1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, today, 3 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 1: I want to do something crazy, and I want to 4 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 1: start off with some good news. I know that a 5 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:31,720 Speaker 1: lot of times we are inundated with everything that is bad, 6 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: everything that the far right, white supremacist Republican Party is 7 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: throwing at us, everything that feels like it is spinning 8 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: out of control and hopeless. And I just want to 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: remind you that that's the point, right that when Steve Bannon, 10 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,919 Speaker 1: you know, said that the far right strategy was going 11 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: to be to flood the zone with shit, what we 12 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: are experiencing right now is his strategy come to life. 13 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: And so in order to not become literally covered in 14 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: all of their bullshit, we must create mechanisms of disruption, 15 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: and that will look different for each of us, but 16 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: we have to create them, and we have to do 17 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: them every day. And that doesn't mean just burying our 18 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: heads in the sand. It means actually searching out the good, 19 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: finding what is working, what is lifting us up, what 20 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: is bringing us joy. And so I want to open 21 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: the show up with my experiences earlier this week, that 22 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:39,759 Speaker 1: have really given me some renewed energy and excitement about 23 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: where this country is headed. And so I want to 24 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: talk today about two events that I had the great 25 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: fortune one of attending and the other of hosting. And 26 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: the first event that I want to talk to you 27 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: about is Family Equality. Family Equalities Night at the Peer 28 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: is an event that happens every year at the Chelsea 29 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:12,119 Speaker 1: Peers and it is the Family Equality Organization's New York 30 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: City gala, and I want to tell you a bit 31 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:17,679 Speaker 1: about Family Equality, which you may have heard from their 32 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: CEO Stacy Stevenson, who has joined WOKF before. She is 33 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: a friend and former client, and Family Equality over the 34 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: last forty years has just been doing God's work. But 35 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 1: over the last two I've had the ability to work 36 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: with them as Stacy Stevenson came on as their first 37 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: black woman CEO. The organization is dedicated in creating spaces 38 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 1: for families, queer families to feel safe, to feel welcomed. 39 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 1: They work on everything from policy to family practice to 40 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: creating events for LGBTQ families across the country. And you know, 41 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: over the last several months, we've talked about the unrelenting 42 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: anti LGBTQ and anti trans policies that have passed, and 43 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: there have been over four hundred and fifty bills, if 44 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: you really want to put a number on it, over 45 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,120 Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty bills have been passed to limit 46 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: the presence, existence, and bodily autonomy of queer people in 47 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 1: this country, and namely they've been going after queer children 48 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: and Family Equality is suing Rondi Santis and the State 49 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: of Florida. They are part of many groups that are 50 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: suing Rondasantis and the State of Florida for putting literal 51 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: targets on the backs of trans children and the LGBT 52 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: community at large. And during this amazing night that was 53 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: set with the theme of love, family freedom, which I 54 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 1: had the great honor to be able to craft during 55 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: my work and time with Family Equality, it was so 56 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 1: inspiring to listen to stories of the journey that queer 57 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: parents have taken in order to create their families and 58 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: how much love and how much patience and how much 59 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: fortitude these people had to have in order to create 60 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: their families. And as I'm listening to stories that range 61 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: anywhere from surrogacy to adoption to you different fertility journeys. 62 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: And I'm thinking to myself, who would go out of 63 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: their way to deny people who want to create a 64 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: loving union, who want to be able to share that 65 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: love with children, Who would deny them the access and 66 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 1: ability to do so. Who would make it so that 67 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 1: these families no longer feel safe in their communities and 68 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: have to find ways, if financially possible, to relocate from 69 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: their home states. And so when I sat there listening 70 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: to stories of resilience and fortitude and people saying things 71 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: to the effect of, I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving 72 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 1: my state. I'm not going to be run out of 73 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: my city. I'm not going to be run out of 74 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: my town. I'm going to stay and I'm going to fight, 75 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: and I'm going to fight for what is right. I'm 76 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 1: going to fight for myself, for my family, for my friends, 77 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: and for my loved ones. And these are people who 78 00:05:54,640 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: live in places like Florida and Texas, Tennessee and Alabama 79 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: who were being recognized for their incredible work in their communities. 80 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: Young people being able to be cheered on and celebrated 81 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: in the room as opposed to being jeered and having 82 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: to hide the very existence of their families at school. 