast Episode 19:  Trans Healthcare and the Medically Assigned Binary, Interview with Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest, MD Join us for Part 1 of our interview with transhealthcare provider Dr. Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest.  This interview will be aired in two separated podcast episodes chock-full of great information about both trans specific healthcare and primary care for trans individuals encompassing any sex assigned at birth.  Jennifer Jones-Vanderleest MD, MPH. Speciality Family Medicine  Links Jennifer mentions Southern Arizona Gender Alliance University of California San Francisco Center for Excellence in Transgender Health TransYouth Family Allies Family Acceptance Project Vancouver Coastal Health Transgender Health Program Transgender Veterans of America Check in Links January Seattle Spit Featuring rogue pinay!! on Thursday, January 12, 2012 Debauchery on Thursday, January 19, 2012 Broken Bodies, PBP" & "Under 1 Nation: Zulu & Krip-Hop on February 10 and 11, 2012 at Univ

Gendercast Episode 18: Gendercast Year One in Review Join Sean and Jessie as they discuss the first year of Gendercast podcasting. The discussion will cover many topics including trans representation in mainstream and independent media; activist communities and making mistakes as they learn; pronoun navigation; language and labels; and reaching out to other communities.  They will also discuss upcoming Gendercast internship positions, which will be available soon and will be posted on the gendercast website. Jessie and Sean want to thank YOU for listening, learning with us, writing in, interacting on facebook and for any discussions Gendercast might have opened or reignited for you and your communities.  We look forward to bringing you so much more dialogue and hearing more from you in 2012!

Gendercast Episode 17:  Brown Boi Project Interview with B. Cole, Project Director Join Sean for his interview with Cole from the Brown Boi Project, a community of masculine of center women, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and our allies committed to transforming our privilege of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving Racial and Gender Justice. See Cole's bio here.  We are so excited to have had this opportunity to talk with Cole about the Brown Boi Project, the new health guide they created, Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois (one of many articles here, purchase here), reflections on the Butch Voices conference, and a very important topic for Gendercast - reaching out to communities of color.  Thank you Cole! Warning: at about 14 minutes thru 17 minutes some mic reverb was picked up so please adjust audio volume around this time. This episode was not recorded with our usual equipment and we had some issues with the sounds qua

Gendercast Episode 16:  Bisexuality and the Binary or Are We Queer?  Interview Panel from Across the Spectrum with Maddox, Caila and Amy Join us for a great interview panel dialogue about sexuality with three guests who represent a continuum of sexual identities present in the trans community and in those who are interested in us.  We will explore bisexual, queer and pansexual identities and how these identities are part of moving through the world of relationship with trans people and others.  Maddox and Caila will discuss the political aspects of their queer and bisexual identities and elements thereof.  This episode topic came out of a blog post Jessie and Sean ran across entitled, Words, Binary and Biphobia, or: why "bi" is binary but "FTM" is not from the blog Radical Bi: Love, rage and pride. Maddox was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent much of his life the theatre, and did a brief stint in New York where he studied at an acting conservatory. Whil

Gendercast:  SPECIAL EDITION  Heart Breaks Open and Three Dollar Bill Cinema Interviews Join us for a special film edition!  Listen in to our interview with Jason Plourde, Programming Director of Three Dollar Bill Cinema, producers of the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, as we discuss some of the films in the festival this year with a flavor or flair of gender, trans, intersex and queer.  There are so many to see and we hope Seattle folks can make it out to the festival October 14-23, 2011 at various theaters around Seattle. Then join us for our HEART BREAKS OPEN interview, a film about queer life, public health and community accountability.  Samonte Cruz, who plays Johnny, and Basil Shadid, producer of the film talk about the way the film was made; the actors were also writers as each brought their own life experience to the development of their characters.  We also hear from Basil and Samonte about the different elements of the film

