The Red Hot Organization (2025)

19/03/2025

Transness makes the world better. Period. Red Hot is back in wide view because of trans people and the gifts they give to the world. Thanks to for making that clear 💞 link in RH highlights!

Our small team behind this nonprofit label was inspired to take risks because of .bell and ‘s vision for TRANSA. And that vision is owed to millennia of gender-expansive art and life.

Even with 46 tracks, 8 chapters and 100+ artists, TRANSA is just beginning. Bet.

Collaborators like shaped the record as it lives now and they are shaping the future of music

17/03/2025

1. Tina Montana walks at the Avis Pendavis Ball in the fem queen realness category, 1990. Photo: Chantal Regnault for Vogue. (link in stories!)

2. gets ready for the DMV and finds out that individuals within the processing machine exist to resist 💞

3. as herself for - a waymaking house for trans futurism o. 1974

4. stepped up when the script for Candy Darling’s biopic wasn’t quite right

5. why music now? explains to (this story takes place after Bowen went to conversion therapy and remained himself)

6. with a pep talk

Those of us who can stay up and out are lifting the rest 💗 we can celebrate while acknowledging fear, the risks of visibility and the cracks in frameworks that allow some trans and q***r people to be more visible than others 💗 it’s both/and + a hug 💗

13/03/2025

The conversation of a lifetime happened last month when and Ceyenne joined L’Rain (Taja Cheek) at 💞

Link in stories to watch the *entire *essential thing in a video by -

Enjoy these beautiful images by Syra Sparkle who also witnessed a thrilling performance by in collaboration with the RECORDAR Sound Tower built by 💖 Get those tags from the party in the comments!!

07/03/2025

redhot.bandcamp.com for Bandcamp Friday with remixes! You make our projects possible!

We’re going through old Roy Ayers footage to share soon. Reflecting on his light-channeling, virtuosic playing yields a clear favorite feature (though we’re biased): “Proceed II” from Red Hot + Cool. Get wrapped up in the magic of Ayers’ collab with The Roots at our Bandcamp (find Proceed II Justice) with remixes by 🫀 Rest in Power to the greatest.

27/02/2025

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US! An easy way to refuse. Comment here if you’re participating and let us know what else you’re doing to send the message with your 💸

25/02/2025

SATURDAY 3.1 in LOS ANGELES • To kiss the sun pouring from her lips • a performance created by Massima Bell with Palma Estela & Kei Austin & Gabriel Gamboa
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sound collage by

THE EBELL OF LOS ANGELES * FREE as part of PST ART Open House: A Day-to-Night Exploration of Art and Science via * info in stories

To kiss the sun pouring from her lips is a marriage ceremony to the earth, honoring trans femmes of the past; a demonstration of cob mixture & natural building technique via “wedding processional”

“Recent research has shown that the smell of humus [the dark organic matter in soil that is formed by the decomposition of plant and animal matter] exerts a physiological effect on humans. Breathing in the scent of Mother Earth stimulates the release of the hormone oxytocin, the same chemical that promotes bonding between mother and child, between lovers. Held in loving arms, no wonder we sing in response.”
-Robin Wall-Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
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“The word humble (like the word human) has its roots in humus, it means to literally return to earth. Perhaps the future will be built by heroic acts of humility rather than arrogant temples to growth.”
-Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan, We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself

This collage by Massima — a wedding invitation of sorts — references a photo of the oldest known third gender burial site and interprets telling symmetry in medieval old english glossaries: the word “bad” and “baeddel” (old english word for “hermaphrodite,” “effeminate,” etc.) have the same origin — “waepenwifestre” is another old english word for “third gender.” Weapon woman, or woman with a weapon. Anna Atkins used cyanotypes to document British algae and the form’s origin is associated with the documentation of nature; later, it became known for blueprints in architecture.

25/02/2025

North Texas: Join us this Sunday 3.2 as part of the Dallas Art Book Fair c/o for a free workshop! At our fav microcinema we’ll spend a calm couple hours using our hands to make something new from collective archives and our own personal photos, in the logic of TRANSA, the album feat. 100+ artists who show us how the journey taken by trans people can be a blueprint for survival.

Artists: RSVP (link in stories) even if you can’t attend so you can get info via email about archives accessible to you for your own work.

Slide 2 brought to you by the Digital Transgender Archive: from the Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection at The Le***an, Gay, Bis*xual & Transgender Community Center ~ an undated image of Marsha P. Johnson celebrating her birthday.

Slide 3 is c/o Turtle Creek Chorale Collection (The Dallas Way), University of North Texas Special Collections: An undated image of a matchbox from Ripcord’s Dallas location - the a gay bar still exists in Houston, o. 1980.

24/02/2025

If you signed up for the newsletter at transa.world, the February edition is waiting in your inbox 💌

See the pinned post here on IG for a raffle still open to support and !

what we’re thinking about today: intervention strategies for cis people, fugitive sanctuary networks
in churches and other spaces (see also: faith-based groups suing ICE), how to protect and reclaim imagination, trans chefs, the near future.

image of TRANSA conspirators Agnes and at Lichen last week by the great ~

22/02/2025

TRAИƧA wants to literally wrap you in love! Get the Young Lion cap and luxuriously soft TRAИƧA hoodie at shop.redhot.org

18/02/2025

TRANSA claims 2025 as the year trans people find each other toward *truest liberation. See you tonight if you’ve RSVP’d - we are at capacity for this event AND a raffle in our stories is open to everyone to support and 💗

1. Ceyenne Doroshow, who appears tonight in conversation with Imara Jones and L’Rain, speaks here to 🫀

2. in Beyond Thriving: The Black Trans Experience

3. Deborah Garcia introduces the RECORDAR Sound Tower which will carry music from TRANSA tonight 💞

A performance from graces the evening + a menu from and more 🌟

This event will be documented.

