WEBVTT - Unrelenting Deluge of Hate 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.480 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:20.000 me your girl Danielle Moody, back in effect after such 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.880 a long time away. I've missed each and every one 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.280 of you, and for those of you that are new 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:30.840 with us here on, iHeart welcome. I'm so excited to 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.680 be on this new platform, and for all of you 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.440 who have been on this joining with me since the 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:41.440 very beginning, I just can't wait for this next chapter. So, folks, 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:44.760 it seems that the entire time that I've been away, 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.240 trying to get my thoughts together, you know, get a 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:53.800 little bit of peace, taken some books and some walks. Unfortunately, 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.840 the world did not decide to take a break with me, 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.760 and things have been spinning out of fuck in control 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:06.120 from the unrelenting amount of anti trans bills that we 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.880 have seen, to Rondascentis and his high heel wearing self 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:15.559 just trying to become I guess young Mussolini, to the 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.800 potential of Donald Trump being indicted with news coming out 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.600 of the Manhattan District Attorney's office. I mean, there's just 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.199 so much, so friends, I'm excited to be back. Let's 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:32.760 dive in, all right. Starting off, I have to say 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:38.080 that what we have seen over the last month plus 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:43.520 since we were together with regards to the anti trans, 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:50.600 anti lgbt Q bills have been absolutely crazy. And I 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:55.800 say that because, you know, folks, I am not kidding 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.240 myself when I thought that after the passage of marriage 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:07.200 equality that there would somehow be this slow move, continued 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:12.120 move towards progress that we would feel right like the 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:18.240 change that people have fought for since Stonewall, to watching 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:24.000 the White House turn into a rainbow after the passage 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:29.760 of marriage equality by the Supreme Court. After we told 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:33.119 young kids that things would get better, folks, I did 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.799 not think that I would be here. I got to 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.040 be honest with you. I didn't think that things would 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.919 be perfect. But I sure as fuck did not think 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.400 that we would be going backwards at the speed and 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.560 at the rate at which we are right now. Where 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:55.560 it stands, dear friends, we have over three hundred pieces 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.760 of legislation that have been offered up to ban everything 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:05.440 from drag story time to drag performances in public to 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:12.520 gender affirming care to the criminalization of parents who want 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.960 to access gender affirming care for their children that are 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.240 under the age of eighteen. I mean I got to 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:24.360 tell you that it's terrifying. I have friends who have 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:28.160 made the decision to move out of the state of 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:32.120 Texas to move to Washington, d C. I know other 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:36.440 people that are making decisions who have the privilege, right, 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:41.320 Because let's be real, when we kind of make flipping comments, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.400 you know, for those of us that happen too currently, right, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.280 because it doesn't mean that it's forever. And I'll get 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.280 to the case of abortion that is happening right now 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:56.480 in Texas that has national implications. But when we look 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.960 and we say to people, well, why are you living 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.160 in Mississippi, Why are you living in Arkansas? Why are 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.200 you living in Tennessee? Just move? Let's understand that we 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.680 are saying that comment and it's dripping in privilege and 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:14.520 classism because there's only a select group of people, right 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.840 that can look at their significant others, or look at 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.159 their family, or look at themselves and say, you know what, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.120 I have the money, I have the resources to pick 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.440 up and relocate my entire life, leave my family, leave 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.120 my friends, leave all that I know, and go pick 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.160 up and start someplace else. Right, So let's understand that 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.640 when we make these comments, right, it's like looking at 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:44.279 the people back during you know, terrible natural disasters that 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.280 we know have gotten worse. But it's like looking at 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.520 the people who live in Tornado Valley or who live 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.360 in hurricane places, and we say, well, why don't you 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.560 just move because it's not that fucking easy. Why didn't 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.719 you just leave when they said that the hurricane was coming, Well, 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:02.800 because that takes resource. Right, So let's just make clear 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.160 