April 9, 2023 • 9 mins
Happy belated Trans Visibility Day! As a special treat the Smut Tea Stories Trash Cat Critter Coven has conjured its first ever Special Guest for its 2nd Mini-sode! This time, we touch base on why we changed gears in March for the #transrightsreadathon and share the books we read for the full episode that will air this April! We are, without a doubt, three trash cats in a trench coat guzzling coffee next to a dumpster fire at the back of a Waffle House while our Executive Producer tosses candy at us to keep the chaos going. A Coven of Critters, if you will.
THE HOSTS: Carlotta Hughes (The Opossum) Website: https://www.authorcarlottahughes.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorcarlottahughes Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@authorcarlottahughes Jenifer Wood (The Skunk) Website: https://www.authorjeniferwood.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorjeniferwood Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@authorjeniferwood West (The Ginger Purr Boi) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dimensionwcdf Smut Tea Stories is a monthly podcast with a focus on indie authors, their smutty books, monsters, aliens, tropes, and kinks! We’ll also cover various aspects of the book world, in education segments, including writing, editing, book cover design, readability, contracts, convention stuff, and more! 📅 Smut Tea Stories takes place at the end of each month and will launch as video on YouTube and as audio only on Spreaker, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Audible, and Amazon Music. 🎧 These episodes will be pre-recorded because we have ThE aNxIeTy that would make us play dead if we went Live. We also have small children we need to keep alive, so, ya know.
THE HOSTS: Carlotta Hughes (The Opossum) Website: https://www.authorcarlottahughes.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorcarlottahughes Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@authorcarlottahughes Jenifer Wood (The Skunk) Website: https://www.authorjeniferwood.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorjeniferwood Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@authorjeniferwood West (The Ginger Purr Boi) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dimensionwcdf Smut Tea Stories is a monthly podcast with a focus on indie authors, their smutty books, monsters, aliens, tropes, and kinks! We’ll also cover various aspects of the book world, in education segments, including writing, editing, book cover design, readability, contracts, convention stuff, and more! 📅 Smut Tea Stories takes place at the end of each month and will launch as video on YouTube and as audio only on Spreaker, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Audible, and Amazon Music. 🎧 These episodes will be pre-recorded because we have ThE aNxIeTy that would make us play dead if we went Live. We also have small children we need to keep alive, so, ya know.
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(00:00):
Buckle up, Buttercup, they're fuckeringto discuss a writer and editor and a
reader walk into an indie bookstore andstart an unhinged indie monster an Aliens podcast,
because why the fuck not? Hi, everybody, So this is going
to be a quick minisode about whatyou can expect for March, since we
(00:21):
haven't really put out any information andwe're you know, trash cats hanging out
behind a dumpster fire behind a wafflehouse, because that's that's how we roll.
This month, we are taking partin trans Writes rita thon, which
is March twentieth through twenty seventh,leading up to trans Writs Visibility Day on
(00:43):
the thirty first. And and thismonth we actually have a special guest who
I'm gonna let introduce himself for ourlittle minisode. He will be joining us
for our full episode as well.I am lashed I us see him pronouns,
and I love monster fucker books andI love alien books, and I'm
working on writing my own um alienromance series that heavily future is both trans
(01:08):
humans and trans aliens, so yeah, I love it. The books that
we read this month, I readThree Kings by Freda Smooth. I read
Claimed by the Orc Prince by LionelHeart, which is part of a trilogy
I read and Flamed by Fire,Monstrous Faded Me, It's Romance by Latrexa
(01:30):
Nova, which is part of aseries which is The Monstrous Faded Me It's
Romance Serious, and then we allread How I Met Your mouthor by Miranda
Sapphire, and those are the booksthat we are gonna be going over.
