Shane Brodie (Other Conversations project transgender interviews and FM radio interviews)

Part 2 of 2. Interview w/a queer, trans activist in Kansas City (Other Conversations, Summer 2023) I am initially uploading audio and replacing with video on podcasting platforms as I have time and an adequate wifi signal. All video versions are available on youtube. ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and...

Part 1 of 2. Interview w/a queer, trans activist in Kansas City (Other Conversations, Summer 2023) I am initially uploading audio and replacing with video on podcasting platforms as I have time and an adequate wifi signal. All video versions are available on youtube. ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and...

Interview with a trans man who performs as a drag queen (Other Conversations, Summer 2023) ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested...

Part 2 of 2. Interview w/queer, trans leather people in Missouri (Other Conversations, Summer 2023) ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are i...

Part 1 of 2. Interview w/queer, trans leather people in Missouri (Other Conversations, Summer 2023) ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are i...

Part 2 of 2. Interview w/a trans activist from Kansas City, KS (Other Conversations, Summer 2023) ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are int...

Part 1 of 2. Interview w/a trans activist from Kansas City, KS (Other Conversations, Summer 2023) ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are int...

Interview w/a gender diverse queer activist from Louisiana (Other Conversations, Summer 2023) ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interes...

Part 2 of 2. Interview w/a trans woman and her family in Nebraska (Other Conversations, Summer 2023) ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are...

Part 1 of 2. Interview w/a trans woman and her family in Nebraska (Other Conversations, Summer 2023) ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are...

Part 2 of 2. Interview with trans people in Eastern Oregon (Other Conversations, Summer 2023). TW: some discussion of sexual abuse and racism. In this interview, I speak with a pre-transition trans woman, a transgender man, and a nonbinary person in the town of La Grande, Oregon. We talk about the social climate and demographics of the local area, the beauty of the mountains in Eastern Oregon, imm...

Part 1 of 2. Interview with trans people in Eastern Oregon (Other Conversations, Summer 2023). TW: some discussion of sexual abuse and racism. In this interview, I speak with a pre-transition trans woman, a transgender man, and a nonbinary person in the town of La Grande, Oregon. We talk about the social climate and demographics of the local area, the beauty of the mountains in Eastern Oregon, imm...

Part 2 of 2. Interview with a bisexual trans man in Nebraska (Other Conversations 2023). In Part 2 we mostly discuss Judaism, Paganism, tarot, and Wicca. We literally talked until the sun went down, so the last few minutes of Part 2 are somewhat dark, but my mic is still lit up and we just keep talking! Over the course of this interview we discuss the words queer, bisexual and pansexual and their...

Part 1 of 2. Interview with a bisexual trans man in Nebraska (Other Conversations 2023)

Interview with a trans woman who works in trucking in Kansas (Other Conversations May 2023) I will complete a video description when I have more time. ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may co...

Interview with the mother of a trans man in rural Iowa (Other Conversations May 2023) I will complete a description when I have more time. ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later...

Interview with a trans woman in SW Missouri (Other Conversations May 2023). I'm experimenting with stripping the audio out of my videos and then uploading to podcasting forums, if I just leave them in video formats it takes forever. With the mp3 format, I believe there's a loss in audio quality, but it cannot be helped. I'm crossing my fingers that this will be easier to upload. Other...

This is an example of a KWRK-LP PSA that I recorded in my voice with text from a community group.

This is an example of a PSA that I recorded in my voice last year for KWRK-LP in Fairbanks with text provided from the organization. I usually ask people from an organization to come into the studio to record their own PSAs with my help so that there are more community voices on the radio, but this PSA needed to be done more quickly.

Interview with a trans teenager and his father in Oklahoma (Other Conversations, May 2023). Other Conversations is an independent, informal oral history project by Shane Brodie, a multi-issue activist and sculptor. This project is on hiatus as of Fall 2023 as I continue to slowly upload previous interviews, but it may continue later on in 2024 or thereafter. If you are interested in being intervie...

Interview with a trans advocate in Kansas (Other Conversations, May 2023). My guest Kathryn Redman's writing: https://medium.com/@kj.redman Description and tracking of Kansas Bill SB 180 from the Kansas Legislature http://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/SB180/ https://kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/measures/documents/summary_sb_180_2023 RE: Kansas Bill SB 180 - the ACLU agreed to represent M...

Interview with Olliever Buchanan, a queer, intersex, trans man in Oklahoma City, OK. We discuss using they/them pronouns at work, coming out as different identities, dealing with chest dysphoria, finding out they are intersex, endogenous and exogenous hormones, DNA/genetic tests, anti-trans bills and intersex exclusions, autonomy vs control of bodies, how testosterone therapy affected their body,...

Part 2 of 2. Interview w/ Paula Sophia Schonauer, LCSW, a trans woman who is a former police officer in Oklahoma City. We discuss her coming out trans at work as a police officer, discrimination from local police officers as well as police associations, the hardnose tactics of some academy trainers and officers, the concept of "good activity" in policing (e.g. traffic stops, tickets, arrests), and...

Part 1 of 2. Interview w/ Paula Sophia Schonauer, LCSW, a trans woman who is a former police officer in Oklahoma City. We discuss how she was ordained and then defrocked by the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma, her military career, her deployment in Desert Shield and Storm in Iraq, her desire to spend more time with her son, some tropes about how gay and trans people's identities, her involvement of...

Part 2 of 2. Interview w/intersex and endosex nonbinary activists, Mo Cortez and Jet Guadalupe Flores. We discuss Mo Cortez's legal advocacy through Texas Advocates for Justice, appropriate and helpful re-entry programs, how the Netherlands closed jails by not criminalizing people, how Houston criminalizes anti-hunger programs and homelessness, the intense police presence in the greater Housto...