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A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists.   In this two-part series of Oakland Asian Cultural Center's “Let's Talk” podcast Eastside Arts Alliance is featured. Elena Serrano and Susanne Takehara, two of the founders of Eastside Arts Alliance, and staff member Aubrey Pandori will discuss the history that led to the formation of Eastside and their deep work around multi-racial solidarity.   Transcript: Let's Talk podcast episode 9  [00:00:00] Emma: My name is Emma Grover, and I am the program and communications coordinator at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, known also as OACC. Today we are sharing the ninth episode of our Let's Talk Audio Series. Let's Talk is part of OACC'S Open Ears for Change Initiative, which was established in 2020. With this series, our goals are to address anti-Blackness in the APIA communities, discuss the effects of colorism and racism in a safe space, and highlight Black and Asian solidarity and community efforts specifically in the Oakland Chinatown area. Today's episode is a round table discussion with Elena Serrano, Susanne Takahara, and Aubrey Pandori of Eastside Arts Alliance.  [00:00:53] Aubrey: Hello everybody. This is Aubrey from Eastside Arts Alliance, and I am back here for the second part of our Let's Talk with Suzanne and Elena. We're gonna be talking about what else Eastside is doing right now in the community. The importance of art in activism, and the importance of Black and Asian solidarity in Oakland and beyond.  So I am the community archivist here at Eastside Arts Alliances. I run CARP, which stands for Community Archival Resource Project. It is a project brought on by one of our co-founders, Greg Morozumi. And it is primarily a large chunk of his own collection from over the years, but it is a Third World archive with many artifacts, journals, pens, newspapers from social movements in the Bay Area and beyond, international social movements from the 1960s forward. We do a few different programs through CARP. I sometimes have archival exhibitions. We do public engagement through panels, community archiving days. We collaborate with other community archives like the Bay Area Lesbian Archives and Freedom Archives here in Oakland and the Bay Area. And we are also working on opening up our Greg Morozumi Reading Room in May. So that is an opportunity for people to come in and relax, read books, host reading groups, or discussions with their community. We're also gonna be opening a lending system so people are able to check out books to take home and read. There'll be library cards coming soon for that and other fun things to come.  [00:02:44] So Suzanne, what are you working on at Eastside right now? [00:02:48] Susanne: Well, for the past like eight or nine years I've been working with Jose Ome Navarrete and Debbie Kajiyama of NAKA Dance Theater to produce Live Arts and Resistance (LAIR), which is a Dance Theater Performance series. We've included many artists who, some of them started out here at Eastside and then grew to international fame, such as Dohee Lee, and then Amara Tabor-Smith has graced our stages for several years with House Full of Black Women. This year we're working with Joti Singh on Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink, a piece she choreographed, and shot in film and it's a multimedia kind of experience. We've worked with Cat Brooks and many emerging other artists who are emerging or from all over, mostly Oakland, but beyond. It's a place where people can just experiment and not worry about a lot of the regulations that bigger theaters have. Using the outside, the inside, the walls, the ceiling sometimes. It's been an exciting experience to work with so many different artists in our space.  [00:04:03] Elena: And I have been trying to just get the word out to as many different folks who can help sustain the organization as possible about the importance of the work we do here. So my main job with Eastside has been raising money. But what we're doing now is looking at cultural centers like Eastside, like Oakland Asian Cultural Center, like the Malonga Casquelord Center, like Black Cultural Zone, like the Fruitvale Plaza and CURJ's work. These really integral cultural hubs. In neighborhoods and how important those spaces are.  [00:04:42] So looking at, you know, what we bring to the table with the archives, which serve the artistic community, the organizing community. There's a big emphasis, and we had mentioned some of this in the first episode around knowing the history and context of how we got here so we can kind of maneuver our way out. And that's where books and movies and posters and artists who have been doing this work for so long before us come into play in the archives and then having it all manifest on the stage through programs like LAIR, where theater artists and dancers and musicians, and it's totally multimedia, and there's so much information like how to keep those types of places going is really critical.  [00:05:28] And especially now when public dollars have mostly been cut, like the City of Oakland hardly gave money to the arts anyway, and they tried to eliminate the entire thing. Then they're coming back with tiny bits of money. But we're trying to take the approach like, please, let's look at where our tax dollars go. What's important in a neighborhood? What has to stay and how can we all work together to make that happen?  [00:05:52] Susanne: And I want to say that our Cultural Center theater is a space that is rented out very affordably to not just artists, but also many organizations that are doing Movement work, such as Palestinian Youth Movement, Bala, Mujeres Unidas Y Activas, QT at Cafe Duo Refugees, United Haiti Action Committee, Freedom Archives, Oakland Sin Fronteras, Center for CPE, and many artists connected groups.  [00:06:22] Aubrey: Yeah, I mean, we do so much more than what's in the theater and Archive too, we do a lot of different youth programs such as Girl Project, Neighborhood Arts, where we do public murals. One of our collective members, Angie and Leslie, worked on Paint the Town this past year. We also have our gallery in between the Cultural Center and Bandung Books, our bookstore, which houses our archive. We are celebrating our 25th anniversary exhibition.  [00:06:54] Susanne: And one of the other exhibits we just wrapped up was Style Messengers, an exhibit of graffiti work from Dime, Spy and Surge, Bay Area artists and Surge is from New York City, kind of illustrating the history of graffiti and social commentary.  [00:07:30] Elena: We are in this studio here recording and this is the studio of our youth music program Beats Flows, and I love we're sitting here with this portrait of Amiri Baraka, who had a lot to say to us all the time. So it's so appropriate that when the young people are in the studio, they have this elder, magician, poet activist looking at him, and then when you look out the window, you see Sister Souljah, Public Enemy, and then a poster we did during, when Black Lives Matter came out, we produced these posters that said Black Power Matters, and we sent them all over the country to different sister cultural centers and I see them pop up somewhere sometimes and people's zooms when they're home all over the country. It's really amazing and it just really shows when you have a bunch of artists and poets and radical imagination, people sitting around, you know, what kind of things come out of it. [00:08:31] Aubrey: I had one of those Black Power Matters posters in my kitchen window when I lived in Chinatown before I worked here, or visited here actually. I don't even know how I acquired it, but it just ended up in my house somehow.  [00:08:45] Elena: That's perfect. I remember when we did, I mean we still do, Malcolm X Jazz Festival and it was a young Chicana student who put the Jazz Festival poster up and she was like, her parents were like, why is Malcolm X? What has that got to do with anything? And she was able to just tell the whole story about Malcolm believing that people, communities of color coming together  is a good thing. It's a powerful thing. And it was amazing how the festival and the youth and the posters can start those kind of conversations.  [00:09:15] Aubrey: Malcolm X has his famous quote that says “Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.” And Elena, we think a lot about Malcolm X and his message here at Eastside about culture, but also about the importance of art. Can we speak more about the importance of art in our activism?  [00:09:35] Elena: Well, that was some of the things we were touching on around radical imagination and the power of the arts. But where I am going again, is around this power of the art spaces, like the power of spaces like this, and to be sure that it's not just a community center, it's a cultural center, which means we invested in sound good, sound good lighting, sprung floors. You know, just like the dignity and respect that the artists and our audiences have, and that those things are expensive but critical. So I feel like that's, it's like to advocate for this type of space where, again, all those groups that we listed off that have come in here and there's countless more. They needed a space to reach constituencies, you know, and how important that is. It's like back in the civil rights organizing the Black church was that kind of space, very important space where those kind of things came together. People still go to church and there's still churches, but there's a space for cultural centers and to have that type of space where artists and activists can come together and be more powerful together.  [00:10:50] Aubrey: I think art is a really powerful way of reaching people. [00:10:54] Elena: You know, we're looking at this just because I, being in the development end, we put together a proposal for the Environmental Protection Agency before Donald (Trump) took it over. We were writing about how important popular education is, so working with an environmental justice organization who has tons of data about how impacted communities like East Oakland and West Oakland are suffering from all of this, lots of science. But what can we, as an arts group, how can we produce a popular education around those things? And you know, how can we say some of those same messages in murals and zines, in short films, in theater productions, you know, but kind of embracing that concept of popular education. So we're, you know, trying to counter some of the disinformation that's being put out there too with some real facts, but in a way that, you know, folks can grasp onto and, and get.  [00:11:53] Aubrey: We recently had a LAIR production called Sky Watchers, and it was a beautiful musical opera from people living in the Tenderloin, and it was very personal. You were able to hear about people's experiences with poverty, homelessness, and addiction in a way that was very powerful. How they were able to express what they were going through and what they've lost, what they've won, everything that has happened in their lives in a very moving way. So I think art, it's, it's also a way for people to tell their stories and we need to be hearing those stories. We don't need to be hearing, I think what a lot of Hollywood is kind of throwing out, which is very white, Eurocentric beauty standards and a lot of other things that doesn't reflect our neighborhood and doesn't reflect our community. So yeah, art is a good way for us to not only tell our stories, but to get the word out there, what we want to see changed.  So our last point that we wanna talk about today is the importance of Black and Asian solidarity in Oakland. How has that been a history in Eastside, Suzanne?  [00:13:09] Susanne: I feel like Eastside is all about Third World solidarity from the very beginning. And Yuri Kochiyama is one of our mentors through Greg Morozumi and she was all about that. So I feel like everything we do brings together Black, Asian and brown folks. [00:13:27] Aubrey: Black and Asian solidarity is especially important here at Eastside Arts Alliance. It is a part of our history. We have our bookstore called Bandung Books for a very specific reason, to give some history there. So the Bandung Conference happened in 1955 in Indonesia, and it was the first large-scale meeting of Asian and African countries. Most of which were newly independent from colonialism. They aimed to promote Afro-Asian cooperation and rejection of colonialism and imperialism in all nations. And it really set the stage for revolutionary solidarity between colonized and oppressed people, letting way for many Third Worlds movements internationally and within the United States.  [00:14:14] Eastside had an exhibition called Bandung to the Bay: Black and Asian Solidarity at Oakland Asian Cultural Center the past two years in 2022 and 2023 for their Lunar New Year and Black History Month celebrations. It highlighted the significance of that conference and also brought to light what was happening in the United States from the 1960s to present time that were creating and building solidarity between Black and Asian communities. The exhibition highlighted a number of pins, posters, and newspapers from the Black Liberation Movement and Asian American movement, as well as the broader Third World movement. The Black Panthers were important points of inspiration in Oakland, in the Bay Area in getting Asian and Pacific Islanders in the diaspora, and in their homelands organized.  [00:15:07] We had the adoption of the Black Panthers 10-point program to help shape revolutionary demands and principles for people's own communities like the Red Guard in San Francisco's Chinatown, IWK in New York's Chinatown and even the Polynesian Panthers in New Zealand. There were so many different organizations that came out of the Black Panther party right here in Oakland. And we honor that by having so many different 10-point programs up in our theater too. We have the Brown Berets, Red Guard Party, Black Panthers, of course, the American Indian Movement as well. So we're always thinking about that kind of organizing and movement building that has been tied here for many decades now.  [00:15:53] Elena: I heard that the term Third World came from the Bandung conference. [00:15:58] Aubrey: Yes, I believe that's true.  [00:16:01] Elena: I wanted to say particularly right now, the need for specifically Black Asian solidarity is just, there's so much misinformation around China coming up now, especially as China takes on a role of a superpower in the world. And it's really up to us to provide some background, some other information, some truth telling, so folks don't become susceptible to that kind of misinformation. And whatever happens when it comes from up high and we hate China, it reflects in Chinatown. And that's the kind of stereotyping that because we have been committed to Third World solidarity and truth telling for so long, that that's where we can step in and really, you know, make a difference, we hope. I think the main point is that we need to really listen to each other, know what folks are going through, know that we have more in common than we have separating us, especially in impacted Black, brown, Asian communities in Oakland. We have a lot to do.  [00:17:07] Aubrey: To keep in contact with Eastside Arts Alliance, you can find us at our website: eastside arts alliance.org, and our Instagrams at Eastside Cultural and at Bandung Books to stay connected with our bookstore and CArP, our archive, please come down to Eastside Arts Alliance and check out our many events coming up in the new year. We are always looking for donations and volunteers and just to meet new friends and family.  [00:17:36] Susanne: And with that, we're gonna go out with Jon Jang's “The Pledge of Black Asian Alliance,” produced in 2018.  [00:18:29] Emma: This was a round table discussion at the Eastside Arts Alliance Cultural Center with staff and guests: Elena, Suzanne and Aubrey.  