Fantastic episode! I love the gender exploration series. :) Part of the episode reminded me of Kim Chi's song, "Fat, Fem, & Asian". Just in case you haven't heard it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU5ns8wGiGM

comment hug!!! This was a rough,long week

Okay, so people not wanting Femmes in their bio is not okay, but he does the SAME THING WITH HIS BIO!

My work

HyperTrash

prod. by canyon formato

https://canyonrfbeats.bandcamp.com/
traktrain.com/canyonrfbeats

cold out$ide

I could never be vegan! (wrapping my head around being perceived)

everywhere!

Perception!

Monster (Prod. By allvviinn)

PRETTYBROWNEYES

Hole in the wall is a collaboration piece with BDB ZACKATTAck Kyler and Jmac.

Rome (feat. BDB, Jmac)

It’s fun to try to be beautiful when people are giving you positive attention for it. It hurts if you’re not meeting that standard and people treat you like you aren’t even there. You watch the people who are getting a lot of positive attention for being that certain kind of beautiful and you are made to feel invisible.

Or worse, people go out of their way to make you feel bad.

It’s hard to be a woman, yes. It’s a lot harder to be a woman who’s hairier, wider, bigger, taller, square instead of round, straight up and down instead of curvy, big hands, big feet, no vagina and maybe no breasts either. A woman who isn’t quite looking like what some people think a woman should look like. But who is finding her way.

To these women, the world can be downright cruel. More than cruel, violent. Harassment often escalates into assault, and more often than you would like to hear, escalates into full on homicide.

For these women, being womanly in the way we are told we have to is sometimes about more than beauty. It’s about survival. This episode is about the story of one woman’s quest for beauty.  

It was a collaboration with badass poet and radio maker, Julie Alsop. After we finished production we invited Zil Goldstein into my walk-in closet magic sound booth to talk through some of the blind spots in the story. Zil is a nurse practitioner, working specifically to help medical providers be more LGBT aware. 

If you are interested in learning more about the disproportionate amount of violence that trans women face the National Coalition Against Violence Project puts out a yearly report. 


Beauty Is Pain

As a kid, Jose Gutierez studied dance professionally. He planned to become a professional modern or ballet dancer. That all changed when he got caught up in the New York nightlife of the early 80s. Instead of sticking to ballet, Jose became one of the pioneers of the dance movement known as vogue. The dance mimics the poses of magazine and runway models. Vogue roots are in Harlem's black and brown queer nightlife. Though it's been used by pop artists from Chris Brown to Beyoncé, vogue still has a home in New York's underground. Jose now leads the House of Xtrvaganza as Father, and he passes down the art of vogue to his house children.

Xtravaganza

“People kind of disregard punk and I try to explain to people that in communities like the ones I grew up in, you gotta understand that punk in these communities has saved kids lives,” says Martin Sorrondeguy, lead singer of Los Crudos. The band’s sloganeering songs became anthems for a generation of Latino punks looking for something to identify with. Twenty-five years later, we look back at the history and legacy of one of punk’s most respected bands.

Los Crudos: Hardcore’s Latino Pioneers

This is the kinda-sorta-true love story of Idiot + Dummy — two boneheads in love. 

Idiot + Dummy

The Heart

Ultraslut

Local Honey

honeybees

Atrial Flutters (or Raise Yr Hand If Yr Afraid) is the second full-length album from Setec, following 2014's acclaimed Brittle As Bones. 

This is an album about anxiety.

2018

In Sawdust

song written by me 
produced by Walter Victor III

travel

persons - 

Cassandra - lead vocals, synths, production
Connor - drum programming, guitar, synths, percussion, production, vocals
Dani - guitar, "real" bass, vocals
Aidan - bass synth, synths
Alex - production, engineering, mixing
jack doutt - mastering

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mastered a way of living with demons
no more sudden moves
dance with you, i'm dying to
co-habitate in skeleton closet
no more breathing room
back to back with you

know you've been going hard my baby
i'm talking to you
there is no mountaintop to summit
Vesuvius

missed every stop and melted the rails
the conductor too
limbs and steel, the puddle grew
our time's elastic 
this train won't fail
spilt my memories from a holy grail

know you've been going hard my baby
i'm talking to you
there is no mountaintop to summit
Vesuvius

loving ya wrong, bend your arm that way
little bit every day
cannot recall what I dream til it's staring us in the face

Cavities

A show about power & love.

www.theheartradio.org

Radio reporter, podcast producer, bad poet

Ultraslut

The Heart

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