Gendercast Episode 15:  What Does it Mean to be an Ally?  Interview with Debbie Carlsen, Director of LGBTQ Allyship "Allyship is about growth...and humanizing each other" [from Debbie's interview] Join us for an important interview with Debbie Carlsen, founder and Director of LGBTQ Allyship; a Seattle-based non-profit organization focused on organizing around social and econnomic justice issues facing the LGBTQ community.  Debbie discusses the mission of Allyship, which is that all oppressions are interconnected and there is a possibility of a world free of oppression and the liberation of all people.  Debbie has been organizing in Seattle since 1995 and talks about allyship as "a lifelong learning cycle of learning about others' perspectives" and hopes to organize deeper in coalition with other communities. Sean also interviews Seattle's own Ruby Rouge the producer of Pink Taco which takes place every first Tuesday at the Wildrose. Links/Event Links Pink Taco! - t

Gendercast Episode 14: Reflections on the 2011 Butch Voices National Conference Join Jessie as they discuss the 2011 Butch Voices National Conference with Kari Kesler, our guest from Episode 9 on Feminism and Jay Walls, who served the programming chair for the conference. Jessie and Kari provide some reflection and discussion about the charged divisiveness which occurred at the conference in relation to the "Masculine of Center" terminology in the Butch Voices mission statement as well as some women-identified butches forming a split off group, Butch Nation.  Sean weighs in as our resident butch! Links Butch Voices mission statement and BV founder Joe LeBlanc's statement about the changes leading up to the conference [includes links to the statements by the president, Krys Freeman] Brown Boi Project founder's definition of Masculine of Center Article on the success of the conference published in Oakland North Velvet Park article where we first read about the controversy before the confere

Gendercast Episode 13:  Reflections on Gender Odyssey Join Jessie and Sean as they discuss their disparate experiences of the Gender Odyssey conference in the context of the new genderqueer track juxtaposed against FTM orientations.  We will reflect on our experience of Chaz Bono's workshop Q&A session as well as Dean Spade's keynote address, which left us in awe and inspired.  We will mention briefly various workshops we attended. Links and Check-Ins Dean Spade excerpt on trickle up social justice from the talk Dean gave at Barnard College called Trans Politics on a Neoliberal Landscape Informed Consent for Access to Transgender Health Care (ICATH) facebook page Out in Front leadership training in Seattle is still accepting applications for the 2012 class, which starts in September 2011 Gendercast really likes Allyship (facebook here) and the work they are doing and enjoyed attending the 4th annual Queerly Classes Discussion Series

Gendercast Episode 12:  Workplace Issues/Gender Identity Forum Join us for the audio version of a gender identity forum that both Jessie and Sean participated in for King County in Seattle, WA along with several other Trans and gender non-conforming identified folks.  Marsha Botzer provides the introduction and moderation of the panel, which occurred on June 20, 2011.  This is unedited as it was broadcasted on King County television.  The panel was titled:  A Focus on Gender Identity: Understanding Discrimination and Workplace Issues for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Individuals and is part of King County's larger Equity and Social Justice Initiative. Links and Check-ins The new Gendercast website! Seattle Times article on Gender Odyssey founder Aiden Key's discussion about transgender children Discussion of facebook event for Beachy Queen, a beach meetup in Seattle, WA for all bodies Out in Front is accepting applications for the 2012 queer leadership training prog

Gendercast Episode 11:  Examining Privilege Dialogue and discussion of privilege in regards to race, class, ability and gender.  Join us in a sometimes difficult conversation around white privilege [and the importance of owning our own] as we discuss bell hooks' poignant writing on white supremacy, women of color feminism and the importance of an anti-racist agenda as a fundamental foundation to any movement of social justice.  We also discuss this as it relates to the trans/gnc movement, cisgender privelege and binary supremacy.  Links bell hooks' book killing rage: Ending Racism  we read, referenced and quoted.  Thanks to bell for providing a foundation for examining and studying white privilege, here is the short youtube video of bell we also referenced We referenced some of the white privilege checklist items from the blog article White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack The blog Is Privilege Offensive? regarding exp

