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Mya Byrne - A Full Circle Moment
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We’re honored to welcome Mya Byrne back to Trans HeartBeat as our first episode of 2026, just as she was our very first guest when we launched the series last year.
In this episode, Mya reflects on her “Trans State of the Union” one year later, shares what she’s been creating, and speaks truth to the shifting political climate for trans folks and artists.
It's a conversation filled with music, insight, and the steady heartbeat of trans resilience.
All episodes and accessible transcripts can be found at bit.ly/transheartbeat
Trans Heartbeat is a project of TRACTION: Trans | Community | Action
Learn more about TRACTION https://tractionpnw.org
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Hosted and produced by Michelle Matlock
Edited and produced by StormMiguelFlorez
Produced by Traction PNW
Trans Heartbeat theme song "Mutual Aid" by Mya Byrne
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Transcript
Introduction to Mia Byrne
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Welcome to Trans Heartbeat. I'm your host, Michelle Matlock, and I encourage the use of all pronouns. A year ago, Mia Burns' Trans State of the Union shook us in the best way.
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Her call for truth, resistance, creativity, and joy remains the most viewed episode we've ever released. Mia is a trailblazing singer, songwriter, poet, and activist whose music blends Americana, folk, and rock with the heart of a storyteller and the soul of a fighter.
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Her voice on stage and off is both bomb and battle cry for the trans community and beyond.
State of the World and Trans Community's Resilience
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Today, we welcome Mia back to reflect and to reconnect because the world has changed.
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The threats have escalated. and yet trans brilliance trans resilience and trans artistdury have never burned brighter in this follow-up conversation mia shares where she's at how the political climate is shaping her life in music and why now more than ever gathering creating and standing in our truth matters this is trans's heartbeat Welcome to Trans Heartbeat. Hey, I'm so happy to be here. One thing that would be lovely is for you just to say your full name, pronouns, where you're at, what you do.
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this my this is my transsexual Bob Dylan look. If Bob Dylan were a dyke in the 80s, I think she would kind of look like this. I love it.
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Hello, my name is Mia Byrne, Mia with a Y, Byrne with a y and that's how you find me online. My pronouns are she, her, and they. You can call me Mimi or Mimi Ray. I know we just talked about it a little bit off-recorded, but like you're in New York City right now, or you're in Brooklyn. You're in Brooklyn?
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Yes, I'm in Brooklyn. And I lived for like 15 years in lower Manhattan, and I'm just so, like I'm feeling jealous about of what's happening right now just with Mom Donnie being mayor-elect now and New York really delivering and doing that. How's the
Political Shifts in New York City
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vibe there? How is it feeling?
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What's interesting to me, and I think i think a lot of our our comrades here online will agree that this is a major deal for everyone yes across the country, across the globe. They're like, wow, somebody who is as self-professed democratic socialist who's outwardly supportive of trans rights, of immigrant rights, and supports the Palestinian cause, got elected. And to the point where, you know, all of the ops are already coming after him. And i think I've been chuckling at how how much just average centrist libs and like, you know, white Democrats are like clutching their pearls right now.
00:03:05
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Just like, yes. Right. They're like, what's going on? I'm like, what's going on? Is that somebody who who has literally stood with the people had just got elected? And that shouldn't be an odd thing. But, you know, New York City, like many places, has been in the hands of the democratic machine for, you know, decades and, you know, of end of, you know, whatever we're calling the democratic machine. Right.
00:03:29
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But really, it's it's all been the same machine for many, many years. and Right. It's been, i don't want to get too much into politics, even though this is an inherently political thing we're talking about. But it's just, I know people who worked like on the John Lindsay campaign many, many decades ago and or worked for with Harvey Milk and other folks who were considered radicals and were out of the lines of the Republican and the Democratic parties and who were social, you know, revolutionaries in whatever ways they were.
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yeah i mean I'm not saying that John B. Lindsay was a revolutionary, but he did a lot of great things. He wasn't perfect. I'm not saying that Harvey Milk wasn't a revolutionary and didn't have his failings. He certainly did, but he did amazing things. And there's a reason why these people didn't get buy-in and support.
