85 You’ve Gotta Fight For Your Right to Party
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Susan and Renee talk about party politics (again) and the kind of fight they’re looking for in party leaders.
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84 Disability Rights and Trans Kids Under Attack
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Susan talks about the latest threats to 504 and Renee highlights our Trans kids as well as our school boards actions.
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83 Eggs and Issues and the Overwhelm of Bad Bills
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Susan gives a breakdown of the Public School's Forum annual Eggs and Issues Event. Renee gives tips to help us all deal with the overwhelm of bad bills hitting us all at the same time. Show Notes:
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82 Getting Motivated and Helping Others to Stay in the Fight
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Renee and Susan discuss what you can do to stay motivated when it comes to advocacy.
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81 Showing Up in 2025
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Susan and Renee go over what's on the line in 2025.
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80 A Holiday Break
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Renee and Susan celebrate the holidays with an episode about what’s been making them think and bringing them joy recently. Books: Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice; and The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs Author Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad Show: Star Trek Discovery, Severance Check out your Local Library and Indie Bookstores: In Raleigh, check out , Trans Artist:
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79 Back To Basics
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Susan and Renee review over some ideas for getting started as an Every Day Advocate.
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78 The Landslide Will Bring You Down
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Renee and Susan process the 2024 election.
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77 School Board Meeting Shenanigans
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Renee talks about how a right-wing candidate engineered a controversy at the school board to make herself a free campaign ad.
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76 Pre-Election Grab Bag
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Renee and Susan discuss a variety of news/issues that have popped up, including the North Carolina legislature's determination to expand vouchers, the recovery from Hurricane Helene, the bad proposed Constitutional amendment on our ballot, and new (and, it turns out) highly orchestrated attacks on our public schools and trans kids. For the show notes:
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