References and Resources from My May 2025 Webinar on Supporting Trans and Nonbinary Clients with Sociopolitical Distress

On Friday May 16, I presented a training on how therapists can support trans and nonbinary clients experiencing sociopolitical distress. I’ve compiled a comprehensive list of resources I referenced during the training. If you did not attend, this likely will not be particularly of interest to you, though you can purchase access to the recording.

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Resources Referenced During the Training

Note: For the most part, resources are listed in the order in which they were introduced during the training.

Introduction

• Song: “Any Other Way” by Allison Russell and Ahya Simone (Originally by Jackie Shane)

  • Read my substack on this song:

    A Bit of Trans History and Trans Artistry

  • Check out trans harpist Ahya Simone: instagram | website | new EP

  • Learn more about Jackie Shane:

    • Write up of her history from the Museum of Toronto

    • Coverage about and trailer for the documentary about her (not yet available to the public but made the rounds on the festival circuit last year)

    • Pitchfork review of the box set anthology of her recordings released in 2017

    • Buy the anthology, which includes really incredible photographs and liner notes on CD or vinyl

• TRANSA music compilation - pre-order box set

  • Read my piece from November 2024 about how I have used TRANSA as a source and practice of radical hope:

    The Radical Hope of TRAИƧA

  • Listen to TRANSA on Bandcamp though you can also listen to it anywhere you listen to music generally. (Bandcamp supports artists and independent labels more so I try to use them for listening to and purchasing music whenever possible.)

  • Press coverage in Rolling Stone, Them, and Pitchfork.

  • TRANSA merch that says “Trans people have always existed, with many different names across time and culture, often as spiritual healers and leaders.”

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Foundations

• Prior webinars on affirming and effective therapy with trans community members (free on youtube):

  • Matsuno & Barr: Affirmative Therapy with Trans and Nonbinary Clients

  • Barr & Matsuno: Supporting Trans and Nonbinary Clients in Hostile Environments

• Book on providing trans-competent therapy: Counseling in a Gender-Expansive World by Knutson, Goldbach, & Koch

• Art for purchase or download:

  • Transpainter (Rae Senarighi; including flags I shared):

    • Rae's billboard project

  • Kah Yangni

  • Trans Day of Resilience art

• Suggestions of warmlines and peer respite centers to support (though please look for local resources/orgs):

  • Trans Lifeline

  • Wildflower Alliance (specifically their Anemoni LGBTQIA+ peer respite center)

    

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Assessment & Conceptualization

• Multidimensional Trans and Nonbinary Resilience Scale by Jae A. Puckett,Em Matsuno, Kiet D. Huynh, Zakary Clements & M. Paz Galupo

  • Article describing the development and validation (free to access)

  • Scale itself (word document, should download automatically when you click the link, provided by authors and journal)

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Core In-Session Principles & Interventions

• Puckett et al (2023) study on trans people's experiences with therapy specifically around discussing distressing sociopolitical events:

  • Puckett, Kimball, Glozier, et al.. (2023). Transgender and gender diverse clients’ experiences in therapy: Responses to sociopolitical events and helpful and unhelpful experiences. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 54, 265-274. https://doi.org/10.1037/pro0000513

• My substack piece normalizing impacts on functioning and reflecting on how to re-prioritize day-to-day demands:

  We're Running Out of Clean Underwear

• My substack piece on changing phone usage and reducing doomscrolling:

  A Guide to Reducing Your Compulsive Phone Usage

• Israel, Matsuno, and colleagues’ article on intervention for internalized transnegativity:

  • Israel, T., Matsuno, E., Choi, A. Y., Goodman, J. A., Lin, Y.-J., Kary, K. G., & Merrill, C. R. S. (2021). Reducing internalized transnegativity: Randomized controlled trial of an online intervention. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 8(4), 429–439.

• Barr, Matsuno, Bettergarcia, & Connor presentation on affirming therapeutic approaches for reducing distress from gender dysphoria: free on youtube

• Power Full Because We’re Different installation/exhibit by Jeffrey Gibson at Mass MoCA

  

  • Main webpage

  • Full gallery guide

• Mosley et al paper on Radical Hope (free PDF):

  • Mosley, D. V., Neville, H. A., Chavez‐Dueñas, N. Y., Adames, H. Y., Lewis, J. A., & French, B. H. (2020). Radical hope in revolting times: Proposing a culturally relevant psychological framework. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 14(1), e12512.

• Tadáskía’s art

  

  • MoMA exhibit

  • Artist instagram

• Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art

  • Hiroes & Trancestors Poster

    

• Media on trans history that I referenced (consider purchasing the books from local and/or trans/queer-owned book stores!):

  • The Lilac People by Milo Todd

  • Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline

  • Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson

  • Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Major Griffin-Gracy

  • Transgender History by Susan Stryker

  • Before we Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

  • We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan 1961-1991

  • Pose (TV Show)

  • Framing Agnes (Documentary) (also available for rental on Apple TV, YouTube, Google Play, Amazon, etc.)

• Beverly Glenn Copeland: website | instagram

  • The Ones Ahead album: Pitchfork review | Listen on Bandcamp | Spotify

    

  • Collaboration with Sam Smith: Ever New

• My workshop for Kentucky Health Justice Network

  • The Opposite of Isolation is Us: Finding and Building Opportunities for Queer and Trans Connection

• Angelica Ross’ 2022 LGBTQ State of the Union

• Books I referenced featuring empowering essays:

  • Surviving Transphobia (anthology)

  • Trans Love (anthology)

  • Falling Back in Love with Being Human by Kai Cheng Thom

• Kai Cheng Thom’s essay on trans community suicide intervention: We Must Live For One Another

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Closing

• Song: “A World of Love and Care” by Ezra Furman

  • Ezra Furman: website | instagram

  • Full new album, Goodbye Small Head: Bandcamp | Spotify

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Additional art included throughout the webinar

Floral Bouquet No. 1 by Gabi Guerra aka Mala Hora

Joy, Still by Britchida

Something Wonderful by Britchida

Pollinator by Tourmaline (this is a photo of the installation at the Whitney Biennial)

Art Deco Daffodil Muse by Gabi Guerra AKA Mala Hora

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