00:04:18
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After Tuesday, you know like you said, that hope piece and that things ebb and flow, right? that then It's going to come around. like i just It just gave me so much faith of like, okay,
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I understand. i always hear this. The pendulum swings back and forth. I get it. I get it now. This is proof of that. And I'm, ah you know, like, we're not going to just, you know, go out without a fight here. Like we we, the country stepped up and it's a response to like an extreme thing that's been happening. So many people thought that voting for for Trump was was a flex.
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And then they got owned. Right. And that's the thing. But the other the other part of it is is that um fear-mongering and and Islamophobia are alive and well. right. I think the thing that's been really interesting to me is I've seen articles from folks who my age, I'm 47, who...
00:05:11
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who are talking about like when you lived in New York back in the day, when I lived in New York back in the day. you know course, when I started working with Traction, I was living full-time in San Francisco. New York was very different before the year two thousand Yep. Oh, definitely. And, you know, the 20-year war we've been in, 25-year war. Yes. And people forgetting that there are really important causes and the fractioning of the left wing and all of these other things basically has turned New York into a giant shopping mall in certain places. But to see people knock on doors and go into the Rockaways and going into
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you know, people knocking on my door and I live in like ah an outlying part of Brooklyn or people just everywhere, people who may or may not have voted mundant for Mom Donnie on TV saying they came to my house. right They talk to me. They're human. That's the whole point is is that when people get excited for a cause, that's great and we can rally. But I think a lot of folks on the who are who are just like, there's a reaction to MAGA, which has been sort of A friend of mine who's also a trans woman described it as um sort of like ah it's like, you know, liberal, make America great again. we need to go back to where we were in this time. and block No, that's not right. Things have always been messed up. We've been fighting for a very long time and a lot of us are very, very weary. And it's wonderful to see somebody who grew up in that notion of like the world is always at war.
Historical Activism and Lessons Learned
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we always need to be fighting for rights and humanity and we can have joy in life within, within all of that, which is what traction is really about. And I think Saram Mamdani really with his background and his, and you know, his mom is an incredible filmmaker and all of this other stuff. He's at the intersection of humanity and artistry and I'm not going to put him on a pedestal, but I love that he,
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came out on stage with Eugene V. Debs and ended with a Cuomo quote. I mean, that's just great. Right. Oh, God. Him and several of the other people that sort of crushed their opponents is the blueprint of what we need to get back to and also... I'm really happy about like this feeling of tearing it down a little bit. Like, let's tear it down. But with a plan, not just ideas, but we got a plan for rebuilding and how we want to go forward. So anyway, I love hearing your voice on this. And, you know, just to bring us around to, you know, a year ago, basically, when you did the Trans State of the Union and we aired it, it was like our inaugural episode of Trans Heartbeat, it is still to this day, the most viewed post that we have all across the board. didn't know that. Yeah, it's super popular. Our social media person dropped that little info on me right before were, she knew I was coming to talk with you today. So she was like, let her know.
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So I just, I want to know with, ah like, how are you feeling now about it? Like, on at any level, like personally, politically, creatively, compared to a year ago, that address that you gave, how are you feeling about it?
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I think that pretty much every word of it still stands. i yeah I think that I remember that I didn't pull it up or anything, but I know that I said something about visibility and how visibility is is beautiful and also is the reason why people are attacking us still. Right. People know trans people.
00:08:52
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I think the situation has shifted in the fact that people genuinely are leaving. My friends are going to I just wrote a song called The Revolutions Now, basically pointed at cis people and like, you know, and liberals in suburbs being like, the revolution is right here. It is here. The thing that you've idolized, it's here right now. And you need to get the hell out of your house and stop playing PS4 or whatever. I mean, you can play PS4 if you want to, after you've gone and done some work for the people.
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But there has been such a complacency. And I think the thing that's changed is I was not expecting the, you know, as as a person who's actively been part of both street revolutionary action and has been, you know, a talking head or a pundit or or or or rallying people up um or just taking care of people in my home. You know, we have a spare bed here for folks.
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It's really been interesting to see these these No Kings protests. And a lot of far lefties have like, you know, so-called far lefties have just been like, oh, well, they're not important. We don't really know who's running. the one I'm like, I don't really care. This is the first time I've seen mass action that's right um from general people.