Let's Talk Audio series is one of OACC'S Open Ears for Change projects and as part of the Stop the Hate Initiative with funds provided by the California Department of Social Services in consultation with the commission of Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs to administer $110 million allocated over three years to community organizations. These organizations provide direct services to victims of hate and their families and offer prevention and intervention services to tackle hate in our communities. This episode is a production of the Oakland Asian Cultural Center with engineering, editing, and sound design by Thick Skin Media.  [00:19:18] A special thanks to Jon Jang for permission to use his original music. And thank you for listening.  [00:19:32] Music: Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another. Don't become too narrow, live fully, meet all kinds of people. You'll learn something from everyone. Follow what you feel in your heart. OACC Podcast [00:00:00] Emma: My name is Emma Grover, and I am the program and communications coordinator at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, known also as OACC. Today we are sharing the eighth episode of our Let's Talk audio series. Let's talk as part of OACC's Open Ears for Change Initiative, which was established in 2020. With this series, our goals are to address anti-blackness in the APIA communities, discuss the effects of colorism and racism in a safe space, and highlight black and Asian solidarity and community efforts specifically in the Oakland Chinatown area.   [00:00:43] Today's guests are Elena Serrano and Suzanne Takahara, co-founders of Eastside Arts Alliance. Welcome Elena and Suzanne, thank you so much for joining today's episode. And so just to kick things off, wanna hear about how was Eastside Arts Alliance started?   [00:01:01] Susanne: Well, it was really Greg Morozumi who had a longstanding vision of creating a cultural center in East Oakland, raised in Oakland, an organizer in the Bay Area, LA, and then in New York City where he met Yuri Kochiyama, who became a lifelong mentor.   [00:01:17] Greg was planning with one of Yuri's daughters, Ichi Kochiyama to move her family to Oakland and help him open a cultural center here. I met Greg in the early nineties and got to know him during the January, 1993 “No Justice, No Peace” show at Pro Arts in Oakland. The first Bay Graffiti exhibition in the gallery. Greg organized what became a massive anti-police brutality graffiti installation created by the TDDK crew. Graffiti images and messages covered the walls and ceiling complete with police barricades. It was a response to the Rodney King protests. The power of street art busted indoors and blew apart the gallery with political messaging. After that, Greg recruited Mike Dream, Spy, and other TDK writers to help teach the free art classes for youth that Taller Sin Fronteras was running at the time.   [00:02:11] There were four artist groups that came together to start Eastside. Taller Sin Fronteras was an ad hoc group of printmakers and visual artists activists based in the East Bay. Their roots came out of the free community printmaking, actually poster making workshops that artists like Malaquias Montoya and David Bradford organized in Oakland in the early 70s and 80s.   [00:02:34] The Black Dot Collective of poets, writers, musicians, and visual artists started a popup version of the Black Dot Cafe. Marcel Diallo and Leticia Utafalo were instrumental and leaders of this project. 10 12 were young digital artists and activists led by Favianna Rodriguez and Jesus Barraza in Oakland. TDK is an Oakland based graffiti crew that includes Dream, Spie, Krash, Mute, Done Amend, Pak and many others evolving over time and still holding it down.   [00:03:07] Elena: That is a good history there. And I just wanted to say that me coming in and meeting Greg and knowing all those groups and coming into this particular neighborhood, the San Antonio district of Oakland, the third world aspect of who we all were and what communities we were all representing and being in this geographic location where those communities were all residing. So this neighborhood, San Antonio and East Oakland is very third world, Black, Asian, Latinx, indigenous, and it's one of those neighborhoods, like many neighborhoods of color that has been disinvested in for years. But rich, super rich in culture.   [00:03:50] So the idea of a cultural center was…let's draw on where our strengths are and all of those groups, TDKT, Taller Sin Fronters, Black artists, 10 – 12, these were all artists who were also very engaged in what was going on in the neighborhoods. So artists, organizers, activists, and how to use the arts as a way to lift up those stories tell them in different ways. Find some inspiration, ways to get out, ways to build solidarity between the groups, looking at our common struggles, our common victories, and building that strength in numbers.   [00:04:27] Emma: Thank you so much for sharing. Elena and Suzanne, what a rich and beautiful history for Eastside Arts Alliance.   [00:04:34] Were there any specific political and or artistic movements happening at that time that were integral to Eastside's start?   [00:04:41] Elena: You know, one of the movements that we took inspiration from, and this was not happening when Eastside got started, but for real was the Black Panther Party. So much so that the Panthers 10-point program was something that Greg xeroxed and made posters and put 'em up on the wall, showing how the 10-point program for the Panthers influenced that of the Young Lords and the Brown Berets and I Wor Kuen (IWK).   [00:05:07] So once again, it was that Third world solidarity. Looking at these different groups that were working towards similar things, it still hangs these four posters still hang in our cultural, in our theater space to show that we were all working on those same things. So even though we came in at the tail end of those movements, when we started Eastside, it was very much our inspiration and what we strove to still address; all of those points are still relevant right now.   [00:05:36] Susanne: So that was a time of Fight The Power, Kaos One and Public Enemy setting. The tone for public art murals, graphics, posters. So that was kind of the context for which art was being made and protests happened.   [00:05:54] Elena: There was a lot that needed to be done and still needs to be done. You know what? What the other thing we were coming on the tail end of and still having massive repercussions was crack. And crack came into East Oakland really hard, devastated generations, communities, everything, you know, so the arts were a way for some folks to still feel power and feel strong and feel like they have agency in the world, especially hip hop and, spray can, and being out there and having a voice and having a say, it was really important, especially in neighborhoods where things had just been so messed up for so long.   [00:06:31] Emma: I would love to know also what were the community needs Eastside was created to address, you know, in this environment where there's so many community needs, what was Eastside really honing in on at this time?   [00:06:41] Elena: It's interesting telling our story because we end up having to tell so many other stories before us, so things like the, Black Arts movement and the Chicano Arts Movement. Examples of artists like Amiri Baraka, Malaguias Montoya, Sonya Sanchez. Artists who had committed themselves to the struggles of their people and linking those two works. So we always wanted to have that. So the young people that we would have come into the studio and wanna be rappers, you know, it's like, what is your responsibility?   [00:07:15] You have a microphone, you amplify. What are some of the things you're saying? So it was on us. To provide that education and that backstory and where they came from and the footsteps we felt like they were in and that they needed to keep moving it forward. So a big part of the cultural center in the space are the archives and all of that information and history and context.   [00:07:37] Susanne: And we started the Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival for that same reason coming out of the Bandung Conference. And then the Tri Continental, all of this is solidarity between people's movements.   [00:07:51] Emma: You've already talked about this a little bit, the role of the arts in Eastside's foundation and the work that you're doing, and I'd love to hear also maybe how the role of the arts continues to be important in the work that you're doing today as a cultural center.   [00:08:04] And so my next question to pose to you both is what is the role of the arts at Eastside?   [00:08:10] Elena: So a couple different things. One, I feel like, and I said a little bit of this before, but the arts can transmit messages so much more powerfully than other mediums. So if you see something acted out in a theater production or a song or a painting, you get that information transmitted in a different way.   [00:08:30] Then also this idea of the artists being able to tap into imagination and produce images and visions and dreams of the future. This kind of imagination I just recently read or heard because folks aren't reading anymore or hardly reading that they're losing their imagination. What happens when you cannot even imagine a way out of things?   [00:08:54] And then lastly, I just wanted to quote something that Favianna Rodriguez, one of our founders always says “cultural shift precedes political shift.” So if you're trying to shift things politically on any kind of policy, you know how much money goes to support the police or any of these issues. It's the cultural shift that needs to happen first. And that's where the cultural workers, the artists come in.   [00:09:22] Susanne: And another role of Eastside in supporting the arts to do just that is honoring the artists, providing a space where they can have affordable rehearsal space or space to create, or a place to come safely and just discuss things that's what we hope and have created for the Eastside Cultural Center and now the bookstore and the gallery. A place for them to see themselves and it's all um, LGBTA, BIPOC artists that we serve and honor in our cultural center. To that end, we, in the last, I don't know, 8, 9 years, we've worked with Jose Navarrete and Debbie Kajiyama of Naka Dance Theater to produce live arts and resistance, which gives a stage to emerging and experienced performance artists, mostly dancers, but also poets, writers, theater and actors and musicians.   [00:10:17] Emma: The last question I have for you both today is what is happening in the world that continues to call us to action as artists?   [00:10:27] Elena: Everything, everything is happening, you know, and I know things have always been happening, but it seems really particularly crazy right now on global issues to domestic issues. For a long time, Eastside was um, really focusing in on police stuff and immigration stuff because it was a way to bring Black and brown communities together because they were the same kind of police state force, different ways.   [00:10:54] Now we have it so many different ways, you know, and strategies need to be developed. Radical imagination needs to be deployed. Everyone needs to be on hand. A big part of our success and our strength is organizations that are not artistic organizations but are organizing around particular issues globally, locally come into our space and the artists get that information. The community gets that information. It's shared information, and it gives us all a way, hopefully, to navigate our way out of it.   [00:11:29] Susanne: The Cultural Center provides a venue for political education for our communities and our artists on Palestine, Haiti, Sudan, immigrant rights, prison abolition, police abolition, sex trafficking, and houselessness among other things.   [00:11:46] Elena: I wanted to say too, a big part of what's going on is this idea of public disinvestment. So housing, no such thing as public housing, hardly anymore. Healthcare, education, we're trying to say access to cultural centers. We're calling that the cultural infrastructure of neighborhoods. All of that must be continued to be supported and we can't have everything be privatized and run by corporations. So that idea of these are essential things in a neighborhood, schools, libraries, cultural spaces, and you know, and to make sure cultural spaces gets on those lists.   [00:12:26] Emma: I hear you. And you know, I think every category you brought up, actually just now I can think of one headline or one piece of news recently that is really showing how critically these are being challenged, these basic rights and needs of the community. And so thank you again for the work that you're doing and keeping people informed as well. I think sometimes with all the news, both globally and, and in our more local communities in the Bay Area or in Oakland. It can be so hard to know what actions to take, what tools are available. But again, that's the importance of having space for this type of education, for this type of activism. And so I am so grateful that Eastside exists and is continuing to serve our community in this way.   What is Eastside Arts Alliance up to today? Are there any ways we can support your collective, your organization, what's coming up?   [00:13:18] Elena: Well, this is our 25th anniversary. So the thing that got us really started by demonstrating to the community what a cultural center was, was the Malcolm X Jazz Arts Festival, and that this year will be our 25th anniversary festival happening on May 17th.   [00:13:34] It's always free. It's in San Antonio Park. It's an amazing day of organizing and art and music, multi-generational. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful day. Folks can find out. We have stuff going on every week. Every week at the cultural center on our website through our socials. Our website is Eastside Arts alliance.org, and all the socials are there and there's a lot of information from our archives that you can look up there. There's just just great information on our website, and we also send out a newsletter.   [00:14:07] Emma: Thank you both so much for sharing, and I love you bringing this idea, but I hear a lot of arts and activism organizations using this term radical imagination and how it's so needed for bringing forth the future that we want for ourselves and our future generations.   [00:14:24] And so I just think that's so beautiful that Eastside creates that space, cultivates a space where that radical imagination can take place through the arts, but also through community connections. Thank you so much Elena and Suzanne for joining us today.   [00:14:40] Susanne: Thank you for having us.   [00:15:32] Emma: Let's Talk Audio series is one of OACC'S Open Ears for Change projects and is part of the Stop the Hate Initiative with funds provided by the California Department of Social Services. In consultation with the commission of Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs to administer $110 million allocated over three years to community organizations. These organizations provide direct services to victims of hate and their families, and offer prevention and intervention services to tackle hate in our communities.   This episode is a production of the Oakland Asian Cultural Center with engineering, editing, and sound design by Thick Skin Media. A special thanks to Jon Jang for permission to use his original music, and thank you for listening.   [00:16:34] Music: Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another. Don't become too narrow. Live fully, meet all kinds of people. You'll learn something from everyone. Follow what you feel in your heart. The post APEX Express – August 14, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.

