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Queer Voices, a weekly show and is dedicated to broadcasting news, concerns, and events as related to Houston's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community. The goal of Queer Voices is to provide up to date information on the community's concerns that is currently not available from other local media outlets.
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Working to make life better for humankind is both a privilege and a challenge, and no one knows this better than the folks who have made this work their day job. Issue Space is a podcast and community for professional changemakers of every kind. Through candid conversations about the lived experience of social change work, we hold space to process life in the unique — and uniquely needed — business of impact. Our mission is to give ambitious social impact professionals a sustaining sense of ...
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In each episode of the Creative Yarn Entrepreneur Show, you’ll find great ideas for launching, managing, and evolving your indie yarn-related business, and tips for keeping yourself creative, productive, and sane. Share the unique joys and challenges of being an indie in the yarn industry, whether you’re a crochet or knitting author, blogger, designer, maker, podcaster, publisher, teacher, or tech editor; a yarn dyer or spinner; or the owner of any other indie business based around yarn. Top ...
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Why everyone wants a piece of ancient Egypt
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1:11:38Episode Summary I don't get to do a lot of ancient history episodes on this show, but I always love it when I get the chance, and that's because history is a mirror of the present. Not because we judge or even fully understand the people who lived in ancient times, but because they were humans just like we are now. Ancient Egypt has always had a m…
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September 17th 2025 Queer Voices - Brad Pritchett from OUT FOR GOOD, R. Lee Ingalls on Abraham Lincoln, and DANCING LESSONS at the MATCH
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58:00Send us a text This week's show combines the worlds of politics, history, and the arts. First up, we talk with Brad Pritchett, who is being honored this year at the OUT FOR GOOD gala on October 4th. This year, the event will be at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Houston. Brad talks about his career and how he got started in politics, and how he ke…
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Has liberalism become pathological?
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1:30:57Episode Summary For many years, non-Americans have assumed that the right-wing extremism that has powered the political career of Donald Trump was just an American phenomenon. But this is simply untrue. Far-right parties have been elected in nations like Italy, Poland and Hungary, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government is a coalition of openl…
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Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights with Dr. Keisha Blain
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47:25Historian and scholar, Dr. Keisha Blain joins The Electorette to discuss her groundbreaking new book, Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights. This vital chronicle reframes the history of Black women’s activism—not only as a fight for civil rights in the U.S., but as a global human rights struggle that continues to shape our world …
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The Double Tax: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman on the Hidden Costs Women of Color Pay
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1:04:12In the past three months, more than 300,000 Black women have left the labor force. Economist and author Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman calls this the double tax—the compounded burden of being both a woman and a person of color in an economy designed to take more and give less. From higher prices for haircare and beauty products, to childcare that consume…
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September 10 2025 Queer Voices ACLU of Texas Attorney Brian Klosterboer, The Last Yiddish Speaker Director Rhett Martinez, Alzheimer’s Association of Southeast Texas CEO Richard Elbein
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58:00Send us a text On this episode of Queer Voices, we spotlight the fight for civil rights, the power of theater, and the challenges of aging in our community. First, the ACLU of Texas’ Brian Klosterboer breaks down the latest wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Austin, including the bathroom ban and Senate Bill 12, and shares how lawsuits and grassroo…
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September 3 2025 Queer Voices Singer-Songwriter Wendy Taylor, American Psycho: The Musical Actor Ivan Moreno and FLUX Houston chair Jevon Martin
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58:00Send us a text On this episode of Queer Voices, we spotlight Houston’s LGBTQ+ talent and community leaders. Singer-songwriter Wendy Taylor reflects on her lifelong journey in music, from childhood choirs to competing on American Idol, and previews her new series of shows at Leon’s Lounge. Performer Ivan Moreno shares his path from opera to musical …
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Ballot Power: How Voters Are Advancing Progressive Change in Red States
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29:14In a time when U.S. politics feels gridlocked and bleak, ballot initiatives are offering a surprising source of hope. In some of the reddest states—places that handed Trump overwhelming victories—voters are quietly embracing progressive policies like paid sick leave, higher minimum wages, and Medicaid expansion. In this episode, Jen Taylor-Skinner …
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August 27 2025 Queer Voices Mayor's LGBTQ Advisory Board Chair Clay Melder, Former Board Chair Jacques Bourgeois, Ethel Cain Concert Review
