Featuring: Further discussion of the guests' nuzlocke runs, both current, former, and regretted high school efforts; advice for writing transgender characters; when not to add race politics to your story; racial diversity is not like a box of chocolates, but we love when our pudding speaks Spanish; whether White Fragility makes a good first date gift; going away on a steam ship; and more!

Also, be aware that this episode includes discussion of residential schools and the murder of Native American/First Nations children, from 24:19 to 25:14. If this subject is distressing to you, please skip this part.

A full transcript of this bonus discussion has been prepared for your convenience and can be found here.

Books recommended in this episode:

- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

- Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

- Johnny Appleseed  by Joshua Whitehead

- The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

- Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese

- Passing by Nella Larsen

- The Boat People by Sharon Bala

- We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff

- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline [and all her other books]