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.

"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?...

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."

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...

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

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...

intervention strategies start with imagination 🧵 ~~ what is a passport without the state? it’s a booklet of paper

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!

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...

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-...

we love GRAMMY nominee and TRANSA artist Clairo 😍 have you heard her feature on “Many Ways” by CLARITY on this album? music.apple.com/us/album/man...

need Valentines? we’ve got you 🥰 today’s the best day to order! make the loves in your life feel cherished ✨ shop.redhot.org

happy Black History Month babes!! TRACEY “AFRICA” NORMAN & CONNIE FLEMING for V Magazine 🤩

TRANSA is a concept album that traces the journey taken by trans people (and all peoples who have been oppressed) toward rebirth and liberation - an almost 4-hour spiritual experience we wish for you! Comfort and fuel, 100+ artists in an exercise of world-building <3

If you go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum right now you can see an openly-queer tribute to James Baldwin, an installation about the erasure of lesbians and trans people from Stonewall, and a full exhibit about American women between the wars who fled to Paris to be gay and make art.

reporting from a meeting in progress: massive solidarity happening around protecting trans people and such beautiful things about to meet you!!!! DM us if you want to help us get some art into the world <3 thinking about having a weekly Saturday work group on Zoom if there's interest!

an email you can send to superintendents and district admin

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Woman And Nature by Susan Griffin (1978) poetically traces how the Rapture in Scripture morphed with canon texts in science written by misogynists to become this land-destroying secular version of end times. The book is nurturing and crucial! Free PDF! excoradfeminisms.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

lyndsay here! after revisiting No Alternative Girls I've been thinking about the impulse -- often subconscious -- that causes young adults who grew up in /abstinence-only/ churches to have sex without condoms or bc even if they know better (condoms/pills = planning = premeditated sin = shame)

check your email newsletter fam; there's a still from the next TRANSA video in there ;)

also announcing in the newsletter today: the first selection in our monthly book club! sign up now to find out what it is: transa.world

coming today in the newsletter: a note on No Alternative Girls (1993), the film by Tamra Davis featuring touchingly open convos with Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, +++ about identity, sex, and self-possession www.youtube.com/watch?v=urLr...

"a 46-track epic-style narrative breaks the notion of artists contributing singular tracks and instead reads as a mammoth, panorama novel in eight parts" 🥰

we just gifted rt. rev. baddie with TRANSA the album -- a spiritual journey in eight chapters celebrating trans people and the gifts they give to the world <<33

a high volume of digital music available for your new, hot clean-streaming habit at redhot.bandcamp.com

nice to see so many friends here this morning! :) we're hard at work putting the final touches on a gorgeous booklet (with essays!) for the 6LP TRANSA box set shipping this spring. art here by Female Pentimento [Nathaniel], one of the 6 sleeves, curated by Evangeline AdaLioryn shop.redhot.org

benefit show for LA next week nyc

we stand with @treatmentactiongroup.org in refusing the clown car of bigotry and pseudo-science that just pulled up to the White House. proud to have given TAG its founding grant in the early 90's. read this statement:

Today’s a good day to remember that trans people have always existed and they will continue to live and love with dignity and joy. 🏳️‍⚧️ @redhotorg.bsky.social youtu.be/0I7UAZrSPgQ?...

The compilation album "Transa" feels like a miraculous blessing. Once I pushed "play", I felt embraced, taken care of and loved. So many songs that have consoled me in my suffering, so many wonderful artists I adore! This world treats us like shit most of the time, but now it smiled at us. 🩵🩷🤍🩵🩷

Cole Pulice, Eileen Myles, and Hunter Schafer's collaboration "Under the Shadow of Another Moon" is the undeniable emotional centerpiece of 'Transa,' Red Hot's massive trans rights compilation. Here's how it came together. www.hearingthings.co/eileen-myles...

Queer artists are often expected to serve as liaisons, “opening doors” between themselves and others... On Transa, they are instead free to reach upward, toward divinity, by channelling feelings bigger than any one person’s experience. Humanity, not transness, unites them.

The best album of the year is out! Thank you @redhotorg.bsky.social, #TRANSA is a blessing 🩷 Over 100 artists to defend trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ lnk.to/transa

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢, Red Hot's massive musical project for trans charities with new songs by Sade, Andre 3000, Sam Smith and more, is out today. We spoke with Red Hot founder John Carlin about the fascinating history of their albums—he has stories for DAYS—and imagining a more equitable future via music ❤️ 🏳️‍⚧️

my new single with Moses Sumney and Sam Smith is out today, a modern version of Sylvester’s iconic 1970s disco classic “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” for TRAИƧA, the new album by Red Hot Org celebrating the gifts that trans people bring to the world ✨ you can stream it here: lnk.to/makemetransa