New data from the 2021 census has been released. For the first time, the Census has counted Canada’s transgender and non-binary populations after making some controversial changes to its questions about sex and gender.
Dr. El Chenier, a history professor at Simon Fraser University and founder of Boldly Nonbinary, talks about why this data is important and h ... Show More
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If AI is a bubble, how will it pop?
<p>Some of the world’s largest tech companies, like OpenAI, Google and Meta, have invested hundreds of billions of dollars into <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/artificial-intelligence/">artificial intelligence</a> as they try to build the data centres they need. A ... Show More
23m 38s
May 2023
The Weeds, Live – Anti-trans legislation, explained
In recent years, there’s been a dramatic increase in the number of anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in state legislatures across the country. The ACLU is currently tracking 474 such bills, the majority of which target transgender rights. Meanwhile, trans people are over four times mor ... Show More
45m 30s
Nov 2021
Dave Chapelle isn’t “cancelled.” But a pregnant, Black, trans staffer was fired in the wake of his Netflix fallout
B. Pagels-Minor, a former Netflix program manager, was fired in the wake of Dave Chapelle’s transphobic comedy special. But B is still fighting to build power for trans and non-binary people.
Read B’s piece in the Washington Post:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/21 ... Show More
40m 2s
Jun 2023
One Thing: A Black Minister, His Trans Daughter and a Family's Journey to Acceptance
A record number of anti-LGBTQ bills have been proposed across the country this year, including a new push to ban access to gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. Beyond the debates and protests, some families are grappling over how to relate to the trans people in th ... Show More
17m 54s
Jun 2020
ALOK
<p>Indian-American writer, performance artist, and media personality ALOK joins Jameela this week to discuss all things Trans, gender non-conforming, and non-binary, the problem with those who are gender-critical & TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists), and how to be a bet ... Show More
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