Hello listeners, and welcome to this "Pride 2024" special episode. In this episode, the PGOACA are celebrating Pride by talking about their favourite tracks that mean something to them over the Pride season. They will also be discussing their favourite LGBTA+ movies.

Welcome to Episode 186!  This week is a goodie, but a shorty.  This week Mark & Casey are having a quick catch up as Casey is time in entertainment-land.  The Boys wanted to check in with one another and with you! This week in this shorty episode, The Boys are reminiscing about the iconic 2 season cartoon show, Jem & The Holograms.  Epic songs and colorful characters.  Then, Mark & Casey are dreaming and giving you options for potential new Housewives to join the franchises and what they will add to the show.  Who would yours be??This one's a shorty -- but a goodie!  Laughs endure as you catch up quickly with your GBFFs.  So fill up your glass of port vintage, pull up a seat at the table, and get ready to spill the tea with your GBFFs on an all new (albeit short) episode!=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-Let The Boys of Painted Trash know your thoughts on this week's topics and episode! What street festivals do you attend? Do you like street fests? What is your favorite festival??Have a topic idea or story you recommend for Trash Talk, be sure to send it in to our email or through the "contact us" on our website.Follow us on:Instagram: instragram.com/paintedtrashpodTwitter: twitter.com/paintedtrashpodFacebook: facebookcom/paintedtrashpodcastDon't forget to click Subscribe and/or Follow and leave us a review!email: paintedtrashpodcast@gmail.comweb: www.paintedtrashpodcast.com

