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Trans Cookout

Trans Cookout

Written by: Holiday Simmons + Campaign for Southern Equality
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Trans Cookout is like swinging on the front porch, shucking corn and shooting the breeze...but make it a podcast. Each month Holiday Simmons, the Director of Healing and Resilience at the Campaign for Southern Equality will be in conversation with a wellness practitioners or a transgender leader in our community. Together they discuss strategies of healing and liberation.

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Episodes
  • Trans Rights and The Tiny House Project with Kayla Gore

    Trans Rights and The Tiny House Project with Kayla Gore
    Sep 25 2025

    Listen to Holiday Simmons in conversation with Kayla Gore, the founder of My Sistah's House and the Tiny House Project in Memphis, Tennessee. She works to help coordinate homeless services and outreach, and she is an advocate for TLGBQIA+ rights. She's also a published author, nonprofit founder, social justice advocate, and filmmaker.

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    43 mins
  • Trans Rights and the Living Legacy of Marsha P. Johnson with Tourmaline

    Trans Rights and the Living Legacy of Marsha P. Johnson with Tourmaline
    Aug 6 2025

    On this episode of Trans Cookout, host Holiday Simmons is joined by Tourmaline, an award-winning author and filmmaker. Together, they discuss Tourmaline's own life, and the living legacy of Marsha P. Johnson in her new book, "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson."
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    47 mins
  • Trans Rights, Punk music, and DEI with Crispin Torres

    Trans Rights, Punk music, and DEI with Crispin Torres
    Jun 23 2025

    Listen to host Holiday Simmons in conversation with Crispin Torres, a musician, educator, organizer, and activist in Chicago. Crispin is also the co-founder of Better World Collaborative, a social impact consultancy.
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    58 mins
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