At 4zzz, we acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we broadcast. We pay our respects to the elders, past, present and emerging of the Turbul and Jagera people. We acknowledge that their sovereignty over this land was never ceded and we stand in solidarity with them. You're listening to transm on 4zzz amplifying the trans and gender non conforming voices of Brisbane and beyond. Hello. Hello, you're listening to Transmission on 4 Triple Z. It's been an interesting long weekend for a lot of us with what seemed like landslide election elections and with Mayday yesterday, 4zzz broadcasting live from the broadcast from, from the march with workers power, which was amazing. And you can check out on the four Triple Z socials as well. Four Triple Z radio, whether that's Instagram, social media, wherever, where are you at? And watch back some of the on the street action with some of our four Triple Z volunteers as well. Which was great. Yeah, we've got a interesting episode this week. My name is ez. I use he him pronouns and. Yeah, what's the difference between Peter Dutton and a toilet? Toilet has a seat. There you go. So that's how I feel about the election over the weekend, which was a. I feel great in some ways but also sad and others. It's kind of a mixed, a mixed bag this election. Previously when the last election was here, I think Brisbane was a bit of a green slide, which was amazing. Felt very proud of the city and I'm still very proud of the city. I think we've just, yeah, it's just been interesting and I guess what does this election mean for the trans community? What, you know, some EZ's thoughts on this and I'm, I'm, you know, I watched the speeches with Peter Dutton and then with Albanese as well and oh, you know, everything that Albanese said, I was like, yeah, mate, I agree with you. Yeah, these things are good. Yep. Particularly made note of the moment when he said no one held back and no one left behind. And I thought, well, interesting, we'll see how, we'll see how that goes. Got a lot of work to do to prove that Labour did announce a 10 million, $10 million to provide inclusive, culturally safe health care for LGBTQ Australians, which the funding would go towards third party training for doctors and nurses, which advocates say would remove barriers to treatment. Be interesting to see if that Labour follow through on that. $10 million is not nothing, particularly when it comes to education around queer needs and trans needs in medical spaces. It is definitely something we should be working towards. But I also want to, you know, I think, I think we've got a better chance of having our rights met and getting our rights as trans people with the Labour government than we do with the lnp. However, you know, just because, you know, government makes promises about this or that doesn't mean that you actually get them to see them fulfilled as we know. But I'm feeling more positive about the outcome and also just I think as a trans person it was really nice to see the country generally go move away from the American style politics and language. It was always a little nerve wracking when we, when I was watching all this discourse and thinking, gosh, what kind of, what kind of country are we? What kind of government are we? Is this the democracy that we want? You know, and then to see this kind of landslide victory for Labour was actually a relief in some ways because it sort of aligns with what I believe about Aussies which is that we make up our own minds about things and everyone deserves a go and we all deserve to, to live together happy. And yeah, we don't want to, we don't be fighting invisible threats. Trans children are not threats at any point ever. So you know, weaponizing those things. And I think the LNP seriously failed in that on that mark, and that's fine with me. So yeah, some, some thoughts on the election there. But other than that, also in some news is there's the 491 party this weekend at Vinny's Bar. This Friday. Sorry, at Vinny's Bar Dive bar which is 448 Nerang street in South Port. That's May 9th from 6pm You've got permanent revolution queerbait Lucas Chiavowski flanger panties and SEL project 491 is an initiative led by Ozpath in response to Queensland government's unacceptable restrictions on gender affirming care for trans and gender diverse children. You can donate directly actually through auspath.org auproject491 or you can just come on down to Vinny's on Friday night. I'll be there. There'll be a bunch of the transmission crew and we'll be all celebrating and supporting our community. And I've got some giveaways this morning. Do do do do. Sorry, I don't have a, I don't have a little sound bite for that. So you're just gonna have me making noises. So yeah, if you want two tickets to Vinnies this Friday night, we're gonna be doing a giveaway today. How it works is you need to text in one of the names of the artists that are performing. The first person to text in any of any of the artists that I mentioned just before 204-206-2673. And you can win and a friend to Vinnie's dive bar, come hang out with the transmission crew, raise some money for a good cause and just have a great old time. So, yeah, text in one of the artist's names from the gig. And yeah, that's two tickets for you to the gig. So, yeah, super keen. Also, I want to give another big shout out to everyone who subscribed to 4Z during April atonement. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you so much. You're keeping us on air. You're keeping community radio live and you're keeping transmission going as well, which is just, yeah, just super heartwarming. And we wouldn't be here without you. All of us announcers are volunteers. None of us are getting paid. We're all being here because it is an absolute honour to serve community in the way that we do on a radio frequency like this. So, yeah, your subscription goes a long, long, long way. So, yeah, thank you so much. And because the election was kind of a weird time and we had like, kind of, I don't know, long weekends can kind of be weird and lots of stressful things happening in the world, I have decided that a se today is gonna be a bit of a fun one. So we're gonna have a little fun time. What do you think my genitals are? Penis. I have a vagina. What bathroom do you think I should go to? Whichever one you prefer. And that's the end of the interview. You're listening to Transmission four Triple Z. Uh, yeah, Transmission. All about amplifying the voices of the gender. The genders. That's what I'm trying to say. I'm by myself in studio. My name is ez. I use he, him, pronouns. And today talked a little bit about the election. But now we're going to talk about some fun things. Thank you to the people messaging in as well. And also congratulations to Natalia. You have won two tickets to 491 this Friday at Vinny's Bar. Woo woo. That's it, you've won. I will be in touch with you to deliver you your tickets. But everyone else, get your tickets. Go on, head down there. Good. Cause this Friday night, Vinny's dive on the Gold coast, raising money to provide gender affirming care for under 18, trans and gender diverse Young people fun section now. So over the weekend, the long weekend, I went to an anarchist book fair at Yagera Hall. Heard some really cool speeches. Well, talks on different aspects of, like, the anarchist history of. Of Brisbane. And there's lots of zines. Zine fair. There was Andy Payne there from Paradigm Shift. Saw Bill from Work Is Power as well. There's quite a few zed heads there, which is great. And I managed to pick myself up a copy of a book that I've wanted for a while that I've seen floating around. It's called Too Trans, Too Furious, which is quite possibly the best name of any trans literature I've read or found. And it is on the. I will describe the front cover of this book for you, but it is edited by Tuck Woodstock and Nico Stratus. And this is kind of like an anthology of stories and little bits and bobs, whether that's like zine bits, haikus, poems. I will be reading a transition narrative for you from here and a couple of other things. And on the front, it's got Too Trans, Too Furious in the font and style of like, an Animorphs book. And there's Vin Diesel, like, hovering in the air in his black shirt and his cross around his neck. And he's like slowly morphing into his 1977 black Dodge Challenger, which is his animorphing transitioning into his car. However you want to look at it. It's quite funny. Too Trans, Too Furious. So what I'm going to do is I'm gonna. I'm gonna read a section from this today. It's called Factory Issued. But before we do that, I did put some effort into making a thing in this segment. This is a segment that EZ is calling trans. That's right. We're two turns and two furious for you. And this, this, this is. I'm gonna keep a straight face now. Okay, so we're gonna read as a section of 2trans2 furious. This is called Factory Issued, the Fast and the Furious and the Toyota Super Mark 4 as transition narrative by Max Turner. So these are not my words, but I. I quite enjoyed this. So if you. I don't know. Apparently there's a parallel between transness and trans masks and Too Fast Too Furious franchise or the Fast and Furious franchise, which is hilarious because I've definitely watched an insane number of those films multiple times. So it's interesting when you find out your personality is just symptoms of a thing. But yeah, Spider Man, Fast and Furious, those are two things I like. And Turns out a lot of trans masks like that too. So this is what Max Turner's thoughts are in terms of the trans experience and Fast and Furious, particularly the first movie. So in a franchise where cars represent everything from sex to parenthood, it seems natural to consider how they might also represent the characters relationships to gender. The Fast and the Furious, in addition to its laughable editing, casual racism and rampant homoeroticism, gives us a prime example of car as gender in the form of Brian O'Connor's Toyota supra Mark 4. In the context of some trans people's reference to this preoperative body's as factory issued, it is possible to read Brian's relationship to the Supra and its rebuild as analogous to the trans experience of creating a body that we choose for ourselves through the process of transition. I got a 187 in Glendale. Cops are all over it, man. We're good to roll. I repeat, good to roll. That's right. Brian starts the movie driving the iconic bright green Mitsubishi Eclipse 2G GS. And it becomes immediately clear to the audience