In this week's episode Kate Foster, Employability and Career Consultant, is joined by Lena Worwood, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Project Support Officer at the University of Exeter. Lena and Kate explore careers from the perspective of finding a supportive employer, navigating the recruitment process and the support available in the workplace.   Links and resources: Information and advice about your rights and help with finding LGBTA+ friendly employers and jobs - https://www.exeter.ac.uk/students/careers/equality/sexualorientation/ LGBTQ+ Staff Network at the University of Exeter https://www.exeter.ac.uk/departments/inclusion/groups/networks/lgbtq+staff/ Exeter Trans and Non-binary Café - https://www.exeter.ac.uk/departments/inclusion/groups/networks/transcafe/ Gendered Intelligence - https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/ Stonewall - https://www.stonewall.org.uk/ Intercom Trust, Devon - https://www.intercomtrust.org.uk/ Proud2Be, Totnes - https://www.proud2be.org.uk/ Not alone, Plymouth - https://www.notaloneplymouth.co.uk/ LGBT Switchboard - https://switchboard.lgbt/ 

A new episode of This Queer Book Saved My Life drops next Tuesday (Jan 23). In our off weeks, we air the most recent episode of The Gaily Show which J.P. hosts for AM950 Radio.  On today's episode, we meet the new Artistic Director of One Voice, Minnesota's LGBTA mixed chorus and the new Artistic Director of Theater Latté Da. It's a new year, so it feels good to meet these new LGBTQ leaders in the Twin Cities. Plus, the newest season of True Detective drops on HBO Max this weekend. Watch and ListenThe Gaily Show airs weekly! All the ways to check it out:Listen live on AM950 every Saturday at 2pm using the TuneIn app (or other radio app)Watch at youtube.com/@thegailyshowSubscribe everywhere you listen to your podcastsListen and learn more at am950radio.comCreditsHost/Founder: J.P. Der BoghossianExecutive Producer: Jim PoundsProduction and Distribution Support: Brett JohnsonMarketing/Advertising Support: Chad Larson, Laura Hedlund, Jennifer OgrenAccounting and Creative Support: Gordy EricksonOur SponsorJean Gustafson has been practicing law in The Brainerd Lakes region of Minnesota for 27 years. She concentrates her practice on Elder Law including Guardianship and Family Law. She maintains offices in both Brainerd and Long Prairie for your convenience. Jean is available to speak to groups. If you need legal help, call her at 218-454-2039.Support the show

HOUR 1The Queen has passed away - what's next? / (BI) https://youtu.be/QDRF8jdVFC0The Queen's reign / (MB) https://youtu.be/QDRF8jdVFC0https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/queen-elizabeth-ii-has-died?Alaska PFD and Energy Rebate total $3,284 / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/09/08/alaskans-will-receive-3284-dividend-and-energy-relief-checks-starting-sept-20/Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson says conflicts with Anchorage Assembly are to be expected / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/09/09/mayor-bronson-says-conflicts-with-anchorage-assembly-are-be-expected/Dalton in Mat-Su on LGBTA issues and the Queen's passingHOUR 2Gary from East Anchorage on the passing Adam Holz from Focus on the Family's "Plugged In"Dave Stieren with Gov Mike Dunleavy's Office on the PFDDept of Interior renaming places across the nation / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2022/09/08/interior-department-renames-26-places-in-alaska-to-remove-a-derogatory-word-for-native-women/Woodcarver Mike on being politically correct

Karen McKay from the Centre Equitable Library Access will tell you how the LAMBDA Awards celebrate writers from the LGBTQ2+ Community. This is from the June 3, 2022 episode.

Born & raised in New York, Dan Kiernan is an emerging pop-soul singer & songwriter.  After performing in over 30 countries in multiple concerts, cabarets and regional theatres on both land and sea, Dan broke into the NYC music scene in 2018.  Dan's shows & music are both raw and electric.  His debut live album, "Dan Kiernan: LIVE + UNPLUGGED", recorded at the iconic Bitter End has over 60,000 streams and charted in the LGBTQ music charts in the UK.  His recent singles “Cutting Ties”, “Run With Scissors”, & “The Other Side” have amassed over 100,000 streams.  Dan has headlined in NYC at Sony Hall, The Bowery Electric, The Groove, Arlene's Grocery, DROM, The Bitter End, 2021 Brooklyn Pride, and the 2021 Music for Climate Justice Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.  His music combines the nostalgia of 90s/2000s pop and classic rock.  @DanKiernanMusic

