GETTING CURIOUS | How Can Local Politics Be More Gender Inclusive? with Jesse Pierce and Samy Nemir Olivares

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Did you know that if you want to represent your block in Brooklyn as a local elected official, you have to mark a gender designation—and the only options are “male” and “female”? This week on Getting Curious, Jonathan is speaking with Jesse Pierce and Samy Nemir Olivares, both elected District Leaders in Brooklyn, all about this gender rule: how it came into existence, why it’s exclusionary, and how we can work to make local seats across Brooklyn and the country more inclusive and equitable. Jesse Pierce is a non-binary queer elected Democratic District Leader in Brooklyn's 52nd Assembly District. They focus on hyper local political grassroots organizing as a means to transform our politics both locally and nationally. Samy Nemir Olivares (he/they) is a Puerto Rican-Dominican, queer activist, writer, communicator and District Leader in Brooklyn. Samy advocates for gender, racial and social justice through politics, media and education. Samy works for a national nonprofit for LGBTQ civil rights and produced a documentary about TGNC rights in New York: Stonewall With a T. You can follow Jesse on Twitter @jessepiercebk and Instagram @jessepierce07. You can follow Samy on Twitter @SamyNemir and Instagram @SamyforBrooklyn. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Check out all new Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious. On today's episode, I'm joined by Brooklyn Democratic Party District leaders,
0:14.0	Jesse Pierce, and Sammy Namer Alaveris, where I asked them,
0:18.0	how can local politics be more gender inclusive?
0:35.2	Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan. exclusive. two guests and I'm just going to welcome them straight away. We have Jesse Pierce and Sammy Namer Alveris. How are both of you doing today? I'm doing great. Thank you so much Jonathan.
0:40.0	I'm doing awesome. Oh my gosh, well I'm so excited that you're both here and I'm also really excited because you are both Brooklyn State Committee members,
0:48.0	aka a district leaders, advocating for gender equity in the Brooklyn Democratic Party.
0:53.6	But before we get into your specific stories,
0:55.8	because they're very cool, very incredible,
0:58.8	can't wait to hear about it,
1:00.0	I feel like kind of a naughty Democrat because I literally, independent of hearing your two stories, just kind of understood what a Democratic committee was like
1:13.8	literally two weeks ago. First time I heard about it. I thought I was well-bursed in
1:18.5	politics I was like yeah state legislature. I speak three languages
1:22.2	of state legislature.
1:24.0	But I never knew what Democratic committees are.
1:28.0	So can you tell us a little bit about what a Democratic committee member does?
1:32.0	So Democratic County Committee. what a Democratic committee member does?
1:32.6	So Democratic county committees
1:35.2	are supposed to be organizing structures of voters
1:39.4	who organize their own communities.
1:42.4	So it starts at the very local level. There is four seats for every
1:46.8	block. Those are county committee members. In Brooklyn we have two male, two female. They
1:52.1	ran for office. They get very few signatures and
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