Beauty Translated
Beauty Translated is an original podcast from Atlanta, Georgia Natives Carmen Laurent and Janie Danger that focuses on the transgender experience in the United States. The show aims to examine the wide world of trans existence through the playfully honest lens of its hosts: lifelong glamour expert and esthetician Carmen Laurent and lo-fi, punk-rock savant Janie Danger. With each episode, the girls sardonically discuss topics relating to the legal, medical, and emotional world of being trans in the modern era. Beauty Translated is made by and for trans people, whether you have been transitioning for years, wondering where to begin, or would just like to relate to a loved one going through their own journey. Beauty Translated is for whoever needs it. Leave us a message on our Beauty Translated Loveline: 678-561-2785! We will be answering your questions and giving you bad advice on the air!
Episodes
Hello Beauty Translated listeners, today for our series finale we are so excited to bring you this amazing conversation that Carmen and Janie got to have with THE Dylan Mulvaney. Please enjoy our conversation with Dylan about her days of girlhood, trans visibility, and what pride month looks like moving past the pride meltdown of 2023.
And yes listeners and friends, you read that correctly - Beauty Translated is not being picked u...
When was the last time you went outside and touched grass? Are you still doing the math to figure out how Bernie can win? Who am I? and...who are you? ...Cat...Turd? Squirt Mcwho? Only Russian assets still say "homie"! Well, Yes! Pussy in bio!
This week on the pod we are chronically online with the extraordinary Juniper of the podcast Western Kabuki. It's the episode you've all been waiting for, you just didn't know it yet! We hop...
This week on the podcast we are speaking with a guest who has just made her escape from Arkham Asylum - Vera Drew is the Director and Star of the much anticipated upcoming film "The People's Joker". Enjoy our chat with Vera as we learn about all of the (legal) trials and tribulations she had along the way to making her amazing film.
The People's Joker is coming to select theaters on April 12th. Find out if there is a screening nea...
Today on the pod we are joined by THE guy who correctly predicted the 2022 election outcomes, Ettingermentum, and he's breaking down what the presidential elections in 2024 will look like. We're so grateful to have Josh on this week to help us understand this crazy system. We're also discussing the modern history of Southern electoral politics and the recent use of anti-trans legislation in attempts to unify the right. As it turns ...
In this episode, we are joined by queer film historian Liz Purchell. We are FINALLY giving you the Beauty Translated movie episode you've been dying for and its MAXI! So bring your popcorn, and get ready for some new movie recommendations from queer history!
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This week the girls are sitting down to chat with Marcos, Ivy, and Shoggs, The Homies from The Ain't Shit Show. Join us this week for a fun, lighthearted, and NSFW hang. We learn about Marco's philosophy of "Homieism" and how everyone can be a Homie if they want to be. Then, buckle up, cause everyone starts sharing their worst Craigslist Casual Encounters stories. Do you have any casual encounter stories to tell? We'd love to hear ...
On this week's episode, Janie brings her friend Haela Hunt Hendrix to the show. Haela is the black metal musician behind the project Liturgy. In this conversation, the ladies talk about Haela's unique approach to making black metal, the inspiration she finds within the Holy Trinity and Christianity, and how we interpret those beliefs as modern trans women. Why are younger generations returning to religion? How can we evoke the name...
On this very special Valentine's Day episode of Beauty Translated, Carmen and Janie sit down with the men in each of their lives. Alan and Sam are the long-time boyfriends of each of the girls respectively, in this episode, we take a nostalgic stroll down Lovers Lane and get to know just how they came to fall in love, and later Janie and Carmen grill the guys over a game of Newly Weds. Do you think the guys should get their chance ...
What's a Beauty Translated episode without a little movie talk before the main topic? This week on the podcast, Janie and Carmen are talking with the Traveling Career Girl herself, Taylor Snider! An inspiration to many women in the trans community - Join us as we talk with Taylor about the many lives she has lived from an elite escort, to fashion designer.
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Put your transvestigating caps on Beauties! Today we've got Hesse Deni (Seeking Derangements, Chapo Movie Mindset) and we are going DOWN the rabbit hole of transvestigations and the people who dedicate their lives to exposing the secret world of inverted celebrities! Be sure to bring your sense of humor for this one :)
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In this episode, Carmen and Janie sit down with their friend Sofi Fowler (The Robin Shakedown Band, Three Women The Band) who has just had her bottom surgery 4 weeks prior. In this fun chat, we make a few detours to discuss our favorite movies while masterfully staying on the main topic: Sofi's Neovagina! Listen to this episode to learn all about the ins and outs of bottom surgery for trans women.
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Beauty Translated is finally BACK! This time Carmen is joined by her new permanent co-host Janie Danger! Featuring an all-new format and 12 new guests - join us every Wednesday for NEW EPISODES! This week Janie and Carmen sit down with the members of the girl-pop trio - The Gurls. Alissah, Domino Presley, and Raquel Starr are visiting Atlanta for PRIDE weekend! They discuss memories of pride past, musical inspirations, and upcoming...
Beauty Translated is back for season 3! Lifelong glamour expert and esthetician Carmen Laurent is joined this season by lo-fi, punk-rock savant Janie Danger. With each episode, the girls sardonically discuss topics relating to the legal, medical, and emotional world of being trans in the modern era. Beauty Translated is made by and for trans people, whether you have been transitioning for years, wondering where to begin, or would j...
We are still on hiatus until season 3, but Beauty Translated is back for a BONUS episode! Carmen and Janie Danger discuss The Barbie Movie! Tune in to hear the two discuss the hype, the movie, and the crazy conservative backlash!
This episode is self-recorded, produced, and published by me - Carmen, PLEASE excuse the horrible sound quality on my part, I was accidentally recording on my laptop mic T_T
In this very special two-part finale of season 2 of Beauty Translated, Carmen speaks with living legend Monica Helms and her wife Darlene Wagner. They discuss Monica's life, activism, and creation of the trans pride flag, then we open up the conversation to speaking about what it means to be two trans women in love and married in the South, religion, and spirituality, and parenting. Be sure to listen to part one of this interview f...
In this very special two-part finale of season 2 of Beauty Translated, Carmen speaks with living legend Monica Helms and her wife Darlene Wagner. They discuss Monica's life, activism, and creation of the trans pride flag, then we open up the conversation to speaking about what it means to be two trans women in love and married in the South, religion, and spirituality, and parenting. Be sure to check out the 2nd part of this intervi...
Welcome to another Beauty Translated minisode! Beauty Translated producer and musician Jess is covering the news with Carmen this week. First they discuss the trans sports debate, and in let's celebrate that, they discuss the new Miss Netherlands!
Footnotes:
This week Carmen speaks with the woman who was connecting the trans community with the information and resources before the internet existed, Dallas Denny. Carmen talks with Dallas about her life's work - Creating the American Educational Gender Information Service, Chrysalis magazine, and Southern Comfort conference and what the trans community was like here in the South at that time.
Welcome to another BIG minisode, this week I'm talking recent news with friend and past guest Zaida Zane and catching up on whats been going on in her world. First we discuss the Lance Armstrong hypocrisy. Then we celebrate Zaida's coming back from an international tour and releasing an AMAZING new EP called Boy Eyes.
Footnotes:
This week Carmen is talking with the writer Jamie Lauren Keiles about his Instagram account @sexchange.tbt which archives the written trans history of the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. First, we get to know Jamie and the book he's writing The Third Person about non-binary gender in America, then Carmen and Jamie take a look at some of their favorite posts on his account, with fun discourse to follow!
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