Trans Narrative Pod
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The Trans Narrative Podcast is an international storytelling and archival platform dedicated to honoring and preserving trans and gender-diverse lives through long-form narrative. With more than 150 episodes across five seasons and listeners in over 80 countries, each episode documents lived experience from beginning to end, treating every story as historical record rather than soundbite. This podcast exists to listen, preserve, and remember. At a time when trans lives are misrepresented, flattened, or erased, recording our stories in our own words is not symbolic, it is necessary. Episodes center trans voices, lived experience, and gender-diverse perspectives to create a detailed, lasting r…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Guest-led conversations connect trans lives with family, faith, work, art, activism, and the everyday terms of belonging.
The Trans Narrative Podcast lets each guest's life story set the terms of the conversation. Caroline and returning participants ask about identity through the structures that shape daily life, including family, faith, education, public service, creative work, illness, and…
A kindergartner calls the beard decisive; you hear Ray make room for a fuller answer.
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Safe spaces are built through care, mutual aid, and shared action.
Stevie Bees treats safe space as something built, not declared: in rooms, under blankets, across cities, and in books, songs, and moonlight. The episode keeps returning to care, accessibility, and mutual aid, and it makes Stevie's role as a community organizer, activist, and…
A reflective interview about faith, transition, and authenticity.
Jennifer Marie’s conversation keeps circling back to faith, identity, work, and family, and that gives it a steady emotional center. Her story lands as one of resilience and gradual self acceptance, not a neat turnaround.
A direct, grounded conversation about service, trans survival, and what belonging can cost.
Cass Phillips' conversation on The Trans Narrative Podcast ties together military service, Black identity, and trans womanhood with a calm sense of purpose.
A warm queer media conversation about self-recognition, fanfic, and the stories that help language catch up.
Vega gives a thoughtful, personal take on queer media criticism, moving from representation to identity, storytelling, and lived experience. The strongest stretch stays close to Severance and the trans fanfic miniseries, where self-recognition and inner life are treated as…
A community-focused conversation about visibility, activism, and Asmani Vian's work in Oklahoma City.
The episode follows Asmani Vian, a creative activist and community leader from Oklahoma City, and frames her story around visibility, transformation, and trans joy.
A loose, generous conversation about trans art, resistance, and the stories people build to outlast old limits.
Caroline brings together Fox Cant, Freya Key Gray, and Marla Alpert in a conversation that moves from stage work and publishing into horror, revenge fantasy, and trans creativity.
A grounded conversation about local leadership, community care, and the work of making a town safer.
Erica Dusso comes across as a scientist, community advocate, and newly elected mayor of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, speaking plainly about public safety, flood mitigation, housing, and the habits that make a town feel like it can look after itself.
A tender account of survival, identity, and being seen without being reduced.
Ray Sunshine's story centers on survival after a 2021 stage four Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis, along with queer identity, art, and teaching. The conversation pays attention to small public moments, from a child's beard-and-man remark to the pronoun correction that follows, and…
Queer stereotypes, sharpened and set loose.
Queer pop culture, loudly and lovingly overread.
Quick hits with working entertainers.
Naaz Joshi, India's first transgender international beauty queen, shares her journey from childhood gender nonconformity through abuse, sex work, and dramatic reinvention as a model and founder of the inclusive Queen Universe pageant.
Nia Chiaramonte shares her journey from an evangelical upbringing in Iowa to embracing her transgender identity, detailing the challenges with family, faith, and community.
Laura Scarrone Bonhomme describes how gender-affirming therapy is shaped by UK court rulings, single-sex-space policies, and gatekeeping around hormones.
Rosalyn Sandri describes growing up in Philadelphia and Utica, then moving to Texas, where a private Catholic school became “a living hell” of bullying for being effeminate and queer.
Miss Cardiance discusses her journey from childhood gender expression through trans identity formation, complex family dynamics, foster care, trauma, and community healing.
Ray Sunshine discusses their journey from a repressive heteronormative upbringing through stage four Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis, eventual coming out as queer, non-binary, and polyamorous, and current work as an educator, artist, and activist.
Kit Kaelstow explores the intersection of storytelling, identity, and healing across a 20+ year writing career and recent profound self-discovery.
Mary Almy, a trans woman who came out in her early 50s, shares her remarkable journey from a fundamentalist childhood in rural Pennsylvania through military/police careers and 14 years as a missionary in Africa, ultimately discovering her authentic identity through online trans communities and professional therapy.
Ryan Klinghammer, current Mr.
She came out at 19 but stayed closeted for 20 years, then went full transition in 9 weeks—the cost of pretending was too high.
Caroline welcomes Fox Cant, Freya Key Gray, and Marla Alpert back to the Trans Narrative Podcast.
Caroline, Kevin, and Fox welcome Vega, also known as GenderfluidACAPSolid on TikTok, for a conversation about queer media analysis, art, and storytelling.
Caroline sits down with Erica Dusso, a scientist, community advocate, and recently elected mayor of Downingtown, Pennsylvania.
Mateo Briscoe, also called Local Sloth Boy, describes growing up in Sacramento, moving briefly to Arizona, and finding music through clarinet, choir, guitar, and songs like Amy Winehouse’s "Fast Car." He explains how an acoustic EP and tracks such as "Little Guy," "Insane," "Sticky Situations," and "Talk My Ear Off" turned private experiences, ADHD, anxiety, abuse, and trans identity into songwriting.
Jennifer Marie, author, coach, and founder of Jen’s Partners, talks with Caroline, Lori, and Alicia Mullins about faith, identity, family connection, and trans coaching.
Elena J.
Caroline welcomes Angel Lovely, an artist and writer whose work centers Black and Indigenous lives through witnessing, memory, and care.
Like a hermit who understands everything but can't hold a conversation.
Extended biographical interview with Tessa White, Marine Corps veteran, retired detective, and fifth-year Oklahoma City Pride president.
Stevie Bees sits down with Caroline to talk about safe space.
She was called a sissy from daycare onward, but she chose to build a positive aura instead of absorbing the hate.
The Trans Narrative Podcast episode pairs Caroline with trans artists Fox Cant and Ryan Klinghammer, who discuss visual art, performance, storytelling, and the politics of visibility.
Caroline sits down with Asmani Vian for a conversation about visibility, community, and the labor of Pride.
Grace O'Connor joins Caroline and Honey Rose for a Pride conversation about trans-affirming therapy, recovery, and change.
Hudson Gott, Indy Pride’s office manager, describes growing up as a queer, non-binary, autistic, Hispanic pagan, trans cat dad, and EMT in a conservative Christian household.
Caroline, Kristen Brody, and Lucy Balzano welcome Cass Phillips to talk about her life as a Black trans woman serving in the U.S.
The Trans Flag image came to me in a dream—simple, iconic, and I never imagined it would become a global symbol.