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

Interview with multi-issue activist Krystal Lapp about local pet adoption, overcrowding in shelters, pet fostering, rescue organizations and our municipal shelter, and the availability of low income resources for vaccinations, chipping, and neutering/spaying services in Fairbanks.

Interview with Barb Schumann of Advocates for Safe Alaska Highways (ASAH) regarding the Kinross Manh Choh industrial ore haul road that is being proposed to run directly on our public highways. We talk about the background of the mining project, how ASAH was formed, the dangers of 250 miles of industrial use and public use on the same two-lane road (e.g. school bus stops), the extra pollution load...

Interview with KC Casort of Alaska Planned Parenthood about Alaska's state board of education and their attempt to ban trans kids from school sports. We also discuss ways to participate in hearings that allow public commentary. ...................................... Links to news articles about this issue. From KTOO - Alaska state school board advances proposal to ban trans girls from girls high s...

Interview with a trans support group leader in New Jersey. We discuss the everchanging headlines, the abortion issue, the awesomeness of trans ally Lynda Carter, how Bette Midler and other liberals sometimes mimic anti-trans rhetoric, and The New York Times' uncritical publication of anti-trans Op-Eds. We also talked about his interest in public office (some of this footage was unfortunately l...

Interview with a trans group leader in New Jersey. We talk about Medford Lakes and other "shore towns" in NJ, his suburban cabin, how the area isn't gentrified, my gig work experiences, his work in the auto insurance and bodywork industries, new business models from covid (e.g. ghost kitchens), his fairly easy transition at work, his struggles with his Right-wing family members, how...

Interview with Jordan Willow Evans, a trans woman who is a political analyst and a former elected official. We discuss her previous involvement in a far right group, how her previous activism is so different than her current political outlook, her recognition of tactics from the far right, conspiracy theories, police presence in library board meetings in Worcester County Massachusetts, the unfortu...

Interview with Jordan Willow Evans, a trans woman who is a political analyst and a former elected official. We discuss some of the industrial history of Worcester County MA, being an openly transgender and a Republican, her previous work with the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) and education policy, the shift of the LCR to being an anti-trans org, creating a wedge issue with trans rights, the demise o...

Interview with a trans activist in NW Ohio. We talk about the many interesting projects she's working on, her own coming out process and transition, and her plans for the future. ------------------ Links to organizations mentioned in our interview. Spectrum of Findlay (Ohio) https://spectrumoffindlaylgbt.org The Cocoon https://thecocoon.org Brown Bag Food Project of Northwest Ohio https://www....

Interview with a Leftist trans woman with a very eclectic religious background. We talk about how she and I came out to our parents, how she left the Masons, her involvement in Hari Krishna temples and the Episcopal Church, how anti-trans laws will be used against everyone, pronoun usage, her support of the DSA and Bernie Sanders, some of our disappointments with the Democratic Party, in-fighting...

Interview with a Leftist trans woman with a very eclectic religious background. We talk about her education, career and her coming out process. We also discuss her involvement with the Masons, Hari Krishna temples, Mormonism (LDS, Latter Day Saints), and the Episcopal Church. ------------------ Other Conversations is an independent oral history project. I am interviewing transgender, nonbinary, ag...

Interview with an older trans man and his cisgendered wife. We talk about trans and partners support groups, a partner's struggle during transition, why they changed churches, the good work their church is doing in the greater OKC community (e.g. feeding and housing homeless LGBT+ people), adjacent organizations that help the community (e.g. YWCA), conservative churches that participate in the...

Interview with an older trans man and his cisgendered wife. We talk about this area of Oklahoma, their career change to the trucking industry, how they met at church, their exploration of 2SLGBTQ+ affirming church congregations, the differences between NW Arkansas and Oklahoma, growth and gentrification in Oklahoma, his wife's struggles with her own identity, state oppression of LGBT people, l...

