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Foxx Cant | Ryan Klinghammer: From Stage to Signal | Queer Art, Disability & Systemic Change

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Ryan says disabled performers resist erasure by showing pain onstage and naming it aloud.

1. The Trans Narrative Podcast episode centers on Fox Cant and Ryan Klinghammer discussing trans art, disability, and systemic change. 2. Caroline hosts Fox Cant, a trans artist and writer, and Ryan Klinghammer, a trans artist, performer, and drag host, because both connect identity to creative work. 3. The episode asks what gender expression, disability access, and anti-capitalist imagination look like when trans people describe their own lives. 4. Ryan starts with Pride-season work, naming Soulard Pride, Men at Work, King Awakening, Pride Idol, and a protest march with Jordan Braxton. 5. Fox lists DJ gigs for Pride, nonprofit and government video editing, and work on a third Anomalous Transmissions collection. 6. Ryan describes a one-year post-op hysterectomy and oophorectomy, plus nearly nine years on testosterone by February. 7. Fox says they are moving toward identifying full time as a woman and are six years into hormones in October. 8. Fox contrasts how cis-het people and queer spaces use pronouns, saying some people will always choose they/them. 9. Ryan explains a recent diagnosis of degenerative disc disease after a back injury from nearly 10 years ago. 10. Ryan says the pain often starts in the left hip and shoots down the leg, and some days require a cane. 11. Fox and Ryan talk about hidden disability, with Ryan noting that people may assume someone is faking if they do not use a cane every day. 12. Ryan names Vincent Vandal, EDS, and Rose’s permanent broken bone as examples of disabled performers in their scene. 13. Ryan argues that coming onstage with a cane and speaking openly about pain resists pressure to hide disability. 14. Fox describes car-accident structural issues, days in bed, and the need for stretching and body care to stay functional. 15. Fox says queer performance venues in Vancouver and elsewhere often fail to be accessible because they are squeezed into cheap older spaces. 16. Fox frames intersectionality as layered exclusion, using examples involving cishet privilege, queerness, disability, and Blackness. 17. Ryan says capitalism rewards a rigid model of masculinity and treats flamboyance as less valid. 18. Fox brings in capitalist realism, Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars, and 2312 to imagine a future without profit as the measure of value. 19. The tone stays conversational and collaborative, with Caroline prompting long answers and both guests building on each other’s examples. 20. People interested in trans politics, disability access, and queer art will get the most from this episode, while listeners wanting a light celebrity chat may skip it.

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