Together, they unpack the current political climate shaped by the rise of Trumpism and the MAGA movement, and what it means for trans communities navigating a wave of restrictive legislation across multiple states.

The conversation traces the long history of trans resistance from the Stonewall uprising to today with a particular focus on the vital leadership, resistance, and community care, not to forget the work of Black trans women throughout the US queer liberation movement.

But this episode doesn’t stop at crisis.

Community is The Antidote is about turning toward each other sharing tools, knowledge, and strategies for collective care, resistance, survival, and joy. Ez and Fae explore how chosen family, underground networks, resource sharing, and storytelling have long acted as forms of community defence, sustaining trans lives across generations.

Throughout the episode, Fae also reshares a powerful speech she delivered at a vigil several years ago, reflecting on grief, solidarity, and the ongoing fight for trans liberation.

Together, they examine how mutual aid, community wisdom, and trans-led organising continue to build power and create futures beyond fear.

This is an episode about truth, solidarity, and above all... hope.

Links: 

Voting here for the Queens Ball Awards 2026

• Reporting from Erin Reed

• Trans Legislation Tracker

• National Center for Transgender Equality

• Human Rights Campaign

• Australian Human Rights Institute

• Lemkin Institute

• Download Signal - Messaging App

• Stonewall uprising

• Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR)

• Grassroots organising

• Trans women of colour leadership (AUS Zoe Belle)

• Mattachine Society 

• Act Up

• Songs played
• We Are The Union - Boys Will Be Girls
• Cygnette - Whatever You Want
• RAZEL - Mr Snippa
• Maddie Morris - Live Off Roses
• pigeon pit - soup for my family
• Sister Wife Sex Strike - Electricity
• Erik Saxton - We Don't Get Tired, We Get Even (Pat the Bunny Cover)
• Laura Jane Grace - Shelter In Place
• Dog Park Dissidents - Save The World
• Ramshackle Glory - Your heart is a muscle...
• Ryan Cassata - Queer Love Outlaw
• Ethel Cain - Sun Bleached Flies

Together, we unpack how racism and transphobia show up — both in broader society and within LGBTQIA+ spaces — and explore conversations around whiteness, white fragility, and accountability in community reading from “What is white fragility and why white trans women adopt it” by Tara Knight. This episode also makes space for care, cultural connection, and what it means to build solidarity and repair. This is an honest, reflective, and necessary conversation about how we show up for each other and what it takes to create communities that are truly inclusive, supportive, and accountable.

To continue engaging with the ideas explored in this episode, here are some recommended readings:

- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
- Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers
- Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

• Songs played
• YVES - Melanin 5000
• REDD. - juliet
• Racerage - Eat The Rich ft Sass Hound
• WHERIKO - Enby
• Janelle Monae - Float
• KAIIT - OG Luv Kush pt.2
• Dua Saleh - Flood ft Bon Iver
• Shawnee - Wild Woman
• JER - Decolonize Yr Mind
• Jaloo - Ah! Dor!
• T8iana - Celebrat8ion
• Blake - Love Love Love

Episode links:

 - The Vine Review: prioritising Finland
 - Experiences of young people in the UK: CYPGS and PATHWAYS
 - Kaltiala et al (2019): drops in depression, anxiety, suicidality
 - Australian Christian Lobby interview: Which harms?
 - Florida Board of Medicine and Cass Review
 - Letter to Finnish Parliament
 - Ruuska et al (2024): “drastic reduction in suicide risk”
 - Ruuska et al (2026): “largely useless as a scientific investigation”
 - Assigned Media: Finland is incredibly bad at treating transgender people
 - Kehrääjä: Describe to Me How You Masturbate
 - Assigned Media: Don’t Forget Your Homework
 - Therapy First Clinical Guidelines (now offline)
 - Nadrowski: A new flight from womanhood
 - Saxby et al (2026): GAHT reduces mental-healthcare use
 - Saxby sibling study: Gender-affirming surgeries reduce mental-healthcare use
 - YLE: Staff restricted minors illegally in psychiatric care in Tampere
 - Guardian: Most right-wing Finnish government in generations

• Songs played
• MUNA - Wannabeher
• Red Conlan O'Neill - Song For Bono
• YVES - The Police Are Outside
• Ezra Furman - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
• Dylan and the Moon - Wildfire
• Cistemic Oppession - My Depression
• Cry Club - High Voltage Anxiety
• Evan Greer - Protect Trans Kids ft Ryan Cassata
• Anjimile - You're Free to Go
• Isle of CC - Cozy
• Hannah Potter - Snowday
• Mellowing - Ocean

In the studio, Ez and Elliott sit down with Jaye Heather to chat about her upcoming comedy show Frozen Girl Sperm at Big Fork Theatre on Friday April 24 — a bold and hilarious exploration you won’t want to miss. Ez also speaks with Naavikaran about their MYSTIQ Tour, hitting The Cave Inn on Friday April 17, as well as their powerful film project Where Are You From?. Plus, Ez catches up with Naarm-based band Cry Club to dive into their electrifying new album High Voltage Anxiety — in an interview that unexpectedly journeys into metaphysical and moral philosophy, and absolutely delivers.

