Mia Wong

Disaster. Disaster. Yeah, Amir, do you want to talk a bit about your experience with it?

Disaster. Disaster. Yeah, Amir, do you want to talk a bit about your experience with it?

Disaster. Disaster. Yeah, Amir, do you want to talk a bit about your experience with it?

It's legitimately great. You will get reporting there that you won't fucking get from... Well, okay. You will get reporting there that you won't get from anyone else until about three weeks later when all the national outlets pick it up. And it will be better, and you will have it first for the person who actually reported it.

It's legitimately great. You will get reporting there that you won't fucking get from... Well, okay. You will get reporting there that you won't get from anyone else until about three weeks later when all the national outlets pick it up. And it will be better, and you will have it first for the person who actually reported it.

It's legitimately great. You will get reporting there that you won't fucking get from... Well, okay. You will get reporting there that you won't get from anyone else until about three weeks later when all the national outlets pick it up. And it will be better, and you will have it first for the person who actually reported it.

Yeah, this was a Brazilian trans woman who got sent to Guantanamo.

Yeah, this was a Brazilian trans woman who got sent to Guantanamo.

Yeah, this was a Brazilian trans woman who got sent to Guantanamo.

This is a incredibly material problem for us, right? And like, I am very lucky in that, like, in terms of transgender journalism, I have like a stable job. But the thing is, right, unless unless you fucking got really lucky and you got hired like as a cis person and then you have a bunch of very, very supportive like coworkers and like your bosses are supportive.

This is a incredibly material problem for us, right? And like, I am very lucky in that, like, in terms of transgender journalism, I have like a stable job. But the thing is, right, unless unless you fucking got really lucky and you got hired like as a cis person and then you have a bunch of very, very supportive like coworkers and like your bosses are supportive.

This is a incredibly material problem for us, right? And like, I am very lucky in that, like, in terms of transgender journalism, I have like a stable job. But the thing is, right, unless unless you fucking got really lucky and you got hired like as a cis person and then you have a bunch of very, very supportive like coworkers and like your bosses are supportive.

You are like trying to cobble together like every cent that you can possibly pull out of a fucking couch cushion. Because, like, you know, I've said this on the show before, right? Like, if you're a trans person in the U.S., even before all the turf tariffs hit, right? Like, you were living in, like, 1936 Great Depression levels of unemployment.

You are like trying to cobble together like every cent that you can possibly pull out of a fucking couch cushion. Because, like, you know, I've said this on the show before, right? Like, if you're a trans person in the U.S., even before all the turf tariffs hit, right? Like, you were living in, like, 1936 Great Depression levels of unemployment.

You are like trying to cobble together like every cent that you can possibly pull out of a fucking couch cushion. Because, like, you know, I've said this on the show before, right? Like, if you're a trans person in the U.S., even before all the turf tariffs hit, right? Like, you were living in, like, 1936 Great Depression levels of unemployment.

And, you know, and so that means that, like, it actually matters a lot when other outlets do your stories and don't attribute it to you because, like...

And, you know, and so that means that, like, it actually matters a lot when other outlets do your stories and don't attribute it to you because, like...

And, you know, and so that means that, like, it actually matters a lot when other outlets do your stories and don't attribute it to you because, like...

you have to find a way to fucking make money and like almost all trans journalists are like the most hideously broke people you've ever heard of in your entire fucking life like and this is also you know and this is this is also part of the way that like class plays out in in the trans media you see is like you know the people with the biggest platforms tend to be trans people who were already doing okay because those are the only people who can afford to fucking do this

you have to find a way to fucking make money and like almost all trans journalists are like the most hideously broke people you've ever heard of in your entire fucking life like and this is also you know and this is this is also part of the way that like class plays out in in the trans media you see is like you know the people with the biggest platforms tend to be trans people who were already doing okay because those are the only people who can afford to fucking do this