Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA f Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Bunker, Folks.
Speaker 1: I wrote a piece this week for The Daily Beast,
Speaker 1: and I want to unpack it with you because as
Speaker 1: we are learning more about what is transpired in the
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty seven minutes that the President of
Speaker 1: the United States went missing on January six, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: as we understand more about the entire strategic, thought out
Speaker 1: plan to overthrow our government from the foot soldiers to
Speaker 1: the architects. The thing that is troubling me and continues
Speaker 1: to trouble me, is that Democrats aren't doing a fucking
Speaker 1: thing with the information that is being served up on
Speaker 1: a silver platter by the Republican Party, who is an
Speaker 1: obvious cult who is an obvious fascist, authoritarian regime that
Speaker 1: sees that our democracy is not something that they want
Speaker 1: to be on board with anymore. They have given numerous examples,
Speaker 1: they have given numerous of their own talking points, and
Speaker 1: yet you hear Democrats say things like We're going to
Speaker 1: focus on kitchen table issues, and the thing that I
Speaker 1: want to say is what fucking difference do kitchen table.
Speaker 1: Issues make when you can't vote, when you don't have
Speaker 1: access to an abortion, when you're so concerned about sending
Speaker 1: your kids to school because they may be shot up
Speaker 1: by an AAR fifteen. But everybody wants to talk about
Speaker 1: this bipartisan deal that is on the table, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, the fucking legislation hasn't been written. And do
Speaker 1: you know what doesn't include in this bipartisan, historic three
Speaker 1: decade legislation. Nothing that will absolutely end gun violence in
Speaker 1: this country. Nothing that will end mass shootings in this
Speaker 1: country because the assault rifles ban is off the table.
Speaker 1: Raising the age to twenty one in order to buy
Speaker 1: a gun is off the table. So what you see
Speaker 1: is just a bunch of fucking money for mental services.
Speaker 1: And that's not the issue. The issue isn't that we
Speaker 1: don't have enough psychologists and psychiatrists in America. It's the
Speaker 1: fact that we have three hundred and ninety million guns
Speaker 1: and only three hundred and thirty fucking million people. So
Speaker 1: while everyone wants to pat themselves on the bat that
Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans are coming together, they're coming together to
Speaker 1: do nothing more than pageantry, because it's not going to
Speaker 1: stop people from being gunned down in their grocery store,
Speaker 1: their school, or their place of worship. So here we are,
Speaker 1: as democrats, are making what seems like a fucking death
Speaker 1: march to the mid term elections. And I keep saying
Speaker 1: to myself, where is the goddamn messen? Because by the way,
Speaker 1: I get the top lines on a regular basis, and
Speaker 1: the top lines are bullshit. We are obviously heading towards
Speaker 1: a fucking recession. I can't get tampons, some people can't
Speaker 1: get baby formula. Gas is at five dollars a fucking gallon,
Speaker 1: and that's in places that are good, not places like California,
Speaker 1: which have always had historically high gas prices. So when
Speaker 1: you have one of the two major political parties that
Speaker 1: have turned into a cult, that offer and have offered
Speaker 1: nothing to the American people, that are so inbed with
Speaker 1: white nationalists, you would think that Democrats would say, well,
Speaker 1: what is your alternative? Me or Hitler? But of course
Speaker 1: that is not where they are. So I wrote about
Speaker 1: it to give some thought, to provide some insight to
Speaker 1: Democrats that you know, maybe want to actually try to
Speaker 1: win instead of what they usually do. So the piece
Speaker 1: at the Daily Beast right now is entitled Democrats need
Speaker 1: to tell Americans how dangerous the GOP really is. And
Speaker 1: this is what I write. The January sixth Committee hearings
Speaker 1: are laying there just how much coordination there was between racist,
Speaker 1: far right extremist groups and Trump's attempt to steal the election.
Speaker 1: Last month, a white supremist traveled hours to a black
Speaker 1: neighborhood in Buffalo for the express purpose of killing as
Speaker 1: many black people as possible. Let me pause there, because
Speaker 1: what has happened over the past couple of days, over
Speaker 1: last weekend is that we've seen arrest of white nationalist
Speaker 1: groups that were getting ready to riot at a Pride parade.
