Outsports Radio

This week we talk to someone who helps keep some threads together when COVID frayed them out. The COVID pandemic affect in terms of keep many apart was especially difficult on LGBTQ communities. Many meeting places, safe spaces, and support spaces were shutdown and some of those haven't come back despite the effort to reopen. Such situations hit trans communities hard, especially trans youth. At the same time, the coordinated assault on trans rights but power anti-LGBTQ concerns also grew to be nearly as virulent as coronavirus. In this breach stepped New England-based DJ Xandra Xero. For the last year, she's been locked out of the clubs due to the pandemic, but locked in on giving shut-in people and virtual space to get down, and along the way she's used her virtual sets, dubbed "Trans Dans" to raise money for a bevy of national trans-related causes. She has another fundraising, and planed back-to-school bash via Twitch.Tv and sat down with our Karleigh Webb to discuss how she got her groove flowing through