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

Part 1 of 2. Interview w/intersex and endosex nonbinary people. Jet Guadalupe Flores and Mo Cortez talk about their gender identities (e.g. nonbinary), their sexual identities (e.g. pansexual), pronouns they use, and where they grew up. We also talk about trans healthcare, such as hormone use and surgeries, and the harsh reality of being a trans or intersex person in Texas. Mo Cortez talks about b...

Part 2 of 2. Interview with Hayden Cohen, an 18yo trans youth advocate in Houston, Texas. We discuss the Jewish community in Houston, their place in the Jewish community as a nonbinary person, prayer spaces with and without partitions, and being queer and nonbinary in the Jewish community. We also discuss how activism can affect our personal lives, how they manage their personal life as a very pub...

Part 1 of 2. Interview with Hayden Cohen, an 18yo trans youth advocate in Houston Texas. I talk a little bit about my time as a ward of the State of Texas, since the halfway house I lived in as a teenager was two blocks away from our interview site. We also talk about their nonbinary gender identity, the Texas State legislature, bills previously and currently being proposed that ban gender affirmi...

Interview with a trans man in a small town in East Texas. 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 interviewed sometime in the future, please...

Part 2 of 2. Interview with a gay Christian trans man in Houston Texas. We discuss the church and related activist communities he's been involved with, his history with conservative and liberal Lutheran churches, the Seminex movement and the schism within American Lutheranism, accepting the harmful status quo or proactively changing things for the better, his shift toward involvement in the Ep...

Part 1 of 2. Interview with a gay Christian trans man in Houston Texas. We discuss the trans masculine groups he's helped form and lead (STAG, Be Free and TMAH) and how the focus and demographics of these groups changed over time. ------------------ Links to topics in part 1 of our interview. Trans Masculine Alliance of Houston, TMAH https://transmasculinehouston.com/ The Montrose Center https...

Part 2 of 2. Interview with a revolutionary communist person who identifies as neutrois and trans masculine (transmasc). In part 2, we discuss Trump and how his presidency inspired many people to become politically active, the erosion of confidence in electoral politics, how covid allowed people be off work and re-evaluate their lives, formation of the Trans Masculine Alliance of Houston, the big...

Part 1 of 2. Interview with a revolutionary communist person who identifies as neutrois and trans masculine (transmasc). We talk about their move from Chicago to Houston, their work in Chicago with gang members, and their work in Houston with the transmasculine community. We also discuss their political beliefs in revolutionary communism, the anarchist concept of unschooling, their work with gang...

Part 2 of 2. Interview with a trans man living in rural Texas. We discuss his relationships including how I'm the second trans person he's ever met, the stress that trans people endure, how he deals with friends of his who are anti-trans, dealing with addiction in his family, the need for and how to increase healthcare access, libertarian vs anarchist ideas, his desire to start testosteron...

Part 1 of 2. Interview with a trans man living in rural Texas. We talk about his being a trans man who hasn't physically transitioned but he still passes, his early life growing up in the country and his self-ID as a redneck, how he had to leave public school at a young age due to harassment, homeschooling in a religious setting, his love of horse riding and the Hill Country, his work on ranch...

Part 2 of 2. Interview with two trans men in Houston Texas. We talk about my move back to Alaska, political diversity and tensions in Alaska, KKK and skinheads in East Texas, how conservatives disrespect military members who are POC, the lack of influencers from Alaska, being in the gay scene as trans men, gay bar closures during covid, how we socialize outside of gay bars (e.g. board games, dunge...

Part 1 of 2. Interview with two trans men in Houston Texas. We discuss top surgery, trans people being anti-trans, some misconceptions about trans people, unhealthy competition and comparisons between people, our first knowledge of trans people, dealing with thinning hair, the trans group they are involved with (see link below), Texas Governor Abbott's and Attorney General Ken Paxton's ant...

