Gender Identity Weekly

Today's episode features Mx. Crys/ta Song, a Speech Language Pathologist and vocalist who is also Board Co-Chair of Queer Oriented Radical Days of Summer (QORDS).  Crys/ta and I talk about such topics as why the South should not be discounted as a political forum, how we cannot help but be part of humanity, and obscure William Makepeace Thackeray quotes.

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REFERENCES:
Follow Crys/ta Song on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/mx.singasong/
QORDS website:  https://qords.org/
Follow QORDS on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Qords/
Follow QORDS on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/qords_camp/
Transcend NYC Chorus:  https://www.transcendsings.org/
“Braiding Sweetgrass:”  https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass
Quote from “The Crow:”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6sz0mgQL_A

  • (00:00) - Opening credits
  • (00:37) - Show opening
  • (01:32) - Introducing Crys/ta Song
  • (02:31) - The beauty in pure vocal sounds
  • (06:11) - Applying sound to the human experience
  • (09:52) - Genderless choir
  • (12:23) - Music Theory for Cis/Het White Dudes
  • (15:11) - Gendered Voice for Cis/Het White Dudes
  • (20:59) - Healing through community connections
  • (27:15) - Chosen family is different from the labels we adopt
  • (31:07) - Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children
  • (35:55) - Stay aloof or be in the human community?
  • (43:12) - Why it's worth investing in the South
  • (49:44) - Transformation during Queer Oriented Radical Days of Summer
  • (57:10) - Can QORDS help youth with recalcitrant parents?
  • (01:01:41) - Finding Crys/ta in the Universe
  • (01:03:21) - Show closing
  • (01:04:54) - Closing credits

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Host
Amethysta Herrick
Writer, Transgender Activist, Philosopher, and sometimes Software Consultant

What is Gender Identity Weekly?

Every week, join Amethysta Herrick and contributors to Gender Identity Today for a pithy discussion of the challenges facing humanity as each of us discovers our identity and gender.