Season One (All Episodes)
Episode 1: When + How Did You Know?
Vivian Wilson and Logan GiannascoliThis episode, with guests Vivian Wilson and Logan Giannascoli, hosted by Alyx Liu, explores coming-of-age stories, self-discovery, and how different environments shape when we understand our transness. This episode dives into the catalysts of transitioning, and heartfelt advice for budding genderqueer folk.
Episode 2: Dating and Relationships
Logan Giannascoli, Jaclyn Moore and Freddie ChenThis episode explores the raw realities of romance through the lens of multiple trans identities. Diving into everything from disclosure, fetishization, and shifting sexualities to navigating intimacy and relationship styles, our guests break down what it takes to find love and freedom on your own terms.
Episode 3: Transamory + Those Who Love Us
Kai Jones, Kara Chang, and Katya TaylorShifting the lens of trans romance to the partners who love us, guests Kai Jones, Kara Chang, and Katya Taylor join us for an honest dialogue on sexuality and attraction. This episode explores navigating societal stigma, distinguishing genuine desire from fetishization, and redefining love beyond heteronormativity.
Episode 4: Family Dynamics
Genie Liu and Laurel CharlestonThis episode, with guests Genie Liu and Laurel Charleston, unpacks the complex structures of biological and chosen family for an intimate look at navigating support, rejection, and everything in between. This episode explores the realities of coming out, weathering societal and familial transphobia in real time, and the dynamic relationships that trans folk have with their family amidst coming into their identity at different stages of their transition.
Episode 5: Family Planning
Ezra Michel, Elle Deran, and Mars HobreckerThis episode, with guests Ezra Michel, Elle Deran, and Mars Hobrecker dives into long term trans relationships and discussions when developing new (potential) familial dynamics. What considerations go into trans folk that want to plan their family? Filmed on March 16, this conversation explores building a life with a partner, navigating pregnancy as a trans man (he has since welcomed their child into the world), and the realities of having/raising children as trans folk.
Episode 6: Interview with a Sex Worker
This episode, with guests Quei Tann and Noah Way, unpacks the complexities of making a business of providing pleasure/entertainment, amidst survival and choice. This conversation dives into real-time experiences with stigma, shame, and empowerment. We discuss boundaries, client dynamics and the concept of fetishization in context of sex work. Quei and Noah offer an unfiltered and necessary look at navigating the sex work industry as trans individuals, and how it impacts their own career ambitions as well.
Quei Tann and Noah WayEpisode 7: Gender Binaries
Ivan Lam and Bobby SanchezThis episode examines the nuance of navigating a binary world as people of trans experience. Self expression and acceptance comes at a price — we talk about safety, survival, discrimination and conformity. By dismantling the "binary prisons" that risk trading the shackles of dysphoria for rigid gender roles, the conversation questions what true liberation looks like outside of a cisnormative default. Joined by guests Bobby Sanchez and Ivan Lam, the episode dives into the mechanics of gender policing and how nonbinary experiences navigate safety, ultimately uncovering how authenticity is forged outside the binary.
Episode 8: Gender Affirming Care + Beauty Standards
Venus Viveros and Zaya PerysianThis episode, with guests Zaya Perysian and Venus, dives into their paths to gender-affirming care at different stages of life-the social, medical, and surgical interventions that help trans people live in alignment with who they are. The conversation explores the physical and mental health realities of HRT and surgical transition, from early symptoms and emotional shifts to their personal medical routines. Beyond the clinical, Zaya and Venus offer an intimate look at how society's treatment of them shifts as they become more "passable," and the evolving relationship between trans identity, intimacy, and performance under the weight of ever-changing beauty standards.
Episode 9: Religion
Drita Vushma, Rabbi Abby Stein, and Venus ViveroThis episode, with guests Drita Vushma, Rabbi Abby Stein, and Venus Vivero, dives into the intersection of trans identity, faith, and religious trauma. The conversation explores the systemic weaponization of sacred texts versus the profound personal solace found within spiritual beliefs. Moving beyond institutional critique, our guests offer an intimate look at how they reconcile their existence with the divine, reshape their relationship with spirituality, and navigate public criticism to live authentically.
Episode 10: Queers at the Frontlines of Liberation
Jasmine Reid + Sydney BaloueThis episode, with guests Jasmine Reid and Sydney Baloue, traces the throughline from past to present: queer and trans people have always stood at the frontlines of collective liberation. Poet Jasmine Reid and writer/producer/ballroom historian Sydney Baloue bring their respective lineages—from poetry, ballroom, and archive—into conversation. We unpack ancestry as strategy, joy as resistance, and the cultural labor that gets erased when the wins are written down. Jasmine and Sydney offer an honest look at how the movements that came before us shape the futures we’re still building.
Episode 11: Survival in a Transphobic World
Drita Vushmaqaj, Alexandra Magallon, and Janve SobersThis episode, with guests Drita Vushmaqaj, Alexandra Magallon, and Janve Sobers, gets concrete about what survival actually looks like for trans people under current systems of oppression. From housing and employment to healthcare and the legal system, the conversation pulls apart the structural barriers that turn daily life into a battlefield. Drita, Alexandra, and Janve bring lived experience and frontline work across advocacy, policy, and law to a wide-ranging conversation about what it actually takes to keep each other alive under this empire determined to stomp out trans existence.
Finale: Connecting the Dolls to Their Dreams
Star Amerasu, Sasha Allen, and Ryatt JammalWe close the season with guests Star Amerasu, Sasha Allen, and Ryatt Jammal. Each artist is turning personal vision into culture through their craft, whether it be songwriting or making content. The conversation moves through hopes and dreams for the trans community, the worlds we want to see come to fruition, and what it takes, creatively, materially, spiritually, to build them.