Speaker 1: We have gotten reports of the Proud Boys. According to
Speaker 1: the Washington Post, they were gonna disrupt a story time.
Speaker 1: No they weren't. They were initiating a fucking attack language matters.
Speaker 1: Five to seven Proud Boys rolled up to a California
Speaker 1: drag story time that people bring their children to because
Speaker 1: drag is about imagination and fabulousness and sparkles and good times, right,
Speaker 1: And they rolled up into the event screaming transphobic and
Speaker 1: homophobic slurs, essentially causing an absolute scene and chaos, scaring
Speaker 1: the shit I'm assuming out of parents and caregivers as
Speaker 1: well as the drag queen that was in the midst
Speaker 1: of performing their work. But everyone in media wants to say, oh,
Speaker 1: it was a disruption. No it wasn't. It's intended an
Speaker 1: intentional fucking harm and violence. So in the introm se
Speaker 1: the Buffalo shooter, which you know was arrested alive, killing
Speaker 1: ten black people, we have the murder of nineteen children
Speaker 1: and two of their teachers. And in the midst of
Speaker 1: it all multiple mass shootings and multiple acts of violence
Speaker 1: at the hands of white supremacist groups. Who did I
Speaker 1: just say that they were in bed with Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: trump Ism and the Republican Party. What connections have Democrats
Speaker 1: made to this point. None, because they want to say, oh,
Speaker 1: not all Republicans. If you have subscribed and voted with
Speaker 1: Donald Trump over ninety percent of the time, if you
Speaker 1: did not vote against his impeachment, if you did not
Speaker 1: stand up after the insurrection when your own life and
Speaker 1: ass was on the line, then you are aligned with
Speaker 1: the far fucking right. They may want to do part
Speaker 1: and parcel within their own circles, but Democrats need to
Speaker 1: tell the fucking truth to the American people, which is
Speaker 1: what they refuse to do because they think somehow that
Speaker 1: that's taking the quote unquote high road. It's not. What
Speaker 1: it is is not helping the American people be able
Speaker 1: to see very distinctly who the Republican Party is. So
Speaker 1: let me continue. Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland
Speaker 1: Security issued a stark warning that the US is in
Speaker 1: a heightened threat environment following several recent attacks that have
Speaker 1: highlighted the dynamic and complex nature of the threat environment.
Speaker 1: Seem like there's a there, there here. Why then, is
Speaker 1: it so hard for Democrats to connect the dots and
Speaker 1: communicate to the American people just what exactly is going
Speaker 1: on here? So let me take my hand at it.
Speaker 1: As I wrote for The Daily Beast, violent extremism, racism,
Speaker 1: and bigotry are a growing threat, and their ideologies are
Speaker 1: entwined with mainstream conservatism. Right now, there, see how easy
Speaker 1: that was, Democrats. Doesn't seem confusing. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: your kitchen table. I'm talking about the fact that you
Speaker 1: should feel safe in your home, you should feel safe
Speaker 1: in your community, you should feel safe wherever you go.
Speaker 1: But if you are a person of color, if you
Speaker 1: are a person from a marginalized group. If you are
Speaker 1: not white, male, ciss straight, and Christian, and I use
Speaker 1: quotation marks, you win danger, girl, you win fucking danger.
Speaker 1: So for these people out here who want to say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: my gas prices are high because of Democrats, no they
Speaker 1: are not. They're high because we're at war. They're high
Speaker 1: because we have come up with no fucking way to
Speaker 1: access energy in any real way, because we keep tap
Speaker 1: dancing for the Prince in Saudi Arabia kissing the ring
Speaker 1: of Putin in Russia. And so you would think that
Speaker 1: we would have learned something through our scarcity. In fact,
Speaker 1: during the height of COVID, when production was shut down,
Speaker 1: that how entwined America is with the world, and that
Speaker 1: by placing money in green energies, whether it be wind
Speaker 1: or solo or just innovation in general that is about
Speaker 1: sustainable technologies, maybe we wouldn't be in this place. But oh,
Speaker 1: that's right. America and our politicians are in bed with
Speaker 1: the oil companies and the gas companies and all of
Speaker 1: these people. You have Joe Mansion, King Cole, right, do
Speaker 1: you think that he wants to invest in technologies that
Speaker 1: aren't going to add more money to his pocket. No
Speaker 1: he's not. But the reality here, folks, is that it's
Speaker 1: either these jellyfish, spineless people or white supremas. And I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, by virtue of who I look like and
Speaker 1: where I come from and who I love, they ain't
Speaker 1: going to accept me as part of the pact. What
Speaker 1: about you? I go on to say this in the piece.
