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Who Did What Now

146. Billy Tipton - Trans Jazz Icon

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

Feminist, History

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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It's Pride month and so it's the perfect time to tack about trans cultural icon, Billy Lee Tipton - a transgender jazz musician, who performed all over the country, had five dogs, five wives and a great sense of humour.


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0:00.0

Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now, the Hestry Podcast.

0:11.7

That's not your history class with me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot and

0:17.6

reader of books. So there's a lot going on at the moment, and this isn't even like my life.

0:25.2

This is just in the world.

0:27.8

At time of recording, the Madling, which is the aid flotilla, the humanitarian aid flotella

0:34.5

that is trying to get humanitarian aid into Palestine, right?

0:41.2

It has been intercepted.

0:44.2

The crew have been kidnapped.

0:48.0

And they're putting out all these like propaganda photos of like,

0:52.3

oh, we gave them sandwiches.

0:53.7

And it's like, yeah yeah they're on an entire

0:55.8

flotilla of aid which is going to include food you don't think they brought food really so

1:03.4

they did that on top of that like here's here's the thing here's here's the thing

1:10.2

Israel are reporting that they've Here's the thing. Here's the thing.

1:17.0

Israel are reporting that they've stopped the selfie yacht,

1:24.6

which is such a weird way to phrase humanitarian aid flotilla.

1:26.6

What? And then on top of this, we have Los Angeles. So basically,

1:32.6

ICE agents, who, as federal agents, should have like a badge number and a name and you should

1:38.7

be able to hold them accountable for their actions. Yeah. Isn't that how this works? Like,

1:44.1

isn't that a thing? Anyway,

1:46.4

so they're trying to kidnap people in Los Angeles and the good citizens of Los Angeles

1:51.2

have decided that they don't want that happening and so they are just making like human barriers

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