Most of us would look at a mouse in our house as an undesirable thing.  We may think of him as an unwelcome intruder.  Besides just being a little creepy, he could cause damage, make a mess, and worst of all, help make many more mice that could intrude into your house.  It's hard to imagine that many of us would intentionally allow the mouse in our house with an open invite.  Something about that just seems to go against common sense.  This show begins by discussing the most famous of mice, Mickey Mouse.  In recent days, the creators and owners of Mickey have come under fire for using the platform of Mickey and his gang to infiltrate your house with a very selective message.  In particular, this is the message of promoting and exposing young children to the ideas and concepts of the LGBTQ community.  They openly have stated that they want to do this by creating characters in their productions that reflect or live in such a way.  The hope, as it seems, is to desensitize the next generation to the lifestyle of the LGBTQ community. Not only to promote acceptance for the current population of LGBTQ, but also to encourage those not yet clearly identified or even understanding the concept of the lifestyle.  Using the "mouse in the house" metaphor, many parents are seeing Disney's latest promotion as just that, an intrusion by an undesired mouse.  Something that could cause damage or harm to their family.  They question the healthiness of the LGBTA lifestyle, especially for their own kids.  During the show, Linda and Merrill state that they are not doing the show to create an argument on what is right or wrong.  They are promoting that all parents have a responsibility to protect and raise their children.  In order to do this, parents must intentionally identify what they deem harmful or dangerous.  The question is, how do you determine whether something or someone is harmful or dangerous.  This is the crux of the discussion.  Making an assumption, either way is irresponsible and potentially very harmful. Parents must determine how they are going to approach these issues what they will allow their children to be exposed to and then how to protect them from unwanted intruders.  As for Christian parents, this is actually much easier than we often think it is.  We use God's word to help us determine what is harmful or healthy.  His word describes the nature by which God operates both in the natural world and the spiritual world.  The key here is to refer to God for making the decision as to whether the mouse is harmful or not.  Social pressures or media persuasion is not our authority. A key takeaway is the understanding that God hates sin but loves sinners.  All of us are sinners, no one is righteous.  We must not take personally the protection of our sin, but rather, we must desire to take personally the protection of our relationship with the nature of God. News on Disney - https://youtu.be/Mi6yBbCUp_wRock Solid Families - https://www.rocksolidfamilies.org/ Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=0Gu_CU51XtrK1z7cJxUO4BlOgzML2iPZFzYxn5WvnE-59-sq_NHQrti0JG6z2k84mOVEWm&country.x=US&locale.x=US)

Nascida em 1995 em São Paulo, Marina Feijóo é cientista social e escritora independente. Gosta de misturar as duas áreas, sempre dando foco em questões sociais e trazendo protagonismo LGBTA+. Publicou de forma independente na Amazon os livros: "O centro de todo o caos", "O pior pesadelo de um homem" e "Essa festa virou um slasher!". Conheça o Clube de Autores e faça parte da maior comunidade de autores independentes do Brasil. Link da parceria:

Welcome to Blue Lightning Healing Meditations Wow. Episode 159. Cool I am pleased to have Sage Stevens, gender acceptance advocate and amazing non-binary soul with me. They share their journey on their path to authentic expression of their soul, the importance of gathering a support network about yourself, and that your journey is yours. You also get to listen to my thought process, how I argue with my guides, and being open to growth is not that hard. You can find Sage on Instagram @braceletstobolsterchange Other links: SAGE: www.sageusa.org - services and advocacy for LGBTQ Elders The Trevor Project: www.thetrevorproject.org - for young LGBTQ lives Coursera: www.coursera.org - for free online LGBTA training You can find links to my podcasts here: https://bluelightninghealing.com/blog/ And the links page is now searchable! For more content like this, please Like, Comment, subscribe, favorite, share. Check out my website for to schedule an appointment and to get up-to-date info, including in-person and online appearances: www.bluelightninghealing.com Email me at : susy@bluelightninghealing.com Support my podcasts through Ko-Fi. Com: Ko-fi.com/bluelightninghealing Blue Lightning Healing is on FaceBook : https://www.facebook.com/bluelightninghealing MeWe Nwext Gen Social Network: https://mewe.com/i/susygoins And At The Coterie, a new social media platform developed by Annie Anderson, my IT miracle worker: https://www.atthecoterie.com/susypgoins You can find me at many of these online panels and fairs: MEWE Online Events (not to be confused with the social platform): https://www.metaphysicalempowermentevents.com/online Wynnies Angelz: https://www.facebook.com/WynniesAngelz BLH Meditations airs Thursdays and Mondays (yes, that is the theme order) At 10 am Pacific Time on Spotify, Apple/iTunes, Amazon Music, Breaker, Bullhorn, Castbox, Ello Google Podcasts, Listen Notes, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podbean, Radio Public, and Vurbl #bluelightninghealing #blhmeditations #youarenotbroken #untilnexttime #blessings #energyhealing #bekindtoyourself #youareperfectlyawesome #infinitybreath #yoursisthemostpowerful #youarethelight #innerlight #shineyourlight --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/susy-parker-goins/support

Comedian Dave Chappelle faces backlash over the transgender jokes he made in his most recent Netflix special, ‘The Closer.' He is facing online hate comments, outrage and about 100 Netflix employees protesting outside Netflix's headquarters. But is the reaction warranted? Emily and Karbon discuss it on this week's podcast. Tune in and enjoy!CONTACT US Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/queer.collective/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/queer.collective.to/ Website: https://www.queercollectiveto.com/ Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com Karbon: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iam_karbon/ Emily: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emgiosk/

