4 LGBTQ+ Women of Color Fighting for Equality
These women remind us to honor Pride year-round
To close out Pride Month, we’re re-upping four episodes featuring inspiring LGBTQ+ women of color across the country who are showing up unapologetically and fighting for equality.
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Not a Nation of Immigrants w/ Anathea Chino
Anathea Chino is the co-founder and executive director of Advance Native Political Leadership, the first and only national native organization focused on electing Native Americans to local and state leadership
Listen to the full episode with Anathea and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz below or wherever you get your podcasts.
Anathea and historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz join us to discuss the growing political power of Indigenous people across the country and increasing Indigenous represenation in pop culture.
Pride: Hope, Struggle and Taking Back Power
Rebecca Marques is the Texas state director for Project One America in the Human Rights Campaign, where she leads the organization’s legislative and electoral work.
Listen to the full episode with Rebecca below or wherever you get your podcasts.
Rebecca explains why we need to pass the Equality Act and put civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ people into law and she shares what’s keeping her hopeful as these battles play out in statehouses.
Texas: Queer Cowgirls, Colonias, and Climate Change
Dr. Mary Gonzalez is a state legislator in the Texas House of Representatives representing El Paso, Texas.
Listen to the full episode with Mary below or wherever you get your podcasts.
Just mere hours after presiding over an appropriations subcommittee for the 9th largest economy in the world, Mary joins us to discuss the progressive power building movement in Texas and the significance of her role as an openly queer woman of color elected official in a historically conservative state.
Black History, Black Futures: A Conversation with Jessica Byrd
Jessica Byrd is the founder of Three Point Strategies, a home for electoral strategy that centers racial justice. She is one of the architects of the Movement for Black Lives Electoral Justice Project and the Black Campaign School. Jessica has served as chief strategist for black women, U.S. Senate candidates, congresswomen, mayors of major metropolitan cities, and she served as the chief of staff to gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in 2018.
Listen to the full episode with Jessica below or wherever you get your podcasts.
Jessica joins us to talk about the “political renaissance” she’s witnessing in this country.