14/02/2025

NYC 🫀 special report 🫀

Tonight 2.14 - Sunday, you still have the chance to see Red Hot conspirator Agnes Walsh star in a one-woman show by — tickets over at 🥤

“After the sudden death of Laura Jacoves, the Understudy has to go on and perform the acclaimed one woman show about Laura’s vaginoplasty.”

It feels like an entire Valentine just to know this show exists. 💐 say congratulations to Agnes (!)

07/02/2025

It’s Bandcamp Friday. redhot.bandcamp.com is where to be. The TRANSA album cover means a lot right now:

This is a statement about the naturalness of transness overtaking the decaying colonial marker (the carriage house). Of course, it’s easy to be distracted at the moment by another house that is white — and yet we know that fascism is not new. And we know that trans people have always existed. Transness is a gift. 100+ artists celebrate these ideas on TRANSA by guiding us through a spiritual journey that includes grief, transformation, and renewal 🫀

Since 1990 Red Hot has shown through art that we have the tools to survive and thrive in the face of government oppression. When our friends were dying of AIDS and the government and mainstream media were silent about prevention methods, we gathered the most powerful artists in the world to talk about safe s*x direct to camera and celebrate q***rness and desire when both of those were demonized. Red Hot was there then and we’re here now, preparing something very special 🫀 when it’s a matter of life and death, we know it’s time to make some art.

Sign up at transa.world to stay in touch!

04/02/2025

UPDATE for 2.18 at — the first TRAИƧA event of 2025:

Artist .villiers has joined as MC! And we’ll have food by Papi Tropical! Just a few spots left to witness these legends in the same room while supporting the bright lights of NYC Trans Oral History Project and G.L.I.T.S — RSVP at the link in bio!

A night to gather for intentional listening with iconic lights from the ever-expansive trans community: Ceyenne Doroshow (G.L.I.T.S) and Imara Jones (TransLash Media). Taja Cheek (L’Rain) joins the pair in conversation as the artist who incorporated interviews from the NYC Trans Oral History Project (NYC TOHP) with Doroshow and Jones that appear in “People Are Small/Rapture,” a tribute to ANOHNI on TRAИƧA the album.

We’ll hear selections from TRAИƧA and NYC TOHP’s archive played on RECORDAR by Deborah Garcia , a sound tower installation at Lichen. We’ll have the first ever public screenings of music videos for Sade Adu’s “Young Lion” and Lauren Auder’s “I Would Die 4 U” for the community to view together. Then we’ll dive into a collective dialogue with our special guests, and close the night out with a live performance by MIZU , a cellist and composer featured on TRAИƧA.

This event will raise funds to help sustain the work of NYC Trans Oral History Project and G.L.I.T.S. It is free to attend for all trans people, and a suggested $20 donation at the door for everyone else.

Presented by Red Hot in partnership with Lichen NYC.

TRAИƧA is an album featuring more than 100 artists celebrating trans life and artistry in a spiritual journey of 8 chapters. To stay connected, sign up at transa.world.

01/02/2025

On some Black History Month and Val Day tips 🏳️‍⚧️✨♥️

1. CONNIE FLEMING & TRACEY “AFRICA” NORMAN for

“Norman’s baptism by fashion came in collaboration with illustrious image maker Irving Penn, who booked her, unknown and unsigned, for a Vogue Italia shoot. In the years to follow, she landed a coveted gig as the face of a popular Clairol hair dye in 1975, posed for Avon Skincare as well as Ultra Sheen, and even became a house model for Balenciaga. About a decade later, Fleming, who is known more popularly as “Connie Girl”, picked up that baton, photographed by the likes of Steven Meisel, and appeared in magazines like Candy and The Face, which covered the underground downtown scene in which she took refuge … It is on their shoulders (and those of others like them) that a generation of women are booked as openly trans models today.“

2. An inspired .frankk found this line in materials for the Red Hot + Ra: Nuclear War project and saw its relevance 🧡

3. There’s Transa merch for your sweethearts at shop.redhot.org ~~ order today and literally cover them in hope and care ♥️ tag us in the selfies!!!

30/01/2025

Ariel Loh has just become the first Asian American trans person to win a GRAMMY 🌫️

She shares the Harry Belafonte Best Song for Social Change Award for “Deliver” by Iman Jordan with Roy Gartrell and Tam Jones. 🍉 Free Palestine 🍉

We celebrate this moment for Loh who’s now in the company of Wendy Carlos, Jackie Shane, and Kim Petras in the lineage of trans artists acknowledged by the Recording Academy.

♥️

28/01/2025

Spotted at Joann Fabrics ♥️

We’re back in the name of staying engaged and increasing the resistance ranks. Found some good ideas on account-sharing, instigating content off meta and sharing here, and other exciting ways to mindfully participate. The number one way to stay in touch is to sign up at transa.world. We’re on blusky same username ♥️🙌 WE LOVE TRANS PEOPLE AND THE WAY TRANSNESS LIBERATES OTHERS 🙌♥️

23/01/2025

Lights Out META lasts until Jan. 26th. We are taking that time off associated platforms to dream of what’s next.
Please consider doing the same.

This Sunday, transa.world subscribers get the first expanded monthly version of the newsletter

23/01/2025

Red Hot stands with in refusing the clown car of pseudo-science and bigotry that just pulled up to the White House.

We’re proud to have given TAG its founding grant in the early ‘90s and will continue to support their efforts during this crucial time.

Sign up at transa.world to stay in touch while we navigate new frontiers of digital migration and create new opportunities to stay connected.

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