Speaker 1: It has been crystal clear for quite some time that
Speaker 1: this isn't Ronald Reagan's Republican Party anymore. The new Republican
Speaker 1: regime is more aligned with members like Representatives Elis Stefanik,
Speaker 1: who pushed white supremacs theories, and Marjorie Taylor Green and
Speaker 1: Paul Goser, who don't even pretend to hide their ideology
Speaker 1: when attending white supremacy conferences. Where are these Republican leaders
Speaker 1: taking their direction from? Donald Trump, the man that, on
Speaker 1: January sixth, as a capital was under siege in in
Speaker 1: a plume of smoking chaos, told his rioting followers that
Speaker 1: what he loved them. It doesn't get much clearer than that.
Speaker 1: Trump said he loved the people that beat police officers,
Speaker 1: the people that built a gallows to kill his own
Speaker 1: vice president, of whom he later said that well, maybe
Speaker 1: they were right. Head over to the Daily Beast to
Speaker 1: read the entirety of my piece entitled Democrats need to
Speaker 1: tell Americans how dangerous the GOP really is folks. Coming
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Speaker 1: will talk about the myriad of things that the LGBTQ
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Speaker 1: you know it's so hard, right, we like literally before
Speaker 1: I said, how are you you say, how are you,
Speaker 1: how are you this pride? How are you feeling in
Speaker 1: this black queer body that we have about where we
Speaker 1: are in this country right now, in this good, good
Speaker 1: month of June, this busy queer month of June. Yeah, Well, first,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me on your show. I love
Speaker 1: your show and what you do. Thank Exhausted, angry, frustrated,
Speaker 1: fired up. I made a post recently just because I
Speaker 1: was preparing for my podcast, Queer News, and I was
Speaker 1: just like, you know, as a black person, as a
Speaker 1: queer person, and as a woman right now, all three
Speaker 1: of my identities are under attack, and I'm exhausted. So
Speaker 1: I was, I was preparing to write my script for
Speaker 1: the Queer News podcast, and I just couldn't get through it.
Speaker 1: I mean it was I was two and a half
Speaker 1: hours in. I can't find the worst script to really
Speaker 1: express my frustration and anger. Because on that particular day, um,
Speaker 1: the Buffalo mass shooting had just occurred, right Robe Wade,
Speaker 1: the leak had just happened, and then Brittany Griner's detainment
Speaker 1: had been extended, all at the same on the same day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, this is my life, Like
Speaker 1: this is my reality. This is what living at the
Speaker 1: intersections means. This is why you know this pride. I'm
Speaker 1: not all pumped up to go walking into parade, right
Speaker 1: I'm not pumped up for that. I want to know
Speaker 1: where's the march, Where where's the fury, where's the protests happening?
Speaker 1: Because at this point right we've been under attack from
Speaker 1: right wing legislation, legislators across the country, trans rights transfer ye,
Speaker 1: people are actually having to think about picking up and
Speaker 1: moving their families to different states. This is every day
Speaker 1: life right now. And we're supposedly in America and in
Speaker 1: this very free country, and it's not feeling free to
Speaker 1: this very queer and black and woman field body right now.
Speaker 1: And so for me prior right now is exhausting and
Speaker 1: it's furiating. And my hope is that I use my
Speaker 1: platform to express that and to keep people engaged because
Speaker 1: it's very easy also to tune out because you can't
Speaker 1: take it, you know, you don't want to take it
Speaker 1: all in. So my hope is that I'm keeping people
Speaker 1: engaged with our platform and what we are talking about,
Speaker 1: because people do need to be in tune. We can't
Speaker 1: tune out right now like this ain't the time to
Speaker 1: be hiding under a rock. This is the time to
Speaker 1: like tap into that James Baldwin, and tap into that
Speaker 1: rage and do something about it. You Know, it's so
Speaker 1: interesting because so many people that I've been talking to
Speaker 1: are finding themselves rereading Baldwin, rereading Octavia Butler, rereading Tony Morrison,
Speaker 1: rereading Nikki Giovanni, and really trying to tap into in
Speaker 1: their time. We're talking about the nineteen sixties, and we're
Speaker 1: talking about literal I know that Republicans love to play
Speaker 1: right now like cities are burning, that black people are burning,
Speaker 1: ship down everywhere, and that we know that that is
Speaker 1: not the case. But in the nineteen sixties it very
Speaker 1: well was right because as we have as has been said,
Speaker 1: rioting is the sound of those that are unheard, right,
Speaker 1: And so when you just listed out all of those things,
Speaker 1: all of the layers of as I heard a doctor
Speaker 1: say on MSNBC the other day, compacted trauma, that's what
Speaker 1: all of that was. Right. She's talking about Brittany Griner.