Best Infrastructure and LGBTQ Friendly Stocks, Plus… Green Bonds, Renewable Energy and ESG ETFs. Covered entities include: Vulcan Materials, Caterpillar, AECOM, Nucor, ChargePoint Technologies, iShares Global Green Bond ETF, VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF, Alphabet Inc., Visa Inc., The Charles Schwab Corporation,  PayPal Holdings, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Starbucks Corporation, Apple Inc., and LGBTQ100 ESG ETF PODCAST: Best Infrastructure and LGBTQ Friendly Stocks, Plus… Transcript & Links, Episode 60, June 18, 2021 Hello, Ron Robins here. Welcome to podcast episode 60 published on June 18, titled “Best Infrastructure and LGBTQ Friendly Stocks, Plus…” — and presented by Investing for the Soul. investingforthesoul.com is your site for vital global ethical and sustainable investing news, commentary, information, and resources. Remember that you can find a full transcript, links to content – including stock symbols, quotes, and bonus material – at this episode's podcast page located at investingforthesoul.com/podcasts. Now, just a reminder. I do not evaluate any of the stocks or funds mentioned in this podcast. Furthermore, if you're concerned about the ESG-sustainability or financial ratings of any stock or fund included in this podcast, check your broker's online site for such information. If your broker doesn't have ESG-sustainability information, signup for free with Morningstar and you can gain access to such company and fund ratings. Please note, I receive no compensation from Morningstar or anyone else covered in these podcasts. Also, if any terms are unfamiliar to you, simply Google them. ------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Best Infrastructure Stocks Now amid the continuing US talks on infrastructure Neha Chamaria has penned an article titled 5 Potential Winners from Biden's Infrastructure Plan. It appeared on fool.com. I name her picks and follow them with some of her remarks. “1) Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC) Vulcan is the nation's largest producer of aggregates, operates across 20 states, and has equal exposure to private (residential and nonresidential) construction and public infrastructure markets, positioning it well to benefit from nearly all kinds of construction activity. Vulcan is already experiencing strong demand… has a strong balance sheet (and) has steadily increased its dividend for years. 2) Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) … might be the leading construction equipment manufacturer, but it also has significant exposure to volatile sectors like mining and oil and natural gas. That's why a pure-play equipment stock like United Rentals (NYSE: URI) could be a better potential winner from Biden's infrastructure plan. United Rentals is the world's largest heavy-equipment rental company… Its revenue grew at a compound annual rate of 14% over the past decade. 3) AECOM (NYSE: ACM) Building anything requires planning, designing, and engineering, which is why an infrastructure consulting company like AECOM should benefit from an uptick in infrastructure spending in the U.S…. government is already its biggest client… 4) Nucor (NYSE: NUE) … is the largest and most diversified manufacturer of steel and steel products in the U.S… (and) is North America's largest scrap recycler… (Its) mini steel mills use electric-arc furnaces -- a more flexible, cost-effective method than traditional blast furnaces. (Also, Nucor) has a solid balance sheet… increasing its dividend payouts for 48 straight years. 5) ChargePoint Technologies (NYSE: CHPT) The (US) president's infrastructure plan includes a… network of 500,000 EV chargers across the nation by 2030. Currently, there are only around 42,500 charging station locations in the U.S… ChargePoint operates one of the world's largest EV charging networks and has a nearly 70% share of the domestic Level 2 charging network market… ChargePoint… sells hardware to station operators, which then subscribe to its software to manage the stations.” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Best Green Bond Funds More and more ethical and sustainable investors are turning their attention to green bonds and the benefits they offer. Here are two articles on that theme. The first is titled How Eco-Conscious Is Your Portfolio? 2 Green Bond ETFs To Consider by Tezcan Gecgil at investor.com. Here are some quotes from the article. “1) iShares Global Green Bond ETF (NASDAQ: BGRN) The iShares Global Green Bond ETF provides access to global investment-grade green bonds that have been issued to fund environmental projects. Furthermore… the fund is U.S.-dollar hedged. Since its inception in November 2018, net assets have grown to $212 million. (The iShares Global Green Bond ETF)… tracks the returns of the Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Green Bond Select (USD Hedged) Index. (It has) bonds issued by governments of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy as well as the European Investment Bank and KfW Group lead the names in the roster. 2) VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (NYSE: GRNB) Another green bond ETF that could be of interest to readers is the VanEck Vectors Green Bond which provides exposure to U.S.-dollar-denominated green bonds for financing environmentally-friendly projects. In addition to bonds issued in the U.S. and various European countries, VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF also holds bonds from China, South Korea, Brazil, India, Chile, Indonesia and others.” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Best Green Bond Funds The second article on green bonds is titled $1.2tn US giant launches core impact bond fund into Ucits market. It's by Chris Sloley and was on the citywireselector.com site. The fund is for investors in Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, UK, and Italy. Here are some quotes… “Global investment giant Nuveen has launched its Global Core Impact Bond fund for Ucits investors to capitalise on opportunities created by ‘ESG leaders'. The multi-currency bond fund will invest across all global fixed income markets… Focusing on perceived ‘ESG leaders', the bond fund will find companies setting an example in their respective industry or sector, with respect to ESG risks and behaviours… The fund may allocate up to 40% in emerging markets and 15% in high yield, at the managers' discretion. It will launch with $25m (€20.5m) of seed capital.” End quotes. ------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Best LGBTQ Friendly Stocks Since this is Pride Month and numerous LGBTQI+ investors are ethically and sustainably oriented, here's an article for members of that community. It's titled Ethical Investing for Pride Month: 10 Gay-Friendly Stocks To Buy. It's by John Csiszar and was on the gobankingrates.com site. Here are some quotes from his article. “1) Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) Google, now trading under parent company Alphabet, has long been a strong supporter of the LGBTQ community. The company has a specific support group for the LGBTQ community, known as ‘Gayglers'. 2) International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) IBM was one of the first companies to include sexual orientation in its nondiscrimination policy, back in 1984. The company established its Global LGBT Council, designed to make the workplace safe for everyone, in 1995. 3) Visa Inc. (V) Visa has appeared on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index for five years running, marking it as one of the best places to work for LGBTQ employees. Visa supports the United Nations Standards for LGBTI, which outlines five standards of conduct that the business community can use to combat discrimination against lesbian, bi, gay, trans and intersex people. 4) The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW) Schwab has received a 100% rating on the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion for over 15 years… Internally, Schwab has created a diversity and inclusion group known as PRIDE, dedicated specifically to the LGBTQ+ network at Schwab. 5) The Coca-Cola Company (KO) The company has scored 100% on the HRC's Corporate Equality Index every year since 2006. Coca-Cola has also designed a separate Business Resource Group specifically to address LGBTA issues. Other LGBTQ-focused resources that Coca-Cola supports include the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and The Trevor Project. 6) PayPal Holdings, Inc. (PYPL) PayPal is another company scoring a perfect 100% on the Human Rights Campaign's Equality Index, and it strongly promotes LGBTQ rights. The company has a benefits flyer that outlines all its health benefits for transgender employees, from hormone replacement therapies and voice modification surgery to therapy sessions and more. 7) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Microsoft and its employees have donated over $2 million to organizations supporting the LGBTQI+ community just over the past year… Microsoft has received a perfect 100% score on the HRC's Equality Index for 13 years running. 8) Target Corporation (TGT) As with many of the other companies making the HRC Equality Index, Target has signed the Equality Act. Target has developed its own PRIDE Manifesto, designed to emphasize the company's dedication to equality. Target also produces clothing and other products indicating its backing of the LGBTQ community. 9) Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) In addition to receiving a perfect 100% score on the HRC's Equality Index for 11 straight years, the company has recently donated $50,000 to the Lavender Rights Project. 10) Apple Inc. (AAPL) Apple isn't just the largest company in America, it's also one of the most consistent supporters of the LGBTQ community. Apple has been rated a best place to work for the LGBTQ community for 15 years straight.” End quotes. Also, note this article on a new Pride fund, titled, Pride Month meets Wall Street as new LGBTQ ETF hits the market by Ernestine Siu. Quote “ProcureAM, in partnership with LGBTQ Loyalty Holdings, launched the new LGBTQ100 ESG ETF.” End quote. ------------------------------------------------------------- Honorable Mentions 1. Title: My Top Renewable Energy Stock to Buy in June. “Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) is the stock I think will be one of the hydrogen winners” says Travis Hoium, the article's author. 2. Title: Fidelity to Launch 5 New ESG Funds by Bernice Napach. Quoting the article, “All five new funds are actively managed and the two ETFs are Fidelity's first ETFs focused on ESG factors.” End quote. ------------------------------------------------------------- Ending Comment Well, these are my top news stories with their stock and fund tips -- for this podcast: “Best Infrastructure and LGBTQ Friendly Stocks, Plus…” To get all the links, stock symbols, or to read the transcript of this podcast -- and more -- go to investingforthesoul.com/podcasts and scroll down to this episode. Also, be sure to click the like and subscribe buttons in iTunes/Apple Podcasts or wherever you download or listen to this podcast. And please click the share buttons to share this podcast with your friends and family. Let's promote a better post COVID world through ethical and sustainable investing! Contact me if you have any questions. Stay well—and engaged with your ethical and sustainable values and investments! Thank you for listening. Talk to you next on July 2. Bye for now. © 2021 Ron Robins, Investing for the Soul.

In honor of Pride Month, we're re-releasing our interview with Dr. James Simmons, a nurse practitioner and thought leader who has appeared everywhere from Good Morning America to CBS and NBC to People magazine. He's also amassed a large social following on Twitter and Instagram, where he answers health-related questions from the public at the handle @AsktheNP.  James is an outspoken advocate of both the Black and LGBTQ+ communities, and in his conversation with Dr. Nurse Dan, he talks candidly about the inequities that the pandemic has laid bare, and why “going back to normal” isn't an option for these individuals. In this episode, James speaks plainly about how the system has let down and left out these communities and what nurses and nurse leaders can do to make a difference moving forward. Links to recommended reading:  Meet James Simmons of Ask The NP in Greater LA Nurse Practitioner Documents Getting The COVID Vaccine - What To Expect   Healthcare and Cultural Considerations for Patients How Nurses Can Help Dismantle Racial Healthcare Disparity   The Handoff Episode 44: Making nursing more diverse  The Handoff Episode 45: What the ANA is doing to combat racism in nursing  The full transcript for this episode can be found here: www.trustedhealth.com/the-handoff-podcast/james-simmons

