This is a retrospective on GenderTalk in recognition of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, which took place yesterday on Monday November 20th. GenderTalk ran on WMBR for nearly 11 years and was dedicated to "speaking the language of gender" from a first-person perspective. You can read more about the program and hear archived episodes on the GenderTalk website.

Tonight's show features music, poetry and other writing by transgender, non-binary and gender-nonconforming artists, in addition to clips from archived episodes of GenderTalk and other recordings/media.

GenderTalk - Introduction
[archived recording from Program 578, September 30, 2006 (0m:00s - 0m:32s)]

"we gotta learn to love ourselves / no matter on earth, no matter in hell"

GenderTalk - Interview with Gwen Smith, founder of the Transgender Day of Remembrance
[archived recording from Program 432, October 27, 2003 (spliced clips starting from 34m:32s)]

"A somber 5-minute musical reflection on the event that inspired the annual international Transgender Day of Remembrance, the candlelight vigil for murdered transsexual Rita Hester." [link to video]

How does it feel to want? by TC Tolbert
[poetry read by TC Tolbert at Casa Libre in 2010]

"and the grey earth gives over to green."

A Letter to the Girl I Used to Be by Ethan Smith
[poetry read by Ethan at CUPSI in 2014]

GenderTalk - Interview with Emily Metcalfe, trans poet, activist, leader, mentor, and organizer
[archived recording from Program 568, July 22, 2006 (spliced clips starting from 54m:29s)]

"and maybe in a year, I will learn to love the fear / and maybe in a year, I will not feel like a bad queer"

GenderTalk - End of Last Show
[archived recording from Program 578, September 30, 2006 (1h:50m:10s - 1h52m:48s)]

"you can't disarm me with words that I chose for myself / can't force upon me the judgement of anyone else
I'm not the problem but a greater fantasy / don't know what you're imagining, your worst fear sets a fire in me"