that he's uncomfortable. He struggles to control it and makes frequent mistakes. In the initial street race against Dom, the car is literally falling apart around him as he drives. We also learn from interactions with Brian's superior officer, Tanner, that the Eclipse was a loan from the impound lot and was already modified when it was given to them. To Brian, the Eclipse was factory issued in that he didn't build it, he doesn't know how to handle it properly, and that makes him nervous. The film presents an early contrast to this tension with Dom's Mazda RX7, the interior of which is handmade with an experimental feel and which he drives with perfect collected confidence. While some of the difference in their comfort levels can be chalked up to the experience, it's clear that Brian's loss in the race also comes from his disconnect from the Eclipse. As Dom points out, Brian never had his car. What are you smiling about, dude? I almost had you. You almost had me? You never had me? You never had your car. In spite of his natural talent and enthusiasm, Brian literally cannot win in this factory issued vehicle, which is a painfully familiar feeling to many trans people trying to live their happiest and most successful lives without access to gender affirming care. The rebuild of the Toyota supra Mark 4 around the midpoint of the movie marks a transformation for Brian both literally and allegorically. For the first time, Brian has a hand in building his own vehicle and the difference that this process makes in his confidence becomes apparent by the end of the film. In direct contrast to his earlier race against Dom in the Eclipse, Brian, driving the Supra in the final drag to beat the train, finally finds that special zone. His face reflects a serenity we haven't seen before. The car is speaking to him as none have before. At this moment, Brian is experiencing the euphoria of the first beach day bare chested or the first correct gendering by a stranger. The feeling of moving through the world in a form that you know intimately and choose for yourself. The collective narrative of the Supras rebuild is also central to Brian's allegorical transition. As isolating and lonely as the early days of transition may feel, the reality is that nothing happens in a vacuum, particularly not gender. How many trans people have, on purpose or entirely by accident, adopted the mannerisms, personal style and even the names of the people around us as part of our transition? Our gender identities are always influenced by our social circles and society at large. Because gender is fundamentally a social construct. The same is true for Brian's Supra. Jesse chooses the shocks. Vince welds in the roll cage. Leon puts in the brakes. Dom installs the engine. Dom installs the engine and Mia decorates the body. The car as gender is a group project in a franchise whose overarching theme is the importance of family. Family, family, Family, Family, Family, Family, Family, your family. The involvement of Brian's found family in the construction of his car and identity seems not only appropriate, but necessary. The unspoken truth of the Supras rebuild in the movie is that Brian could not have done it alone. It took the expertise, time and love of the rest of the crew to help Brian reach that moment of serenity in the Supra. Just as every one of us is supported along our gender journey by the people with whom we choose to share it. I don't have friends. I got family. In the end, the rebuilt Supra doesn't win Brian the race against Dom and the train. You could even say that the car. The car is gender allegory falls apart at the end of the movie. But when Brian hands Dom the keys to make his getaway from the cops and stays to face the consequences. On the other hand, we can see Brian's sacrifice as representing the solidarity that we show one another as trans people. The permission we give to others to be themselves, be openly and proudly being who we are, even in the face of oppression, punishment by. And punishment by authorities. Brian starts the movie with a career in law enforcement because his dad was a cop driving a car that he was given by his employer. But his growth as a character has him stepping away from the parts of his life that were chosen for him in favour of the things and people that he chooses for himself. The final moments of the film show Brian giving Dom the very literal gift of freedom in the form of the supra from the cops, from the past and from the factory issued life that Brian himself has escaped with Dom's help. It may not look like the keys to the car, but trans people give each other and ourselves this gift every single day. How many genders are there? I don't know. I just got here. Only got a little bit left of Showtime before it's work is power. Thank you so much to everyone texting in. We're talking about parallels between trans narratives and our life compared to like Bro dude movies. I've been reading from a book called Too Trans Too Furious this morning, which is an. Yeah, just a collection of lots of trans stories in relation to how they feel about Paul Walker and Dom Mia and all the other characters. And it's just. It's just a book of lots of things. I'm flicking through it right now and. Yeah, picking things to read. We just