Band of Brothers Mental Health Podcast
Why the podcast exists? According to a survey by the Trevor Project, 60% of young Black transmasculine folks considered suicide; and according to the Williams Institute, 45% of Black transmen also considered suicide.
Podcast is part of Transman In Search of Media. For more info go to,
transmaninsearchof.substack.com.
Band of Brothers Mental Health Podcast
Latest Episodes
Boundaries And Mental Health
Your peace is not “too much” to protect, and your boundaries are not optional. We talk about boundaries as a real mental health tool: your mind is a city, and boundaries are the wall that decides what gets in and what stays out. When that wall ...
Passing Or Stealth Should Not Cost You Community
Passing can bring relief. Being stealth can bring safety. But when community turns those choices into suspicion, tests of “realness,” or accusations of betrayal, the cost is often mental health. We talk openly about how Black trans men who can ...
Are We Better Than Non-Transmen?
People love simple villains. Real life doesn’t work that way, especially when you’re a Black trans man walking through the world already assumed to be angry, violent, controlling, or “toxic” before you say a word.I’m Solomon, and I lay ...
Visibility Should Not Require A Perfect Masculine Ideal
We challenge the idea that Trans Day of Visibility is automatically empowering and ask who actually benefits when only one version of masculinity gets celebrated. We connect visibility, community standards, and self-definition to Black trans ma...
The Complexity Black Trans Masculine Folks & Black Trans Men Face
Isolation isn’t a personal flaw. It stems from the complexity of masculinity/manhood, blackness and transness. Black trans masculine folks and Black trans men have to navigate anti-blackness, transphobia and the double edge sword of manho...