E129. Mitchell Jackson Mourns The Death Of The Goddess Bunny

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🗓️ 20 May 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Mitchell Jackson stops by and talks about his beloved friend and surrogate mother, Sandie Crisp, aka The Goddess Bunny, a disabled trans icon. She died in January of Covid, after surviving polio and HIV. Mitchell discusses the ups and downs of her life, stints of homelessness, having her picture hanging in the Louvre, why she’s huge in South America, her hatred of identity politics, the surrogate family she built for herself, and the tragedy of her passing in isolation (due to Covid restrictions) in an assisted living facility. He and Bridget discuss the massive flaws in our system regarding the health and care of the homeless, disabled, mentally ill, and people struggling with addiction. They cover the battle to hold a funeral that did Sandie proud, how she raged against the idea that anyone would ever perceive her as a victim, and why Mitchell is optimistic about the future.

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0:00.0	This is Watkins, welcome with Bridget Pettasy, I'm Bridget Pettasy, and you are welcome.
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1:01.0	Our guest this week is Friend of the Show and Man with the most amazing stories of anyone I know. Mitchell Jackson.
1:10.0	Mitchell is a writer and communications consultant. He lives with his husband and three dogs, Bambi Bugs, and Timmy.
1:17.0	I'm with Mitchell Jackson, everyone, and I'm very excited. Welcome.
1:23.0	Thank you for having me. This is great. Tell me why you're visiting us here in Los Angeles.
1:30.0	I left LA a year ago. It was only supposed to leave for a few weeks.
1:33.0	What happened was two days into the pandemic, our neighbor, who was like a wannabe Billy Irish girl.
1:40.0	She had line-groom hair, early 20s, trust fund. She got bored and lit her front door on fire.
1:48.0	And also lit a blanket on fire in our hallway, which caused smoke damage in our unit.
1:54.0	This was only two days into the pandemic, and she, like I later ran into her in the hallway and was, and she said she did it because she was bored.
2:01.0	So then I realized I needed, I could not do a pandemic in Los Angeles. This is when we thought the pandemic would be like a month or two.
2:08.0	Two weeks to fly to the car. So I thought, so my husband had a place outside of Los Angeles in the middle of nowhere.
2:16.0	So we decided to go there. And I thought we'd be there for two weeks when we just never left.
2:21.0	What a lucky break.
2:24.0	It was a lucky break in the sense that we didn't have to be in LA or big city where there's more viruses.
2:31.0	So there was much less risk factor where we were staying, which I'm not going to say where it is, but it's in the middle of nowhere.
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