Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret reads you a story about the French Revolution and the destruction of a prison

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Margaret continues her interview with author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world

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Margaret interviews the author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world

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Prince Shakur returns to finish reading Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August

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Margaret continues talking to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care

Original Air Date: 10.22.2025

Sources:

https://translifeline.org/about/history/ 
https://translifeline.org/response-to-988-cuts/ 
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/27/359434925/bernard-mayes-nprs-first-chairman-founder-of-suicide-hotline-dies 
https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Bernard-Mayes-to-be-honored-as-lifeline-to-3516576.php 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11447250/Bernard-Mayes-priest-obituary.html 
https://web.archive.org/web/20141026134947/http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/24/bernard-mayes-kqed-fms-first-general-manager-dies-at-85 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds 
https://www.sfsuicide.org/about/ 
https://translifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Problem-With-988-Report-November-2024-Text.pdf 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11733462/ 
https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6978712/ 

https://www.psychiatry.org/News-room/APA-Blogs/Marking-Two-Years-of-988-The-Suicide-and-Crisis-Li

https://behavioralhealthlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/988-History-Journal-Article_JohnDraper.pdf 

https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/blog/suicide-mental-health-crisis-resources-not-police 

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/her-death-sparked-transgender-day-remembrance-22-years-later-still-n1233809

https://www.them.us/story/rita-hester-trans-remembrance-visibility-memorial 

https://translifeline.org/why-no-non-consensual-intervention/

https://www.them.us/story/trans-lifeline-report-988-police-interventions 

https://madattheinternet.substack.com/p/online-censorships-institutional 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121226 

https://glaad.org/tdor/

https://web.archive.org/web/20250107195548/https://cohost.org/lizthegrey/post/1520523-some-philanthropy-th

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Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care

Original Air Date: 10.20.2025

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Prince Shakur reads Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August

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Margaret finishes her talk with Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan

Sources:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html 
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill 
https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ 
https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html 
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d 
The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield
https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery 
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill 
https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf 
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill 
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 
https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ 
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass 
https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ 
https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm 
https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm 
https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/ 

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Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan.

Source:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html 
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill 
https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ 
https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html 
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d 
The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield 
https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery 
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill 
https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf 
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill 
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 
https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ 
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass 
https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ 
https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm 
https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm 
https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/ 

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Margaret finishes up reading you a story about punks, growing up, and refusing to lose your edge

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