heard from Max Turner with his factory issued the Fast and the Furious and the Toto Super Mark IV as transition narrative. Lots of messages and Natalia's message in saying if we taught trans readings of dude bro movies, then the world would unequivocally be a better place. Completely agree. There's. There's a lot of overlap here. You want to see Fight Club and Taxi Driver next? Yeah, I'm sure it exists. If you can find that, that'd be great. Let me know. Yeah, and then maybe CIS people will finally understand and empathise with us. It's true. We need. We do need to draw parallels between trans experiences and just, I don't know, gender. Gender affirmation, which is a thing that can happen for everyone. So gender affirmation is not an exclusively trans experience, although we are more acutely aware of, is something that you, as a CIS person, dear listener, if you are a CIS person, you might also be. You would also relate to these things because we all have gender or we all don't have gender, where. However you want to look at it, it's one of the other. So, yeah, there's 2Trans 2 Furious, which is edited by Tuck Woodstock and Nico Stratus. I got this from Jura Books, which is an anarchist book publisher and distributor in New South Wales. In Sydney. You can check them out. They may also have copies of this if you want. I also got it from a place called AK Press, which is also an anarchist publisher based in Los Angeles. You can get it there too. Or you can go directly to I think the author's Instagram and stuff, and I think you can purchase it there too. I'll pop some links up on the 4zzz website and also the transmission socials so you can take a look. If you'd like to grab copy of 2Trans Too Furious I do want to. I'm going to read another thing from here. This one is called 67292 Things Car Guys Can Teach Transsexuals by Adrian Glenn. I'm not going to read all of the sections of this all 67,292 things, but because there isn't but just generally there are some little comments in here that are pretty good. So this says Sometimes when I think about being trans too much, I wonder if I have perhaps too much of a sense of self. I'm like, should I be thinking so much about who I am instead of just being it? I crave relief from being sort of like a kind of person instead of just a person. I literally will eat cereal and think right now I am like one of those guys who eats cereal. But then I remember about car guys and I'm like, well, they get it. This one is car guys have a relationship to identity, aesthetic, performed masculinity, and deep special interest that is usually reserved for the neurodiverse. Trans masculine it is. See, look at all these parallels we have. There's also, I think car guys are scared to die. They have found something they love so much. They have a clear idea of who they are and they have plans. They're going to tint. They are going to sell and acquire Camaros. They are going to attend a car show at a beach town this October. They have full lives and more than anything, they have each other. The queer community should pay close attention to the kinship patterns of car guys. I haven't read a whole lot about the bonds between car guys, but I did witness firsthand the way the death of Paul Walker tore the community wide open. They grieved openly and together. This is a great book. You should totally check it out. Also, another section of this is called A Partial List of Suggestions We Received for the Title of the Scene. So there's Instead of two Trans Too Furious, it could have been Too Trans to Drive, Too Trans to Gender, Too Fast, Too Trans too fast but never too trans. Transitioning too fastly. Rapid onset fender euphoria. I live my life a milligramme at a time. Fast and furious. Transsexual drift. I like my cars fast and my genders transd. Every car's heart is a trans Johnny Trans Rudom's drag race Charlie XCX's Vroom Vroom. Putting the T in Toretto chosen familia. You've got a fast car and I've got a plan to tell you about. My MIA is trans headcanon fast for furious. Can't host will travel the fast and the F Gender Fast plus Furious fags Trans and genderis. Oh, I like that one. The fast and the gender. The trashed and the glorious. The queer and the furious. Fast Furious and trans as hell. Stay fast, stay strands fast. Trans Trans Furious. Oh, manual transmission. Here we go. Now that. Now the show name is getting caught. I was waiting for it. Manual transmission, fast transmissions. Maybe there should be like a sub show transmission like branches off and does like a whole. Yeah, cool. Fast transmissions. Mass transit, fast mx. The street always wins and cars don't fly. There you go. Anyway, pick up your copy of two Trends Too Furious from your local anarchist bookstore and we'll put a link up on the transmission socials as well. And we're coming to the end of the show this morning. It's been really fun hanging out and talking about being trans and being furious and being too trans and too furious. We've also talked a little bit about the election. You can always listen back on the 4zzz website, 4zzz.org au amrap a M r A P. You can check out all the shows that are broadcast on 4Z, whether that be digital or whether that be the 102.1 frequency or online. 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