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Bonus: The Legacy of Xtravaganza & Trans Lives on Screen

Bonus: The Legacy of Xtravaganza & Trans Lives on Screen

FromAfterlives: The Layleen Polanco Story


Bonus: The Legacy of Xtravaganza & Trans Lives on Screen

FromAfterlives: The Layleen Polanco Story

ratings:
Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Jan 10, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Enjoy unaired excerpts of interviews with two brilliant authors: Sydney Baloue and Tre’vell Anderson. Sydney Baloue, who is currently writing Undeniable: A History of Voguing, Ballroom, and How it Changed my Life and the World, dives deeper into the House of Xtravaganza’s legacy. He also opens up about his own foray into ballroom (which started in Europe) and reflects on his history-making performance at the Latex Ball in New York City. In the second half of the episode we hear from Tre’vell Anderson, the author of We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film. Tre’vell discusses their own relationship with representation, talks about an early trans celebrity (and what her fame meant for future trans stars), and considers whether visibility can lead to true progress.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
Jan 10, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (10)

The life and legacy of Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco is at the heart of Afterlives, a podcast about trans lives we’ve lost and the ways their stories have reshaped our world. Known to light up a room, Layleen was an Afro-Latina trans woman in New York City who was sentenced to the city’s notorious jail complex on Rikers Island. She died there in 2019, at the young age of 27.   Hosted by Raquel Willis and inspired by her award-winning work on Out magazine’s Trans Obituaries Project, this 7-episode series celebrates Layleen’s vibrant life through memories from her family of origin and the community she discovered in New York’s famed ballroom scene. The series unpacks the systems that failed Layleen leading up to her death at Rikers through in-depth interviews with activists fighting against the criminalization of sex work, solitary confinement, and the epidemic of anti-trans violence.   Afterlives is the story of Layleen’s life, and the fight that continues in her name today.