We’re Jim & Kat. Here are a few places our work has been featured by others in the community.

Trans.Cafe – When Crisis Calls

By: James Blake November 28, 2016

It was late one evening, and my wife and I had had a pretty rough day. She had been in physical pain all day, and we hadn’t much money left to last until payday. We were hungry, broke, exhausted and ready for a break. As we were driving, our tire blew, and it was the final straw. Our spare was already flat. We felt hopeless and didn’t know what to do. Perhaps that’s the definition of a crisis...

Sarah Talk – Episode 54: Two Trans One Van

By: Sarah Austin May 17, 2017

This week we put down the newspaper to share the story of a pair of transgender parents who are, in spite of overwhelming life garbage, are doing amazing things for the community. You’ll fall in love with them. The end. We feature James & Katherine Blake, a trans couple and their life journey. James blogs about their journey, a project called “Two Trans One Van” and Katherine works with the Trans Lifeline. We talk in generalities on the show about job loss, disability and homelessness, but here’s a real-life example of an amazing couple facing the odds to provide for their kids, support each other while still finding ways to give back to the community. I absolutely loved talking with them! James & Katherine Blake…

Empowered Trans Woman Summit: Speaker: Katherine Blake Speaker: James Blake

Summit Hosted By: Cassie Brighter October, 2017

The Empowered Trans Woman Online Summit was held over four days in October, 2017. The speaker lineup included 32 trans women – several of these prominent voices of trans advocacy – as well as 11 trans-focused professionals and 14 allies & advocates...

The Queer Side: A Day With Two Trans One Van

By: Callie Wright November 18, 2017

Two Trans One Van: James and Katherine are trans activists from Mississippi. They continue to do activism despite being homeless. This is their story...

Trans Lifeline: Service and Dedication Award: Kat

By: Trans Lifeline November 8, 2018

Trans Lifeline Woohoo! Program is starting!!! #WontBeErased #TransResillience Trans Lifeline@TransLifeline·8 Nov 2018 Our service award goes to Kat Blake! #WontBeErased #TransResillience…

Trans Lifeline: 1 Operator, 10,000 Calls: Katherine Blake

By: Katherine Blake November, 22, 2019

This blog post is part of a series of narratives in which we invite you to learn more about our Hotline work from the perspective of our operators. In order to meet increased need for our services around the holidays and support operators like Veronica we’re trying to raise $75,000 by November 26th. Thanks to generous community donors, every dollar you give between now and then will be doubled! Donate now or read on to be inspired by Kat...

Trans Lifeline: Fund the Hotline Support Kat

By: Trans Lifeline November 22, 2019

$79,653 of $75,000 – 425Donors

The upcoming holidays are a busy time for our hotline. Many of our callers tend to experience escalated feelings of stress and isolation around this time, and we want to be prepared. We are trying to raise $75,000 by November 26th. During this campaign, your impact will be doubled by three generous community members who are matching every dollar until we hit our goal. Trans Lifeline depends on your donations, which makes up over 90% of the budget to operate…

Queersplaining: James and Katherine

By: Callie Wright May 17, 2020

Awhile back I did an interview for another podcast I was producing. I made the episode and released it in the other feed, but 1. i don’t know that i did the best job putting together the episode. I was punching above my weight as a producer, and 2. the episode got like 40 downloads because it was on a totally different feed and it was like the 2nd or 3rd episode i did in that series. These folks deserve better!…

Queersplaining: An Update From James

By: Callie Wright May 19, 2020

Hey so between posting the episode yesterday and this morning, i got an actual life update from James on how he and his family are doing. Here you go! I made another cut of the episode with this in it to go out into the main feed this morning. But since you’ve likely already heard the cut without it, I thought I’d post the update itself here. love you friends ❤ …