The hurdles they have to jump through to prove that they are of sound mind, the barriers which are put in place to delay access to treatment ‘just in case’, do not affect me. The struggles faced by younger people are entirely different to those faced by those who transition later in life. Something of which I could have only dreamed. Today, despite the struggles to improve healthcare for young trans people, there is at least a level of awareness that means they are able to address their situation, talk about it and with a lot of understanding and help, live authentically. Of course growing up in the 1960s, this would not have been possible. This incident got me thinking about age and how different life would have been, had I been able to transition when I was young. He was a little out our combined age is currently 184, but still… Naturally, we smiled and swiftly changed the subject. Wow, do you know that in a few years your combined age will be 200? It does not store any personal data.I was recently sitting around a table at work with two colleagues, when a young student looked over at us and said: The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
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In 2012 he received a grant from the Club Passim Iguana Music Fund to fund a show about gender identity. He’s a self-described Americana song-slinger whose accessible, beautiful lyrics leave no doubt why he was chosen as a Kerrville New Song Finalist. Here’s her recent set from Porch Pride, presented by California’s Bluegrass Pride.īethel Steele, from Colorado by way of Boston, was one of the first people in the folk world who knew I was transitioning, and my last tour under my old name was with him. She’s shared the stage with many legends, including Tony Trishka. Maddie Witler, of the Lonely Heartstring Band, is openly trans and bi, and a nationally recognized mandolin shredder based in Brooklyn. Here’s a live set of their songs I absolutely adore. Their eerie, trippy backwoods folk-rock has been incredibly influential to me and they cross genres like it’s nobody’s business. Noel’le Longhaul, Alyssa Kai, Nick Berger, and Ruby Vespertillo make up Loone, a four-piece band of trans and genderqueer musicians from Western Massachusetts.
Here’s a recent cut that I adore, “The Whiskey Don’t Help.” She’s a 4-time Outmusic award winner, has toured worldwide, and has self-released everything she’s put out. She released her first album in 2002, and has never stopped performing or recording. Let’s begin with a person who blazed a trail for many of us, the folk-rocker Namoli Brennet.
(Note: we know this list is heavy on white folks: If you know – or are – a BIPOC trans country artist, let us know!) It meant the world to me.” With this article, we hope to do the same for some of y’all out there. She tore up those tunes on a double-neck steel and it may have been the first time I realized I might find a place in country music. (See “The Case of the Missing Trans Country Artists” in yesterday’s edition of CQ.) Elana Redfield, one of the founding artists of Brooklyn’s venerable Queer Country Quarterly shows, told me, “When I was starting out playing pedal steel, I walked into a bar one night and saw what looked to be a trans woman playing steel guitar. It’s been a banner year for trans representation in the wider world, but trans folks in country, Americana, and related genres don’t always get their due. By Mya Byrne Mya Byrne, photo by Austin Ruffer
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