Mar 30, 2022 • 46M

Transgender Woman Extraordinaire

We discover a transgender nudist whose top free activism and public nudism make her make her a trailblazer for trans visibility

 
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Evan Nicks
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In this episode of Naked Age we meet Marie Willa Bobo-Smith, a transgender nudist whose top free activism and public nudism make her make her a trailblazer for trans visibility. Plus, we explore intersections between nudist and trans history and look at the history of single men policies in nudist clubs. 

(This episode was originally published on March 30, 2022)

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  • Diary of a Nudist (1961) 

  • “Discrimination Against Single Nudists”; Letter to the editor by Rudolph Johnson; Sunshine & Health; Mar. 1947. Excerpt voiced by Timothy Branson, 2022. 

  • “NC Lawmakers May Repeal Transgender Bathroom Law”; AP News; Youtube, Dec 21, 2016. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=987zoHeH-XM]

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