Trans Cookout
Trans Cookout
Podcast Description
Trans Cookout is like swinging on the front porch, shucking corn and shooting the breeze...but podcast style. Each month the Campaign for Southern Equality's Director of Healing and Resilience, Holiday Simmons, will be in conversation with a wellness practitioner or a transgender leader in our community.Trans Cookout is live every 4th Wednesday of the month 6:30-7:30pm ET.
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The podcast focuses on topics related to transgender rights, wellness, and social justice, with episodes covering critical issues such as housing justice for trans individuals, the impact of systemic inequality, and strategies for effective activism.

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.
Beverly Little Thunder was a Lakota elder and advocate for two-spirit and LGBTQ+ communities. On this episode, Trans Cookout host Holiday Simmons discusses her legacy and reads passages from her memoir, “One Bead at a Time,” along with a panel of guests:
- Tasha Peltier: Hunkpapa Lakota, an Indigenous public health leader
- Tavi Hawn: a multiracial two-spirit healer, licensed clinical therapist, and author
- Josh Dunn: Lakota and Dakota language instructor, herbalist, and plant medicine teacher

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