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That's right. I heard a statistic also that if we're to look to history about what actually provokes change, it's when 3.5% of the population hits the streets. So the first one was 5%.
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million. The second one, No Kings March was 7 million. We need to get to 12 million, right? Like I hear you. I hear people say that all the time. Oh, it doesn't matter. I think it does matter and it does make a difference.
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We're seeing something we haven't seen in a really long time, which is um a mass movement. And yes, it's reactionary. Part of it is Trump, but part of it is just, you know, people really love edgelord humor until it starts regulating them or stealing eggs you know from their grocery stores. right But I think it's a very good way to see the humility that I think people are... when And I know this is like when we protest, when we show up, it feels so good.
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You know, like I've been looking forward all day to this conversation with you because I know I'm showing up for something. Right. Right. And that's the that's the thing that that's most important to me is is just seeing this kind of showing up.
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Yeah. I think that, you know, it's like you really actually have to show up. You really It's so important. And I have been encouraged by seeing... Well, mostly like just white women. Right. So many people have will withdraw themselves from revolutionary causes because they were taught that it wasn't there. you know They didn't want to take up space. And I say this over and over again.
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the reason that we made gains in the years 1968 through 1973 and a little bit is further on into the seventy s is because there was a great deal of unity between all of the revolutionary organizations, whether it's like the Gay Liberation Front and the Black Panthers, all of these wonderful organizations, the Young Lords and all. There's a wonderful picture that came out after Attica. It's a poster. it was It was on display at the Black Panther exhibit in Oakland and Brooklyn, but it's just a big poster that just says Unity, and it's got a list of
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15 orgs that were all working together. And these are orgs that all fractioned off or were chopped up right from within, whether from like external forces or just from cults of personality. And sure something that happened historically is that all orgs have had this problem.
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ACT UP had this problem. where There are jealousies, there are people who are doing whatever, and people just withdraw. They're like, it's not my problem. it's not I shouldn't have a voice. Because that's the lesson we learned from this when people are silenced within movements or are taught that because of white guilt that they shouldn't take action because it's not their place. They don't want to take up space. I said, please take up space. yeah Please show up and say the word trans. Please show up and put your body on the line in front of ice. That's why they won in LA. Right.
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No, it's it's that, that part is so encouraging. I was just thinking about what you were saying about like that movement from like 68 to the early seventies or mid seventies and just how we haven't seen this, this large of a movement really since then, I think, I mean, there's been movements, but, but, and then I was just thinking about generationally, like I think we're, I'm 52, so we're kind of close there. And our generation of generation X, like reap the benefits of, of sort of our parents sit-ins and those marches and all that stuff. And so, Then you got, you know, all these other generations coming after us that are so even more distanced from that experience. Like we heard I at least I heard firsthand from my parents who were activists, like what that was like and what why I was reaping the benefits of what, i you know, my life. And so we've gotten farther and farther from that. So I think maybe that's why it's taken a little bit for us to like, you know, or, you know, for people to stand up it just the distance from that, you know. Right. And and I think there is there is yeah absolutely what you're saying is that I think a lot of people, and I see this too, is that people are archiving the work that, you know, folks like us did in like the late aughts, early twenty ten s And it's not like even nostalgia for the Obama era kind of thing, you know, because I see that sometimes, know, I'm like, you still deported people, friends. It's okay. We can
Nonviolent Resistance and Economic Protest
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love him. And also he's yeah part of that system. But the thing that blows my mind is that exactly what you're saying. Like we grew up and we saw the causes that were happening.
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And then folks who are just a little bit younger than us who came of age, like after 1996 and the HIV AIDS cocktail, right they didn't see people dying. right it's not It's not that the young ones have it so easy. They don't.
00:15:12
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No, not at all. i'm not saying that. No, no. But there is something that I've i've been musing on the last few days, especially because I see a lot of ageism happening in younger communities, younger queer communities, especially, is that like I was mothered by so many amazing dykes of the second wave feminist movement, you know, and – Which some people might be like, oh, my God, I can't believe you're citing second wave feminism and and you're a trans woman. I'm like, yeah, well, you know, they had some things wrong. But then there were some things that were absolutely right, like the devaluing of of older women ah in in society. And that's something that we seem to have forgotten is that our elders are alive and they, you know, we can't. are becoming elders every single day. That's right. You know, I've been part of activist community my whole life because, you know, it's like I grew up, my mother had like the handcuffs that she cuffed herself to the Soviet embassy in 1969, like to protest the treatment of Soviet Jews.
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Like, I'm just, you know, I'm like, what why do you have handcuffs? She's like, oh, those were, you know, they had to cut them because we trained ourselves to the embassy. I'm like, okay. That's incredible. I'm like, my mom in 1969 is like the coolest person. She's just like, she's like standing up in the middle of like the Park Avenue synagogue in New York City and like talking about Vietnam and and getting herself arrested. And like what I'm starting to see is people understanding too that like there's no such thing as nonviolent protesting.
00:16:38
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You know, it's it's this sort of like buzzword. People are like oh, well, we should be nonviolent. That's the thing that I've seen over the last year. People are like, oh, well, we should be nonviolent. i'm like, yeah, it's totally fine to show up and like hold a sign and go do stuff. That's great.
00:16:51
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But don't forget that what we're actually talking about is nonviolent resistance. And there are some people who can do that and some people who can't. But, you know, that person who is putting her body in front of ICE is practicing nonviolent resistance. That is a tactic.
00:17:06
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And that is to be respected. It's not, you know, when you put your body on the line, you know, whether you're fat, black, brown, disabled, man, a woman, non-binary, whatever you are, are making a statement. And it's not just a statement like, oh, I'm so cool because I'm putting my body on the line. You're like, I'm putting myself in danger. And if danger comes to me, you will see what they're willing to do to us, you know? And that's why it's so important for middle, you know, we often say middle America, middle America, whatever, like people show up too. That's, that's what's been happening. Everybody's showing up.
00:17:42
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I had a conversation with a friend of mine who's a very, very, very famous activist whose name I will not utter here. But she said to me that when she was on the other side of the line at one point, and she said the only time that the folks who were really in power would freak out was it wasn't when there was like some random like attack or like some little tiny protests is when people were taking to the streets and droves, like during the Arab Spring and all of this stuff. yeah And those are the things that get crushed very easily. And the thing is that no kings happening, like what, twice now? Yeah.
00:18:17
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That's giant. And increasing each time. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think that's right. I think we see it, but somehow it does it's not like, well, I mean, maybe the that realization is that light bulb is getting brighter and brighter each time, but I feel like somehow We miss that it's a showing up. Also our economic power. think people forget that the economic power that we have as a collective is extraordinary.
00:18:43
Speaker
You know, the bus boycotts when they didn't ride the bus for a year and it took a year. it worked. I mean, it are we, you know, I don't know if we're ready to sacrifice all of our things yet, but. Hey, you know what?
00:19:00
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Netflix's market share has gone down. Yeah, that's right A lot of people I know have left LinkedIn. like Right, right, right. yeah and did Spotify is begging users to come back.
00:19:11
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you Market share is really important. um And that's the thing. is like Late stage capitalism, this is this is what it looks like. got good friends everywhere. The time is where I've been to.
00:19:24
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I see people like Jasmine. I'm trailing around the channeling fans. I always need to wind here.
Gathering, Storytelling, and Art in Activism
00:19:33
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As all of this is happening and intensifying, what are you doing? What's the work? What are you creating? How are you feeling like you're, you know, showing up or being creative? You know, what's going on over there? For me, the thing that's been really important is stuff like what happened last night. Last night, I was with one of my partners in a house full of um queer women and mostly queer women and then some dubiously gendered other folks. um as I like to say. And they were hosting some folks who were playing for the Brooklyn Folk Festival, but I left my phone in my jacket and I just was present in the moment. And my friend Kirsten Maxwell, who's one of my favorite artists, played a lovely set of music. And that was followed by this trio of queer trans musicians from Minneapolis
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who like, you know, Minneapolis, they're all badasses there. and they all know the people I know. And we're just sitting around and it's this thing called a cranky. And like, basically it's a device used and it's been used for thousands of years. It's a scroll that goes around while somebody's singing a very long ballad so that you can keep track of what's going on. And it's very beautiful. And it was very, very moving because...
00:20:51
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It's like about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and and and and some older English folk ballads. And I know that really it sounds niche, but it's kind of not because part of what I do, my connection to community ah as a whole is where can we gather? How can we tell our stories? What are ways we can tell our stories and have them have impact for everybody on all levels?
00:21:16
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So for somebody who can't, you know, process language that well. Here's this little this little cranky device that's like showing you the scroll of what's actually happening. For someone who doesn't understand words, maybe they can sense the music, you know or somebody who can't hear, or the music is there for somebody who can't see. and And all of the above, there's something in that moment for everyone where they're met. And I think that's, to me, what's most been most important lately is to gather, to eat together, realize
00:21:49
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realize that each of our actions matters. Every action we do, whether it's, you know, to play PlayStation at the end of the day, you know, or to make a giant bowl of vegan soups that everybody coming to your house for this really weird art show can eat. You know, it's, that to me is, is really the essence of activism and about passing on the traditions of activism and ah and of of knowledge, of passing knowledge around. And, I think there's there's also a lot of disbelief going on right now. People like, can I can't believe that. I'm i'm reading a thing from last year where I talk about like, this is right before, literally days before the election or maybe days after. I don't remember. But you know on day three, I actually was like having a gender affirming medical procedure when Trump signed the Biological People Act, and which is Oh my God.
00:22:49
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Yeah, my least favorite band from the 70s, biological people. ah ah but But for real, it's...
00:22:59
Speaker
it's ah It's absurd because so i just read Justice Jackson's complete dissent to the stay order that was issued yesterday on the trans passport ruling. you know All hope is not lost for that, obviously. I want to assure whoever's viewing this, and if this is edited into the final thing, that yeah yeah I want to assure everybody that people are working really, really hard every single day to protect our rights. And I see people running, and it's okay. to run It's okay to go somewhere safe that isn't here if you can.
00:23:34
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And I see people making those plans. But I also, i'm I think a lot of people, they're not able to stay and fight and that's okay. Right. And we should be shamed for that. And then I see, like, I don't know, I wrote this song and was just like, you know, i don't have a visa.
00:23:53
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i don't have a plan. All that I can do right now is take a fucking stand. Like, for And like, real that is very yeah it is real. And and especially like, just today, I'm like doing, name I'm helping people with doing name change stuff. and My partner and I are checking our passports. We're like, well, we got about a year before things get suit super super duper weird. But The fact that I went from being like, okay, everybody, if you hear people using anti-trans dog whistles and whatever, to you know being like, here's what you need to do, to on the you know the first four days of this administration, we knew it was going to happen, but just that being trans was made so illegal. Not even as... It was kind of illegal for a while, you know, in the 70s, early eighty s
00:24:41
Speaker
But, like, it's it's been pretty much... quasi-legal to be trans since 1992. And now it's just like, okay, now what?
00:24:51
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Yeah, right. Now what? I mean, like, we're not going anywhere like this. Reminiscing on old days, adjusting to the new ways, thinking about the hard days coming around.
00:25:06
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I just want to touch upon what you were saying about the importance of coming together, of cultivating community right now, just getting back in touch with that, because it just feels like in the world we live in this capitalist world, they remove all of those things, natural things from our access in a way that makes it seem foreign to come together, you know, like for some folks, I think. And so that how important it is to gather with the people that you love, to meet new people, to accept invitations to new things, to gather around the fire, like you said, to have a meal, to break bread, to play music, to read poetry as you continue to work and voice and sing and play and reach trans youth and queer communities, our allies, whoever is listening. You know, what's the one message that you're hoping that people will take away from your artistry, your music, your your journey?
00:26:02
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There's too much at stake. For us to be fighting. m We need to be creative. We have a great wellspring of of abundance. Queer people do.
00:26:13
Speaker
I wrote something in the Trans State of the Union last year that we're building. to let me I can quote myself that we are building community out of scrap wood and shared meals. That is what we have to do. You just said that. And like last night, that's what somebody built this instrument, this musical instrument out of scrap wood. And we're all eating soup. right And that's that's exactly what it should be. When we break bread together, it's so important when we find shared spaces. And I think the most important thing right now is to, frankly, is to not drown in hedonism. And I'm not trying to sound like a teetotaler or anything like that. like I'm just saying that we have a couple of choices here. And one is that we can party till we're dead, or we can you know have a good time
00:27:00
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you know, where we can and still just make sure that we are putting our arms around the people we care about and creating space for that. The work that I'm doing, it sometimes astounds me because i have no idea how I can write such hopeful songs in the midst of such heartbreak, how the hits just keep on coming.