Speaker 1: We're talking about her being used as a political pawn
Speaker 1: and no one making a stink about it, And people
Speaker 1: are saying, oh, it's because you know, we got to
Speaker 1: work behind the scenes, And a part of me is
Speaker 1: like or because she's a black gay woman, right, Because
Speaker 1: the reality is is that if that were Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: you don't think that this would be a regular segment
Speaker 1: on anybody's sports center. It would be a regular segment
Speaker 1: on anybody's news, right, whether or not it was said
Speaker 1: to we're working behind the scenes. And so I guess
Speaker 1: my next question for you is, given all of the
Speaker 1: weight and the fact that you were so directly connected
Speaker 1: to the LGBTQ community by virtue of your work and
Speaker 1: your platform, what are you hearing? Right? Like, our folks disengage,
Speaker 1: not because they don't care, but because it's self care.
Speaker 1: Are they disengaged or are they outraged but don't know
Speaker 1: where to channel that? And so by virtue, it's just
Speaker 1: social media outrage as opposed to we're in the streets outrage. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: they don't know what to do with it, They don't
Speaker 1: know what, they don't know where to go. So part
Speaker 1: of my work is I try to give people call
Speaker 1: to actions in all of the stories, because there has
Speaker 1: to be a way that we can channel this. If
Speaker 1: it's not in the street, then there's another way. Because
Speaker 1: I think that everyone's work doesn't have to be in
Speaker 1: the street, right. I think that's the beautiful part about life. Right.
Speaker 1: Everyone's not called to be that activist. Some people are
Speaker 1: called to be advocate. Some people are called to do
Speaker 1: the work at their own homes and their own families.
Speaker 1: So I do try to provide people calls to action
Speaker 1: because I do think that people are engaged when I post,
Speaker 1: and I think I find the most engagement on TikTok TikTok. Right.
Speaker 1: People are aware of what's happening, but they just don't
Speaker 1: know what to do. So right for example, where Britney
Speaker 1: Griner and covering her story. I think she's one hundred
Speaker 1: and fourteen days now wrongfully detained in Russia. The call
Speaker 1: to action right now for me is to tell people
Speaker 1: go sign the petition and then go call your legislature
Speaker 1: legislators and let them know that her wife is trying
Speaker 1: to get in front of President Biden right now, that
Speaker 1: her wife needs is trying to get in front of
Speaker 1: him to urge him to bring her home. Right that
Speaker 1: coach Don Staley has said that she will give up
Speaker 1: her visit right the game call visit to the White House.
Speaker 1: So that Cherrell can have that visit with President Biting
Speaker 1: because that's how important it is to her. There's calls
Speaker 1: to action on everything, and I think for us, it's
Speaker 1: about using our platforms to tell people how they can
Speaker 1: do it, because I think a lot of people just
Speaker 1: feel exhausted. I think people do feel exhausted. COVID has
Speaker 1: tired us all out if nothing else is happening in
Speaker 1: the world, and people don't know what to do. So
Speaker 1: I just try my best to give to give people
Speaker 1: ways in which they can show their support because a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't have money. And I'm somebody from
Speaker 1: the church, right, So, time, talent, treasure, Okay, you got
Speaker 1: one of the three that you could be giving to
Speaker 1: an organization to people that you want to see when so,
Speaker 1: for example, good news, right, Justine Lindsay just became the
Speaker 1: first trans woman cheerleader in the NFL. She's a black
Speaker 1: trans woman. Right, that's amazing, But also right now she's
Speaker 1: getting a lot of hate. When I told that story
Speaker 1: on the podcast, I said, go follow her on Instagram
Speaker 1: and write something really nice in the comments, like take
Speaker 1: a moment and support her and offset some of the
Speaker 1: hate that's happening. That that will go a long way,
Speaker 1: because the trolls are real, and so if you can
Speaker 1: get through that with some positivity, that's the way you
Speaker 1: can support this system right now, because what she's doing
Speaker 1: is amazing. You know, it's so true, because you know,
Speaker 1: we all know, and particularly in the work that we do,
Speaker 1: don't read the comments section, right I never read the
Speaker 1: comment section after I write a piece. I never read
Speaker 1: the comment section because I've said my piece. So if
Speaker 1: you want to go and use the comment section for,
Speaker 1: you know, to to have a monologue, a soliloquy, you know,
Speaker 1: go off, But I'm not going to engage in that way.
