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Superficial Markers of Success
Gio Santiago is the founder of META Center, an organization supporting transgender youth in Ohio, a state where trans rights and personhood are under attack. He joined Danielle at the Creating Change Conference for a conversation about the importance of staying and fighting in the places where marginalized people are under attack.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Profiting Off of Pain
The cancer of guns is only deepening with every mass shooting that gets normalized in this country. Also being normalized? A presidential candidate with multiple indictments and more to come.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Being Queer in Florida
Sarah Parker, Executive Director of Women's Voices of SW Florida, joined Danielle to talk about her experiences fighting for rights and freedom in a "red state" and why it's important for activists to stay and fight rather than abandoning states like Florida.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Whose Lives Matter?
The administration that we are counting on to save us is not interested in saving all of us.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hate is Not an Ideology
Continuing Woke AF's conversations from the Creating Change Conference, Danielle spoke with Andrea Montanez, the Senior Racial Equity, LGBTQ+, and Immigration Organizer at Hope CommUnity Center.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Voting as Harm Reduction
Throughout the next few weeks, Danielle Moodie brings you conversations she had at the National LGBTQ Taskforce's Creating Change Conference in New Orleans. First up is Jen Scott from Equality Ohio, who discussed the importance of voting for a deeply imperfect Democrat like Joe Biden.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Dismantling of Our Constitution
On this Fuck It Friday, Danielle Moodie reflects on her feeling that, in many ways, Donald Trump has already won.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What We've Become LIVE
On this special episode of Woke AF Daily, Danielle presents a conversation with herself and Dr. Jonathan Metzl recorded live at the launch of his new book What We've Become, followed by a live Q&A from the audience.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Winning Battles and Winning Wars
On this Woke Wednesday, Danielle focuses in on some promising legal decisions that still require a lot of work ahead of us in the future.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kernels of Truth
Psychologist Dr. Suzanne Lachmann returns to Woke AF Daily to explain what Danielle calls "Republican mush brain."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Problems With Private Equity
Brendan Ballou is the author of Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America, and he joined Danielle to give her - and the Woke AF Nation - an introductory lesson into the world of private equity, with some real-world examples of impacts it has had on vulnerable members of our society. Of course Danielle asks the big question: is there anything our government can do to stop it?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
MAGA Meltdown
Nimarata Haley, Tom Cotton, and the other chicken-s*** Republicans are melting down as we enter 2024, while their voting base freaks out over Taylor Swift. This week, Danielle also asks: does anything in the United States work better than anywhere else? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
How We Lost the Gun Argument
Woke AF weekly contributor Jonathan Metzl's new book What We've Become is out now, and he spoke with Danielle Moodie about our widening political divide in a nation where some people see rampant gun violence as the cost of freedom. If the public health narrative won't save us from the gun epidemic, what will?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Three Alarm Fire
As we enter 2024, Danielle Moodie reflects: is Joe Biden really up to the task? And if he's not, what are Democrats going to do to stave off the very real threat of conservative authoritarianism?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Is It About Race, or Racism?
New York Times best-selling author Keith Boykin is back with a new book entitled Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race? He joined Danielle for a conversation about the different ways conservatives and liberals deploy that question, racial "boogeymen" that have been employed through the years, and among many other things, why Black men (still) support Donald Trump.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.