today we’re at Washington Hall hearing from people like Albina Cabrera of KEXP who love artists and want to trade intel on how best to support them. the Red Hot newsletter out Sunday will have some takeaways from these convos! enter your email: transa.world

tho Vera has an entire production studio for music-making and podcasts, they let teens and young adults make their own projects and don’t brand anything under the venue’s umbrella. notable that their main source of promo is still word of mouth.

yesterday’s host venue, The Vera Project, is the second-longest-running DIY venue in the US. the city of Seattle owns their (vast) main building downtown and it’s on a 5-year lease. it’s funded on 55 percent revenue and 45 percent donations/grants.

we’re on ~Pacific Time at #MusicPolicyForum presenting on survival strategies learned during the release of Transa and throughout Red Hot’s history. Seattle is a microcosm of music industry dramas & triumphs so it’s easy to learn a lot here just by walking around.

Sofi Tukker and Amadou & Mariam "Mon Cheri" Remixes sleeve and poster art. Lifted from our 2021 compilation, RED HOT + FREE. Art Direction : Bob Bottle and Bill Coleman

"Mon Cheri" was feat. on our 2021 🎧'RED HOT + FREE' compilation for humanitarian charities.

▪️"Mon Cheri" - ingroov.es/mon-cheri
▪️ Remixes - ingroov.es/mon-cheri-iy...
▪️ Video - youtu.be/RO_9LDW4YhM?...

Sofi Tukker and Amadou & Mariam for The Red Hot Organization.

Sofi Tukker and Amadou & Marian "Mon Cheri" single sleeve cover art for The Red Hot Organization lifted from our 2021 compilation, RED HOT + FREE. Art Direction : Bob Bottle and Bill Coleman

We extend our heartfelt condolences to the friends, family and colleagues of Amadou & Mariam on the passing of the legendary Amadou Bagayoko.🙏🏽🇲🇱❤️

@peacebisquit.bsky.social were honored to work w/ the duo on behalf of @redhotorg.bsky.social and @sofi-tukker.bsky.social on "Mon Cheri."

love this Gwen ✨

46 songs to get you through the function

all I want for Trans Day of Visibility is for @thevivllainous.bsky.social to find out about TRANSA on @kellyclarksontv.bsky.social

catch Massima Bell on the show today!!! www.nbc.com/exclusives/w...

Welcome the spring The summer rain Softly turned To sing again Welcome the bud The summer blooming flower Welcome the child Whose hand I hold Welcome to you Both young and old We are ever new We are ever new Beverly Glenn-Copeland feat. Sam Smith [Image: white font on a background of wispy green-blue fading into light purple]

Springtime
19/20 "Ever New" (TRAИƧA album version)
redhot.bandcamp.com/track/sam-sm...

Written by Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Featuring Sam Smith

This version is from a trans rights concept album by various artists, released last fall by @redhotorg.bsky.social - check it out!

#lyrics #MusicSky 🎶

we’re a rogue art collective and nonprofit label back in wide view because of trans people 💗 number 5 on this @fastcompany.com list

TRANSA is just beginning, bet

www.fastcompany.com/91269640/mus...

Mahmoud Khalil writing from a Louisiana detention center: "I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear."

Jefferson’s book is out today. He’s found his own way of influencing a very trapped culture toward liberation. This advice is an example of challenging gender norms in spaces that suffer from them still, in a way they can’t always name. Pull up for LGBTQ+ rights, Jefferson! We love you!

it’s almost like the moralizing of gender assigned at birth (“the way G-d made you”) is a front for the corporation

Proceed II Justice, by Red Hot Org 3 track album

hi it’s Bandcamp Friday ~ might we interest you in “Proceed II” by The Roots with Roy Ayers as it appeared on Red Hot + Cool + remixes?

You make our projects possible!

redhot.bandcamp.com/album/procee...

III. Cole Pulice + Hunter Schafer - Under the Shadow of Another Moon (Dark Night), by Red Hot Org from the album TRAИƧA

This, along with Hunter Schafer speaking out about how receiving a passport with the wrong gender marker does not erase who she is, calls to Hunter’s performance of an Eileen Myles poem on Transa:

“left a message in the sand / it’s true / you picked it right up”

redhot.bandcamp.com/track/iii-co...

A dream where a passport -- a self -- is something that you make not something given to you by anyone. In a letter to his gallerist in 1992, Gonzalez-Torres wrote that the blank paper represents an "untouched feeling" -- something no state can take away.

The artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres imagined identity as open possibility in "Untitled (Passport).” He invited people to simply take a blank piece of paper from a stack and inscribe it with THEIR selves and THEIR places. (images from the FGT Foundation)

intervention strategies start with imagination 🧵

~~ what is a passport without the state? it’s a booklet of paper

Lauren Auder, Wendy & Lisa - I Would Die 4 U (Official Video) (Transa album version) YouTube video by LaurenAuderVEVO

out now:

“I Would Die 4 U” the music video
starring Lauren Auder

Prince’s song versioned by Lauren Auder + Wendy & Lisa of the Revolution

for TRAИƧA the album’s Reinvention chapter

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLmu...

Massive protest happening in Union Square right now to defend trans youth from President Trump’s attempts at eradication.

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care.

Big counter salvo!

A screenshot showing playback of a song from the compilation TRA​И​Ƨ​A published by the non-profit Red Hot on 2024-11-22.

A screenshot showing part of the tracklist from the compilation TRA​И​Ƨ​A published by the non-profit Red Hot on 2024-11-22.

Listen to TRANSA. This labour of love is an epic journey best experienced together. As much as I appreciated the singles published before release day those songs feel more natural in sequence. There's so much history and affirming artistry here without a note of artifice. Thank you, Red Hot.

RSVPs now closed! Y’all love trans people so much that we’re at capacity 💜 the conversation and performance at this event will be fully documented 💜

Ridgewood, NYC 2.18 puts Imara Jones, Ceyenne Doroshow and L’Rain in conversation (!) with a performance by MIZU 💟 a benefit for the NYC Trans Oral History Project + G.L.I.T.S 🏳️‍⚧️

Terrell Villiers is now the MC and Papi Tropical
created a menu for this dream!! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/traa-liste...

love!! at 46 tracks, 100+ artists and 6LPs with art by Pippa Garner, Female Pentimento and other legends + booklet with essays by artists and producers, the box set really is something to behold ✨🫀

New Blue Sun already made history for being New Blue Sun 💙 LFG TRANSA artist André 3000 #GRAMMYs

26 minutes of his new era on a massive project supporting trans artistry and influence:

music.apple.com/us/album/iv-...