143: Trans Reality, Trans Possibility (w/Beau Brink)
For three years, we’ve covered a forest fire of body fascism, unleashed by the culture wars and the pandemic. With the help of many esteemed guests, we have tracked its hateful and eugenicist impacts on marginalized groups: the disabled, the racialized, the fat, the neurodivergent.
We have taken too long to host a trans person who can give us both a front line personal and analytical report on what it feels like, and what it means, to live under the current regime of moral panic and legislative assault.
Today we welcome artist and journalist Beau Brink. Beau is a longtime activist and advocate for LGBTQ+ communities, and a member of the Trans Journalists Association. After hours, he’s an outsider artist who works primarily with cosmetics and crafting materials.
Show Notes
(N)either Men (n)or Women? The Failure of Western Binary Systems | Society for Classical Studies
The Groups Pushing Anti-Trans Laws Want to Divide the LGBTQ Movement | The New Republic
G.O.P. State Lawmakers Push a Growing Wave of Anti-Transgender Bills - The New York Times
Anti-trans trend in US will inevitably lead to violence
Judge clears records of wrongfully convicted 'San Antonio 4'
Felix Gonzalez-Torres Public and Private: Spheres of Influence - opinião17
American University: The Growing Hunger Crisis in America
Victims of the Troubled Teen Industry
Washington Post: How many school shootings have happened in America since Columbine?
Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, 2001–2019 – Statistical Tables
NPR: Fatal Police Shootings Of Unarmed Black People Reveal Troubling Patterns
CDC Fact Sheet: Today’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Vice: Texas AG Says He’s ‘Willing and Able’ to Defend a Ban on ‘Sodomy’
Yale School of Medicine: Biased Science in Texas & Alabama
Pew Research: Americans’ Complex Views on Gender Identity and Transgender Issues
White Feminism | Book by Koa Beck | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster Canada
Against White Feminism | Rafia Zakaria | W. W. Norton & Company
Youth Victimization: Prevalence and Implications
ACLU of Indiana: 7 Myths About Trans Youth in School Sports, Debunked
ESPN: Young transgender athletes caught in middle of states' debates
“The Politics of Fascism, Or Consuming the Flesh of the Other,” Michael Clifford. In Extreme Beauty: Aesthetics, Politics, Death, eds. James Swearingen and Joanne Cutting-Gray, 2002. Online version here.
