Trans Questioning Podcast

Is this what you/we/I wanted? Sarah fills in the gaps of the last two months, talking about the euphoria of laser hair removal before making a pit stop into the realm of so-called "AI" and the various issues posed by its existence. The episode concludes with a sober reflection on waking up from a yearslong slumber. Intro Music is "Roll Up Your Sleeves" by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise. Help support Sarah financially at patreon.com/ltas, comradery.co/sarahzedig or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Find her posts on mastodon, bluesky, and tumblr. Take care of yourselves. Find out more at https://trans-questioning-podcast.pinecast.co

Intergenerational Cold War Sarah reflects on her childhood, the weirdness of growing up in the middle ground between gen x and gen z, and the absurdity of the American welfare system. Intro Music is "Roll Up Your Sleeves" by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise. Help support Sarah financially at patreon.com/ltas, comradery.co/sarahzedig or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Find her posts on mastodon, bluesky, and tumblr. Take care of yourselves. Find out more at https://trans-questioning-podcast.pinecast.co

Looks like we're blasting one off again! In the first interview episode of TQ2, Sarah talks to cartoonist Iris Jay about transgender surgeries, everything that goes into them, and what ultimately comes out. We also answer a listener question about whether you should come out at work! Be aware that this is an adult conversation that gets into some pretty gross nitty-gritty, so maybe don't listen to this one over a meal. Unless you're into that! CW: Surgery, needles, genital dysphoria, catheter horror, bodily fluids. Follow Iris elsewhere! Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/irisjaycomics.bsky.social Mastodon: https://shrike.club/@[email protected] Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/irisjay The Cartoonist Cooperative: https://cartoonist.coop/ Intro Music is "Roll Up Your Sleeves" by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise. Help support Sarah financially at patreon.com/ltas, comradery.co/sarahzedig or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Find her posts on mastodon, bluesky, and tumblr. Take care of yourselves. Find out more at https://trans-questioning-podcast.pinecast.co

Laser Hair Removal Progress Update She's three sessions deep into LHR and Sarah's feeling morose. While sifting through her feelings across several separate recordings, she discusses the stop-and-start nature of transition, the immateriality of intrusive thoughts, and the question of what comes next after laser has done its job. Intro Music is "Roll Up Your Sleeves" by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise. Help support Sarah financially at patreon.com/ltas, comradery.co/sarahzedig or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Find her posts on mastodon, bluesky, and tumblr. Take care of yourselves. Find out more at https://trans-questioning-podcast.pinecast.co

Let's Make Some Noise! In the first proper episode of Trans Questioning 2, Sarah kicks things off with a rattle as she discusses generational warfare, Gen Z attitudes about education, and the real problems of artificial intelligence while simultaneously restringing and tuning her guitar. That's right, it's a classic "distracted ASMR" episode. Intro Music by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise. Help support Sarah financially at patreon.com/ltas, comradery.co/sarahzedig or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Find her posts on mastodon, bluesky, and tumblr. Take care of yourselves. Find out more at https://trans-questioning-podcast.pinecast.co

THE TIME IS NOW After a lengthy hiatus, Trans Questioning is coming back! More importantly, I'm finally getting my beard lasered off! Covering the period from before my first laser session to after my second, this episode is an old school piecemeal TQ self-reflecting on why it's taken me long to get this process going, and what it means to my stalling transition. I also get tonsillitis. And through it all, naturally, I'm processing the newfound political reality in the USA as a trans woman, searching as always for a light at the end of the tunnel. Improbable as it may seem, I think I found one. For an explanation as to why this is "episode zero" of Trans Questioning "2," listen to the episode. It's the very first thing I talk about. Expect regular biweekly episodes starting sometime before spring 2025. Find out more at https://trans-questioning-podcast.pinecast.co

Food is good and so are dogs, meta or otherwise. I went to Pride and felt like I was allowed to feel attraction to other people as a transgender woman! Topics include: my mom's recipe for "shit on a shingle," lessons from pride, lesser-discussed media stereotypes that had an outsized effect on my sense of self, a song i wrote called "meta dog," and what I learned about my socioeconomic upbringing from cooking aforementioned recipe. This one's packed so buckle in!!! Music by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise Cover Art by Deerwitch: @deervvitch Help support Sarah financially at comradery.co/sarahzedig, patreon.com/ltas or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Sarah's Twitter: @hmsnofun Take care of yourselves. Find out more at https://trans-questioning-podcast.pinecast.co

This is probably healthier than twitter, tbh. In this week's episode, I do the dishes and ramble about the overturning of Roe v Wade, the state of American labor, and the place of gender within the ongoing culture war. If you like ASMR, this one's for you. Music by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise Cover Art by Deerwitch: @deervvitch Help support Sarah financially at comradery.co/sarahzedig, patreon.com/ltas or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Sarah's Twitter: @hmsnofun Take care of yourselves. Find out more at https://trans-questioning-podcast.pinecast.co

My head is a blender and society is giving me too many tropical fruits This smoothie has a bit of a neapolitan flavor. Contradictions, the pandemic, rate of profit, and my own disjointed writings on The State Of Things come together in what can be resoundingly described as "an hourlong podcast episode." Death Panel podcast: Outdoor Transmission w/ Dr. Theresa Chapple Music by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise Cover Art by Deerwitch: @deervvitch Help support Sarah financially at patreon.com/ltas or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Sarah's Twitter: @hmsnofun Take care of yourselves. Find out more at https://trans-questioning-podcast.pinecast.co

Wake up to a world with room to spare. TQ is back! This week, Sarah makes breakfast, drinks some coffee, and then reads selections from Noel Ignatiev's Adequate Men, the memoir of a communist revolutionary working inside a steel mill in the 1970s. From there we discuss the nature of work in America today, the neoliberal project of decoupling labor from the workplace & erasing the ideological commitments of the labor movement, and why there is hope to be had for the future of the revolutionary movement. "Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World" by Noel Ignatiev. Music by Molly Noise: https://linktr.ee/MollyNoise Cover Art by Deerwitch: @deervvitch Help support Sarah financially at patreon.com/ltas or ko-fi.com/sarahzedig for one-time donations. Sarah's Twitter: @hmsnofun Take care of yourselves. Find out more at https://trans-questioning-podcast.pinecast.co