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Happy 🏳️‍⚧️ and Trans Music Tuesday! No showcase of trans musicians would be complete without Wendy Carlos (she/her), a trailblazer for trans musicians and electronic music in general. She was an early adopter of the Moog synthesizer, helping popularize it with her Billboard-charting 1968 album “Switched-On Bach”. At a time when new modular synths were thought to only be useful as experimental noise generators, she helped shape the development of the Moog and used it in intricate arrangements of Bach keyboard pieces.

She is also well-known as a composer, most famously as the composer and performer of the scores for A Clockwork Orange and Tron. Here is a wonderful 1989 interview with her, showing her creative process with both subtractive Moog synthesizers and later additive digital synths:

Wendy Carlos Interview 1989 BBC Two （✿＾－＾) ~~**TERFS/TRANSPHOBES DO NOT INTERACT**~~ （＾－＾✿）Wendy appeared on the BBC in 1989 and is best known for the scores to A Clockwork Orange, Tron and Th...

Finally posting some Sweeney pics! This was such a fun show. I got to do it all: be evil, make silly faces, sing ridiculous high notes, and get murdered by my awesome voice teacher! What a wild ride 🥧

If you want to help trans Kansans whose IDs have been revoked, here's an established local org that's providing direct funding for things like fees and travel to the DMV (a major expense for people who can't legally drive until they get new IDs, and are now dependent on rideshare).

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Masoud El Amaratly was an early-20th-century singer from what is now Iraq, and a mustarjil, a word in his Ahwari culture for what we might now call a trans man! He started publicly identifying as a man around age 18, and also started gaining success as a singer around that period. He recorded songs in the abuḏiya style in the 1920s and 30s, which were popular throughout Iraq and in neighboring countries. He’s a great example of how trans people lived and thrived even in the past, and have been welcomed in regions that now are much more hostile. Transphobia is not inevitable or eternal – it comes and goes, and we’re still here.

مسعود العمارتلي 🎞📽 خدري الچاي ( تسجيل اسطوانة جودة عالية ) 1925 Masoud Al-Amartli #ميسان #أرشيف #زمان #فنون #شعبيه #البصرة