00:27:22
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And I know it seems like every couple of weeks or so, I'm just I'm writing songs to keep myself alive. I'm writing songs to give myself hope. I'm going to museums and walking around and looking at the leaves and talking to people and being offline, frankly, unless I need to, like, be in touch with people.
00:27:44
Speaker
I'm not using the commodity of social media capital to get my dopamine fix. And I am very, very aware of that. I think the thing that I'm most interested in right now as an artist is making art.
00:28:04
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And i think that through... the work of our hands and our mouths and our minds, whether it's making a really nice loaf of bread or or building or building something that sounds cool or, you know, even just taking finger paints. It's like, yeah, we got to touch some grass because too many people are fighting and we're fighting ourselves too. it's we have to be there for each other. Because when the world is telling you that it's it's not okay for you to exist, the most meaningful thing is for people to show you that you do matter.
00:28:41
Speaker
You know? Yes. I love that. That's not a message that that can change. You do. You do. All of us do. We matter. And the work that we're doing matters. And even if your voice isn't being heard because there's a lot of crappy voices drowning it out or the algorithm is drowning it out. My God, I was, I was scrolling through YouTube today, just like, you know, looking at my usual cooking videos, chilling out after like kind of a weird afternoon. and you know, because it is okay to go online. It is okay to get your dopamine fix, but like, not, but,
00:29:12
Speaker
All of a sudden I'm like, doo do dooooooo and Matt Walsh pops up. Like, how did this happen? you know and my My super well curated YouTube that's owned by Google that is owned by all these other people. They want to kill us.
00:29:24
Speaker
right you know Right. Oh my God. It's like, there's no way to avoid these things, but we can stand for truth and we can celebrate when good things happen.
00:29:38
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I think as Americans specifically, we we are taught that we are when good things happen to us, we don't deserve them. Right. and I want people to know, because I struggle with this a lot, is that when something brings you joy, try to hold on to that joy.
00:29:58
Speaker
There's something in Kierkegaard that I have to remember. I just love saying Kierkegaard. Yeah. that and Sondheim talks about this too, if we want to get super gay on it. um we' just like you know in this little In this world, like we have these moments. We can hold on to these good things when things are really bad. and That's not to say to drown yourself in memory. That's to say that like when you are the most down, you have to find that light.
00:30:25
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You have to remember that something once showed you this light that you have in your inside yourself and I'm really interested right now for my own art is writing songs that are really reaching inside myself and really to put out messages of of faith and hope.
Conclusion and Message of Hope
00:30:49
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And I think the personal is the universal and that I think that if there's one thing that I would i would want to, for people to take away from this interview,
00:31:02
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from Trans Heartbeat today, if there's one thing I would like um trans youth and queer communities and our allies to take away from this is that just being you is being enough.
00:31:14
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and And that I hope that you can take from that, that you have done some things in your life that are absolutely beautiful. And when things are dark and rough and hard, there is always another point of view you can look at. And there's always something wonderful that you can remember.
00:31:38
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i hope, I hope that you have that life, that there's something in your life that you can remember is good when things are really, really bad. Amen. Amen.
00:31:50
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could talk to you and listen to you forever, but I think that's such a beautiful place to, to end. um Thank you so much for taking the time to, just,
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to just follow up with us. We'll probably want to do it again and again. My pleasure. um you know yeah i'm here i'm here for the cause.
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Thank you, Mia, for your honesty, your artistry, your activism, and for reminding us that visibility without voice is not enough. Mia's journey reminds us to lead with heart, create with purpose, and keep dreaming boldly even when the noise gets loud.
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Here at Trans Heartbeat, we believe that every voice matters, especially the voices that have too long been pushed to the margins. Our mission is to affirm trans existence, elevate trans stories, and build a future where joy, justice, and belonging are not optional.
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They're guaranteed. Until next time, stay strong, stay curious, stay radiant, and always remember that just being you is enough.