2022-02-09 Two Spirit and the Environment

Jonny reviews a story of Nevada indigenous protestors of a lithium
mine on sacred land rejecting representation by the organization,
Deep Green Resistance, because of their anti-trans positions. He
reviews why and how Two-Spirit identity is necessary in
environmental advocacy and other social movements. He then reviews
how legislative assaults on LGBTQ+ and Trans rights are colonialism
at its worst, using hate and divisiveness to distract us from
bigger issues requiring collective action. In the back half of the
show her reviews data that LGBTQ+ and particularly Gay and Lesbian
folks are getting vaccinated against CoVid at a higher rate than
heterosexuals, and why that might be. He ends with an obituary for
Arnie Kantrowitz, co-founder of GLAAD, who died from complications
due to CoVid.