Speaker 1: But the reality is is that it takes a toll.
Speaker 1: And so when you you know, and you talk about exhaustion,
Speaker 1: I talk about exhaustion on willk app all the time
Speaker 1: because I say that, you know, if we do not
Speaker 1: seek rest, if we do not seek refuge, if we
Speaker 1: do not find ways to cent her joy in our lives,
Speaker 1: we are going to burn out, which is part and
Speaker 1: parcel of all that is being thrown at us. And so,
Speaker 1: in using your platform to kind of be as an
Speaker 1: act of service, how do you tell folks and also
Speaker 1: for yourself, what do you do to take this heavy
Speaker 1: weight off of you, even if only for a few hours?
Speaker 1: What is that? What does your self care look like?
Speaker 1: Right now? For me? Every morning, it is me and
Speaker 1: my prayer corner, with my journal and my meditations and
Speaker 1: my music and my candles and my pictures from my
Speaker 1: family of me growing up, and it looks like me
Speaker 1: taking time. And sometimes I lose track of time and
Speaker 1: I'm there for like an hour, but it is truly
Speaker 1: that quiet time. And the more that I just refuse
Speaker 1: to give up for absolutely anything or anyone or anything
Speaker 1: happened around me, because my grounding for me is through
Speaker 1: my spiritual practices. And so for me, it's that time
Speaker 1: when we bought our new house, but right before the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I was like, thank you. I told my wife, you
Speaker 1: can have this whole room, but this little corner, this
Speaker 1: corner is my corner. Okay. And anybody know my wife,
Speaker 1: though she is a diva, Okay, there's close, there are
Speaker 1: close on close, okay, But I told her like, this
Speaker 1: is my corner and you cannot do anything in this corner.
Speaker 1: So that corner is my corner. That's that's really how
Speaker 1: I ground myself. And I also love to exercise, right
Speaker 1: those indoor friends. Yeah, my movement, my creativity going, if
Speaker 1: it's a walk with my puppy, if it's something on
Speaker 1: the trail mill, if it's core work, like moving really
Speaker 1: helps my spirit a lot. Yeah, you know, I just
Speaker 1: recently broke my So walking used to be used to
Speaker 1: be my walking meditation frankly of being able. I meditate
Speaker 1: at least twice a day, but walking used to also
Speaker 1: just be my you know, connection to the water, to nature,
Speaker 1: to getting outside. And I say all of that is
Speaker 1: important because, you know, for the past couple of months,
Speaker 1: and I don't know about you, because my work is
Speaker 1: about sitting behind me, staring at this TV and screaming
Speaker 1: as I am watching our democracy crumble, and then having
Speaker 1: to write about said democracy crumbling. And I think to myself,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have the fire right now
Speaker 1: to fight back. And I say that because we are
Speaker 1: all so exhausted that even the good practices that I
Speaker 1: developed during you know, quarantine have fallen away as the
Speaker 1: world has started to come back together. But the world
Speaker 1: has come back together in this topsy turvy upside down space.
Speaker 1: And so it's how do you envision creating the fire
Speaker 1: that has people get back in a state of rage,
Speaker 1: but not stay there, you know, for their own health
Speaker 1: and well being. Because we know that our community too
Speaker 1: has high risk for everything alcoholism, drugs, anxiety, depression, suicide rates,
Speaker 1: all of these things. You compound that with these anti
Speaker 1: trans bills, with these anti LGBT bills, it just ReBs
Speaker 1: everything back up. And so how do you go about
Speaker 1: creating the fire for the connectivity but literally not having
Speaker 1: people burn. It's the magic key, isn't it the magic key?
