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Fijian Trans Activist Sulique Waqa On Queer Issues In Oceania; also Navigating the NYC Shelter System as Black Trans Young Person
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Sulique Waqa
Fijian Trans Activist Sulique Waqa On Queer Issues In Oceania - An International Perspective
Trans activist Sulique Waqa discusses the work of queer activists in Fiji as well as the interaction between queer organizations in the northern and southern hemispheres. She also describes her impressions of the position of LGBIQ people in San Fransisco, where she has been based during the past year.
Shyna Unity
Navigating the NYC Shelter System as Black Trans Young Person
Shyna Unity is a 24-year old black trans woman from the south who came to NYC to access support and services. She shares her experience as a young person accessing healthcare, navigating survival sex work, and trying to find safe housing. We discuss her journey from Alabama into the NYC shelter system during the pandemic; the violence LGBT and specifically Trans people face in the shelter system and how she caught COVID while in shelter. Shyna shares what it is like as a survivor of violence living in multiple shelters and the mistreatment from staff and other people who live there. Trigger warning she mentions molestation and rape. This was recorded live and produced by Sasha Alexander in Bedstuy at Black Trans Media. We celebrate her work to advocate and connect to organizations that support our communities. Support her directly $translivesmatter1997 venmo @shynaunity97 paypal shynaunity.
Queer Black Panther Ericka Huggins Speaks Out
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Out-FM is a weekly progressive queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It airs at 99.5 and wbai.org, generally on Tuesdays from 8-9 PM. Please support us during our pledge drive. Become a member for $25 or a BAI Buddy (sustainer) for $5/month or more. Go to wbai.org or call 212-209-2950 and let management know you listen to Out-FM by supporting the station.
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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., August 17, 2021 from 8:00-9:00pm, on 99.5FM WBAI/NY & listen at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/
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On tonight's show we'll bring you news updates by Naomi Brussel.
Queer Black Panther Ericka Huggins Speaks Out
Then, as part of our Queerly Defiant series, we'll rebroadcast of the June 23, 2020 premier of Part 1 of a stunning interview by Out-FM producers Bob Lederer and Stahimili Mapp with longtime Black Panther Party member, community educator/leader, and self-identified queer Ericka Huggins. She discusses her experiences as a Panther, including the FBI-instigated assassination of her husband John Huggins Jr. and their comrade Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter. both in their 20s; her 2+ years as a political prisoner (including months in solitary confinement); and the Panthers’ public support for the then-new Lesbian and Gay Liberation movement, and reflects on her hopes for the current-day uprising against racist police murders. (Tune into Out-FM on Tues., July 7 at 8 PM for Part 2.)
To see the full video interview, click here or on the above photo, or click on "Next" below.
Link to Black Panther Party cofounder Huey P. Newton’s groundbreaking 1970 speech on The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements