
Welcome to Trans Awareness Month at Consortium!
Our theme for Trans Awareness Month is celebratory and positivity.
Here at Consortium, we have lots of exciting things planned for the month including our Trans Awareness Week Art Exhibition, Recommendations from the Consortium team, Trans+ Member Organisation Features and a podcast episode about the representation of trans+ bodies in art!
Podcast
Team Recommendations
🎬 Disclosure
An in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture.
🎬 Paris Is Burning
Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it.
🎬 Wendell and Wild
Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot to summon them to the Land of the Living.
🎙️ T Time Podcast
“We said it, you thought it!” Just two bros on the same journey, at the different times with a lot of (T)ea to spill. #ttime #ttimepodcast
🎙️ What The Trans
We are Michelle and Ashleigh, and we are mighty.
On this pod, we discuss UK trans news, events, pop culture and how being trans is better than being anything else.
🎙️ Gender Reveal
Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast that centers nonbinary, transgender, and queer folks. Join us as we interview LGBTQ+ artists, activists, and educators; answer listener questions; analyse current events; and get a little bit closer to understanding what the heck gender is.
🎙️ The Way We Are with Munroe Bergdorf
Activist, writer and advocate for marginalised communities Munroe Bergdorf and her guest of the week reflect on their own journeys of growth, exploring how the big, the small and the in-between events of the past have shaped their perspective today and how this impacts their hopes for tomorrow.
🎙️ Call Me Mother- Shon Faye
Author and journalist Shon Faye talks with LGBTQ+ trailblazers who have something important, interesting or enlightening to say about what it means to be queer in the world today.
📺 Pose
In the New York of the late '80s and early '90s, this is a story of ball culture and the gay and trans community, the raging AIDS crisis, and capitalism.
📺 Dead End: Paranormal Park
Two teens and a talking pug team up to battle demons at a haunted theme park and maybe even save the world from a supernatural apocalypse.
📺 Sex Education
A teenage boy with a sex therapist mother teams up with a high school classmate to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
📺 Heartstopper
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.
📺 Sense8
A group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the world's order.
📺 Tales of the City
A middle-aged Mary Ann returns to San Francisco and reunites with the eccentric friends she left behind. "Tales of the City" focuses primarily on the people who live in a boardinghouse turned apartment complex owned by Anna Madrigal at 28 Barbary Lane, all of whom quickly become part of what Maupin coined a "logical family". It's no longer a secret that Mrs. Madrigal is transgender. Instead, she is haunted by something from her past that has long been too painful to share.
📖 Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows – edited by Christine Burns
📖 Stone Butch Blues – Leslie Feinberg (*Explicit)
📖 Gender Explorers: Our Stories of Growing Up Trans & Changing the World – Juno Roche
📖 Supporting Trans People of Colour: How to Make Your Practice Inclusive – Sabah Choudrey
📖 Gender Euphoria: Stories of joy from trans, non-binary and intersex writers – edited by Laura Kate Dale
📖 Trans Teen Survival Guide – Owl & Fox Fisher
📖 The Transgender Issue – Shon Faye
📖 The Trans Self-Care Workbook – Theo Nicole Lorenz
📖 Transmission – Alex Bertie
📖 Yes, You Are Trans Enough – Mia Violet
📖 We Both Laughed in Pleasure – Lou Sullivan
📖 The Backwater Sermons – Jay Hulme
📖 Gender Euphoria – Laura Kate Dale
📖 Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters
📖 None of the Above – Travis Alabanza
📖 All The Things They Said We Couldn’t Have: Stories of Trans Joy – T.C. Oakes-Moncen (January 2023)
📖 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans* – Bryn Tannehill
📖 Queer Sex – Juno Roche
📖 Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl – Andrea Lawlor
📖 When I Was Me – comic anthology from Quindrie Press, edited by Eve Greenwood and Alex Assan
📖 'Queer' Asia: Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender – J. Daniel Luther and Jennifer Ung Loh
📹 #queerpiphany
An all-new, original series from MTV, Queerpiphany explores the intersection of culture and queerness across the course of six gorgeous episodes with some of our favourite queer artists, performers, activists and celebs. Hosted by Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK icon Tayce and activist and legend Munroe Bergdorf, each week a different guest will share the moment in pop culture that gave them their queer awakening. It’s gonna be camp!
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