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Today's show discusses two recent events. Here are links about those events:

• Dr. Golden's resignation
• US House DEI office being disbanded

Quote from George Bernard Shaw:

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”

Quote from John F. Kennedy:

“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas from more wise people reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms."

Molly is the Executive Director of Cascade Forest Conservancy. You can learn more about their work at this link.

You can also connect directly with Molly at this link.

Surfer and DEIA advocate Emily Purry joins us this week and we cover some topics about intersectionality, accessibility, disability, and networking-while-blind.

You can find more of Emily's work at her website: https://purryco.com/

You can also find her on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilypurryspeaker/

Please follow Pharoah's work at https://www.pharoahbolding.com/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/pharoahbolding/

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https://www.instagram.com/pb_hrpro/

On today's episode, we're talking about 2 recent laws passed in Utah (following a trend from other states). You can read more about both of those laws at these links:

·      News story about Utah’s new anti-trans bathroom law

·      News story about Utah’s banning of DEI education programs

When we recorded this episode a few weeks ago, we were reacting to the unfortunate trend of anti-trans and anti-DEI laws that have been expanding to more states. Marcus Carter II joined us again to offer some larger analysis of what trends like this mean and our responsibility to push back against them.

This was recorded before the unfortunate death of Nex Benedict on February 8th. Their death underscores the need for all of us to increase our understanding and commitment to trans, non-binary, and non-conforming identities and resist the push to other or criminalize people who are different from us. This community needs the same support, protection, and compassion that the cisgender community relies on.

If you would like to offer support to Nex's family or other LGBTQ+ connected organizations, here are some links:

- Nex's family's GoFundMe site: https://lnkd.in/ggE48Q4A (note: the family addresses the incorrect name and pronouns used in a follow up comment to the GoFundMe at this link)

- Freedom Oklahoma (where Nex lived): https://lnkd.in/dXJDgjam

- Portland, OR based Q Center: https://lnkd.in/dC3mpFA

Community organizer and DEI practitioner Marcus Carter joined me for our first episode to discuss Black History Month and "Heritage Months" overall.

Many topics discussed in this episode are linked in the show notes here, including a wide variety of historic figures and movements relevant to honoring the history of Black and African diaspora leaders and history.

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