2024-07-17 - Joe Hassert, A Queer Carbondale Alum in Las Vegas!

Jonny interviews Dr. Joe Hassert who was a resident of Carbondale
from 2000 to 2012 and was remarkably active in making community art
projects happen here. Joe now lives in Las Vegas where he is a
professor of Communication Studies at the College of Southern
Nevada. He is the current president of the queer faculty and staff
advocacy group there and works with students in the student LGBTQ
organization to bring about positive, material change in their
institution. Jonny and Joe talk about life in the desert, the queer
scene in Las Vegas, what Joe learned from his time in Southern
Illinois, LGBTQ advocacy, mass shootings, politics, and pragmatic
activism.