We decided to shift gears this monthbecause of the Rita Thon. We felt
(01:52):
the trans inclusivity, especially that weonly do indie authors on this podcast,
especially in the indie author or space, is something that is incredibly important,
especially considering legislation that's happening around bookbanning and just limiting access to books where
trans representation happens. Carlotta, didyou want to talk more about the organizations
(02:16):
that are putting this on and supportingthis sure? Sim Kerrn is the person
who put out or came up withthe idea of the trans rates read a
thought where for a week you readbooks by trans authors and some with trans
name characters or side characters, andyou raise money that way. So I'm
(02:40):
planning on doing it myself and putfive dollars per book that I read for
this next week and then if youguys want to, there is actually a
small library, one of the freelibraries, a community based one called the
Tardiest Free Library, and we'll havea link to it. They're based in
(03:02):
Northridge, California, and they arerunning a book drive that they are working
through a nonprofit in Tennessee with toget trans books in the hands of people
who need them in Tennessee considering allof the legislation that's currently happening. So
(03:22):
that is why we shifted gears thismonth, is because we felt that that
was important to make time for andwe will be sharing the books that we
read, so if you would liketo read any of them, all of
them came very highly recommended by allof us. We all enjoyed our reads
this month. So we hope thatyou will able to be with us for
(03:43):
the full episode. But we wantedto tease because this is a little bit
different and our first time having aguest host with us. Thank you,
Thank you for the commitment, becauseyou probably thought this was like a twenty
minute commitment and it was not.It was not. I love talking about
(04:04):
romance novels. None of my friendstrue romance novels. None of them do.
And so if I have a spacewhere I could talk about Ruby Dixon
for forty five minutes, I'm gonnatake it. I love it. This
is a present to me. It'sin fact, well, if you and
I aren't mutuals on, we'll makesure we've got all the things incredible perfect
(04:25):
us. Is there anything that youwant to share it or say? In
general, we want to make surethat we provide a platform in any way
that we can. So there's alot of really nasty anti transligislation going around
right now, specifically targeting trans minersand forcing them to either de transition.
That's it, Yes, that's it, just forcing the transition so there's not
(04:46):
another option, um and also puttingtheir putting their families and jeopardies. So
a lot of their have been billsintroduced that if your parent has provided gender
firming care, that you can betaken away from your parents, that if
your parent is trans, you cantake away from here anyway. They're just
a lot of really really bad antitrans legislation right now in the country,
and I would just really encourage everyoneto if they can try to just read
(05:10):
up about it, and then whenthey see kind of casual orblant trance phobia
in their real life, to juststand up against it. Because part of
the way this stuff happens is thattrans people are used as a scapegoat,
as like a distraction, as likethis is the problem with our country,
and that only gets fed by thefact that people don't stand up to it.
So I just encourage you to likestay informed, donate money to organizations
(05:33):
that are doing a lot of workto help trans people, and get acquainted
with trans this in your life,because it's not something that's like distinctly weird
and or scary obviously, it's justpeople vibing, and to just like try
to get comfortable with it because we'renot going anywhere much too. They're just
there of a lot of the governmentofficial health in this country. But yeah,
(05:55):
so that's an honestly, there's there'sa book called Transgender Warriors by Leslie
Feinberg, who was a very bigpioneer of like trans rights in the US,
and the book explores transis throughout history. So if you're ever looking for
representations of TRANSNSS, Leslie Farmer isa really good job of a going through
historically and like noting when in oursociety and all societies world said is has
(06:19):
transis been a thing that has beenlike normalized to just called something different.
So I also just like plug thatas like if people are suddenly transis as
a new one. It didn't usto be here before. It absolutely isn't
new. It's been here for allof human history. Yes, And there's
a book that I can recommend,and it's that book. I just wanted
to say. I wrote my firstmaster's thesis on sex education in America,
(06:40):
and not only is it like agarbage fire of itself, like the othering
that takes place in every state,including the Blue States, is just beyond
it's so heteronormative that it needs tobe like reevaluated. Like I got my
comprehensive sex education in a Blue stateand did not know anything until well beyond
(07:09):
college about representation. And educate yourself. Take the time to educate yourself.
Even if you're not going to reada whole book. You can read an
article, you can you can doa little bit of the work to understand
that trans people just want to existand and that's one of the reasons why
we're doing this this week is likeit takes it takes a very small amount
(07:30):
of work to to understand that theyjust want to exist, and so something
interesting. Can we just you knowhow on our on our currencies is in
God we trust? Did you knowit used to be mind your business.
We just go back to that andjust like everybody mind their own goddamn business,
live your life, leave other peoplealone, just unch goddamn business.
(07:54):
Can I just say, Okay,So I I had eight year old twins
and I'm raising them atheist, andso they have feminists. They're awesome and
very feminists. Um, and sothey have to do the Pledge of Allegiance
in Spanish because they're in a dualimmersion school. And I just went and
watched their like little open house likenight, and my one daughter just like
dead panned during the pledge of allegiance. Was just like, no, no,
(08:16):
fucking I'm not doing it. Mhm. I used to I when
I was in high school, Iwould sit down for the Pledge of allegiance.
