The second season of the eight-part audio/video series “TEA: The Transgender Experience in Arkansas,” which was produced by KUAF-FM 91.3 in Fayetteville, debuted on Wednesday.
The series, which is hosted by Taylor Johnson and Sophia Nourani, features open discussions with seven transgender residents of Northwest Arkansas, with a different person at the center of each segment. Professor Lisa Corrigan, chairman of the Gender Studies program at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, is interviewed in addition to highlighting the transgender community and offers a conversation about pronoun use among gay people.
According to a media release from KUAF, “we ask our TEA guests—a number of trans teens, trans adults, as well as a drag queen and drag king—to provide insight into their lives by revealing their trans self-realization, health integration, and cultural acculturation,” more than dwell on the rising trans oppression and erasure in Arkansas.
Ethan Avanzino, a 35-year-old transgender man who lives in Eureka Springs, is the first episode’s guest. Every other Wednesday through early May, new episodes will be made available online.