that when we say those comments, and I have definitely 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.960 said them and tweeted them before, that I understand right 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.760 that not everybody can move that way. And so when 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.640 we're looking at these pieces of legislation that all right 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.479 oriented out of that Petrie dish that we call Florida, 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:27.120 which began last year this time with the passage of 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:33.520 they Don't Say Gay Bill, that we know that every 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:38.520 Republican governor is acting like a copycat of Rhonda Santis 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.480 is trying to compete right on the national stage who 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:46.760 can be the worst. And these barrage of bills are 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:51.440 set to do nothing more, dear friends, then to make 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.640 us feel like the progress that we have made, the 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:58.880 progress that we have fought for, is done and gone with. 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:04.840 And so either we just lose ourselves in hopelessness, or 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.560 we begin to figure out a pathway forward. Because here's 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.159 the thing. I was talking to my therapist the other day, 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.919 and when I'm in therapy these days, you know, I 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:21.200 talk about a lot of my feelings of being kind 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:26.080 of trapped in an existential crisis. Right that. You know, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:29.880 there are some people who will enter into therapy and 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.160 they learn that the stories that they're telling themselves are not, 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:38.960 you know, really aligned with reality. With me, however, right 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.440 doing this work, working in politics, working on the front 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:47.680 lines for social justice in a media capacity, that what 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.599 I am actually facing and what I'm talking about every 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.400 day is real, right, Like I'm not making up three 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.280 hundred pieces of legislation, Right, I'm not making it up 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.280 in my head. That you have people like Rhonda sand Fitz, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:04.160 Marjorie Taylor Green, Paul Gosar, Matt Gates, and others that 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:08.800 are using language like Mike Knowles did at Sepack a 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:13.560 couple of weeks ago when he said that transgenderism needs 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:18.400 to be quote eradicated. Right when you have people who 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.600 are in positions of power or have proximity to power 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.400 that once they do have the White House back once 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:31.239 they do have the Senate back that their eradication plan 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:37.679 can be operationalized. That's not me being chicken little. That's 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.720 not me, you know, making up stories. That's me taking 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:45.240 the facts of what it is that these people are 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.680 articulating and saying, oh shit, if we don't hold on 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.760 to the White House in twenty twenty four, if we 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:57.640 don't expand the Senate, right, if we don't take back 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:03.880 the House, that the eradication solution that the Republicans are offering, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:07.280 and they're starting because I want folks to understand two. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.520 And this is the piece in the piece that I 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.760 wrote in the Daily Beast last week entitled Democrats need 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.520 to fight harder as the GOP tries to eradicate transpeople. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:25.920 And what I said in this piece is this eradicate right, 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:33.480 eradicate What does that word actually mean? And this is 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.200 what I want people to understand. To be clear. Quote, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:43.800 the definition of eradicate is to remove or destroy entirely. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.160 So when Michael Knows says this, and by the way, folks, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.520 he said this to a room that was filled with applause, 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:59.960 This is not me saying, oh, well, they probably don't 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.480 really mean it, right. This is me sitting down with 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:09.520 my therapist being like, I am having trouble mustering up 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:16.720 consistency around my joy and ease because I feel like 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.960 the walls they're closing in on me as a black 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:22.719 queer woman, as an out black queer woman, as an 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:26.360 out black queer woman with a bit of a platform 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:33.360 that she uses to advance equity and justice. Right, So, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.800 what I say about this terminology, what I say about 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:45.600 these bills, is this terminology like this is used for 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:50.680 one purpose to separate people from their humanity. Why, to 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:58.120 normalize brutality, to make a violence legislatively or physically not 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:03.640 only justifiable but necessary. When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:08.079 referred to the Jewish people as quote vermin that needed 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:12.640 to be quote eradicated from Germany, they were able to 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:19.280 convince enough of the population that their neighbors were subhuman. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:25.680 So I want you to understand and feel community in 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.120 the fact that you are not alone, if you, like me, 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:37.400 are struggling these days with finding your north star, finding 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:46.000 your sense of hope, your sense of light, when every 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:49.720 single headline, every single alert that's coming across on your 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:54.920 phone is one of something else that is bad, that 0:10:55.120 --> 0:11:03.319 was just past. But here's the thing that I want 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:14.479 folks to understand is that it is time, dear friends, 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:19.599 it is time for all Americans, whether you know a 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.079 trans person, whether you are a member of the LGBTQ 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:30.200 community or not, to wake the fuck up. Because what 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:34.400 I close and write in this piece and the Daily 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:42.120 Beast is this Republicans are laying out their plans. First 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:46.200 they come for the transgender community, but because a majority 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.440 of Americans don't know a person who is trans, they 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:56.240 do nothing. Eventually they come for you. It's time we 0:11:56.559 --> 0:12:00.240 as Americans wake up and realize the end to me, 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:05.880 to freedom and our collective humanity is within and the 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:12.520 war has already begun. That's the truth, folks, those are 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:18.760 the facts. This for the Republican Party has never been 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:24.679 about protecting children. It has never been about the concern 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:29.840 around children. It has been the concern around the consolidation 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:35.360 of their power and the ability to weaponize government to 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:44.160 serve their own ends. You go for the most marginalized 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.480 and vulnerable community because when we look at reports, I 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:52.559 think less than twenty percent of the American population actually 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:56.320 know somebody who is trance. You see, you go for 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.480 the community that people still have a hard time placing 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:04.760 their fingers are and you you dehumanize them because it's 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:11.480 easy because most likely over the holidays, right at your 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:15.520 kitchen table, you're not sitting across the table from somebody 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.680 who is transgender nonconforming. But I want to tell you this, folks, 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:25.920 it shouldn't fucking matter. It shouldn't matter whether you know someone, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.839 whether it is a person that is inside of your 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.800 own family, in your own classroom, next to you, on 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:36.439 the job, sharing a cubicle with you, they are a person. 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:41.240 They are human, And what we know to be true 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:45.200 is that this is a tried and true tactic. I 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:52.319 talk to you about Hitler because when people are feeling 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.160 the weight of their lives, when they feel like the 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.440 walls are closing in and they are drowning, and they 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:04.680 are looked for anyone to blame to say, so long 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:10.160 as that person suffers, then I will be doing better. 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:18.360 The reality is that Democrats need to do more and 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.480 show people the true face of the Republican Party that 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:31.920 is full on anti trans, anti Semitic, anti black, anti woman. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:38.600 Everything that they are pro is about regression. You know 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:45.160 why they went ahead and reverse Rob Wade because they 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.600 don't want women and people with uterousist to have the 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:51.120 autonomy over their bodies. Because guess what reports are coming out, 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:55.080 folks that younger generations are not getting married and they're 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:58.480 not having kids at the same rate. So let's blame 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.360 the books. Let's blame wokeism instead of the fact that 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:07.800 capitalism only works for a certain few. So let's remove 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.000 the books and then call that freedom. I don't know 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.360 about you, but I don't know a free democratic society 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:19.400 that jail's librarians and targets schools and targets private industry 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:25.120 for stating their opinion on the states where their headquarters are. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.440 The way that Rhnda Santis is going after Disney. This 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.520 isn't about fucking freedom. You got Marjorie Taylor Green talking 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.160 about wokeism is being shoved down my throat. I say, 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:40.640 turn off the fucking television. If you choose to want 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.520 to live your life like an Austrians, if you believe 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.880 that freedom looks like something that should only be given 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.840 and taken by those that are white, that are cists, 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:55.400 that are hetero, that are Christian, then you shouldn't live 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.960 in these United States because our founding may be fucked up. 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.680 But the work that we have been doing to perfect 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:09.240 our union each and every generation is work worth doing. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:15.520 But understand, folks, that we have had people by different names, 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:21.760 but of the same white, angry, angry, rageful faces pushing 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:27.680 against progress since the beginning of time, literally since the 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.720 formation of what we know to be the United States. 