
In honor of Pride Month, a new photography project from SAGE called, Trans Aging: A Legacy of Visibility, seeks to celebrate one of the most marginalized populations within the LGBTQ+ community: transgender elders. The photo gallery is available virtually, and had a live in-person showing on June 3 at SAGE Center Brooklyn at Stonewall House. Photographer viento izquierdo ugaz and Kylie Madhav, SAGE's senior director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, join us to discuss the project.
According to Dan Pfeiffer, co-host of Pod Save America, the past few years, and frankly the news today, make it clear that conservative issues in the United States are becoming more and more extreme. Whether it's book banning, gun control, or abortion rights, the Republican Party's political agenda seems to be aimed at fanning culture wars to create more division, amplified by Fox News, Facebook, and what Pfeiffer calls "MAGA media." Pfeiffer joins us to discuss his new book, Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media are Destroying America, to trace the political history of how the core of the Republican Party became so extreme, and how certain media outlets share some of the blame.
For the latest installment of our ongoing Full Bio series, we speak with Amy Odell, author of a new biography about Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, called, Anna: The Biography. On day two, we discuss Anna Wintour's entry into the magazine business, early successes and failures, and her path to New York.
We continue our series highlighting debut authors, with a novel written when the author was just 17. Nightcrawling tells the story of a teenage girl Kiara struggling to support her family in Oakland. When a turn of events leads her into the world of nightcrawling, Kiara accidentally becomes a witness in a scandal within the Oakland Police Department. Author Leila Mottley, who is the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, joins us to discuss.