All the Fine Girls Be There

Nancy

WNYC Studios

Gay, Documentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Lgtbq, Lesbian, Relationships, Asian, Politics, Conversations, Storytelling, Health & Fitness, Homosexuality

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This week, we dive into the world of an underground Black lesbian strip club in Los Angeles.

— You can watch Shakedown at shakedown.film and The Criterion Channel.

— Leilah Weinraub is a filmmaker and artist. Ronnie D. Ron is the founder of Shakedown. Egypt Blaque Knyle is a social worker and renowned burlesque dancer.

Special thanks this week to Tracie Hunte.

Music in this episode by Jeremy S. Bloom. Theme by Alexander Overington.

Transcript

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0:00.0	We are recording this on Tuesday, June 17th, and what a couple of days it has been.
0:15.6	It truly has. Where do we even start?
0:18.8	Well, I mean, at least this time, what we're talking about is like good stuff.
0:22.2	Yes, finally.
0:24.2	So over the weekend, you went to the rally.
0:29.2	Yes, I was at Brooklyn Liberation, which was a rally and march for Black trans lives.
0:34.4	It took place in Brooklyn where I live, and I went with my girlfriend.
0:37.4	Sound designer, Jeremy, was there too, but I didn't see him because it turns out
0:41.6	there were over 15,000 people there. All wearing white and all wearing masks.
0:51.0	There were amazing speakers, and the family of Leilene Polanco was there.
0:55.2	Leilene was a trans woman who died in solitary confinement at Rikers Island last June
0:59.6	after prison guards refused to offer her needed medical assistance.
1:03.8	And it was just so important to see so many people showing up for Black trans folks
1:08.8	because once again, Black trans lives matter.
1:12.4	Black trans lives matter!
1:17.4	We're taking an image of the free today.
1:20.4	The footage looked so incredible. I was so sad to not be in Brooklyn with all of you.
1:29.6	But then, of course, the next day, we woke up to the news that one of the Supreme Court decisions was very exciting.
1:37.0	They voted 6-3 that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act does protect LGBTQ folks
1:43.6	from discrimination in the workplace.
1:45.6	We won. We finally win something. I didn't think it was going to happen.
1:50.6	Yeah, I think most people thought it wasn't going to go down like that.
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