Queersplaining

it's an uncomfortable topic for lots of people (myself included). but its something that's super important to talk about, so let's do that. this week we'll hear from two of my friends on why they care so much about this, and i make a death plan and share it with my loved ones <3

Resources:

http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/

https://www.joincake.com/

a bit of queer history this week! the public universal friend is someone i've heard stories about here and there. i decided to do a deep dive and i found some super interesting stuff. enjoy, friends!

its been about 8 weeks since we did one of these, so we're doing another! if you want to ask questions for the next one, hit me up at callie [at] queersplaining.com

love you friends!

Today I'm dropping an episode of a new podcast called TransLash into the feed. It's a show about news and politics from a trans perspective. I think its really important that this show exists and so I'm super excited to share it with you all. Check it out and subscribe on your podcast platform of choice. Love you friends <3

i figured out something important for my mental health. and i switched to injectable estrogen. believe it or not, these two things are related!

Check out TransLash here: https://play.acast.com/s/translash/introducingthetranslashpodcastwithimarajones

last week was an outdoor adventure with friends. this week is an indoor adventure with me and Wedge.

some new friends and I went adventuring <3

this week is audio from my virtual presentation at the Secular Student Alliance virtual conference. I talked about how to have some of the hard conversations we're having right now about racial justice, gender, sexuality, and other topics where we might be trying to bring someone around to a different point of view

i started taking an anti-depressant for my anxiety. here's how that's been going...

A full transcript of this episode is available here

There's been a lot of talk about cancel culture lately. Its the 21st century version of the Satanic Panic. There was an open letter released by Harpers Magazine decrying this new climate of what they called censorship and suppression of views that diverge from the mainstream. They never get too specific. But when you see the names of the people who signed this open letter, their actual meaning becomes pretty clear pretty quick.

My new friend Dawn has some feelings about that. She came out as trans and *actually* became the target of the sort of thing the signatories of this letter imagine they're experiencing.

The Harper's letter: https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

The response letter: https://theobjective.substack.com/p/a-more-specific-letter-on-justice

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