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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

we’re on ~Pacific Time at #MusicPolicyForum presenting on survival strategies learned during the release of Transa and throughout Red Hot’s history. Seattle is a microcosm of music industry dramas & triumphs so it’s easy to learn a lot here just by walking around.

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Bill Coleman 🎧🧿✊🏾💫 @peacebisquit.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

"Mon Cheri" was feat. on our 2021 🎧'RED HOT + FREE' compilation for humanitarian charities. ▪️"Mon Cheri" - ingroov.es/mon-cheri ▪️ Remixes - ingroov.es/mon-cheri-iy... ▪️ Video - youtu.be/RO_9LDW4YhM?...

Sofi Tukker and Amadou & Mariam "Mon Cheri" Remixes sleeve and poster art. Lifted from our 2021 compilation, RED HOT + FREE.

Art Direction : Bob Bottle and Bill Coleman

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Bill Coleman 🎧🧿✊🏾💫 @peacebisquit.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

We extend our heartfelt condolences to the friends, family and colleagues of Amadou & Mariam on the passing of the legendary Amadou Bagayoko.🙏🏽🇲🇱❤️ @peacebisquit.bsky.social were honored to work w/ the duo on behalf of @redhotorg.bsky.social and @sofi-tukker.bsky.social on "Mon Cheri."

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Sofi Tukker and Amadou & Marian "Mon Cheri" single sleeve cover art for The Red Hot Organization lifted from our 2021 compilation, RED HOT + FREE.

Art Direction : Bob Bottle and Bill Coleman

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

46 songs to get you through the function

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

all I want for Trans Day of Visibility is for @thevivllainous.bsky.social to find out about TRANSA on @kellyclarksontv.bsky.social catch Massima Bell on the show today!!! www.nbc.com/exclusives/w...

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Folk Lyrics in a Dangerous Time @folklyrics.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Springtime 19/20 "Ever New" (TRAИƧA album version) redhot.bandcamp.com/track/sam-sm... Written by Beverly Glenn-Copeland Featuring Sam Smith This version is from a trans rights concept album by various artists, released last fall by @redhotorg.bsky.social - check it out! #lyrics #MusicSky 🎶

Welcome the spring
The summer rain
Softly turned
To sing again
Welcome the bud
The summer blooming flower
Welcome the child
Whose hand I hold
Welcome to you
Both young and old
We are ever new
We are ever new

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

we’re a rogue art collective and nonprofit label back in wide view because of trans people 💗 number 5 on this @fastcompany.com list TRANSA is just beginning, bet www.fastcompany.com/91269640/mus...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil writing from a Louisiana detention center: "I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear."

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My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner

A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Jefferson’s book is out today. He’s found his own way of influencing a very trapped culture toward liberation. This advice is an example of challenging gender norms in spaces that suffer from them still, in a way they can’t always name. Pull up for LGBTQ+ rights, Jefferson! We love you!

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

it’s almost like the moralizing of gender assigned at birth (“the way G-d made you”) is a front for the corporation

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

hi it’s Bandcamp Friday ~ might we interest you in “Proceed II” by The Roots with Roy Ayers as it appeared on Red Hot + Cool + remixes? You make our projects possible! redhot.bandcamp.com/album/procee...

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Proceed II Justice, by Red Hot Org

3 track album

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

intervention strategies start with imagination 🧵 ~~ what is a passport without the state? it’s a booklet of paper

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

out now: “I Would Die 4 U” the music video starring Lauren Auder Prince’s song versioned by Lauren Auder + Wendy & Lisa of the Revolution for TRAИƧA the album’s Reinvention chapter www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLmu...

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Lauren Auder, Wendy & Lisa - I Would Die 4 U (Official Video) (Transa album version)

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/02/2025

Massive protest happening in Union Square right now to defend trans youth from President Trump’s attempts at eradication.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/02/2025

Breaking news: State attorneys general from California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise Trump's EO banning trans care is unlawful, hospitals should provide care. Big counter salvo!

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Attorney General Neronha and 14 attorneys general issue joint statement on protecting access to gender-affirming care | Rhode Island Attorney General's Office

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sadeware @sadeware.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Listen to TRANSA. This labour of love is an epic journey best experienced together. As much as I appreciated the singles published before release day those songs feel more natural in sequence. There's so much history and affirming artistry here without a note of artifice. Thank you, Red Hot.

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TRAИƧA published by the non-profit Red Hot on 2024-11-22.

A screenshot showing part of the tracklist from the compilation
TRAИƧA published by the non-profit Red Hot on 2024-11-22.

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

RSVPs now closed! Y’all love trans people so much that we’re at capacity 💜 the conversation and performance at this event will be fully documented 💜

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Ridgewood, NYC 2.18 puts Imara Jones, Ceyenne Doroshow and L’Rain in conversation (!) with a performance by MIZU 💟 a benefit for the NYC Trans Oral History Project + G.L.I.T.S 🏳️‍⚧️ Terrell Villiers is now the MC and Papi Tropical created a menu for this dream!! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/traa-liste...

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

New Blue Sun already made history for being New Blue Sun 💙 LFG TRANSA artist André 3000 #GRAMMYs 26 minutes of his new era on a massive project supporting trans artistry and influence: music.apple.com/us/album/iv-...