Gendercast Episode 10:  Trans Inclusion and the Silent T in LGBT:  Pride and Beyond Dialogue and discussion about inclusion of Transgender/gender nonconforming in LGBT communities and organizations.  We will focus in on June and Pride month as a jumping off place for specific examples of inclusion/noninclusion and look at several areas' trans specific events and existence of Trans marches in GLBT pride events.  Links T is Not Optional blog post from the Transexual Menace The Toronto Special Report to the Trans Community about endorsing Pride Toronto and the follow-up article The Cincinnati Pride or Priveledge blog post from the Trans Group Blog San Francisco Trans March Links from Check-ins Qpdx The gender free preschool in Sweden  

Gendercast Episode 9: Feminism 101: Roots and Foundations for the Gender Movement Kari Kesler joins us to give an overview of the first, second and third waves of feminism and to discuss identity, organizing around a shared oppression, the rub between lesbian feminists and transgender, standpoint femimism, women only spaces and the unique experiences transmascluine individuals have that can be the foundation for being great femimists.  Links Judith Lorber's Gender Inequality book we pulled our outline of the various waves of femimism from.  Kari pulled from many other resources, including her past teaching of Women's Studies. Trans FTM WA State Group. Seattle Frontrunners Run and Walk with Pride event here. Portland Pride is June 17th through June 19, 2011. Seattle Pride!  Capital Hill pride on Broadway on Saturday, June 25 and Pridefest in Seattle Center on Sunday, June 26, 2011.

Gendercast Episode 8: Self-Care, It's not just about Gender. We discuss various risk factors trans individuals face in addition to and as part of the stress of everyday life.  We will cover some of our methods of how we take care of ourselves in relation to, and within the context of, having a transgender identity, being a member of the transgender and queer communities, and being a human in general.  We'll cover spiritual practice, self-advocacy, educating about gender, nutrition, exercise, sleep, artistic expression, alternative practices and more. Links Register here for the Butch Voices 2011 National Conference, which is August 18th through 21st.  They are also currently accepting proposals if you want to conduct a presentation/workshop for the conference. The 7 benefits of regular activity from the MayoClinic.  Beefheads fitness channel and the Seattle Samaraya center, a local yoga resource. Tips for Health Care Providers for Providing paps to trans men and

Gendercast Episode 7: TRANSLATIONS The Seattle Transgender Film Festival Our interview with Cresdan Maite, co-founder of Translations and Jason Plourde, Programming Director of Three Dollar Bill Cinema.  We discuss the 2011 Translations festival coming up in May (12-15) as well as transgender film in general, current themes and future directions. Links Translations film times and more.  Facebook event here Three Dollar Bill Cinema, the organization and other events (including the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival) The 3rd Annual Hug a Trans Person Day Check-ins From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond, edited by Morty Diamond. Local Events Dining Out for Life complete listing and Seattle event here  

Gendercast Episode 6: PUT THIS ON THE {MAP}:  Youth Voices Part 2:  Our Intervew with Quinn and Zane In part 2 of our focus on youth in March, we hear from Quinn and Zane, two of the youth who were in the PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} documentary.  They talk about their experiences with the film and how life is now.  Links Bend it is the youth arts collective Quinn mentions Diverse Harmony is the gay-straight alliance youth chorus Zane mentions Camp Ten Trees

Gendercast Episode 5: PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} and the Reteaching Gender and Sexuality Campaign Part 1:  Our Interview with Sid and Kennedy March marks our month of focusing on queer and transgender youth.  In Episode 5, we embark upon part 1, which is our interview with Sid and Kennedy, the producers and directors of the PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} film about queer youth in East King County.  We also discuss their Reteaching Gender and Sexuality Campaign and national tour. Links    PUT THIS ON THE {MAP} Reteaching Gender and Sexuality youtube message Three Wings is a youth-led non-profit organization that was created by Queer Youth Space The Seattle Pacific University Falcon Letter to the Editor about the Campus Unity Group we discussed The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals book we discussed in check-ins Local Events Equal Rights Washington's Equality Day on March 22, 2011 Uh Huh Her at Chop Suey on Sunday, March 27, 2011, tickets here