DISINFORMED: Republicans are leaning into transphobia
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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4.1 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Next week, we’ll hear from Emily Gorcenski, an activist who uses her data science background to fight Nazis (seriously!)
This work isn’t easy and Emily faces transphobic attacks on her identity as a trans woman.
This, unfortunately, isn’t an isolated thing.
Just this week, Rand Paul and insurrection enthusiast Marjorie Taylor Green both attacked trans people to score ideological points.
In this preview of our conversation, Emily explains how this is used as a deliberate strategy to cause harm to trans folks.
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| 0:33.1 | You're listening to Disinformed. |
| 0:35.2 | A mini-series from There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Bridget Todd. |
| 0:43.6 | I am so excited about next week's guest that I couldn't wait until Tuesday for you to hear some of what she has to say. |
| 0:49.9 | Emily Grosensky is an activist who uses her data science background to fight Nazis. Yep, you heard |
| 0:55.5 | that right. After being pepper sprayed by a well-known white supremacist at the deadly Unite the Right |
| 1:00.7 | Valley in Charlottesville in 2017, Emily built First Visual, a resource that documents and |
| 1:06.8 | tracks the court proceedings of Nazis and white supremacists. This work has not been without significant personal risk for Emily. |
| 1:13.7 | She even relocated out of the United States to Germany just to get some space. |
| 1:18.1 | And when the white supremacists that Emily tracks try to attack her, |
| 1:21.3 | they often do so using transphobic attacks on her identity as a trans woman. |
| 1:25.7 | Unfortunately, weaponizing trans identity is not isolated. And just this |
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