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

we love GRAMMY nominee and TRANSA artist Clairo 😍 have you heard her feature on “Many Ways” by CLARITY on this album? music.apple.com/us/album/man...

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

need Valentines? we’ve got you 🥰 today’s the best day to order! make the loves in your life feel cherished ✨ shop.redhot.org

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

happy Black History Month babes!! TRACEY “AFRICA” NORMAN & CONNIE FLEMING for V Magazine 🤩

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

TRANSA is a concept album that traces the journey taken by trans people (and all peoples who have been oppressed) toward rebirth and liberation - an almost 4-hour spiritual experience we wish for you! Comfort and fuel, 100+ artists in an exercise of world-building <3

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If you go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum right now you can see an openly-queer tribute to James Baldwin, an installation about the erasure of lesbians and trans people from Stonewall, and a full exhibit about American women between the wars who fled to Paris to be gay and make art.

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

reporting from a meeting in progress: massive solidarity happening around protecting trans people and such beautiful things about to meet you!!!! DM us if you want to help us get some art into the world <3 thinking about having a weekly Saturday work group on Zoom if there's interest!

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

an email you can send to superintendents and district admin

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Woman And Nature by Susan Griffin (1978) poetically traces how the Rapture in Scripture morphed with canon texts in science written by misogynists to become this land-destroying secular version of end times. The book is nurturing and crucial! Free PDF! excoradfeminisms.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

lyndsay here! after revisiting No Alternative Girls I've been thinking about the impulse -- often subconscious -- that causes young adults who grew up in /abstinence-only/ churches to have sex without condoms or bc even if they know better (condoms/pills = planning = premeditated sin = shame)

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

check your email newsletter fam; there's a still from the next TRANSA video in there ;)

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

also announcing in the newsletter today: the first selection in our monthly book club! sign up now to find out what it is: transa.world

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

coming today in the newsletter: a note on No Alternative Girls (1993), the film by Tamra Davis featuring touchingly open convos with Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, +++ about identity, sex, and self-possession www.youtube.com/watch?v=urLr...

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A Film by Tamra Davis

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

"a 46-track epic-style narrative breaks the notion of artists contributing singular tracks and instead reads as a mammoth, panorama novel in eight parts" 🥰

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

we just gifted rt. rev. baddie with TRANSA the album -- a spiritual journey in eight chapters celebrating trans people and the gifts they give to the world <<33

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Red Hot presents TRAИƧA @redhotorg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

nice to see so many friends here this morning! :) we're hard at work putting the final touches on a gorgeous booklet (with essays!) for the 6LP TRANSA box set shipping this spring. art here by Female Pentimento [Nathaniel], one of the 6 sleeves, curated by Evangeline AdaLioryn shop.redhot.org

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Kaye @kaye.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

benefit show for LA next week nyc

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Gina Manola @theginamanola.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Today’s a good day to remember that trans people have always existed and they will continue to live and love with dignity and joy. 🏳️‍⚧️ @redhotorg.bsky.social youtu.be/0I7UAZrSPgQ?...

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TRANSA FULL ALBUM VISUALIZER

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Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Cole Pulice, Eileen Myles, and Hunter Schafer's collaboration "Under the Shadow of Another Moon" is the undeniable emotional centerpiece of 'Transa,' Red Hot's massive trans rights compilation. Here's how it came together. www.hearingthings.co/eileen-myles...

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What a funny, Miles Davis-related production error in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ tells us about jazz, class, and—maybe, just maybe—America itself.

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dust @fkadust.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Queer artists are often expected to serve as liaisons, “opening doors” between themselves and others... On Transa, they are instead free to reach upward, toward divinity, by channelling feelings bigger than any one person’s experience. Humanity, not transness, unites them.

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Hunter Schafer, Claire Rousay and Ahya Simone on Transa Compilation

In a roundtable discussion, the three artists open up about their work on Red Hot's new compilation.

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Ciro @kuarahy81.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The best album of the year is out! Thank you @redhotorg.bsky.social, #TRANSA is a blessing 🩷 Over 100 artists to defend trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ lnk.to/transa

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Red Hot Org - TRANSA

Listen to TRANSA by Red Hot Org.

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Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘢, Red Hot's massive musical project for trans charities with new songs by Sade, Andre 3000, Sam Smith and more, is out today. We spoke with Red Hot founder John Carlin about the fascinating history of their albums—he has stories for DAYS—and imagining a more equitable future via music ❤️ 🏳️‍⚧️

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The History of Red Hot, the Pioneering Social Change Organization, in 8 Great Songs

Ahead of ‘Transa,’ a new project for trans charities featuring Sade and André 3000, Red Hot founder John Carlin talks about wrangling Nirvana through Kurt Cobain’s babysitter and accidentally releasing the first-ever Wilco song.

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Alif Hilal (formerly Lyra Pramuk) @alif-hilal.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

my new single with Moses Sumney and Sam Smith is out today, a modern version of Sylvester’s iconic 1970s disco classic “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” for TRAИƧA, the new album by Red Hot Org celebrating the gifts that trans people bring to the world ✨ you can stream it here: lnk.to/makemetransa

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Moses Sumney, Lyra Pramuk, Sam Smith - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

Listen to You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) by Moses Sumney, Lyra Pramuk, Sam Smith.

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