Podcast
Though Trans Tuesdays began when I came out publicly in the summer of 2020, they did not at that time have a companion podcast. Eventually getting past the dysphoria of my voice with years of practice and voice therapy with a gender-affirming speech pathologist (for more on this see the three essays on TRANS VOICES), in 2023 the podcast version began.
It’s odd to listen back to the earliest episodes now, realizing that at the time, it was the happiest I’d ever been with my voice. But now hearing my voice from back then spikes my dysphoria, because it’s changed so much since then. So if you start from the beginning and I sound weird, listen… no I don’t. Shhhh.
In any case, as there were two and a half years of essays before the podcast existed, not every essay has a companion podcast episode yet. I periodically revise and update old essays anyway, however, so when that happens then they do get a companion podcast episode. So all (or most, anyway) will eventually make it over there.
Almost all podcast episodes have a guest, almost all of them trans and nonbinary people (there is an occasional cis guest for reasons that will become apparent), because I want to share with the world the breadth of absolute diversity and beauty that is the trans community. Which is one fabulous thing that the essays can’t do as well.
You can find it on most podcasting services (except for transphobic Spotify, which I will not allow the show to be featured on), though it’s behind on YouTube because two years ago there wasn’t actually a podcasting service on YouTube. Old episodes will be added there until it’s caught up to everywhere else, and then new episodes will appear on YouTube on the same day as everywhere else.
If you’d like to download the mp3 files directly, you can do so from the show’s website at the podcasting company I run.
This is not an exhaustive list, but here’s some of the podcasting services the Tilly’s Trans Tuesdays podcast is on:
Apple Podcasts/iTunes (please leave a review here, it helps the algorithm show it to more people)
YouTube (smash that like and subscribe and leave a comment, it really helps!)
(YouTube art by Daphne Sakellarides)