Back To School With Jordan Raskopoulos

We chat to comedian, musician and actress Jordan Raskopoulos from the Axis of Awesome.

This post is presented in partnership with Bankwest.

Our webseries Back to School With invites Australia's most interesting and successful people to share stories from their school days. In each ep, they let us know how they landed their dream careers, as well as how they faced all those inevitable obstacles of teenagerdom along the way.

In the first four seasons, we interviewed David Koch, Julie Bishop, Samantha Jade, Dr. Karl, Daniel Ricciardo, Tom Ballard, Gretel Killeen, John Marsden and many, many other fascinating peeps.

And yet, Season Five looks to be our biggest season to date.

In the third episode of the new season, we chat with Jordan Raskopoulos, the comedian and musician from the Axis of Awesome. Jordan shared with us her experience of going to an all-boys school while dealing with gender dysphoria, how she came to understand her gender identity and what it's like to go through puberty for a second time.

"Whether you want to call yourself trans or not, if you feel that you might be different or you feel you might be queer or you might be gender diverse, there are other people who are like that and by talking and opening up you can find other people's stories, and that for me was the biggest help."

Check out our chat.

Stay tuned: We'll be dropping new episodes each Tuesday. Join us as we venture back in time with another Aussie legend every week!

In the meantime, catch up with previous seasons:

Season One

Season Two

Season Three

Season Four

You can find our Season Five archive here:

Season Five

Back To School With Season Five is presented by Bankwest. Need a bank account with student benefits? Find out more here (and remember to consider the PDS).

Photo: Student Edge.