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How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Books Over Boogeymen (with Charlotte Clymer and Lesléa Newman)

How To Not Lose Your Sh!t

Red Wine & Blue

Health & Fitness, Politics, Parenting, Mental Health, News, Kids & Family

4.7892 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Rachel Vindman, Jasmine Clark, and Amanda Weinstein cover a lot of ground: Alex Vindman’s new lawsuit, updates on Amanda’s mystery protestors, accountability, books, and the importance of representation for LGBTQ kids. They talk about how the right wing’s attacks on the trans and gay community is driven by fear and how so many Americans are one genuine conversation away from understanding and acceptance. Then Jasmine sits down with Lesléa Newman, the author of frequently-...

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0:00.0

We were talking just about like what it must be like to be quoted.

0:11.0

Alex said here right matters and he's talking to take out the trash.

0:15.0

We got to address the suburban women problem because it's real.

0:20.0

Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast for Red, Wine, and Blue.

0:25.6

Hi everyone, thanks for listening. I'm Rachel Vindman.

0:29.6

I'm Jasmine Clark.

0:31.6

I'm Amanda Weinstein.

0:32.6

And you're listening to the Suburban Women Problem.

0:35.6

Today I'm really excited to share my conversation

0:39.4

with Charlotte Clymer. We talked about her journey from Army Vet to transgender activist,

0:44.1

and how important it is that kids see themselves reflected in books. And speaking of that,

0:50.6

Jasmine also got to chat this week with Leslie and Newman, the author of Heather has two

0:55.5

mommies. You know, just talking to Charlotte was, it was such an uplifting experience. I really

1:03.1

enjoyed her perspective. And, you know, sometimes activists can get really activisty. And love that but it's important to see people

1:15.2

and their strong convictions but to also see them as real people I don't know if that makes

1:20.5

sense do you guys know what I mean yes I think you need to connect on a human level I'm you know

1:25.9

because you see someone you see the amazing stuff

1:27.6

they do, and then you think they're going to be like this all the time, but the fact is they're

1:31.0

just normal people.

1:32.9

And we talked about how there have been transgender people forever.

1:37.1

There's nothing like crazy.

1:39.0

And they're just your neighbors and, you know, like the Sesame Street song.

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