Trans Tea

HRT affects the voice?! (feat. guest Liam Shipston)

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:03:02 GMT

Listen in as we welcome our first guest, Liam Shipston to the pod! A founding member of TRANScendent, Liam started HRT over 10 years ago and is helping us spill the tea on all things gender and voice parts in the choral space.

🌈 ADS & SHOUTOUTS

Join the DMGMC or book us for next season at https://www.DMGMC.org.

Read the Journal of Queer Choral Studies (JOQCS): https://www.galachoruses.org/resources/joqcs

🍵 THE REFILL

Check out The Voice Lab in Chicago → https://www.thevoicelabinc.com

One Weird Trick → https://amzn.to/4fiNhnH

Singing Teacher's Guide to Teaching Transgender Voices → https://amzn.to/4vDlKnc

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💖 ABOUT TRANS TEA

Featuring Tristan Miedema & Tessa Tura from Iowa's only trans and nonbinary singing ensemble TRANScendent. Welcome to Trans Tea, a podcast all about queer life in the Midwest — the community, the trans choral movement, and the queer stories yet to be told. Co-hosted by Tessa Tura (she/her), drag entertainer, queer activist, and one of TRANScendent's founding members & Tristan Miedema (he/they), director of TRANScendent, Iowa's only trans and non-binary singing ensemble. We're here to talk about queer Iowans living out loud and the voices making it happen. So consider this your invitation — sit back and grab a cup, cuz we're spillinggg.

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Pride is over, and we're still trans — Celebrating 25 years of the Des Moines Gay Men's Chorus

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:30:00 GMT

Hi gay! We're backkkk after a short pride hiatus. 🌈 Today we're talking about The Silver Party, the Des Moines Gay Men's Chorus's 25th Anniversary Concert Celebration. We've got lots more coming this summer, so stay tuned, and keep those cups full. ☕🏳️‍⚧️

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Featuring Tristan Miedema & Tessa Tura from Iowa's only trans and nonbinary singing ensemble TRANScendent.

Welcome to Trans Tea, a podcast all about queer life in the Midwest — the community, the trans choral movement, and the queer stories yet to be told. Co-hosted by Tessa Tura (she/her), drag entertainer, queer activist, and one of TRANScendent's founding members & Tristan Miedema (he/they), director of TRANScendent, Iowa's only trans and non-binary singing ensemble. We're here to talk about queer Iowans living out loud and the voices making it happen. So consider this your invitation — sit back and grab a cup, cuz we're spilling, and the trans tea is always hot.

🎶 Listen to Weightlessness by ⁨@paxressler⁩ & ⁨@JosAShapiro⁩ → https://youtube.com/watch?v=qIawi1AvBsg&feature=shared

🌈 ADS

Join the DMGMC for our 26th season → https://www.dmgmc.org/join-the-chorus

Shop DMGMC Merch → https://stores.inksoft.com/phelpsusa_dmgmc/shop/home

🍵 THE REFILL

Check out @GalaChoruses: https://www.galachoruses.org.

Listen to our collab with Queer Voices Podcast → https://rss.com/podcasts/queer-voices/

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⁠@The_Tessa_Tura⁠ on TikTok

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Are Tuxes Trans? Gendered Clothing & Trans Identity in Choir

Sun, 31 May 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Episode 2 of Trans Tea is here! 🎉💖

The tuxedo: a choral tradition, a symbol of formality, and — for a lot of trans and nonbinary people — a complicated relationship. In this episode, Tessa & Tristan dig into gendered clothing in the choral movement: what wearing a tux really means when you're trans, how their own journeys with clothing have shaped who they are on stage, and whether it's time choral tradition caught up.

Featuring Tristan Miedema & Tessa Tura from Iowa's only trans and nonbinary singing ensemble TRANScendent.

🌈 SHOUTOUTS

🪩 DMGMC.org for Tickets to The Silver Party!

❤️ Learn more about First Friday Breakfast Club: ffbciowa.org

🍵 THE REFILL

Check out Common Love DSM: @CommonLoveDSM

Want to support our work?

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