Speaker 1: I think Unfortunately, people only get fired up when they
Speaker 1: see something egregious about to occur, right, So I felt
Speaker 1: like people were really fired up when the leak of
Speaker 1: the Roe v. Wade potential decision that's I supposed to
Speaker 1: come down month. We're sitting here, but it's next week, yes, right,
Speaker 1: the inevitable. I felt people fired up around that, right.
Speaker 1: I felt like the world kind of woke up a
Speaker 1: little bit in regards to wanting to disrupt everyday life
Speaker 1: around this decision. I wish it didn't have to be
Speaker 1: like that, right, I wish I wish people cared and
Speaker 1: were fired up on everything, right. I wish people could
Speaker 1: engage in that way around all of these moments, especially
Speaker 1: around all of this anti trans and anti LGBTQ legislation
Speaker 1: that's been going on really for the last like fifteen
Speaker 1: sixteen months, Right, I wish that was the case, but
Speaker 1: unfortunately people only care when it affects them, and so
Speaker 1: when we talk about trans folks, you know, and the
Speaker 1: percentage in which they represent not enough. I don't feel
Speaker 1: like America on a whole feels connected to that issue
Speaker 1: right in the same ways. Right. So I'm sitting over
Speaker 1: here fired up because it's part of my identity, but
Speaker 1: other folks aren't fired up who don't identify right, and
Speaker 1: we've got transphobic people within our own community. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: just a whole other thing, right. So I feel like
Speaker 1: people only get turned up when a decision like a
Speaker 1: roe V wave comes out, and oftentimes that's too late,
Speaker 1: That's what I mean. It's too late, right, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: too late. So I don't know how we change that
Speaker 1: tide because people can only take so much. Right to
Speaker 1: your point, it's my job. It's my work that I've chosen.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been called to do, is to
Speaker 1: tell everybody what's going on, and to use my voice
Speaker 1: as a voice of passion. When I speak to get
Speaker 1: people fired up and to call them to into some
Speaker 1: type of action for the collective whole, I feel like
Speaker 1: it has to, unfortunately be something so monumental or life
Speaker 1: change or something they thought was unthinkable to get people
Speaker 1: back in the streets and on one accord on one issue,
Speaker 1: which I think is crazy because all of our pressures
Speaker 1: are connected and there is no hierarchy of this, right,
Speaker 1: So it's just it's frustrating. But I feel like that's
Speaker 1: the that's the only thing I could see actually that
Speaker 1: to me, that's the thing is that, you know, I
Speaker 1: oftentimes reflect on with my listeners about Martin Diamoller's poem, right,
Speaker 1: first they came for. First, they came for the socialist
Speaker 1: and I wasn't a socialist, so I didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: Then they came for and then they came for and
Speaker 1: the list goes on and on. And I say that
Speaker 1: for America, the trans community is that first community. Why
Speaker 1: because of all of the things that you said, Because
Speaker 1: it is still a community that even within the entirety
Speaker 1: of LGBTQ, there is I have been a part of
Speaker 1: LGBTQ movement for a long time and I can tell
Speaker 1: you about the things that have been said by people
Speaker 1: who identify as queer, and so you go for the
Speaker 1: low hanging fruit and the radical right. They know that, right,
Speaker 1: they know to go for the low hanging fruit. And
Speaker 1: so it's and when we look at all of these bills,
Speaker 1: all of these bills are anti trans bills, right, And
Speaker 1: so I guess, how do you find how do you
Speaker 1: think that we activate our sense of empathy when things
Speaker 1: are not directly about us, but they are about the
Speaker 1: capital us. So I think it's about storytelling, right. So
Speaker 1: I think it's about the stories. And that goes back
Speaker 1: to the platform, goes back to why I think the
Speaker 1: que is important in regards to creating a space for
Speaker 1: BIPOC and qt POC podcasters to be seen and discovered,
Speaker 1: because stories allow us to see the humanity in people
Speaker 1: and see people. A lot of people don't know a
Speaker 1: trans person, right, and so the issue just seems like
Speaker 1: it doesn't affect them, doesn't touch them, It doesn't it
Speaker 1: hasn't impacted them. And like this emotional that has evoked