I would not do it, andmy school did not take that well.
But they actually can't make you,or they at least in my state.
So that was a fun conversation Igotta have with the principal a couple
of times where he'd be like,could you just do it? I'd be
like, no, when you legallycannot make me by a guy. I
(08:39):
think a lot of fun feedback frommy fears about that, but yeah,
that's awesome about you. Yeah,it's so funny because they were only two
when Trump was going into office,and so I had to try and teach
them in a very basic way aboutTrump. And I was like, we
don't like him because he doesn't share. And so that's what they told all
(09:00):
of their friends at preschool, isthat they don't like Donald Trump because he
doesn't share. It's facts, though, is it wrong? It's it's not
wrong. But I want to besensitive of time. I want to say
thank you, thank you to Westfor joining us and for spending several hours
with us anytime. Yeah yeah,um, and I want to say thank
(09:26):
you all for joining us. Um. The minisode will be up and then
the full episode will be up roughlya week later. Trashcats Out
Buckle up, Buttercup, they're fuckeringto discuss a writer and editor and a
reader walk into an indie bookstore andstart an unhinged indie monster an Aliens podcast,
because why the fuck not? Hi, everybody, So this is going
to be a quick minisode about whatyou can expect for March, since we
(00:21):
haven't really put out any information andwe're you know, trash cats hanging out
behind a dumpster fire behind a wafflehouse, because that's that's how we roll.
This month, we are taking partin trans Writes rita thon, which
is March twentieth through twenty seventh,leading up to trans Writs Visibility Day on
(00:43):
the thirty first. And and thismonth we actually have a special guest who
I'm gonna let introduce himself for ourlittle minisode. He will be joining us
for our full episode as well.I am lashed I us see him pronouns,
and I love monster fucker books andI love alien books, and I'm
working on writing my own um alienromance series that heavily future is both trans
(01:08):
humans and trans aliens, so yeah, I love it. The books that
we read this month, I readThree Kings by Freda Smooth. I read
Claimed by the Orc Prince by LionelHeart, which is part of a trilogy
I read and Flamed by Fire,Monstrous Faded Me, It's Romance by Latrexa
(01:30):
Nova, which is part of aseries which is The Monstrous Faded Me It's
Romance Serious, and then we allread How I Met Your mouthor by Miranda
Sapphire, and those are the booksthat we are gonna be going over.
We decided to shift gears this monthbecause of the Rita Thon. We felt
(01:52):
the trans inclusivity, especially that weonly do indie authors on this podcast,
especially in the indie author or space, is something that is incredibly important,
especially considering legislation that's happening around bookbanning and just limiting access to books where
trans representation happens. Carlotta, didyou want to talk more about the organizations
(02:16):
that are putting this on and supportingthis sure? Sim Kerrn is the person
who put out or came up withthe idea of the trans rates read a
thought where for a week you readbooks by trans authors and some with trans
name characters or side characters, andyou raise money that way. So I'm
(02:40):
planning on doing it myself and putfive dollars per book that I read for
this next week and then if youguys want to, there is actually a
small library, one of the freelibraries, a community based one called the
Tardiest Free Library, and we'll havea link to it. They're based in
(03:02):
Northridge, California, and they arerunning a book drive that they are working
through a nonprofit in Tennessee with toget trans books in the hands of people
who need them in Tennessee considering allof the legislation that's currently happening. So
(03:22):
that is why we shifted gears thismonth, is because we felt that that
was important to make time for andwe will be sharing the books that we
read, so if you would liketo read any of them, all of
them came very highly recommended by allof us. We all enjoyed our reads
this month. So we hope thatyou will able to be with us for
(03:43):
the full episode. But we wantedto tease because this is a little bit
different and our first time having aguest host with us. Thank you,
Thank you for the commitment, becauseyou probably thought this was like a twenty
minute commitment and it was not.It was not. I love talking about
(04:04):
romance novels. None of my friendstrue romance novels. None of them do.
