S5 Ep. 19: ‘The Danger is Larger Because the Voice is Bigger’: Alexandra Billings on What’s Behind the Surge in Anti-Trans Legislation

fiction/non/fiction

Award-winning actor and LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activist Alexandra Billings joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the spate of recent anti-Trans bills and American misogyny. Billings reads from her new memoir, This Time for Me, and talks about her life as a Trans woman, her career as a teacher, and her experiences on the show Transparent.

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This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf, Hayley Brown, Zoë Harper, America Fontenot, and Ross Whitehead.

Selected readings for the episode:

Alexandra Billings

• This Time For Me
• Transparent
• Wicked
• The Nap
• Transparent
• The Connors
• How To Get Away With Murder

Others

• Track Trans Legislation
• The Phil Donahue Show
• Vladimir Putin: J.K. Rowling and Russia Are Victims of Western “Cancel Culture”
• Arizona governor signs bills limiting transgender rights, abortion

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