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Here is the audio of Rikki & Sharmeen's IG Live conversation with Elyse of Latinx 4 Social Movement. 

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Sharmeen & Rikki have a conversation with Toria Maldonado, an artist affiliated with and connected to us via Latinx 4 Social Movement, about queering art and the art world. 

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Sharmeen & Rikki welcome Roy Haidar of the Wake Up To Makeup Podcast and discuss identity and the commodification of Pride Month. 

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Sharmeen & Rikki continue their conversation with Adrian Zamora aka Kabrina D. Sierra about activism including formative LGBTQ legislation, drag culture, and how it has been affected by the pandemic. 

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Rikki & Sharmeen discuss the violence of hate groups, specifically focusing on the Proud Boys. 

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Part II: Rikki and Sharmeen continue their conversation with activist and academic Sarah Abualjazer, about transgender identity and navigating heteronormative spaces and language.

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Part I of our two-part episode. Rikki and Sharmeen have a conversation with activist and academic Sarah Abualjazer, about transgender identity and navigating heteronormative spaces and language.

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Sharmeen & Rikki start a dialogue with Sophia Basaldua-Sun (@themetropolitanist) about opportunities outside of academia. 

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Sharmeen & Rikki discuss language-its ties to oppressive hegemonic narratives & limitations and expansiveness, as well as identity politics. 

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Sharmeen & Rikki discuss the detriments of "toxic hustle culture" a.k.a overworking and its roots in capitalist hegemony. 

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