In honor of Pride Month, we're re-releasing our interview with Dr. James Simmons, a nurse practitioner and thought leader who has appeared everywhere from Good Morning America to CBS and NBC to People magazine. He's also amassed a large social following on Twitter and Instagram, where he answers health-related questions from the public at the handle @AsktheNP.  James is an outspoken advocate of both the Black and LGBTQ+ communities, and in his conversation with Dr. Nurse Dan, he talks candidly about the inequities that the pandemic has laid bare, and why “going back to normal” isn't an option for these individuals. In this episode, James speaks plainly about how the system has let down and left out these communities and what nurses and nurse leaders can do to make a difference moving forward. Links to recommended reading:  Meet James Simmons of Ask The NP in Greater LA Nurse Practitioner Documents Getting The COVID Vaccine - What To Expect   Healthcare and Cultural Considerations for Patients How Nurses Can Help Dismantle Racial Healthcare Disparity   The Handoff Episode 44: Making nursing more diverse  The Handoff Episode 45: What the ANA is doing to combat racism in nursing  The full transcript for this episode can be found here: www.trustedhealth.com/the-handoff-podcast/james-simmons

Dill, Brent, Jake and Ryan are live in the studio, while Marty joins briefly via phone from South Carolina!We start out with a Marty Update! Big things are coming from him and Margo!We take David Valesky – Penncrest School Board Member – to task for being an anti-LGBTA+ bigot. Remember that he's a business owner in Meadville if you want to make your opinions known to him and his customers. Idiot of the week: Joe G'Amore, fashion critic and hot take artist. Don't disguise your misogyny as progressivism, Joe. Be better.================================================================================ The Atacolypse Food Truck Beer Segment:  Jake went on a trip and brought us back a beer from Yeehaw Brewing in Pigeon Ford, TN, called “Positive Vibrations”. It's a Dank IPA that clocks in at 5.9 ABV. Tune in to see what thought! Don't forget, you can catch the beer segment LIVE on our Facebook page every Wednesday at 5:30! ================================================================================After the break, We talk about people forgetting how to people on Memorial Day at Waldameer and Water World! What's better as a vaccine incentive, free beer, or free guns?Be sure to to check out blissfulmeads.com and use code “idiotville” at checkout for 25% off your total order!Do you feel like you aren't getting enough Idiotville? Check out our Patreon for BONUS CONTENT at Patreon.com/idiotvillepodcast(c) 2021 Idiotville Podcast Universe. This content may not be used without written permission of Idiotville Podcast Universe, Inc. ================================================================================www.idiotvillepodcast.buzzsprout.com www.patreon.com/idiotvillepodcast - It's back!================================================================================Our theme song is composed and performed by Warehouse 11: Guitars by Brian Blake, drums by Dave Blake, bass by Chris Owochttps://www.facebook.com/Warehouse11Band/ http://www.warehouseelevenband.yolasite.com/================================================================================www.idiotvillepodcast.comwww.facebook.com/idiotvillepodcastinstagram: idiotvillepodcastTwitter: @BrentNLibery, @TheRealJakeNew1, @Dill_spears, @TedBrogan2, @MartyBalawkay, @Trashsportstakeidiotvillepodcast@gmail.comJoin our Facebook group!Support the show (http://Patreon.com/idiotvillepodcast)

Frank Chiang joins today to talk about being a gay, cis, Asian man in various white and Asian queer spaces. We talk about activism and far left social media activism. Has seeing racial activism on social media bummed you out? Why and what can you do about it? We also shit on sheltered white people and their bubbles and talk about desirability and beauty as privilege but also power. Also, what's up with colorblind white people and how is that still a thing?LGBTQ Asian American groups mentioned: GAPIMNY: http://gapimny.org/Q-Wave: http://www.q-wave.org/NQAPIA: https://www.nqapia.org/Contact Nancy at:interpellasian@gmail.comWebsitePOC Podcast has an Instagram now!And a Twitter!Frank ChiangInstagramWelcome to Progressive Opinions of Color (POC), a podcast that seeks to create space for more people of color in politics and economics. With the 2020 presidential election coming up and the state of the economy during COVID-19, it is more important than ever to think about who we include in the conversations about politics and economics. I am Nancy Wu, your host. I’m also an Asian American woman, an economist, and a huge politics and policy nerd. I triple majored in Economics, Government (Political Science) and Gender Studies at Dartmouth and have a Master’s in Development Economics from Oxford. I work as an Economist full time and have previously worked in economic policy at the White House (under Obama, of course) and progressive think tanks. The goal of this podcast is to engage the Asian American community and other POC and BIPOC voices in an industry that is so heavily represented by old white men. The POC Podcast will host conversations on the 2020 Presidential Election, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the coronavirus pandemic, the state of the economy, and other pressing topics in politics, economics, and culture, all through perspectives inclusive of the lived experiences of people of color. Whether you're new to politics or already a huge politics nerd, I hope this podcast inspires community and conversation among us. Join me in reimagining politics and economics with underrepresented voices. The economy is complicated enough. Learn about it through stories from real people.

