TA & Spectrum South: Making Queer Media Work

Our guest co-host is Megan Smith, co-founder of Spectrum South, plus we're rolling out our third TA Q&A annnnnd, we have an in-depth discussion of making quality community queer media work in the age of social media. Megan Smith is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Spectrum South (spectrumsouth.com), a Texas-based online publication focused on queer southern identity and culture. She is a native Houstonian and has over five years experience working in local LGBTQ media. Megan has a Bachelor of Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin (2013) and is currently pursuing her Master of Arts in Mass Communications at the University of Houston. With Spectrum South, Megan hopes to build an accessible safe space for the southern queer community to be proudly visible, share their lived experiences, and uplift one another’s voices. The TransAdvocate is a project of the Transgender Foundation of America, 501c3 non-profit. Learn more about the TransAdvocate at http://transadvocate.com Apply for our trans scholarship: http://nebula.wsimg.com/5efb09b410ee55a4a064354c02ff354f?AccessKeyId=4A2B0E9AB852D91A5E43&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 Apply for our trans disaster recovery assistance: http://tdrfund.us/ Support us! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/transadvocate PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&item_name=TransAdvocate&hosted_button_id=NBKW875DQYN5J Amazon Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0670632