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Florida has passed the Don’t Say Gay Bill and this week Delaney and Heather have a lot to say about the consequences of this bill, both intended and unintended. There is no shortage of laughs (mostly at Delaney’s expense) in this episode; so don’t miss this one!

Everyone has the right to their own opinion, but does that also mean that everyone has the right to make other people listen to their opinions? This is the conversation that Delaney and Heather explore in this episode.

Be sure to listen to this episode to understand why Delaney and Heather are always so excited to have Katie Sesti join on the podcast. In this episode, Katie explains to Delaney how she came to understand her own privilege and how to use it appropriately. Katie gives so much great advice on how to use power for good in anti-racism work during this conversation.

Heather introduced this over-used and damaging trope to Delaney a while back. Today Delaney asks all the questions to learn more about how the Trope of the Magical Negro has been used not only throughout media but also how it plays out in real life.

In this episode Delaney gets to interview Shaughnessy Daniels and Grace Wright about their projects working at Great Rivers Greenway and how equity plays an important role in planning and facilitating public spaces. This is a very informative episode with so much information that shouldn’t be missed, especially because a follow-up episode is already in the works.

Delaney admits to Heather that the warm spring day has renewed in her a sense of hope, even though many things are still concerning and in transition in our world. The conversation flows through several current emotionally charged topics and how to find the hope within them.

Heather and Delaney have a powerful discussion about the pervasive myth of absent Black fathers as the root of trouble within the Black Community. Heather gives in-depth background information and statistics dispelling this myth and celebrating the strong family ties within the Black Community.

In this episode Delaney interviews an In Purpose Educational Services board of directors member, Christy Potthast, about the newly created Banned Book Program that IPES is running.

Katie Sesti joins this episode to share with Delaney, and the listeners, about how she is working to provide her young children with diverse experiences and to make anti-racism a normal everyday occurrence in their family.

Cillian joins Delaney and Heather in this episode to discuss the standards of beauty that are so pervasive in media and art and the damaging effects this has on those who fall outside of those narrow parameters.