The Fox and the Phoenix
Understanding the Feminine Crossdressing Experience To de-mystify, humanize, and celebrate the crossdressing trans community, providing a positive and realistic understanding through conversation between a crossdresser and a cis-ally.
Episodes
In this episode, Julie tells Savannah all about the fallacies of women's fashion and how the sizing conventions between all the various online, retail, and high-end fashion designers seldom have a universal standard. Trying on a LARGE for one designer may seem like a size 10, but can also be an ego killer. Conversely, our existing women's fashion sizing ego can also cause us emotional stress. Find out how to leave the ego a...
In this episode, Savannah comes to the mic solo as Julie is away in southern California at an event. She shares her concern for losing joy for embodying Savannah at a time where she is also feeling great joy creating a character design for Halloween, and reconciling the feelings and emotions in between. Savannah also touches on a personal battle with body dysphoria and a surprising shift to body positivity. And last, but not least,...
In this episode, Julie shared with Savannah the grand opening of Fox and Hanger's newest program, Ginger's Closet! Ginger’s Closet was created to bring style, joy, and affirmation to trans folks who may not have the means to purchase a Lookbook on their own. It anonymously connects transgender individuals in need of style guidance and gender-affirming care with allies who want to help.
Go to: https://www.foxandhanger.com/gi...
In this episode, Savannah tells Julie about a close friend who just happened to go to the mall and get into a traffic collision in the process. Of course, fender benders happen every day. This time, though, this friend just happened to be dressed enfemme! What happens when a gender expansive person is faced with a car accident where their identity and identification may be called into question? How can all of us be just a little bi...
In this episode, Savannah regales Julie with a true story of several significant others of gender expansive husbands who just want to be more involved and be able to share more in the experiences they enjoyed together.But, how does a spouse both share conversation and pictures from a all-femme outing when they still want to protect hemselves and their partner through their already-existing CIS social media? Best idea ... the signif...
In this second of two episodes, Julie wants to talk to Savannah about the accessories that help in a successful feminine presentation. Julie is so excited by the topic that she brings and discussed her own top three accessories she uses in her own presentation! Listen now to find out what accessories Julie brought, and see if you can guess which accessories they are! And find out from the red-headed stylist herself quick tips, tric...
In this first of two episodes, Julie wants to talk to Savannah about the accessories that help in a successful feminine presentation. Julie is so excited by the topic that she asks Savannah to actually bring the top three accessories she uses in her own presentation! Listen now to find out what accessories Savannah brought, and see if you can guess which accessories they are!
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In this episode, Julie is ravenous to talk to Savannah about the term and meaning of being a trans egg. Also called being a “baby trans”, cracking open your egg is akin to finally recognizing and accepting your gender expansiveness in whatever way you were meant to show up in the world. The term can be both positive and negative, most notably when others start telling you that you are going to crack soon and what that means for you...
In this episode, Savannah finally offers proof that she has been writing a Young Adult book series since October 2019! As the final edits and creative efforts to get the project across the finish line are still ongoing ... and seemingly never ending in and of itself ... the project is so close to being completed. Enjoy the first chapter of the prologue from the first book in the Nix Series, Nix - Rebirth (Book 1)
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In this second of new episode, Savannah doesn't have Julie to kick around this week, so she enlists her Atlanta "hostesses with the mostess" to come on air. Jolene is a fairly recent addition to the queer, gender-expansive community. She and her wife, Nicole, have been married for years, with grown kids, and a now empty-nesting home. What happens when the kids go live their own lives and a laundry SNAFU sends an unsus...
In this episode, Savannah doesn't have Julie to kick around this week, so she enlists her Atlanta "hostesses with the mostess" to come on air. Jolene is a fairly recent addition to the queer, gender-expansive community. She and her wife, Nicole, have been married for years, with grown kids, and a now empty-nesting home. What happens when the kids go live their own lives and a laundry SNAFU sends an unsuspecting husband down a stran...
In this episode, Savannah asks Julie something important. She asks her cohost the pressing question of, "How do you know when your authenticity is actually authentic?" With so many concerned conservatives telling us our kids are all becoming queer because its a fad and trendy, or so many of us blindly believing that we must follow a certain avenue of gender expansiveness based on what other, more "Knowledgeable"...
In this episode, Savannah regales Julie with a treacherous tale of intrigue and existential crisis that all stemmed from the want to help an up-and-coming fellow podcaster. When Savannah reads a post from a local Facebook community group in her hometown concerning another local resident looking to start an LGBT+ podcast, Savannah struggles with whether to reply privately or publicly, then struggles with how to reply to a trolling c...
In this episode, Julie discusses with Savannah the topic of the importance of biological CIS-female friends for gender-expansive people. The conversation starts with insecurities from trolling negative comments playing a key part in taking down a social media post about the topic, followed by a multi-faceted conversation in-air about the sense of safety and belonging that biological female friends provide that sometimes cannot be m...
In this episode, Savannah shares with Julie the fact that her friends, when in town for the weekend, asked if all the male-to-female crossdressers in the room could be considered LARPers. Live Action Role Players embody fantasy and sci/fi characters of their own creation, coming together as a community to "live" out their fantasy realm in real life ... whether that be as a convention center, a city park, or at someone'...
In this episode, Savannah asks Julie whether its fair that marginalized groups should need to hold themselves to a higher standard of empathy and social expectations in the face of a society that prefers to attack and marginalize those groups?
In a just world, no — it is not fair.Marginalized groups should not have to hold themselves to a higher standard of empathy or moral behavior than those who hold power or privilege. The expec...
In this episode, Julie shares with Savannah a recent client experience that highlighted the need for the trans-expansive partner to always remember their significant one while they, themselves, are going through their own journey of discovery. Julie and Savannah discuss what its like for partners to feel left out and left behind, all the time knowing that each partner can feel seen and heard in tandem ... knowing each can share cen...
In this episode, Julie and Savannah discuss a topic that a couple listeners and fans have been asking about ... autogynephilia. Popularized as a theory by Ray Blanchard in the 1980s and 1990s, this paraphilia is based on the idea that heterosexual transexuals want to transition to the female gender because they are aroused by the notion of being female. While this paraphilia persists even today, the concept that a person's sexualit...
In this episode, Julie and Savannah dig deep into the archives to read aloud a transcript that was supposed to the blogging project that they had decided to embark on. What started off as a Facebook messenger text string conversation turn website blog post did finally turn into the pivoting and pursuit of creating a more enriched podcast together. Check out our duo's more than humble beginnings!
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In this episode, Savannah brings up the concept of defining people by a mental projection of a box with a label on it. Stemming from both a conversation with her therapist and from her TEDX Emory talk, "13 Milliseconds: First Impressions of Gender Expression", the idea that people instantly create an opinion of others based on what they know about somebody based on descriptors or how they present themselves to the world is an idea ...
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