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

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Comedy, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 60 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.
0:02.8	And every week, I sit down for a 40-minute conversation
0:05.8	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:09.9	On today's episode, I'm joined by Brooklyn Democratic Party District leaders,
0:14.0	Jesse Pierce, and Sammy Nemeer Oliverias, where I asked them,
0:17.7	how can local politics be more gender-inclusive?
0:23.2	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Van Ness.
0:25.3	I'm so excited to welcome. We have a very unique episode today because we have not one,
0:29.5	but we have two guests, and I'm just going to welcome them straight away.
0:32.7	We have Jesse Pierce and Sammy Nemeer Oliverias.
0:36.2	How are both of you doing today?
0:37.8	I'm doing great. Thank you so much, Jonathan.
0:40.0	I'm going awesome.
0:41.4	Oh my gosh. Well, I'm so excited that you're both here,
0:43.2	and I'm also really excited because you are both Brooklyn State Committee members,
0:47.9	aka a district leaders, advocating for gender equity in the Brooklyn Democratic Party.
0:53.6	But before we get into your specific stories, because they're very cool,
0:57.5	they're incredible. Can't wait to hear about it.
1:00.3	I feel like kind of a naughty Democrat, because I
1:06.6	literally independent of hearing your two stories,
1:10.4	just kind of understood what a Democratic committee was, like,
1:14.2	literally two weeks ago.
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