Jack
05/06/23 • 51 min
In the premier episode of Becoming Visible: Trans Stories, your hosts Susan and Jack jump right into sharing about themselves, and do a deep-dive into Jack's journey as a transgender man who came out in his 30's with a wife and three kids in the small town of Hartford, South Dakota. Jack began working as the Community Health Worker/Community Outreach Manager for The Transformation Project in 2022 after leaving his career of 12 years at Citibank.
Resources:
www.transformationprojectsd.org
There are so many great resources available if you happen to be struggling with suicidal thoughts. You can head to the Trevor project.org Or you can call and text 988 and you will be connected to trained counselors that will listen understand how your problems are affecting you provide support and connect you to the resources needed if necessary.
Hosts: Jack Fonder & Susan Williams
Producer: Susan Williams
Audio Engineer: Cheese
Graphic Design: Carly Schultz
Music: Niklas Peters
Niklas is a musician, artist, and organizer based in occupied Očhéthi Šakówiŋ land. They are a founding member of the South Dakota Women and Trans Musicians Network. When they are not creating music or art, Niklas can be found hiking or camping, walking their dog, or enjoying a meal with friends. They work as a Campaign Coordinator for Clean, Renewable Energy for the Western Organization of Resource Councils. (Website - Instagram)
In the premier episode of Becoming Visible: Trans Stories, your hosts Susan and Jack jump right into sharing about themselves, and do a deep-dive into Jack's journey as a transgender man who came out in his 30's with a wife and three kids in the small town of Hartford, South Dakota. Jack began working as the Community Health Worker/Community Outreach Manager for The Transformation Project in 2022 after leaving his career of 12 years at Citibank.
Resources:
www.transformationprojectsd.org
There are so many great resources available if you happen to be struggling with suicidal thoughts. You can head to the Trevor project.org Or you can call and text 988 and you will be connected to trained counselors that will listen understand how your problems are affecting you provide support and connect you to the resources needed if necessary.
Hosts: Jack Fonder & Susan Williams
Producer: Susan Williams
Audio Engineer: Cheese
Graphic Design: Carly Schultz
Music: Niklas Peters
Niklas is a musician, artist, and organizer based in occupied Očhéthi Šakówiŋ land. They are a founding member of the South Dakota Women and Trans Musicians Network. When they are not creating music or art, Niklas can be found hiking or camping, walking their dog, or enjoying a meal with friends. They work as a Campaign Coordinator for Clean, Renewable Energy for the Western Organization of Resource Councils. (Website - Instagram)
Next Episode
Grace
In the 2nd episode of Becoming Visible: Trans Stories, Susan and Jack learn all about Grace Hansen, who besides working as a Database Administrator, a gymnastics coach, and is the only remaining founding member of The Rude Band. Grace is a transgender woman who shares her story with us about how she came out at age 53 with a wife and four grown kids in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Stay tuned after the episode to hear one of Grace's faves from the Rude Band!
TW: Suicide
Check out The Rude Band at:
https://rudeband.ws/
Grace's Articles on Medium:
- My Coming Out Letter https://medium.com/empowered-trans-woman/my-coming-out-letter-6c0c0dc8c7c9?sk=2f94d7b7fd7900527386c6ed0613b1f0
- How The Pyramid of Hate Applies to The Transgender Community https://medium.com/empowered-trans-woman/how-the-pyramid-of-hate-applies-to-the-transgender-community-3fd21baa7afa?sk=d82136d29fd52b0cd81811e9e21c0a92
- How I started transitioning before I came out as transgender https://medium.com/empowered-trans-woman/how-i-started-transitioning-before-i-came-out-as-transgender-b05c645c66ce?sk=40b636f9c11a4ad6ab4fc727a192e323
Resources:
https://www.transformationprojectsd.org/
There are so many great resources available if you happen to be struggling with suicidal thoughts. You can head to the Trevor project.org Or you can call and text 988 and you will be connected to trained counselors that will listen understand how your problems are affecting you provide support and connect you to the resources needed if necessary.
Hosts: Jack Fonder & Susan Williams
Producer: Susan Williams
Audio Engineer: Cheese
Graphic Design: Carly Schultz
Music: Niklas Peters
Niklas is a musician, artist, and organizer based in occupied Očhéthi Šakówiŋ land. They are a founding member of the South Dakota Women and Trans Musicians Network. When they are not creating music or art, Niklas can be found hiking or camping, walking their dog, or enjoying a meal with friends. They work as a Campaign Coordinator for Clean, Renewable Energy for the Western Organization of Resource Councils. (Website - Instagram)
Becoming Visible: Trans Stories - Jack
Transcript
Susan: Hey, everybody, it's Susan and Jack, we're so happy to be here with you today. And it's our first time recording, so this is pretty momentous. And as you can tell, we have no idea what we're doing. So, earlier today, I decided to go buy some cupcakes to celebrate our first podcast being recorded, so I texted Jack, and I'm just gonna read you a little bit of what happened.
Jack: Don't hate me? No.
Susan: I mean. So I basically said to
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