83 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: And it reminded me that the headline stories that I 84 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:30,719 Speaker 1: bring you, and that I share, the statistics that we 85 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: discuss on this show and that I write about, there 86 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: are real people that are attached to this, and sometimes 87 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: I can get so caught up in the battle, in 88 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: the fight and in names like Ron DeSantis and Matt 89 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,039 Speaker 1: Gates and Ted Cruz and Marjory Taylor Green and the 90 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 1: rest of the band of fucking idiots that I forget 91 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: about the real people and the real consequences and the 92 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: real fighters that are on the ground that while I 93 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: get to and maybe some of you do too, live 94 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: in for right now, what is considered a safe haven 95 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: of a blue state. For right now, I will reiterate 96 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: that that there are too many that wake up every 97 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: day in these red states and they don't know whether 98 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: or not their marriages are going to be nullified. They 99 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: don't know whether or not their children are going to 100 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: be taken away, they don't know whether or not they're 101 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: going to need to figure out how to fundraise and 102 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: how to move so that they can get to a 103 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: place of safety and literally find asylum. I am not 104 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 1: talking about people crossing the border in Mexico. I am 105 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: talking about LGBTQ people having to cross borders, state borders 106 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: in order to find asylum within America. It is absolutely 107 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: fucking crazy. But there are incredibly courageous people that are 108 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: fighting the hard fight, face to face, toe to toe 109 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: with these horrible right wing bigots, right that we get 110 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: to shut our computer off and shut our minds off 111 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: and not bother with, but that they have to deal 112 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: with on a regular basis. And so when I was 113 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: sitting at this gala and listening to these stories and 114 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: listening to Stacy Stevenson, the CEO of Family Equality, I 115 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: said to myself, you know, I really need to remind 116 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: myself that we are fighting for real people, and that 117 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: each of us, inside of our own communities can find 118 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:55,079 Speaker 1: the local organizations, the grassroots organizations, go through the national ones, 119 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: if that's all you know, and get to the local 120 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: folks to feel like you we're doing something, to actually 121 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: be doing something. It is important for us to stay informed, absolutely, 122 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,199 Speaker 1: but it is also incredibly important for us to turn 123 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: that information into action and into purpose. And it isn't 124 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: okay for us just to sit back and rage and say, well, 125 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: I just feel helpless because there are people that are 126 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 1: on the ground that could use your talent, use your treasure, 127 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: and use your time to be able to go toe 128 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: to toe with these bigots that show no sign of 129 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 1: slowing down. And so Monday night was a wonderful reminder 130 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: for me to be able to continue the work that 131 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: I am doing and really focus on the people and 132 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: the spirit and the fight and how people are doing 133 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: so in a joyful way. Right. That it isn't oh, 134 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: let us pause and do this work and then go 135 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 1: to this you know gala and dress up and what 136 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: have you know. It is to remind ourselves that being 137 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: in joy is so part of our resistance. And somebody 138 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: in the room that the Family Equality gala was talking 139 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: about queer joy and that's one of the themes that we 140 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 1: are going to be talking about next month all month 141 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: during Pride Month on WOKF is queer joy right? That 142 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,720 Speaker 1: you can't ban that right, You can't ban people's happiness, 143 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: you can't ban joy, right, And so how do we 144 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: do this work in community where we can have safety 145 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: in numbers, where we can help others feel seen right 146 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 1: and be heard. And so it was just a beautiful 147 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: reminder on my night of who we are all fighting 148 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: for and what we are fighting against, and I just 149 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: encourage each and every one of you if you don't 150 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: have money, but you have time, if you don't have time, 151 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: but you have some talent to be able to look 152 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: and see what is going on in your community, and 153 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 1: you know, how can you help in these red states? 154 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: And give you your time, your money and just connect 155 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: with folks so that they know that they are not 156 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:36,320 Speaker 1: fighting alone, because I believe that there are more of 157 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: us than there are them, and we just need to 158 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: be activated in our power and remind ourselves that we 159 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: are not powerless. The second event that I had the ability, 160 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:55,079 Speaker 1: the great honor, the great honor to be able to host, 161 00:11:55,559 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: was the Misfoundation's fiftieth Anniversary of Visionary Women, and I 162 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 1: serve on the Misfoundation board. I've served on the board 163 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: for a few years now. I've been involved with MISS 164 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: for at least the last seven, but I think that 165 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: I have been on the board for at least the 166 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 1: last three or four. And the Misfoundation is an extraordinary 167 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: organization that again is really about is really about advancing right, 168 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: is about building women's collective power in the United States 169 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: to advance equity and justice for all, And this is 170 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: what they say on their website. We achieve our mission 171 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: by investing in and strengthening the capacity of women led 172 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: movements to advance meaningful, social, cultural, and economic change in 173 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 1: the lives of women. And it is an incredible, incredible 174 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: organism that believes in creating a safe world where power 175 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: and possibility are not limited by gender, race, class, sexual orientation, 176 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: gender identity, disability, or age. We believe that equity and 177 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: inclusion are the cornerstones of a true democracy, in which 178 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:27,199 Speaker 1: worth and dignity of every person, of every person are valued. 