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Aired on Out-FM, Sept. 23, 2025

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Charlie Kirk & Donald Trump at Turning Point USA Event

Charlie Kirk & Donald Trump at Turning Point USA Event

 

Matthew Lyons and Janine Jackson
 
On this show, Out-FM's Bob Lederer and transgender activist Pauline Park spoke with Matthew Lyons, a longtime researcher of the far-right and racist organizations, about the aftermath of the assassination of Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk. They discussed the Trump administration's use of it as a pretext to pursue suppression of freedom of speech​ (including its effort to force out Jimmy Kimmel), retaliation against the liberal and left communities, and ​escalated attacks on the trans community. 
 
We started with a simple step that few media outlets have taken: We read and played a tiny sample of Kirk's own bigoted words directed against Black people, lesbians and gay men, trans folks, and others he viciously maligned for years. Together, these quotes paint a very different picture than the widely-claimed practitioner of "spirited discourse."
 
We also replayed a recent interview by our radio colleague Janine Jackson, Program Director of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), about the administration's attempts to control, censor, and manipulate the mainstream corporate media. She spoke with Tim Carr of the advocacy group Free Press, which works to democratize the media and oppose censorship (totally separate from and opposed to the similarly-named, right-wing, pro-Zionist website headed by Bari Weiss, reportedly soon to become head of CBS News).
 
Matthew N. Lyons is a regular contributor to the radical antifascist website Three Way Fight, ("Against Fascism. Against the State. For a Free Humanity!"), as well as co-editor of the book Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism, and author of Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire. He lives in Philadelphia. Matthew's recent article is What Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death Can Tell Us About the U.S. Right in the Age of Trump.
 
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Aired on Out-FM Tues., Sept. 16, 2025

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Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Queer celebration
with Caro De Robertis and Crystal Mason

  

Caro de Robertis 

      

Crystal Mason              

 
 
As Donald Trump’s authoritarian push takes aim at trans and genderqueer people, mainstream media represents gender diversity as a newfangled, dangerous invention of the young. But trans, nonbinary, genderqueer and Two Spirit people have always been present, in many cultures and communities. Author Caro De Robertis‘s new collection of oral histories with trans, nonbinary, genderqueer and Two Spirit People of Color busts open the myth that gender fluidity is new, and the invisibility of people of color within queer history. And importantly, De Robertis’s book, So Many Stars, gives younger genderqueer people of color the message that they can get old, and thrive, love and be loved.
 
This program, which first aired the Women’s Magazine on Pacifica sibling station KPFA in Berkeley, was generously shared with Out-FM by producer Kate Raphael. She sat down with Caro De Robertis and nonbinary Black artist, activist and storyteller Crystal Mason to talk about their own journeys in gender, activism and creativity, and the others woven into this rich tapestry of queer history and culture.
 
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Queer/Trans Ally Mumia Abu-Jamal Still Needs Right-Eye Care - KEEP CALLING
 
Political prisoner and queer/trans ally Mumia Abu-Jamal was negligently denied proper care for his vision as he almost went blind. Fortunately, a strong grassroots campaign earlier this month forced the Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections to get him his urgently needed laser surgery on his left eye. But he still faces dangerous problems with his right eye. So please join this campaign. For details, visit the Mobilization4Mumia.com site here (scroll down the page for latest news).
 
For more background on the earlier campaign, and for a link to Out-FM's groundbreaking interview with Mumia last year, in which he strongly endorsed LGBTQ freedom, click here (scroll down the page).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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