A New LGBTQ+ Strategy in Washington
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
With the second Trump administration about to take power, how can LGBTQ+ advocacy groups continue to advance their nationwide priorities? Imara is joined by Kelley Robinson, Executive of the Human Rights Campaign, who lays out her organization’s plans for the next four years. The two discuss how new coalition building strategies could help disrupt a growing culture of fear and individualism. Kelley also talks about how she remains optimistic in the face of political hostility and why we need liberation for all, not for some.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, it's me, Amara. |
| 0:09.3 | Welcome to the TransLash podcast, a show where we tell trans stories to save trans lives. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, next week, Donald Trump will be inaugurated for the second time as president of the United States, and we have to get real about what the plans are that that administration has for our community. |
| 0:28.5 | And a part of that is figuring out how members of our community, specifically the institutions that are LGBTQ-focused, how they're going to respond. And that's why I wanted to talk |
| 0:39.7 | to Kelly Robinson, who is president of the Human Rights Campaign. It is the single largest |
| 0:45.2 | LGBTQ organization in the country with important initiatives on and about trans people across the |
| 0:52.1 | country, and because it is a politically active organization, |
| 0:56.7 | could have an outsized impact on the conversation around trans people over the next four years. |
| 1:03.3 | So for all of those reasons, it makes sense to kick off our coverage and conversations that we'll |
| 1:08.4 | be having over the next several weeks and throughout the year about the Trump administration with Kelly Robinson. |
| 1:13.9 | We have to be thinking as a movement collectively about what it means to build power for the LGBTQ |
| 1:18.3 | plus community. If we're really real about it, we got to get some other stakeholders on board |
| 1:22.9 | with us. But before we get into this timely and crucial conversation, let's start out as always with some trans joy. |
| 1:30.3 | Art and design can help bring life to the sometimes abstract fight for liberation. |
| 1:52.0 | Mara Arazo is a community artist and organizer who is dedicated to using their creativity for change. |
| 1:58.0 | Working under the name Amulsify, Mar has created vibrant illustrations |
| 2:02.7 | for social justice nonprofits and grassroots organizations from around the country. They specialize |
| 2:09.2 | in working with families and kids and on issues around trans rights, reproductive justice, |
| 2:14.8 | and immigrant rights. You can find their diverse illustrations in the children's book, |
| 2:19.4 | What's an Abortion Anyways? |
| 2:21.1 | And my choice always, in always, a zine about abortion for trans and non-binary folks. |
| 2:28.5 | Here's Marr to tell us more. |
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