Interview with a political radical who identifies as gender-fluid, gender nonconforming or nonbinary. We discuss the word radical, being anti-capitalist and anti-fascist, slavery, the way that people prep and how this reflects their worldview, magical realism vs realism, a little 90's nostalgia, female artists who are harassed (e.g. Courtney Love, Leslie Jones), human ecology and intersectiona...

Interview with a religious trans man in rural Ohio. We talk about his experience with Quaker meetings, safe communities, accessing therapy and other medical care in a city, his earring collection, enjoying our singing voices and singing in choirs, how he advocates for trans healthcare and helps medical students understand trans issues. ___________ Links to topics from part 1 and 2. Food Not Bombs...

Interview with a religious trans man in rural Ohio. We talk about his spiritual journey from Catholic to Episcopalian and then finally to Quaker. We also talk about the rural farming area where he lives, the Appalachian mountain dulcimer, his transition process, the hidden history of LGBT people in Christian religious orders, we talk about Quaker process and cultural clashes with visitors to meeti...

Interview with an early-in-transition trans woman living in coastal New Hampshire. We talk about the Portsmouth New Hampshire area, growing up in Seattle Washington and its gentrification, accessing resources for and information about trans people, acceptance of her transition at her workplace, her involvement in a couple of local peer support groups, her love of board games and pinball, and her p...

Part 2 of 2. Interview with an early-in-transition transgender woman living in rural New Hampshire. We talk about her new role as an ambassador for a state chapter of LGBT Outdoors, why it's important to have an organization focused on this demographic, her conversations with intolerant religious people, her advice about being out as trans on social media, and how her emotions and social inter...

Interview with an early-in-transition trans woman living in rural New Hampshire who is an ambassador for a LGBT+ focused outdoor sports organization. We talk about recreational activities in New Hampshire, her early life, accepting herself as a trans woman, differences in experience between trans men and trans women, Republicans using trans people's rights to take away everyone's rights, h...

Interview with an early-in-transition transgender woman living in rural New Hampshire. We talk about her previous feelings of not belonging and how she is living a new life, her relationship with her twin brother, successfully accessing healthcare in a small town, her relationship to other trans people in a support group, her long transition process, how trans people are negatively portrayed in po...

Interview with an early-in-transition trans woman living in rural New Hampshire. We talk about her transition, her close relationship to her mother, her work as a contractor, the acreage she lives on and the beautiful house she built, and her love of restoring classic cars. I really enjoyed talking with my guest and spending time in her lovely home. It is particularly brave for someone who is both...

Interview with an intersex trans man living in Oklahoma. We talk about some tension between intersex and trans communities, the concept of medicalism, how he endured school as a gifted student, our love of encyclopedias and dictionaries, his choice to transition from female to male, a ministry in Texas that helped him when he was recovering from surgery, his decision to be an independent voter, ho...

Interview with an intersex trans man living in Oklahoma. We talk about his early childhood and the medical interventions in his life, his intersex body, growing up in a small town in Indiana as both an intersex and a trans person, his deep faith in God, how his family hid being Jewish in an area with active KKK, and his work as a therapist. We also talk about Donald Trump and my guest's change...

Interview with a transmasculine activist in New Hampshire. We talk about several of the projects he is working on, the challenges of accessing healthcare even in blue states, trauma caused during medical appointments, the difference between gender identity and sexuality, sensuality, relationships and dating as a lesbian/dyke vs dating as a trans man, not knowing how to flirt, social interaction in...

Interview with a transmasculine activist in New Hampshire. We talk about this area of NH and the church where we are filming, his career as a teacher, social-emotional learning practices in public schools in NH, his long coming out and transition process, his family's acceptance of him, the concept of chosen family, the PFLAG organization (parents, families and friends of lesbians and gays), h...

Interview with an asexual, disabled, nonbinary person in Tulsa Oklahoma. We discuss reproductive and other healthcare, hysterectomies and vasectomies, the heavy political influence of Christian churches in Oklahoma, my guest's interest in Wicca, community building via small pagan and anarchist bookstores, their struggles with their family, their polyamorous relationships, the everyday activism...