“We have a family room, where people are often found napping or watching endless YouTube videos, but mostly just hanging out and connecting with one another and finding community because chosen community is so important to us in the LGBTQA+ community. We do a lot of trainings and workshops.   “At the end of the day, we affirm that LGBTQA+ people on our campus, and in particular, our students, are perfect and whole and complete exactly as they are. And we celebrate, affirm and empower them.”  “We are a resource center, so we're kind of that middle person,” assistant director Oprah Jrenal adds. “Jesse has done a great job of making connections across campus. When a student comes in and they're like, ‘This thing happened,' Jesse is able to go through the Rolodex of people they know and say, ‘Oh, I can connect you to this human in that college who can support you with making the choice on that or to figure out how to fix that.'  “That's why it's so important that we do all the workshops and trainings and keep our website up to date with a glossary of terminology so that folks who are just sitting in their offices can go, ‘Gee, I heard this word today. What does that even mean?' Our website has so many resources on it, so if folks really don't want to talk to a human, they can always go to our website and explore more about our community.”  Beal says “the easiest way for faculty and staff to engage with our center is to either attend one of our trainings or workshops or to bring us in for consultation. For students, I think the easiest way to engage is to start with social media like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and our website. Or come to one of our many events and programs.”  Beal and Jrenal explain the importance of pronouns.  “Pronouns are words that we use in place of your name,” Beal says. “Most people have pronouns that they expect people to use for them when they're not in the room, right? The most common ones are the he series, he, him, his, or the she series, she, her, hers. I think it's important for folks to remember that they, them, theirs pronouns have been used as a singular since I think 1375.   “This is not a new thing, but it feels like a new thing to a lot of people because they haven't heard about folks using they as a singular for people who have a non-binary or a transgender identity. I use they/them pronouns. Those are the pronouns I expect for people to use for me when I'm not in their space or when they're talking about me when I'm even in front of them. I've been using those pronouns for a really long time. People can be very helpful in creating an inclusive space for transgender and non-binary folks by simply using the pronouns that we ask you to use for us. All it takes is a little practice.”  “A lot of the pushback will be, ‘How do I even learn what a person's pronouns are?' Well, you ask, right? You don't assume that you know someone's pronouns because when you assume that you know someone's pronouns, you assume that you know their gender. We don't know that by looking at someone. What you're doing is you're taking cues from their body, from the length of their hair, or sometimes from a name on a list. You're assuming so much from so little when all you have to do is really ask someone who they are and get to know them.  “When you meet that person, actually meet them and leave behind whatever biased stereotype stuff that you might have to try to put someone in a box really quickly. As humans, we want to know as much as we can with as little time spent as we can, right? I want to put you in a box so that I can move on, but that hasn't served people for a long time. It hasn't served all of us for a very long time and it's very damaging, very harmful.  “If folks want to create more inclusive environments, one thing is to take your time and ask people their pronouns and provide a space for them to share them.”   “I want to add one tiny thing to that for folks who are not transgender or non-binary, or who don't use a gender-neutral pronoun,” Beal adds. “The easiest thing you can do to normalize and make it okay for people to share their pronouns is to just share yours. That may happen in your email signature, or it could be, Russ, you could so easily say, ‘Hi. My name is Russ, and these are the pronouns I use.' That gives me, as a non-binary person in the world, a little bit more space to say, ‘Hey, I'm Jesse. I use they/them pronouns. Thanks so much.'  “The more current acronym is either LGBTQA+ or LGBTQIA+. That's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual. Plus means on and on and on in the rest of the acronym, because the problem with the acronym is we're going to leave somebody out unless we have it go for a very, very, very long time.  “I jokingly call it the ever-expanding acronym.  I get to make that joke; I don't know that people who don't belong to the LGBTQA+ community get to. The more inclusive way to have the acronyms these days is to include the plus sign to indicate that there are more identities that are not included in the first set because we are ever growing and we are huge and we are not just one community.  Beal and Jrenal talk about June being Pride Month.   “LGBTQA+ communities are diverse and LGBTQA+ people exist in every employee group, in every racial identity, in every religious group, in every student group. We're everywhere. I don't say that to sound scary, but we are; we're everywhere. We are so representative of the diversity that makes MSU so beautiful and there are so many ways to engage with us.”  “One of the things we hear a lot is that all of these pronouns have come out of nowhere. It's just that folks weren't paying attention. Folks were under the threat of death and safety and losing jobs and all these different things. Folks were oppressed, or are oppressed, so you're not going to have someone tell you who they are when they can't trust you that they're going to have their job the next day. It's important to understand that we've always been here and we're everywhere, just like Jesse said. I think that's one of the things that I want folks to understand, is this stuff isn't new.”  “Yes, and the language is changing so rapidly. Part of why the language is changing so rapidly is because we haven't been able to talk about ourselves freely and in public for very long at all. Until recently, we haven't been able to be fully who we are in the world. LGBTQA+ people have existed since humans existed, we just have different language for that all throughout history. This is not a new thing; it just looks a little different than it used to.”  How can we all show and practice solidarity?  “The number one thing I'm seeing right now, given our current political moment, is the need for folks to diversify their media consumption,” Beal adds. “If you're not hearing the stories of LGBTA+ people, that has to do with what newspaper you read or what movies you watch. Something that everyone can do, that's actually super easy and also fun, is to actually start reading books about queer and trans people, watching films, and learning more about who we are. Because we are you. We are a part of what it is to be human and we exist and we probably exist in everyone's families and communities. Learning a little bit about who we are and our story and our struggle is incredibly vital. I have some film suggestions if anyone's interested.  “A very simple things folks can do on campus is to please put your pronouns in your email signature. That is such an easy way to just do a simple thing that will make a difference and teach somebody something about what it means to be LGBTQA+ in the world. Change your forms, go to a training, don't assume people's gender or pronouns when you're talking to them. Actually get to know them.”  “Take your time,” encourages Jrenal. “You don't have to know everything. Jesse and I don't know everything. I think a lot of folks completely get turned off by the concept of inclusion because they feel like they need to know every single thing before they act at all, and that's just not true. We just need you to show up and to try and when you mess up to apologize and then do better the next time and then do better the next time after that. It's about progress, not perfection, always. We need folks to start and to keep going.”  MSU Today airs Sunday mornings at 9:00 on 105.1 FM, AM 870, and your smart speaker. 

Today I have the privilege of introducing you to one of the most fascinating men I’ve never met (in person, that is). James “Jim” Roth spent thirty years of his life as an attorney fighting for human rights both in the United States and internationally. He’s helped start multiple nonprofits in Minnesota including the Center for Victims of Torture and The Advocates for Human Rights. He currently serves on the board at One Voice, Mixed Chorus in Minnesota. One Voice Mixed Chorus is Minnesota’s only – and one of the nation’s largest – lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and straight allies (LGBTA) chorus. Founded in 1988, One Voice has been “building community and creating social change by raising our voices in song” for 30 years. Additional links and video performance can be found on the show notes page:  https://yournonprofitlife.com/ep13-james-roth/

On this episode Angel and I speak with multi talented singer, song-writer do it all Jayse Vegas. We speak about his projects, fathers, moving on, new adventures and more. Follow Jayse:www.Instagram.com/JayseVegasMusic: https://album.link/us/i/1468105342Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ3k8yTzamAFollow us on social media: www.instagram.com/lgbtchatpodcastwww.facebook.com/lgbtchatpodcast www.twitter.com/lgbtpodcastEmail us: LgbtChatPodcast@gmail.comLove our content and want to contribute $ ?Donate here: https://glow.fm/lgbtchat

Dealing with social acceptance in the LGBTA community and being treated with respect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Pride!! Shaquille Woods, @shaqthisout joins @RevKarenFrost and @sis_knowles. We discuss surviving exes at Pride (#IssaStruggle), the Dyke March, politicians and their obsession with vaginas and LGBTA rights. Shaquille is an Arkansas native along with @sis_knowles and writer for the Los Angeles Sentinel and KTLA.

I det her afsnit af podcast-serien om festkultur og safer spaces i nattelivet kan du møde Pardis Pourahmad, som bestyrer den lille bar/café/natklub, Kimia, og Sirenx, som af og til er DJ på Kimia og desuden er med i kollektiverne Marronage, Bibimbatty og The Union. Det handler om at skabe et rum, der mest er for kvinder, LGBTA+ personer og folk fra den globale majoritet. Kompromisløst nej tak til racisme og maskulin dominans. Undertrykte grupper slutter sig sammen og hjælper hinanden opad. Find alle afsnit i serien på www.friktionmagasin.dk eller www.almindelig.com/festkultur

What do cats, bullshit, weddings, bears and go-go dancers have in common? Rheannon and Tamara tells stories about then all that go downhill fast. Tamara shares a story of the only time she has run for her life from a bear. To be clear that was no actual bear sighting, but the way Tamara tells it there was a grizzly bear closing in on her as she hurdled a camp fire.

Introducing our go-to guy, Ulises Mark Chavez is the visionary leader and creator ofengaygeNOW & engaygeSEATTLE! Having grown up in Los Angeles, California, Mark got an early start with making social connections, and using his entrepreneurial spirit to bring others together in social settings.Mark moved to Seattle in 2009, where he immediately become involved in the LGBTA community. With his development of Gay People in Seattle (GPiS), a social networking group that hosts monthly mixers at local restaurants in the Puget Sound area, Mark started bringing people together in the hopes of breaking the “Seattle Freeze” stigma. Mark has over twenty years of event planning experience, between Los Angeles and Seattle. He also has over eighteen years of project management experience, and is also a well-known community volunteer. Being fluent in English, Spanish, and conversational French, Mark has been able to bring our community even closer together, ensuring that all in our community feel welcome and accepted.Mark’s love for travel, the arts, food, the local and surrounding community, has been a huge inspiration in his growth and development as a social connector. With engaygeNOW-SEATTLE, Mark’s desire is to use his passion for networking in order to help others make social and professional connections in Seattle, that will last a lifetime.ENGAYGENOWhttp://www.engaygenow.com/Mission: engaygeNOW, your preferred Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Ally (LGBTA) travel social group designed to spark long lasting friendships while exploring the world through hosted group travel.· Launched in 2014ENGAYGESEATTLE (FACEBOOK)https://www.facebook.com/engaygeSEATTLEMission: engaygeSEATTLE is a LGBTA social group created to overcome the infamous “Seattle Freeze” by helping people within the Seattle community with building stronger and longer lasting relationships. With every connection and every event we’re part of we look for opportunities to help guests and new friends connect.Through the planning of a variety of LGBTA events we create opportunities for people with similar interests to share new experiences and start building a stronger connection with the local LGBTA community, which includes you.· Launched in 2014GPIS (FACEBOOK)https://www.facebook.com/groups/gpiseattle/· Launched in 2009· Members: 2.800+