179 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: And so in this room filled with some of the 180 00:13:32,679 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: most brilliant, beautiful, thoughtful, brave women and non binary people 181 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: who are leading, leading in places like Texas, in places 182 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 1: like Tennessee, it was truly truly inspiring. And particularly I 183 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: want to talk about two of the young women who 184 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to shake their hands, and it 185 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: was really, really, really something you know too often, right, 186 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: we talk about Generation Z, Right, we talk about Generation 187 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 1: Z and the fact that oh, these young people they're 188 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: just on TikTok, They're just on this, they're just on 189 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 1: that they're lazy, they don't want to work, blah blah blah, 190 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: blah blah. And the truth is, ain't none of that 191 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: true because I met too extraordinary Generation Z leaders. And 192 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:54,239 Speaker 1: if we just look at what has been happening in Tennessee, 193 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: is what has been happening in Florida, with these young 194 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: people walking out of schools, them taking over state houses, 195 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: with them saying that they are not going to go 196 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: quietly into the good good night. They are not going 197 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: to surrender their civil liberties and this democracy into the 198 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: hands of people who would rather see them shot to 199 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 1: death with AR fifteen's in their classrooms right than they 200 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: would see them safe, see them with books that are 201 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: not banned, and live in a gun free, a gun 202 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: violence free society. And so the first young woman that 203 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to meet was Olivia Juliana. And 204 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: Olivia Juliana is if you recall last year when Olivia 205 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: Juliana went on social media to talk about the abortion 206 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: bands and talk about the rollback of Robi Wade, and 207 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: and that Gates, a representative of Congress, used his platform 208 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: to fat shame her, to body shame her, and fat 209 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: shame her and say all of these despicable things, this 210 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: grown ass man to this young woman. And what did 211 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: Olivia do? She turned around and she ended up raising 212 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: two million dollars for REPO rights and justice. And so 213 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: she was honored last night at the MS Foundation for 214 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: her extraordinary, extraordinary work. And I just when I listened 215 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: to her speech, I was so in awe. I got 216 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: up on stage and I said, I want to live 217 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: in her America. I want to live in an America, 218 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: she said, where I don't want to be equal to men, 219 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:05,679 Speaker 1: because I don't want the power to oppress and disregard 220 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:10,479 Speaker 1: and overlook and command with force. I want to create 221 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: a better future for all of us, regardless of gender. 222 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: She talked about shared power. She talked about her passion 223 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: and desire to lead, and particularly to do so in 224 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,360 Speaker 1: her state of Texas, and I just I gotta tell 225 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: you that I was absolutely absolutely taken aback by her 226 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 1: brilliance and her fortitude and her just conviction about who 227 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: she is, who this generation is, and what they are 228 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: coming for. And it made me feel like, oh, we're 229 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: going to be okay, right, because this next generation coming 230 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 1: up behind us and the one coming up behind them, 231 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: they are so fucking activated. It is a gorgeous thing 232 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: to see. The next young woman that I had the 233 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: ability to meet was Rebecca Breezenhoff. Rebecca Breezehoff went viral 234 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,880 Speaker 1: when she was I think around between twelve and sixteen 235 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: years old, where she was holding up a sign at 236 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:38,679 Speaker 1: a march that said, I'm the scary trans kid that 237 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 1: Republicans are trying to warn you about. She is fierce. 238 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: She is using her platform and her talents to build 239 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:56,879 Speaker 1: camaraderie and community in her school, in her community, and 240 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: her neighborhood. She has become an outspoken activists on trans kids' 241 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:10,479 Speaker 1: rights and trans kids want nothing more than to just 242 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: be kids. It was extraordinary because, honestly, I couldn't tell 243 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: you a time that when I was there ripe young 244 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: age having the ability to articulate my power and my 245 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 1: purpose and my path in the way that they did. 246 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 1: There were so many beautiful moments from last night, as 247 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: well as being able to meet with, not meet with, 248 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 1: but actually meet and take a photo with the Duchess 249 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: of Sussex, Megan markle But she was honored last night 250 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: for her work on racism and sexism and mental health, 251 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: and to listen to her beautiful speech and words about 252 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 1: again the power of being able to use your platform 253 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:12,359 Speaker 1: turn your pain into power wherever you are. Just it 254 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 1: hit the room in so many different ways, and so 255 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,959 Speaker 1: again I encourage you that if you're interested in learning 256 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,679 Speaker 1: more about the misfoundation about family equality, that head to 257 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: each of their sites. If you're looking and you're finding 258 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: yourself in this moment of great turmoil, just you know, 259 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 1: spinning out of control. Everything is bad, everywhere is bad, 260 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,640 Speaker 1: and just wanting to turn everything off. Sure you can 261 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 1: turn off the news, but tune into something good. Tune 262 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: in to the people that are actually on the ground fighting, 263 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: look for those good stories and lift them up, and 264 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 1: look to be a part of taking real action and 265 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:57,959 Speaker 1: not just being a part of the reactionary tornadoes of 266 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 1: social media. Because I think that what I experienced this 267 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,760 Speaker 1: week was just a re energizing that I didn't know 268 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: that I needed to be in community and to be 269 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: in celebration with people who are really truly doing things 270 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: that are just admirable and necessary, and that we are 271 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 1: not alone in our outrage, and we are not alone 272 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 1: thinking that no one else is woke. Because I met 273 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: hundreds of them over the last two days and it 274 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 1: has been an extraordinary reigniting of a fire, the fire 275 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: of possibility that I wanted to share with all of 276 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: you today. So do make sure to check those organizations out. 277 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: And folks, we've almost made it to the end of 278 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: the week and bore, do I have a fucking Friday 279 00:21:53,640 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: for you. It's coming later. That is it for me today, 280 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: dear friends on woke a app. As always, power to the 281 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power yet woke and 282 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.