Thanks for doing this interview. Trans issues get pushed off to the side way too often. Hope to meet you one day Jen!

Vocals-Jessica Marks
Guitar-Jessica Marks
Bass-Daniel Friedman
Percussion-Jessica Marks
Produced and Recorded by Anthony Nolan Kramer

Fuck The Clock

Vocals-Jessica Marks
Synths-Jessica Marks
Piano-Alexis Lima
Guitar-Jessica Marks
Lead Guitar-Dan Friedman
Produced and Recorded by Anthony Nolan Kramer

Maya

Vocals-Jessica Marks
Piano and synths-Jessica Marks
Guitar-Jessica Marks
Percussion-Jessica Marks
Recorded and Produced by Anthony Nolan Kramer


Old As They

 Im fucking on them niggas just to get u off my mind... u fuckin on them bitches just to pass the time..."

Beach Street is the debut mixtape from artist and transgender woman Kaycee Ortiz. Inspired by her Grandmother's pride for buying her first home on Beach Street in Mobile, Alabama she's celebrating Miss Pearl's legacy as well as Kaycee's intent on changing the game with her first release with FUTUREHOOD.

Six Windows(Prod by Melrose Zee)

"My hair is nappy, them bitches got that silky straight... And yet in still I X em out like elimidate... I be wit nate we dope as the coke, yo style is a joke bitches dont gag they choke... when i was into the room, swag dripping from the womb, rest in peace sandra bland heaven called too soon..."

Beach Street is the debut mixtape from artist and transgender woman Kaycee Ortiz. Inspired by her Grandmother's pride for buying her first home on Beach Street in Mobile, Alabama she's celebrating Miss Pearl's legacy as well as Kaycee's intent on changing the game with her first release with FUTUREHOOD.

Miss Pearl (Prod by J BAYLISS)

"I be on the PJ, spinning like a DJ, then we fly to BK, wit Tina and BJ"


Beach Street is the debut mixtape from artist and transgender woman Kaycee Ortiz. Inspired by her Grandmother's pride for buying her first home on Beach Street in Mobile, Alabama she's celebrating Miss Pearl's legacy as well as Kaycee's intent on changing the game with her first release with FUTUREHOOD.

Down the Bay (Prod Aero-P Beats)

"Im a slave to the flesh like Hanibal Lecture, when it boils down to it im the baddie inspector, that D stay on my brain, choke the chicken Miss Fame"

Beach Street is the debut mixtape from artist and transgender woman Kaycee Ortiz. Inspired by her Grandmother's pride for buying her first home on Beach Street in Mobile, Alabama she's celebrating Miss Pearl's legacy as well as Kaycee's intent on changing the game with her first release with FUTUREHOOD.

Sex Me (Prod by SaruBeatz)

Written and performed by MKoobz
Engineered by Johnny Cosmic
Produced by Johnny Cosmic and MKoobz

Get Me Wasted

Bea Cordelia Sullivan-Knoff (24) tells Joseph R. Varisco (31) her journey to claim her transgender identity and how it influences her art.

This recording was done in partnership with the Alphawood Foundation.

This excerpt was produced by Bianca Russelberg + Resonate and the recording was facilitated by Francesco De Salvatore.

Bea Cordelia & Joseph Varisco

Jen Richards on the importance of discussing race in the trans community: 

"A lot of trans activists will talk about the Transgender Day of Remembrance and I've seen a number of videos and read a lot of articles from white activists who never mention the fact that all the names on the list are women of color. If you are doing that, if you are co-opting that event to talk about violence against trans people, but you are not mentioning trans women specifically, trans women of color specifically or sex work specifically then you are failing." 

Joe Varisco of JRV MAJESTY Productions sits down with Jen Richards founder of We Happy Trans* (www.WeHappyTrans.com) to discuss the launch of the 2013 Trans 100 list. 

http://www.facebook.com/events/491163934264456

The 2013 Trans 100 is an inaugural overview of the breadth and diversity of work being done in, by, and for the transgender community across the United States.

The first effort of its kind, the list intends to shift the coverage of trans issues by focusing on the positive work being accomplished, and providing visibility to those typically underrepresented.

This positive recognition will rightfully occur on March 31st, the International Transgender Day of Visibility, and it will be telecast live and documented to be viewed and celebrated by individuals, groups and organizations in other regions and nations.

The launch will include remarks by special guests Janet Mock and Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler, live performances by Namoli Brennet and Joe Stevens, and will be hosted by KOKUMO.

This is a joint production of We Happy Trans, This is HOW, and Chicago House. The event will be free, but donations are encouraged and reservations are recommended. For sponsorship opportunities and media inquiries, please contact producer Jen Richards via jen@WeHappyTrans.com.

Jen Richards lives in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago and is quite happily in an asymptotic relationship to radical authenticity and in a permanent state of aporia. Jen is unabashedly proud to be a graduate of Shimer College, longtime member of the Theosophical Society in America, and an Outward Bound alum, has published articles, led workshops and presented talks on a variety of topics across the country, relishes her work in the arts as the Managing Director of eighth blackbird and President of New Music Chicago, and is the creator of wehappytrans.com She humbly requests your latitude as she figures out what the hell she is doing, and remains genuinely open to feedback. She earnestly loves truth, beauty and goodness. She also loves you, madly. Yes, you.

Check out more of Jen's work at:

wtftransdating.tumblr.com
ourtranschat.tumblr.com
translovestories.tumblr.com

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This interview is part of the QUEER LEXICON oral history series that attempts to explore and document the lives of queer Chicago culture makers, innovators and luminaries. QUEER LEXICON is an original JRV MAJESTY Production. For more information or to support this project please contact us at jrvmajesty@gmail.com

Jen Richards Trans 100 Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

Queer Lexicon is a JRV MAJESTY Production series of 20-30 minute interviews profiling, investigating and exploring the lives and experiences of the queer community. 

The conversations range from discussing historical issues of segregation, youth homelessness and street economies, intersectionality of race, class, gender, sex and religion, the failure of academic and non-profit institutions and the personal and intimate details of everyday life as creators, artists, activists and culture makers in this community. 

Jen Richards Trans 100 Interview a JRV MAJESTY Production

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