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.