Part 2 of 2. Interview with an agendered and asexual person in East Texas. We discuss the welcoming environment at their workplace, appropriate ally-ship, making art in cheaper places of the country, how they relate to other people as an asexual person, how they acquired and relate to their emotional support dog, how we both love cooking for other people, mutual aid, what their community needs in...

Part 1 of 2. Interview with an agendered and asexual person in East Texas. We talk about the history and use of both of these terms, how asexuality fits with the queer community, gatekeeping in the LGBT+ community, having a supportive family, how therapy supports having clear boundaries, describing aspects of yourself through the gender gingerbread person and the gender unicorn, the relationship b...

Interview of Ruth Iten, a long-term resident of Kotzebue in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska. We talk about opposition to the proposed Ambler road, the petition drive from Protect the Kobuk, the larger coalition of opposition groups known as Defend the Brooks Range, and she quotes several Alaska Native elders who are against building this mining road. Protect the Kobuk https://www.protectthe...

Interview of Bob Spencer, a former manager of the Fairbanks North Star Borough animal shelter in the 1970's. We discuss the early days of the shelter and why he created indoor drop-off kennels. We also discuss the Borough's plans NOT to include drop-off kennels in their new animal shelter and why that's a bad idea. With our very cold climate here in Fairbanks, it is humane to offer this service to...

Interview with graduate student employees of the University of Alaska about the history of their unionization effort (AGWA/UAW), the initial steps they took to communicate with other grad students, why unionization is important, and their relationship to larger national unions and to other unions within UA. We also discuss and debunk some of the anti-union messaging. ⁠ AGWA/UAW ---- https://www.ag...

KWRK-LP 90.9FM PSA describing how the AGWA/UAW graduate student union started organizing at the University of Alaska and the next steps they are taking to survey student worker needs and to collectively bargain with the university system.

KWRK-LP 90.9FM in Fairbanks. PSA for AGWA/UAW graduate student unionization effort. (Text from Facebook page.) AGWA/UAW We're on our way to a vote! The ALRA has ordered our representation election which will take place from October 13th at 9 AM to October 26th at 4 PM. The vote will be conducted through an electronic voting system called Intelivote. Eligible voters will be able to vote either...

Native Peoples Action PSA Please attend or submit comments to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council in Anchorage October 2-11, 2023 The comment period will open September 8, 2023 and the deadline for written comments is Friday, September 29 at 12pm AKT. Submitted comments will be reviewed then visible online after the deadline closes, as per the Council’s  comment policy . (Text quoted from...

Attention! Native Peoples Action is calling all warriors to warrior up to protect our ways of life by attending our Leadership training this November. Native Peoples Action (NPA) is so excited to partner with our friends at Advance Native Political Leadership to co-host their first leadership training in Alaska! The Leadership training is a full-day in-person training, located in Anchorage, Alaska...

Manh Choh Ore Truck Protest - Carlson Ctr Fairbanks, AK on Aug 26, 2023 This is a sound collage of why protesters were speaking out and waving signs at the Youth Safety event at the Carlson Center, which is owned by the borough. Police were called on protesters for the false claim of damage to the Manh Choh mine project ore truck. Some protestors had laid on the ground, near the tires and undernea...

Interview with Christina about drop-off kennels in Fairbanks and plans for our new animal shelter. We also discuss ASAP, which is a local group that helps low income Fairbanksians access healthcare for their pets.

Part 2 of 2. Interview with Sarah Heinchon, a geologist with Save Our Domes. We talk about her background in economic geology, the history of Save Our Domes, prospective hard rock (not placer) gold exploration and mining in Interior Alaska, the permitting process, neighborhood resistance to mines next door to their homes, how to find out if there's gold exploration on your land or next to your...

Part 1 of 2 - Interview with Sarah Heinchon, a geologist with Save Our Domes. We talk about her background in economic geology, the history of Save Our Domes, prospective hard rock (not placer) gold exploration and mining in Interior Alaska, the permitting process, neighborhood resistance to mines next door to their homes, how to find out if there's gold exploration on your land or next to you...