Speaker 1: an emotional response to want to stand up or say
Speaker 1: something or feel like this is wrong. But when you
Speaker 1: hear someone's story and it sounds like something you've lived before,
Speaker 1: it sounds like somewhere you've been before. And you can
Speaker 1: see the humanity in someone, When you can see them
Speaker 1: as a human being and not an issue, I think
Speaker 1: that's when change can begin to happen. But I know
Speaker 1: that real change only happens in community and in relationship,
Speaker 1: Like you got to get down deep into these conversations
Speaker 1: with people. But I think it can begin with stories
Speaker 1: and storytelling and listening to people's humanity and seeing people
Speaker 1: as people and not as these polarized, exaggerated political pawns
Speaker 1: that the right wing is making them out to me
Speaker 1: and to your point, they are going after the most
Speaker 1: vulnerable and the most misunderstood. Yea, because it's easy to
Speaker 1: shape the narrative of that right. Yes, So I think
Speaker 1: it's about stories. I think it's about humanity. I think
Speaker 1: it's about people wanting to listen and and here, and
Speaker 1: not just waiting to chime in on their own response,
Speaker 1: but really actively listening to these stories. I believe that
Speaker 1: storytelling is the end and the be all right, it's
Speaker 1: the end all be all for me, and it's one
Speaker 1: of the things that Republicans are attacking right around their
Speaker 1: whole critical race theory. It is around gaslighting, continuing to
Speaker 1: gaslight the public about white American exceptionalism, devoid of any
Speaker 1: BIPOC people, devoid of any other alternative voices outside of white, sis,
Speaker 1: hetero Christian and I use quotations men. Last question for you,
Speaker 1: Anna is you know, if people want to do something
Speaker 1: in this moment, I want to go back to the beginning.
Speaker 1: People want to do something, what advice would you give them?
Speaker 1: If people want to do something, I would say to them,
Speaker 1: what is it that you care about the most? Right now?
Speaker 1: What is it that really moves you and whatever that is,
Speaker 1: tap into that community and support with your time, talent,
Speaker 1: and your treasure. For me, I care about black and
Speaker 1: brown and people of color LGBTQ folks, and so I
Speaker 1: tap into my communities in every chance that I get,
Speaker 1: and I tell and I use my platform to tell
Speaker 1: their story. Right. If you care about trans folks, then
Speaker 1: you need to be dropping money on translate organizations, right,
Speaker 1: you need to be dropping money on organizations that are
Speaker 1: helping to fight this legislation that's happening across the country.
Speaker 1: You know all of the qualities of the world, right,
Speaker 1: that are fighting in the court systems. You need to
Speaker 1: support them. You need to support translate organizations that are
Speaker 1: actually helping people, right, those who are homeless and have
Speaker 1: housing instability. All Right, Some people like to affect change
Speaker 1: on a massive level. Like some people's work is to
Speaker 1: talk to millions, some people's work is to talk one
Speaker 1: on one and affect people one by one by one. Right,
Speaker 1: So you find something that really you just can't stop
Speaker 1: thinking about, and you tap yourself in, because if we
Speaker 1: all do that with all of our issues, then we
Speaker 1: can begin to make some change. And you your life,
Speaker 1: I mean, goodness, gracious, you give what you receive, you received,
Speaker 1: give like you put into it right, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: get it back tenfold. And I think we have abilities
Speaker 1: to bless people in ways that I don't think we
Speaker 1: really tap into. So tap into what you're passionate about
Speaker 1: and use your time, talent and treasure and affect some
Speaker 1: change in some folks lives because it matters, all of
Speaker 1: it matters, all of it. Well, Anna, I can't thank
Speaker 1: you enough for your work, um, for elevating our stories,
Speaker 1: for centering our community with the cube and the platform
Speaker 1: that you have, and I you know this pride. I
Speaker 1: know that it is a struggle, but I wish you
Speaker 1: a happy and healthy one and I hope that you
Speaker 1: will come back to work very soon and uh and
Speaker 1: join us to talk to us again. I would love
Speaker 1: to come back happy pride to YouTube in the midst
Speaker 1: of it all and to everyone listening, because we deserve
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