This week’s episode of engender features Lindsey Deaton, the director of the San Diego Queer Youth Chorus and founder of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles - TCLA. Lindsey brings years of experience as a trans leader of trans-serving organizations, and demonstrates a clear and resolute vision for empowering trans voices to improve the world around us. For more information about Lindsey and her work, visit her website: <a href='https://lindseydeaton.com/'>https://lindseydeaton.com/</a>

Taking Up Space for Peace // Monica Curca

The Choral Commons is a media platform that provides a space for choirs and singing communities to realize the liberatory potential of the ensemble as a site of radical imagining. We promote equitable artistic and organizational practices that harness the positive social impacts of participatory music making for the common good and confront racism, poverty, ableism, LGBTQ+ discrimination, displacement, and much more. We produce podcasts and community events, offer educational resources on justice-centered praxis, and incubate creative, artistic, and compassionate projects that empower choirs and singing communities to work for a just and peaceful world.