• Songs played
• Stormy-Lou - Watching and Waiting
• Zoh Amba - Another Time
• Hot Glue - Spiders
• binsad - swimmer
• Shamir - On The Regular
• Ding Ding Ding - Every Single Minute
• Lambrini Girls - Cult of Celebrity
• Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers - BATH WATER
• ssszlami - girl on the screen
• REDD. - juliet
• Cygnette - Boots
• Widowspeak - If You Change
• Naavikaran - KHO JAYE
• People Taking Pictures - Violets
• Cry Club - For Your Health
• Dylan and The Moon - Yellow (Coldplay Cover)

In news, Rae reports on the UK indie bookshop inviting customers to vandalise a Harry Potter book, the findings in a new report by the Australian Human Rights Commission, and Meanjin’s unveiling of the world’s largest trans flag.

• Songs played
• Billy Cart - I Don't Wanna Steal Your Girlfriend
• Well Subversed - You become extinct
• Still Full From Lunch - Comfortable To You
• MJ O'Neill - Salvo
• Cygnette - Boots
• allie elle - pink (like the moon)
• Pickle Darling - pinwheels (feat. Anna McClellan)
• RITA - Thirsty
• Fan Girl - Echo Grey
• Club Ruby - What My Bones Know
• Selve - Phonebooth
• Pap Smear and The Mammograms - Bell Tower
• Hannah Kate - Eggs in a Kettle
• Certainty - Bad Decisions
• Water From Your Eyes - Nights in Armor (FKA Love Song)

Additionally here are some recommended resources mentioned in this episode; Trans Sex by Kelvin Sparks, a practical guide for cis people and those new to dating trans partners; Love in a Fcked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together* by Dean Spade, which examines relationships through an activist and non-traditional lens; Fucking Trans Women a Zine by Mira Bellwether, a widely regarded resource on trans feminine bodies and pleasure; eff-able: a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry, which centres disabled queer voices and desire; and the Relationship Anarchy Smörgåsbord a visual framework for designing relationships based on individual values and needs. Together, these resources offer further insight into building relationships that are grounded in respect, communication, and authenticity.

• Songs played
• Peaches - No Lube So Rude
• Selve - Creature of the Night
• June Jones - Bubblegum
• Tash Sultana - Bitter Lovers ft BJ the Chicago Kid
• G Flip - Gay 4 Me ft Lauren Sanderson
• Naavikaran - PAPAYA ft Malaika Mfalme
• Dirty Versachi - Sticky Fingers
• Ezra Michel - Pussyboy
• The Narcissist Cookbook - WAP (Cardi B cover)
• Bitch and Animal - Best Cock On The Block
• Dog Park Dissidents - Trans Starship Feminist BDSM Paradise
• Anjimile - Like You Really Mean It
• Peaches - Be Love

Brody and Rae also report on international, national and local news, including a Red Flag alert for anti-trans genocide in the USA, the NHS in the UK 'capitulating' to anti-trans lobbying, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras board members being stood down, a new queer and trans owned book shop opening in Sydney, and Trans Justice Meanjin creating the world's largest trans flag.

• Songs played
• Sunsick Daisy - Waiting For
• Stormy Lou - Confident Until It Counts
• Worm Girlz - Electric Scooter (Take Me Home)
• G Flip - Be Your Man
• Aunty Alan - Jasmine's Flower
• Emmy Hour - Head Full of Sand
• bodies of divine infinite and eternal spirit - song for fear
• Auchenflower - Hazy
• Hot Glue - All For Nothing
• Selve - Creatures Of The Night (Single)
• Wet Kiss - Chick From Nowhere
• Beth Seymour & The Lizzies - Hand-Me-Downs

On Tranz Verse, poet River Snowdrop reads 'One Month On T'. Rae chats with Eli Sutherland (they/them) Festival Director of Trans Book Festival (TBF) about what you can expect from the festival being held on 17-19 April in Naarm. TBF is the only writers’ festival in the southern hemisphere focused on uplifting and celebrating trans and gender diverse (TGD) literary excellence in all narrative forms.

Rae also interview Toby Fitch (he/they) about their new book Or: An Autobiography. which explores fluidities of self, body, and imagination. Its central long poem, ‘The Or Tree’, is a speculative version of the fictitious poem ‘The Oak Tree’, by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.

• Songs played
• Wave Bot - Summer Sunset
• Still Full From Lunch - Oh No
• Hot Glue - All For Nothing
• Shel Chiffon - Carbon Copy
• Razel - The Arse Song
• The Snouts - Sunset
• Ash Acid - LMN
• ssszlami - bedroom/headlights
• Fathom - Bright
• Hannah Kate - End of the Day
• Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest - Flags
• Blake - Love Love Love

• Songs played
• Billy Cart - Advice for a Long and Superstitious Life
• Ash Acid - LMN
• Cry Club - Monster of The Week
• Total Commander - Mistakes
• Loose Shoelace - Fathers
• Stagger - Ever
• Hannah Kate - 360
• LXRP - Maintenance
• FVNERAL ft Ben Lee - Friendly Fire
• Lambrini Girls - Cuntology 101 (Peaches Remix)
• RITA - Boyfriend
• Rae Spoon - Can't Fail Me feat Cassia Hardy
• chestr - ego death
• Worm Girlz - Don't
• Mismatch - Running
• SuperKnova - Hangnails

• Songs played
• chestr - ego death
• Emmy Hour - A Head Full Of Sand
• Still Full From Lunch - Termites
• The CuckWho's - Name
• WHOROBOROS - There Goes The Neighbourhood
• Crinkle Cut Puck Suckers - Riff Song
• 88 Tokomak - I Live in the Sandbox
• Thommybeats - Forty Loose Ends
• Fomora - The Forest at the Edge of the World
• Beth Seymour & The Lizzies - Sam Raimi
• Selve - Loki Horror Picture Show
• Worm Girlz - Get Ugly
• Nikolaine Martin - One of Them