I Am the Queen

A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and...

Two British families discuss the challenges they face raising children who identify as a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth.

Gwa To, a transgender man from a remote village in Rakhine, plans for relationship impermanence, assuming all women will eventually move on to...

Defying the state legislature that outlawed abortion, the Catholic Church that condemned it, and the Chicago Mob that was profiting from it, the...

After discovering case files from the UCLA gender clinic from the 1950s, a group of trans actors confronts the legacy of young trans women being...

Political commentator Matt Walsh explores the changing concepts of sex and gender in the digital age, particularly the transgender rights movement,...

Games You Can’t Win explores “empathy” gaming, a new video game movement in which developers are sharing some of their most...

It often happens that at the moment of death, transgender individuals are shorn of their identity. Their families are ashamed, the funeral takes...

TMB (The Merry Band of time travelers) made their first appearance in the 2019 book The Mystery of The Patch. In the book, they assisted Captain John...

Through a collection of video diary entries spanning more than a year, Pronouns in Bio delivers an offbeat and charming reflection on transness and...

In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first...

A visit to Chicago, featuring the city's architecture and well-known landmarks.

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

Vikken is transgender. He’s about to take hormones for the first time. He records his voice that will disappear, and summons the figures of the...

This short Traveltalk visit to Chicago looks at some hotels known for their evening entertainment and for the rich and famous people who come to...

A feature-length documentary on the 1990s Chicago rock scene.

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her...

Winnie, the daughter of a steel worker and a teacher, lives in Gage Park, a Chicago neighborhood that is changing from white to black. Her family...

A short documentary on wet t-shirt contests at a Chicago bar.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd's reverence for his musical roots are center-stage on Ten Days Out...Blues From The Backroads. The guitar-slinger is featured...