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Trans Questioning Podcast
by Sarah Zedig
Sarah Zedig discusses her transition and interviews other trans people to figure out what it means to be transgender.
Episodes
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Everyone's Telling This Story
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...
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The Last of the Latchkey Kids
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…
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The Surgery & Other Anxieties (with Iris Jay)
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…
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What Goes Unsaid Does Not Exist
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...
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The Solace of Strings
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...
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TRANS QUESTIONING 2: EPISODE ZERO
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...
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Some Things You Learn About Yourself At Pride
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...
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Doing Dishes at the End of the World
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:...
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Personal Responsibility (to kick your ass)
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...
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Breakfast of a Burnt-Out Worker
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…
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The Last Episode of Trans Questioning (unless it isn't)
THIS WEEK: Trans Questioning is ending, whether now or a bit later. But something new will take its place, and this episode is an exploration of what that thing will be and why I feel compelled to make it a reality. NOTE: I was high and exhausted when I recorded this episode, and I did not listen...
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Where The Hell Have You Been?
THIS WEEK: Wow, it sure is difficult getting your hands on the medications that make your brain work! 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...
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Loud Everywhere Questions
Sarah returns with new questions for a world on fire. THIS WEEK: What the hell she's been doing the last seven months, feelings about the pandemic and the election, weird TMI dildo-based gender euphoria, the importance of playing with your identity, and plans for the future. Music by Molly Noise:...
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Normal Isn't Neutral (with Sage)
Sarah is joined by locally infamous firebrand Sage to discuss life in late capitalism. Topics include: Good leftist podcasts, PHASE II, discord server politics meta, the compression of time, and VIOLENCE. If you have a story to tell or a question to ask, email us at...
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Just Another Normal Episode
Mars and Miles host TQ for a very standard and regular episode of the show. Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes you want to share? Email us at [email protected], or send an anonymous message to curiouscat.me/transquestioning Support Sarah at...
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Southern Transgothic Disasters (with Cassidy Claymore)
THIS WEEK: Cassidy Claymore joins Sarah in that most hallowed of social activities: just vibing. Topics include: Being trans in the south, homelessness, road trips, being an animator, and various obscenities. Follow and support Cassidy on Twitter: @CassClaymore YouTube: melt Patreon:...
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Conversation with a Transgender Therapist (with Rose Benjamin)
THIS WEEK: Sarah talks to Rose Benjamin about her experience as a therapist specializing in transgender issues. Topics include: The application of wisdom, the truth of ourselves, passive vs active trauma, historical roles of trans people, and the pitfalls of the stereotypical trans narrative....
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Mediating Transmasculinity (with Dylan Clark)
THIS WEEK: Sarah is joined by video essayist Dylan Clark to discuss his videos on Contrapoints, Boys Don't Cry, Dorian Electra, and others. Topics include: redefining manhood, the invisibility of men's gynecology, fandom shipping as media analysis, media analysis as astrology, and a twenty five...
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What Is Trans Questioning?
Sarah's back yet again, and she has even more questions. THIS WEEK: Why did this show start? What will this show become? What's Sarah even been up to??? Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related gripes you want to share? Email us at [email protected], or send an...
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Heather Flowers: Staying Dangerous
You climb into the warm crevice of your meat mech. Its pungent copper wetness fills your nose and slides down the back of your throat... it tastes like blood and cherries. It occurs to you that this nightmare of muscle and bone feels somehow more like home than anywhere else you've ever been. You...
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Sarah Zedig Talks About Left-Tube
Time to pour some milk on our faces and talk about LEFTWING MEDIA. THIS WEEK: Sarah shares some HRT updates before diving face first into some topical internet discourse by asking: what is left-tube, and is it a movement? Covers criticism of the "dirtbag left," the differences between left-tube /...
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Marble Charlotte: On Conversion Therapy
CONTENT WARNING: This episode gets into several heavy topics, such as emotional abuse, privacy violations, homelessness, victim blaming, and conversion therapy. Please take care of yourselves. THIS WEEK: Marble Charlotte comes on the show to discuss her experience with a family-mandated therapist...
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Comorbid Disorderly Conduct of the Nonbinary Variety
Uh oh, Sarah's back and this time she has EMOTIONS. THIS WEEK: We discuss the psychological experience of being off and on HRT, as well as the comorbidity of mood disorders and learning disabilities, which makes it hard to diagnose things like ADHD, BPD, or bipolar. Hormones aren't a silver…
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Aysha U. Farah: The Good and Bad of Cyberpunk
What even is cyberpunk? THIS WEEK: Writer Aysha U. Farah joins to talk a little about their experience with gender, as well as to discuss a certain high-profile cyberpunk video game currently making the promotional rounds in the game-o-sphere. We explore what the genre means to us, why we think…
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To Destroy Capitalism You Must First Destroy Gender
What does gender even do, anyway? THIS WEEK: Sarah lectures a room full of undergrads on her theory that the existence of transgender people undermines the foundations of so-called western civilization. We also discuss trans healthcare, public perception, the importance of internalizing…
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Nonbinary Friend-Finder Blues
Back on meds, let's get to some questions! THIS WEEK: We dig through our backlog of anonymous curiouscat asks, which flit mostly between themes of finding community and feeling unsure how to be nonbinary in a deeply binary world. Wow, same! Can Sarah single-handedly solve these common trans...
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Hormonal Melancholic Ennui
Now wait just a second, this isn't a Monday! THIS WEEK: Oops, we had technical difficulties. This is a short one to discuss the mental challenges of falling off HRT, untreated ADHD, and the general depression that comes with moving. ---- Do you have questions, stories, or other gender-related...
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Mia Mulder: The Real Nordic Model
The Swedish Empire expands! THIS WEEK: Youtuber Mia Mulder joins us to discuss the politics, weather, and media in Sweden, including the national pride that is The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, as well as an accounting of the one and only comedy the country has ever produced. And then, in perhaps...
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Spaces/Faces
Hello, I'm tired and hoarse. THIS WEEK:Sarah talks about moving to a new place in THE CITY, feeling dysphoric about facial hair, the lethargy of being low on medications, and also discusses the pros and cons of snapchat's genderswap selfie filter. The takes in this one are saucy. ---- Do you have...
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Molly.Noise: Stateside Booksmart Goth GF
The commie talk is coming from inside the house! THIS WEEK: Molly.Noise is stateside and holding my hand, because we're gay! We talk about the challenges of an international long distance relationship, the importance of judgment-free conversation in intimate moments, as well as what being a...
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Sarah Becomes a Professional
Welcome back to my hovel. Do you like what I've done with the place? THIS WEEK: Sarah answers long, LONG overdue reader questions, touching on relationships troubled by dysphoria, whether to come out as trans when you have an STI, and fantasies of bodily rearrangement. ---- Do you have questions,...
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Who Am I Now: Identity After Transition // Seven Months HRT and Other Updates
Woah, wait, where's the other girl? THIS WEEK: It's just Sarah! Like old times, eh? Discussing body developments after seven months on hormone replacement therapy, the stresses of being a transgender youtuber, and how to build yourself back up after years of basing your layers on other people's...
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We Invented Love: Remembering the Mermaids Charity Stream // FEATURING MANY GUESTS, and also hbomb
The dust has settled on the DK64 Nightmare Stream that raised over three hundred thousand dollars for transgender support charity Mermaids. Now, it is time to reflect. THIS WEEK: Sarah, May, and Elliot recount their experiences interacting with the likes of Cody Johnston, Chelsea Manning, and…
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Three Trans Friends (Part 2) // Policing Womanhood, Transmasc v Transfem, and the Hard Questions No One Asks
The Discourse continues in part 2! THIS WEEK: Misogyny in the trans community, the anger of the observer, the outrage of the unhappy, what it means to build a trans community, differences between transgender men and transgender women, complicated questions about ourselves and our media that don't...
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Three Trans Friends (Part 1) // Live Show Hot Takes, Butterfly Fascism, and What To Do When You Misgender Someone
Let's get salty. THIS WEEK: We discuss the Nyx Fears live show, May's appearance on a certain male-dominated livestream, the commonality of mansplaining, Dark Souls hot takes, why video games are bad, uncovering the awful truth behind @Mothcub's rosy exterior, how tattoos and piercings are trans...
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Kallen Chi: Comics, Cartooning, and Ambiguous Identities
Time to expose the TRUTH about the Cal Arts style. THIS WEEK: Sarah has a conversation with nonbinary artist Kallen Chi (they/them), a graduate of Cal Arts and a professional cartoonist and animator. We discuss what got them into animation, the intersections of the transmasculine and…
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Let's Talk 2019 // Yesterday's Nightmare, Tomorrow's Dream
One hell year down, another hell year begins. THIS WEEK: Sarah and May discuss the concurrent release of their latest passion projects, both of which are deeply emotional explorations of trauma and the transgender experience. We discuss some hopes for 2019, May details her brand new body...
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Navigating Holiday Hell // May Leitz Has Joined Your Party
Hot take, ice cream is better than Red Dead Redemption 2. THIS WEEK: It's May Leitz's first official episode as cohost! We discuss her reasons for jumping ship (in a good way), workshop future show segments, answer reader questions about how to deal with acquaintances/friends/family having an...
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So You Want To Ruin Your Life: The Definitive Guide to Being a Youtuber (featuring May Leitz)
Sometimes, the best advice is DON'T. THIS WEEK: I visited the home of May Leitz to talk about our mutual self-harm practice of making videos for the internet. In this candid, flighty, stream-of-consciousness conversation, we discuss how we choose the topics we want to cover, how to deal with…
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2018: The Year That Just Won't Quit // A Happy Trans Holiday, Six Months on HRT, and a Very Special Announcement
Alternate title: This Is Fine (Take 3). THIS WEEK: It's been a hot minute since the last episode went up, huh? Sorry about that, life's been a hell. But the hell is almost over! We're near enough yet that we don't have to contemplate the worse damnation that will assuredly follow. In this…
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Tomorrow Isn't Written // 49 Percent of the Electorate Showed Up, and We Are Alive
So many people engaged in their civic duty! THIS WEEK: Discussing the lunacy of "identifying" as a younger person; a crisis of mental health among trans people; good news from Massachusetts and Colorado; discussing the truly historic turnout of the 2018 midterms and how people disappointed by the...
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Molly.Noise: Ironic Self-Deprecation is OUT, Actually Liking Yourself is IN
You're not garbage, okay? THIS WEEK: A conversation with transgender musician & political theorist Molly.Noise! We discuss the subtle ways language assumes maleness, the insidious ways we destroy ourselves to fit in, how we systematically devalue our art and our work in order to seem humble, the...
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This Is Just An Advice Show Now // "What If I'm Not Trans?" and Other Reader Questions
I have finally embraced the inevitable evolution of this podcast into a self-help advice show. THIS WEEK: The fear of coming out and transitioning even when support is likely; the gravity of secrets and the allure of questions left unanswered; the complications of being a transgender man and the...
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Emergency Episode: Terror and Despair in the Transgender Community
As this week comes to a close, it's hard not to feel like the US government is openly loading the gun they'll soon use for our execution. It's hard not to feel like you're going crazy as everyone else gaslights you by insisting that it's just a distraction from whatever the real problem is....
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My Existence is Non-Negotiable, Even In 2018 // DHS Gender Memo & Reader Questions
That's right, you've been reading this podcast all along! THIS WEEK: Is it time to panic yet? Are we allowed to panic? Is it time to finally start saying, hey, maybe the States are in a bit of a pickle vis-a-vis fascism and blackshirt violence? Is the alarm only valid when it's rung by a straight...
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Life Complicates; Life Simplifies // Nonbinary Vagaries and Listener Questions
Sometimes, things are okay. THIS WEEK: Discussing the sudden quintupling of my audience following the release of a video about Natalie Wynn of ContraPoints; answering listener questions about nonbinary identity, internal transgender repression, and the need for identifying one's birth gender…
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Do you Need to Suffer to be Transgender? - EPISODE 30 // Genderqueer
It's the thirtieth episode, and a full year after recording episode one! THIS WEEK: Answering more spam mail, answering an actual listener question about whether one can be too well off to call themselves trans and begin transitition; discussing what has changed in the year since I came out,...
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May Leitz: Embracing Vulnerability, and the Freedom of Performance
When you come out as transgender, the freedom of Halloween is every single day. THIS WEEK: I talk to video essayist and host of youtube show Nyx Fears, May Leitz! We discuss the hell that is life in the DFW metroplex, what it's like coming out as trans to an existing fanbase, how she figured out...
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One Simple Trick for the Cis to Help their Trans Friends -TERFs Hate It!
#ihaveagramophone. Make it trend, or I walk. THIS WEEK: Melancholy in the Sarah's world; the loneliness of Italy without friends at home to talk to; revisiting your journal is ALWAYS a bad idea; reflections on my conversation with Shannon Strucci in the previous episode; fear of asking friends…
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Shannon Strucci: The One-Way Road to Obsession
It's time to dish about the creeps that make life miserable for women on the internet. THIS WEEK: I talk to youtuber Shannon Strucci, hot off the release of her feature-length video essay about parasocial relationships. We discuss how death in the family (especially parents) can other you from...
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Sarah Zedig discusses her transition and interviews other trans people to figure out what it means to be transgender.
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Trans Questioning Podcast is created and hosted by Sarah Zedig.
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