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56:07Send us a text In this episode of Queer Voices, we open with a concert review of rising trans artist Ethel Cain (the first openly trans artist to reach the Billboard Top Ten), whose Southern Gothic sound and devoted fanbase are shaping the soundtrack of queer youth. We hear directly from fans before and after her Houston show about what her music m…
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Americans want big ideas, but Trump’s opponents aren’t providing them
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1:07:43Episode Summary One of the most enduring myths of the Trump years has been that everyone who votes for him does so because they agree with him. Obviously a lot of his supporters do, but polls have consistently shown that Trump is a historically unpopular president with issue positions that most Americans have never supported. And yet, it remains t…
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August 20th 2025 Queer Voices State Rep Jon Rosenthal and American Psycho The Musical Actor Tyce Green
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57:00Send us a text Democracy under threat meets boundary-pushing theater in this powerful episode of Queer Voices, where urgent political resistance stands alongside daring artistic expression. Texas Representative Jon Rosenthal pulls back the curtain on the high-stakes battle against mid-decade redistricting maps that would dramatically dilute minorit…
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The Human Cost of Failed Immigration Reform — A Conversation with Jessica Orozco Guttlein
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37:43Decades of failed immigration reform and political half-measures have left millions of immigrants in the U.S. without a path to legal status. Instead, families are being torn apart by harsh deportation policies, asylum seekers are forced into the shadows, and U.S. citizen children live in daily fear of losing their parents. In this episode, I speak…
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August 13 2025 Queer Voices Trans Advocate/Author Nico Lang, LGBT musical at MATCH and filmmaker Wayne Chella
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58:10Send us a text How do we transform pain into powerful storytelling? This episode brings together three remarkable creators who are documenting LGBTQ+ experiences through different artistic mediums, each offering unique perspectives on resilience, healing, and joy. Award-winning journalist Nico Lang takes us behind the scenes of writing "American Te…
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Terrified Trump is slinging ‘zombie food’ to distract his base from Jeffrey Epstein
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1:24:12Episode Summary Donald Trump in an unfamiliar situation. After years of being able to tell his followers what to think about almost everything, many of the MAGA faithful are upset at his administration for refusing to release the government’s files on the infamous sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. When he was running for office last year, Trump and ma…
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Sydney Sweeney and ‘Phantom Lib Syndrome’
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1:15:23Episode Summary Right-wing Republicans have lost in the marketplace of ideas. Their policy views that evolution never happened, that tax cuts increase revenues, and that science is a big left-wing conspiracy are laughable. Whenever reactionaries attempt to debate progressives and liberals, as they recently tried against Mehdi Hasan, they fall flat …
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Trump’s war on statisticians and the ‘liberal bias’ of reality
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1:32:02On Tuesday, Brad DeLong joined me for a live Theory of Change episode to discuss Donald Trump’s firing of Erika McEntarfer, the former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and how it is part of a decades-long war on sound economics and expertise in general waged by reactionary Republicans. We also discussed Brad’s own efforts to get econ…
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Things Do Not Have to Be This Way: Dismantling American Patriarchy with Anna Malaika Tubbs
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46:50Author and scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs joins The Electorette to discuss her powerful new book, Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us—a sweeping, incisive examination of how American patriarchy was built to exclude, erase, and control. In this conversation, Anna unpacks the nation’s gendered social order, from its origins in the Constit…
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In an age of fictionalized reality, we need literary criticism more than ever
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1:10:37Episode Summary If you’ve watched or listened to this podcast for a while, you probably know by now that Theory of Change is about stories—larger trends that happen and the narratives we tell ourselves about them. We’re finite beings; we exist for a moment within a small slice of spacetime. To understand anything at all about externality, we have …
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Are Governors The New Power Players in U.S. Politics? A Conversation with Ofirah Yheskel
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20:09In this episode of The Electorette, I’m joined by Ofirah Yheskel, Director of External Affairs for the Democratic Governors Association, to unpack the growing national influence of Democratic governors—especially in the face of Republican extremism and Trump-aligned policymaking. We discuss two high-stakes gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Je…
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July 30th Queer Voices - Out State Rep Jolanda Jones and Joel Sandel and the Wizard of Oz
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55:15Send us a text The strength of queer resilience shines through in this powerful episode featuring two remarkable Texans taking bold stands in hostile territory. Representative Jolanda Jones pulls back the curtain on the disturbing reality of Texas politics, where LGBTQ+ rights are under constant assault and even moderate Republicans vote for discri…
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Diplomacy vs. Disaster: Sara Haghdoosti on Building a Progressive Foreign Policy
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35:11What does a truly progressive foreign policy look like—and what happens when we abandon it? Foreign policy often feels like a conversation for elites. But in this episode, Sara Haghdoosti, Executive Director of Win Without War, argues otherwise. She joins Jen Taylor-Skinner to unpack how the collapse of diplomacy between the U.S. and Iran—and Israe…
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Off the Clock: How Impact Pros Live their Values At and Outside Work (Live Show)
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1:09:35About the Episode There are so many ways to engage with the major issues of this world. There's looking away and tuning out - and then there's tuning *WAY* in. For folks working, creating, and side-hustling in social impact, life is all about the latter. While it can be heavy on the mind, heart, and soul to take on this work, it's also a way to gua…
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AI is not the main problem—how we use it can be
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1:08:38Episode Summary People often say that history repeats itself—so often, in fact, that the phrase has become a cliché. Yet when it comes to technology, that sentiment holds a lot of truth. We don’t just reinvent the tools of our ancestors; we also recycle the same debates, challenges, and controversies that have surrounded earlier innovations, often…
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July 23rd 2025 Queer Voices - Brad Pritchett, Austin Colburn, and Town Meeting Art Exhibition
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59:41Send us a text In the face of unprecedented legislative attacks, how does Texas's LGBTQ community forge ahead? This episode of Queer Voices delivers a masterclass in resilience, featuring Brad Pritchett, the Interim Executive Director of Equality Texas, who reveals the brutal realities of the recent legislative session where over 200 anti-LBGTQIA+ …
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Why mediocrity seems to be the key to innovation in evolution and technology
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1:04:11Episode Summary Large language models, the computer programs often referred to as artificial intelligence are everywhere these days. There's a lot of hype, a lot of doomerism, and a lot of nay-saying. But despite what all the commentators are saying, the current AI technology is neither a magical god-being nor a tremendous scam. It’s just a really…
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July 16th 2025 QUEER VOICES Ramone Nelson of PARADE
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19:33Send us a text Tonight's show on KPFT will be a repeat, but here is an exclusive for QUEER VOICES podcast listeners! Ramone Nelson is in the touring production of PARADE, which hit the Hobby Center last night, and will be here through July 20th. The show is an uncompromising look at the mistrial of a Jewish man in Atlanta in 1913. Ramone talks abou…
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Republicans treat politics like viral marketing, Democrats don’t
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59:01Episode Summary In the aftermath of every presidential election, a flood of analysis pours in during the following weeks. But the real data actually takes a lot longer to come in. And now, several months after the fact—nearly a year actually—all of the most serious validated voter studies have come in, and they have some interesting findings for t…
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Beyond Protest: Kelly Hall on the Power of Ballot Measures When Democracy Fails
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46:16In this episode of The Electorette, host Jen Taylor-Skinner is joined by Kelly Hall, Executive Director of The Fairness Project, to discuss how ballot measures are transforming the political landscape. As congressional dysfunction deepens and the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" threatens vital programs like Medicaid, direct democracy offers a bold a…
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Tupac Shakur and the political soul of hip-hop
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1:10:29Episode Summary Politics is a battle over elections and policies, but underneath it’s really a battle over stories, the cultural myths that shape our sense of identity, power, and possibility. And few stories loom larger in the American imagination than the saga of Tupac Shakur, the rapper and actor whose influence continues to resonate across the…
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July 2nd 2025 Queer Voices Pride Grand Marshals Hayden Cohen and Lane Lewis
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58:12Send us a text We speak with grand marshals Hayden Cohen and Lane Lewis. First, Hayden the Trendsetter grand marshal talks about an organization that they are apart of, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas. Then we speak with Lane Lewis one of three Distinguished Grand Marshals for the 2025 Official Houston Pride Celebration® Finally Brett Cullum sp…
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Why it matters that pluralism was the biggest innovation of the Renaissance
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1:10:29Episode Summary We live in an uncertain age, one in which wealthy and powerful forces are working tirelessly to overthrow democracy, turn back the clock on human progress and destroy the middle class. The sheer magnitude of the West’s crisis of democracy can be overwhelming, however, and that’s why in this episode, I wanted to take more than a few…
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