Episode 227: A Brief Note Written After Learning the National Parks Service Removed the word Transgender from Stonewall'

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Order The Memory Palace book now, dear listener. On Bookshop.org, on Amazon.com, on Barnes & Noble, or directly from Random House. Or order the audiobook at places like Libro.fm.

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Music

Pockets of Light by Ludomyr Melnyk
All in Circles and Janvie by Shida Shahabi
Between Trees by Akria Kosemura

Notes

There are a million things to read about Stonewall, but the thing that I feel like deepened my understanding enough was The New York Public Library's The Stonewall Reader. Particularly the audiobook. Couldn't recommend it enough.

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0:00.0	Hey, before we get started with this episode, I wanted to let folks know about some upcoming
0:04.6	appearances in the Midwest and New York City. I'm doing four Midwestern book events in May,
0:10.2	one on Monday the 12th. I will be in Minneapolis at Moon Palace Books. On the 13th, I will be in the
0:15.9	Cincinnati area right over the border in Erlander, Kentucky at the Central Library. On the 14th, the Golden Hour Books in Indianapolis.
0:23.1	And then on the 15th in Chicago, it's city-lit books.
0:26.1	And in June, on June 13th, I will be doing a special one-time-only live show at the Tribeca Audio Festival.
0:34.5	This is going to be based around my audiobook, and it's going to include performances from two of its readers,
0:39.4	Carrie Coon and Lily Taylor. I'm super excited about this.
0:42.9	Find links to those events at the memorypalice.us slash event.
0:47.4	And if you are interested in coming to the New York or Chicago events, you might want to act quickly on those because spots are limited.
0:56.2	This is the Memory Palace. I'm Nate DeMayo. A brief note after learning that the National
1:01.5	Park Service has removed references to transgender people from the official web page of the
1:06.0	Stonewall National Monument in New York. I am reading this aloud in the 10th of March 2025.
1:12.6	The timestamp is important, I think, so that you, listening to it, whenever you are listening to it, can do your best to
1:19.6	contextualize or pinpoint or maybe recover the meaning of these words, how they were first spoken.
1:26.6	There was I read them now, mere days after I first started to write them,
1:31.2	I can feel that that meaning has shifted somehow already,
1:34.9	has been changed by circumstances that seem to be changing so quickly these days
1:39.2	in this particular historical moment,
1:41.6	in ways that might not make sense to someone listening to this in
1:44.4	the future and if you are listening in the future some years from now just trust
1:49.0	me time feels strange right now somehow at least here in the United States and I
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