Gem's Big List Of Trans Media
The latest episode of The Empress Diaries Podcast explores all things gender as we share stories and perspectives from a cisgender, transgender and non-binary experience.
Podcast host & producer Gem has put together this awesome blog we have entitled, ‘Gem's Big List Of Trans Media’ for some super fun reading/viewing. Thanks Gem you rock!
You can tune in to the podcast episode 5a: ‘Ode to G - we’re all just being total babes!’ - with special guest CJ Bellwether by clicking HERE. 💋
ContraPoints
For an insight into how trans women think about themselves and the sorts of societal stuff they have to navigate, Contrapoints (I can hear every trans person reading this groaning right now) makes funny, intelligent, fast-paced (occasionally controversial but always impeccably-reasoned) videos like this one about the shame she feels being a trans woman who's attracted to other women.
Black Dresses
Black Dresses are a band made up of two trans women, devi and rook, and while their music goes to so many places beyond their identity as such, the work feels steeped in it. This is their very good latest album, Peaceful As Hell: https://blackdresses.bandcamp.com/album/peaceful-as-hell
Elevirtual - ‘1 Year of VR Research’
"trans-ness" as a phenomenon manifests in ways beyond just how trans people look - this next video is a fairly ordinary video by a VR research team, at least two of whom are non-binary, and to me this entire video is infused with a non-binaryness that's difficult to describe, perhaps best typified by their casual and well-practiced disregard for boundaries between categories, as demonstrated in work like their venn diagram house. It's also worth noting how the inherent "bodylessness" of VR might appeal to a trans sensibility.
Let’s Get Burgers
One of my favourite webcomics at the moment is "Lets Get Burgers", a story about a transmasc agender cat named Knife and a trans dog named Cheddar. Again, it never comes up but it's all over the way they interact with the world and each other. https://twitter.com/i/events/1273633841115062274
Carta Monir ‘Napkin’
For an insight into how transitioning affects your sexuality, and your sexual relationship with yourself and others, you can't do better than to read Carta Monir's excellent zine "Napkin" https://www.cartamonir.com/work/napkin and there's lots of free stuff on her website too. (Napkin is not free, but you should buy it!!! support trans artists!!!!!!!)