For the past two years, Diamond Stylz and her podcast co-hosts Mia Sloan and Zahir Alexander have been providing space for black people to liberate themselves from transphobia.
They want trans black people to speak freely about their experiences without the pressure of accommodating the white gaze. They want cisgender people to have a space where they can shut the fuck up and listen, so they don’t ask trans people uncomfortable questions about their body parts and other shit they have no business asking them.
Diamond, the founder of Marsha’s Plate podcast, wants you to unshackle yourself from the white supremacist gender binaries that keep black folks harming each other.
When I first started listening to Marsha’s Plate last summer, I was looking for a podcast where I could hear black trans…