And so if I have a spacewhere I could talk about Ruby Dixon
for forty five minutes, I'm gonnatake it. I love it. This
is a present to me. It'sin fact, well, if you and
I aren't mutuals on, we'll makesure we've got all the things incredible perfect
(04:25):
us. Is there anything that youwant to share it or say? In
general, we want to make surethat we provide a platform in any way
that we can. So there's alot of really nasty anti transligislation going around
right now, specifically targeting trans minersand forcing them to either de transition.
That's it, Yes, that's it, just forcing the transition so there's not
(04:46):
another option, um and also puttingtheir putting their families and jeopardies. So
a lot of their have been billsintroduced that if your parent has provided gender
firming care, that you can betaken away from your parents, that if
your parent is trans, you cantake away from here anyway. They're just
a lot of really really bad antitrans legislation right now in the country,
and I would just really encourage everyoneto if they can try to just read
(05:10):
up about it, and then whenthey see kind of casual orblant trance phobia
in their real life, to juststand up against it. Because part of
the way this stuff happens is thattrans people are used as a scapegoat,
as like a distraction, as likethis is the problem with our country,
and that only gets fed by thefact that people don't stand up to it.
So I just encourage you to likestay informed, donate money to organizations
(05:33):
that are doing a lot of workto help trans people, and get acquainted
with trans this in your life,because it's not something that's like distinctly weird
and or scary obviously, it's justpeople vibing, and to just like try
to get comfortable with it because we'renot going anywhere much too. They're just
there of a lot of the governmentofficial health in this country. But yeah,
(05:55):
so that's an honestly, there's there'sa book called Transgender Warriors by Leslie
Feinberg, who was a very bigpioneer of like trans rights in the US,
and the book explores transis throughout history. So if you're ever looking for
representations of TRANSNSS, Leslie Farmer isa really good job of a going through
historically and like noting when in oursociety and all societies world said is has
(06:19):
transis been a thing that has beenlike normalized to just called something different.
So I also just like plug thatas like if people are suddenly transis as
a new one. It didn't usto be here before. It absolutely isn't
new. It's been here for allof human history. Yes, And there's
a book that I can recommend,and it's that book. I just wanted
to say. I wrote my firstmaster's thesis on sex education in America,
(06:40):
and not only is it like agarbage fire of itself, like the othering
that takes place in every state,including the Blue States, is just beyond
it's so heteronormative that it needs tobe like reevaluated. Like I got my
comprehensive sex education in a Blue stateand did not know anything until well beyond
(07:09):
college about representation. And educate yourself. Take the time to educate yourself.
Even if you're not going to reada whole book. You can read an
article, you can you can doa little bit of the work to understand
that trans people just want to existand and that's one of the reasons why
we're doing this this week is likeit takes it takes a very small amount
(07:30):
of work to to understand that theyjust want to exist, and so something
interesting. Can we just you knowhow on our on our currencies is in
God we trust? Did you knowit used to be mind your business.
We just go back to that andjust like everybody mind their own goddamn business,
live your life, leave other peoplealone, just unch goddamn business.
(07:54):
Can I just say, Okay,So I I had eight year old twins
and I'm raising them atheist, andso they have feminists. They're awesome and
very feminists. Um, and sothey have to do the Pledge of Allegiance
in Spanish because they're in a dualimmersion school. And I just went and
watched their like little open house likenight, and my one daughter just like
dead panned during the pledge of allegiance. Was just like, no, no,
(08:16):
fucking I'm not doing it. Mhm. I used to I when
I was in high school, Iwould sit down for the Pledge of allegiance.
I would not do it, andmy school did not take that well.
But they actually can't make you,or they at least in my state.
So that was a fun conversation Igotta have with the principal a couple
of times where he'd be like,could you just do it? I'd be
like, no, when you legallycannot make me by a guy. I
(08:39):
think a lot of fun feedback frommy fears about that, but yeah,
that's awesome about you. Yeah,it's so funny because they were only two
when Trump was going into office,and so I had to try and teach
them in a very basic way aboutTrump. And I was like, we
don't like him because he doesn't share. And so that's what they told all
(09:00):
of their friends at preschool, isthat they don't like Donald Trump because he
doesn't share. It's facts, though, is it wrong? It's it's not
wrong. But I want to besensitive of time. I want to say
thank you, thank you to Westfor joining us and for spending several hours
with us anytime. Yeah yeah,um, and I want to say thank
(09:26):
you all for joining us. Um. The minisode will be up and then
the full episode will be up roughlya week later. Trashcats Out
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