Audio Work
& Podcast Appearances

Selected. Note: Appearances from before 2021 I’ll have my pre-T voice; nowadays I sound like a dude.

• Proxy
  I was featured on this episode about cis allyship and overcoming silence and shame … Independent new podcast created and hosted by former Invisibilia host Yowei Shaw (Aug. 2025)

• Cancel Me, Daddy talking about the NYT’s transphobia; you can also watch us on YouTube (July 2025)

• Apple News+ Audio
  I read my Esquire essays about speech therapy and the camp for trans men; the latter was promoted widely by Apple. (2024)

• KERA’s Think talking about my Esquire camp essay (Sept. 2024)

• The TED podcast How to be a Better Human “Why we should rethink what mental health means w/ Sandy Allen” (July 2023)

• This American Life 
  “Voice Over” a story about my life as a singer, before and after Testosterone (Aug. 2022)
  “Applied Bob Studies” on Uncle Bob’s path inspiring my own, in terms of coming out as nonbinary (July 2020) Edited by Ira Glass.

  Both TAL pieces were produced by Bim Adewunmi.

• 99% Invisible
  “Where Do We Go From Here?” an episode I reported and produced on bathroom segregation — and how we can do better (Sept. 2020)

  “The Kirkbride Plan” another episode I reported and produced on a forgotten chapter in 19th-century American mental health care history (Oct. 2019).

  Both 99PI stories were edited by Delaney Hall.

  Note: I did not write the prose episode descriptions 99% Invisible publishes on their website; they do have transcripts available there for anyone interested.

• Mad Chat
  My independent podcast on pop culture’s depictions of mental health, which I hosted for a 10-ep pilot season. Co-created with audio producer Lee Mengistu (2020). As praised by O Magazine, Self, and The NYTimes, amongst others. For now, you can still listen to Mad Chat only on YouTube. (I hope to restore the episodes elsewhere eventually; they’re evergreen and still recommended.)

• Slate’s Dear Prudence, offering advice along with then-host Danny Lavery (2019)

• KCRW’s The Organist (2018), a beautiful audio story by host Andrew Leland (later a Pulitzer Prize-nominated author) about AKOMP and Uncle Bob and much else related to disability and shifting perspectives …

• A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia (audiobook) - Simon & Schuster Audio, 2018; I co-read the book with an actor who read Bob’s font. Available wherever you listen to audiobooks. My AKOMP hardcover and paperback tours included numerous various podcasts and local radio station interviews; for more visit the book’s website.

• Pop-Up Magazine (2017): a multi-city tour wherein I read a story — one I’d reported and written on the Hearing Voices Network — to audiences live on stages, in large theaters across the country.