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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., August 3, 2021 from 8:00-9:00pm, on 99.5FM WBAI/NY & listen at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/

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LGBTQ Rights in the Carribean during the COVID-19 epidemic

Kenita M. Placide, an LGBT organizer in St. Lucia discusses what is happening in LGBT rights struggles in the Carribean in the last decade. She is Co-Founder/Executive Director of Eastern Caribbean Alliance Diversity and Equality(ECADE). Placide discusses the expansion of LGBT organizations in every Carribean nation and discusses how the groups are internationally connected. Eleven countries in the British Commonwealth still criminalize same sex relations. But two countries have declared the laws unconstitutional. Nine countries are still criminalize same sex relations.  Placide also discusses the pandemics of HIV and COVID-19, as well as the Dengue fever pandemic. She discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in shutting down the large tourist economy which is a major source of jobs for LGBT people in the region.

Connecting Black August, Reproductive Justice, and Trans Justice

In this interview Sasha Alexander from Black Trans Media interviews Ash Williams, a Black Non Binary Trans Organizer based in North Carolina who works with House of Kanautica. Sasha speaks with Ash about his work for incarcerated communities, black trans people, and reproductive justice connecting them all while uplifting Black August, the annual celebration of Black political prisoners and radical black resistance