A full transcript of this episode is now available at transandcaffeinated.com/transcripts Payment | Venmo: @bloggerbrit Social | Twitter: @bloggerbrit Instagram: @bloggerbrit Links | Buy Brit’s novel: All We’ve Ever DoneBrit’s blog: The Non-Binary BaristaThe Twelfth Annual Sprudgie Award NominationsUmeko Moyotoshi’s "A Better Table" interview with Alice WongUmeko MoyotoshiAlice Wong Background Info | Brit Alexandria and I have confusingly parallel online presences. I’m a coffee person, they’re a coffee person. I run a coffee and trans stuff blog, they run a coffee and trans stuff blog. Both of ..read more

Oh hey, there. You’re pretty cute. Haven’t seen you around here before… Heh heh, come here often? Oh, you work here? So you’re here to stay? Oh fuck yeah, they fired the other guy? Honestly, I never liked him—yeah, what was his name… Uhh… what was that? Oh, yeah, Penis, that’s right, Penis used to be there Penis used to be there but now here you are all shiny and new and pretty and well… You’re mine. I mean, you were always mine but four months ago I woke up from a surgery and they were like “you have a vagina!!!” and I was like “cool I’m on a lot of drugs and in a lot of pain!!” And then four ..read more

SOCIAL | IG/Twitter: @meghanannette PAYMENT | Ca$happ: $MeghanAnnette Venmo: @mrsgoodwin LINKS | Likewise Coffee Canary Coffee Bar US Coffee Championships World Barista Championships Coffee and Good Spirits Glitter Cat bootcamps Glitter Cat DiGiTiTiON Cup Taster’s DiGiTiTiON Getchu Some Gear Black and White Coffee Q Grader Certification BACKGROUND | If you’re a coffee person like myself...which many of you are... chances are you’ve seen M-A Reida’s face flash across your timeline at least once or twice. Over the past few years, M-A has competed in a number of local and national coffee competit ..read more

PAYMENT Venmo: @bleeeeeez SOCIAL IG: @Getchu some gear  Twitter: @Getchu some gear ABOUT Bok bok. Who’s there? Chris Mcauley. Chris Mcauley who? Did you know that Chris Mcauley has chickens? It’s definitely not the coolest thing about him, but it’s up there. Chris Mcauley is the founder of Getchu Some Gear, which he launched a little under two years ago alongside his partner, Chelsea. Getchu set out to hook up marginalized coffee workers with free coffee stuff, but they’ve since expanded the scope of their work tremendously: first with Getchu a Job, which provides free resume assistance ..read more

When is the last time you laid down on your bed with a sweet, purring cat curled up on your chest, took a long, deep breath, and remembered to forget the world, if only for a moment? If your answer is “never” or “I can’t remember,” then take a second—if you can—to do that right now. Pause this episode, take a deep breath in, take an even longer breath out, ground yourself in this moment, and remind yourself that it is okay to just be. This is what Mx. Lex Pe’er Horwitz wants you to remember: that you are enough. That you are okay. That your understanding of yourself and your identity does not ..read more

Have you heard of Felix Tran? ...no? Well, that’s surprising! Felix is a Seattle-based, Vietnamese-American, transgender artist voted most likely to have huge bursts of energy at 1:00 AM and work until 5:00. A little under two years ago, Felix co-founded and designed a logo for Coffee at Large—or “CAL”—which launched with a barista-led coffee-shop walkout that rocked the coffee world. Within days, everybody and their cousin had set CAL’s logo as their Instagram profile picture, in solidarity with industry workers facing workplace mistreatment. Felix—also known by their impulsively yet aptly-na ..read more

It’s never easy to navigate the dichotomy of upholding anti-capitalist principles and beliefs while running a for-profit business—but Cheyenne Xochítl Love remains mindful of this balance, while learning new skills along the way. Cheyenne is the Indigenous, two-spirit, non-binary trans girl behind Queer Wave Coffee, where she roasts Honduran coffee on Chochenyo Ohlone land or precolonized Oakland, CA. For her, being queer means that we create new avenues that allow us to break free from the straight, binary, and oppressive path we have been taught. This goes not only for gender and sexuality ..read more

Em Rabelais is the white, disabled, queer, trans feminine, and non-binary ethicist, nurse, scholar, white feminism dismantler, and potential kept themmebian you never knew you needed. Until now. WHOOO that was a mouthful. As an academic, their scholarship is rooted in disrupting and dismantling white supremacy in nursing—but Em’s work doesn’t end there. They are deeply committed to pushing back against all forms of oppression, including the rampant ableism and transmisogyny they regularly endure. Em has no desire to play nice with oppressors—they know that the nursing status quo of niceness an ..read more

Faith woke up one morning with a single thought weighing heavy on her mind: “I don’t even know who I am.” For years, she internalized the resounding sentiment of those around her that it was not okay to be herself - until one day, she came to a crossroads wherein she could no longer bear to live as anybody else. Now the owner of Wish Me Luck, Chicago’s very first Black, trans, queer-owned tattoo shop, Faith demonstrates the healing power of community spaces, especially for people who have historically been erased or made to feel uncomfortable by the status quo. Faith’s story shows us that ther ..read more

Growing up in a conservative, evangelical home, Mya suspected that coming out as trans could mean parting ways with her parents. However, she firmly rejected the notion that it was her responsibility to adjust to the comfort of those around her. She felt, rather, that it was their responsibility to adjust and accept her for who she is. Mya always says that her number one goal in life is to help people. And even at times when Mya has faced immense hardship, she has continued to lead with her empathy and compassion first. This shines through in everything that she does - from serving on a counci ..read more