Quinn’s guests for this episode are Dr. Joy Musser, Ph.D. CCC-SLP, a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, and Gwendolyn Sierks, a trans woman with a passion for music. In our conversation, we talk about transfeminine’s voices and what does–and doesn’t!–work when a transfemme person/trans woman wants her speaking voice to sound more traditionally feminine. We also talk a bit about singing, and you’ll want to hear the beautiful vocal and piano performance excerpt Gwendolyn was kind enough to share.

You can find Dr. Musser’s web site at MusserVoice.com.

Note: This show is the Season 2 finale! All the Genders will be on season break for the next few months. Meanwhile, check out Quinn’s new queer science fiction mystery comedy serial podcast, The Scent of Gravity!

Chijioke Williams (she/her) is a transfemme Chicago-based voiceover artist, writer, sound designer, podcast creatrix, and parkourist. Her new urban audio drama Between Heartbeats just dropped (mid-February 2023) and can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast sources. In her All the Genders conversation with Quinn, she talks about her life, her identity, and her new show.

The Between Heartbeats web site is at https://BetweenHeartbeats.wixsite.com/website

and you can find the show on Twitter @BetweenPod

and on Instagram at @BetweenHeartbeatsPod

Canadian playwright, actor, producer, musical director, and transgender advocate Avery-Jean Brennan (they/them or she/her) joins Quinn for a two-part conversation about coming out twice, changing genders with an acting career already in progress, making queer theater, directing a trans-enhanced production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, receiving anonymous hate mail just for being on stage, and more.

You can learn more about Avery-Jean by checking out their profile here, or you can find them on social media:

https://twitter.com/theaveryjean
https://www.instagram.com/theaveryjean
https://www.tiktok.com/@theaveryjean
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEr0jCHfRWnUiS3WhEf49Iw

Quinn’s guest is Dr. Jen Gonzalez, who talks about her road to understanding herself as a trans woman, coming out, teaching, HRT, trans politics, and more.

For this episode, you can also view the view of our conversation on Jen’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2FC0ELV2n92t3deXQKxXFA .

Trigger warning: This episode includes discussion of child sexual abuse.

In this episode, Quinn gets the opportunity to speak with the dynamic Jupiter Peraza, the Director of Social Justice and Empowerment initiatives for the San Francisco Transgender District, an area in San Francisco’s Tenderloin that is officially recognized by the city and that helps provide connection, continuity, and support for trans San Franciscans.

Jupiter talks about her experiences growing up undocumented and trans, about finding herself and finding her voice, about the work of the district, and much more.

You can learn about the Transgender District on their web site at https://TransgenderDistrictSF.com .

Manny’s, the community gathering space Jupiter mentions in the interview, is at https://WelcomeToMannys.com .

To hear more from Jupiter and from her Transgender District colleague Juniper Yun, you might be interested in the two women’s Curve interview with Jasmine Sudarkasa at https://www.curvemag.com/articles/commemorating-our-past-creating-our-present/ .

If you listened to the episode and find yourself curious about Maria Felix, here’s a clip of her in La Mujer sin Alma (The Woman Without a Soul):

Sam is a nonbinary trans man, a nursing student, a visual artist, and Quinn’s younger son. His partner, Lane, is a nonbinary writer and student. In this episode, they talk with Quinn about finding gender, being trans and nonbinary in the Deep South, the need for better awareness of trans and nonbinary issues in medical education, and much more.

Miles Nelson is a writer, illustrator, trans man, and cape enthusiast. In this episode, Miles talks with Quinn about coming out to some family members in his wedding invitation, how being trans does and doesn’t intersect for him with being on the autism spectrum, a dragon that used to haunt his dreams, and stories of trans joy.

Some links to things that might interest you from the episode:

• Miles Nelson’s Web site: MilesNelsonOfficial.com
• Miles’ latest novel, Riftmaster can be found on Amazon and Waterstones
• The Gender Euphoria anthology, edited by Laura Kate Dale, in which Miles’ essay and many others appear
• William Goldman’s classic (but completely non-diverse) story The Princess Bride: the movie and the book (they’re both great, but they’re a bit different)
• Trans writer April Daniels’ novels telling the story of a trans superheroine: Dreadnought and Sovereign.
• One show Quinn completely forgot to mention when the discussion turned to programs with joyful depictions of nonbinariness is Steven Universe. It starts out seeming like a weird kids’ show but goes much deeper and achieves some tremendous things.

And here’s Miles’ self-illustration that we talked about on the episode:

Gustavo Mercado Muñiz is a joyful nonbinary person who was born and raised in Puerto Rico and who is the Transgender Program Coordinator at the Vermont Pride Center. In this inaugural episode of the podcast, they talk with Quinn about the importance of their family (both birth and found), magic, navigating the Spanish language as a nonbinary person, what it was like to grow up nonbinary without knowing there was such a thing as being nonbinary, and the They Gun. Also, we decide whether or not it’s OK to swear on the podcast.