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.040 There is always, as my therapist is trying to move 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:39.800 me out of my existential downward spiral, there is always 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.640 going to be polarity in life. The yang and the yang, 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:48.040 and the dark and the light. That is just what 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:54.960 it means to exist. We're not looking for a utopia. 0:16:55.080 --> 0:17:00.600 We're looking for equanimity. We're looking for balance. But my 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:06.240 feeling is that what happens when Republicans and I far 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:13.320 right christio fascist agenda begins to wait on the scale, folks, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.760 then the light and the love and the goodness and 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.000 what is just needs to put just as much weight, 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:28.280 if not more, on that scale as well. We don't 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:33.960 have the luxury, dear friends, to rescind our energy and 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.600 our time and say, oh no, maybe next time I'll 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:41.639 go get him, because we are at a point, folks, 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:46.840 where those next times are not given. They want us 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.720 to believe that they are gaining steam and momentum, and 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.840 they are. But I will tell you that the reason 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:57.760 why this is happening is because there are more people 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:03.399 that are fucking woke and conscious to social injustices to 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:09.520 the layered crises than have ever been before in this 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:15.720 country and globally. People have become critical thinkers that are 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:22.120 asking questions about why we've been operating under this arbitrary 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.200 set of societal norms that actually don't feel like they fit. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:32.920 The shit is not couture. It's like a cheap fucking suit, right, 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.439 So we talk about, oh, well, a woman is a 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.200 woman and a man is a man, says who ask yourself? 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:44.080 Who benefits from the lies that we've been fed. Adulthood, 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.520 dear friends, is about on learning all of the things 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.720 that we have been taught. We have been brainwashed to 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.800 understand the reason why the right is pushing in the 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:59.040 way that they are because more people are questioning. That's 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:03.040 why they want to move the books, folks. That's why 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:06.120 they want to erase history. That's why they want to 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:13.200 put their clause into curriculum, because an educated populace is 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:19.000 a dangerous populace to the status fucking quo. So if 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.960 that doesn't show you that we are winning, right, because 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.960 let me tell you something, people don't steal and take 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.480 things that are of no value. That's why they try 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.000 and steal your vote. That's why they're trying to steal 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:38.280 your books. That's why they are trying to steal our joy. 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:50.760 Our job as we march forward together is a reclamation project, folks, 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.760 because I'm telling you this show, the next iteration of 0:19:55.880 --> 0:20:00.760 wok F is not about marinating in the misery. It 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:06.040 is about recognizing the polarity, recognizing that, yes, I'm going 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.560 to be honest about all the dark shit because there 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.320 is a lot of it, and I'm also going to 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:14.959 be honest about all of the light, about all of 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:19.439 the good because we cannot get stuck in one place 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:24.560 or the other. We have got to be nimble, to 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:28.240 be pliable, to be expansive in the way that we 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:32.560 think and in the way that we dream, because without 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:37.800 the ability to have ease, without the ability to actually dream, 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:41.639 we cannot think past the bullshit that we are in 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:45.600 right now. And we have got to be able to 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:53.119 think past it otherwise we can't actualize it. So this 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:59.320 is a window into what woke a f in our 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.960 new chapter, in our new home of iHeart will be. 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.879 It'll be about holding the both and about asking the 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:13.360 critical questions, about unpacking what we don't know, and calling 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:18.200 in our friends, our academics, our analysts, our authors, our 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:23.000 change makers, our activists, our artists, our musicians to help 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:29.600 make sense out of all of the fucking nonsense. Because 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.639 I know that there is a strong desire to want 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:39.520 to tune out, because everything is really overwhelming. And that's 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:41.920 why you have to have the ability to be able 0:21:42.000 --> 0:21:46.040 to pick and to choose. And I'm so happy that 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:52.639 I'm one of the choices that you make. That is 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:57.960 it for me today, Dear friends on woke f as always, 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.399 power to the people and to all the people. Power, 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:04.760 get woke and stay woke as fuck.