Marianne Oakes spent decades building what looked like a conventional life. She became a carpenter and joiner, worked in the construction industry, built a successful exhibition contracting business, married her teenage sweetheart, raised two sons and eventually became a grandmother.… Read more
Kristine Turowska doesn't just tell one story. She carries several, woven together like the layers of a poem she's still writing. By day, she sits in the boardroom of an international corporation, immersed in finance. In the evenings, on weekends,… Read more
My guest today is Anni Arbour, an award-winning, bestselling author and journalist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She
studied at both Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan and is a member of the Trans Journalists
Association. She writes… Read more
Lilit Martirosyan is not simply someone who became an activist; she is someone who, very early in life, discovered
that survival itself could become a political act. She has spoken about knowing she was a girl from childhood, about
leaving… Read more
Diane Sauer has spent much of her life around games, the kind played on tables, the kind played in arcades, and
eventually, the kind she began inventing herself. A lifelong resident of Hamilton Square, New Jersey, she has been
part… Read more
Jana is a Belgian soldier, trans woman, traveller and storyteller whose life brings together worlds that are not often seen side by side. Through her public presence and her project Jana Says Yes, she has been sharing her experiences of… Read more
Deanna Haynes holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatrical Design & Technology from Louisiana State University and spent over twenty years as a Professor of Theatre and Speech, lending her talents to more than eighty theatrical productions across… Read more
Laurie Lee Hall is an American architect, author, and transgender woman whose professional life was closely
interwoven with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Raised in New England, she studied architecture
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before spending roughly… Read more
For seven decades, Jamie DeCoursey lived behind a carefully constructed facade, existing inside what she evocatively
calls a “windowless house.” Raised in a devout Catholic family alongside five brothers in the mid-1950s, an era
defined by rigid binary gender roles… Read more
