WAD We Covered In 2021
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The year is coming to a close, so we look back at the stories we thought were the biggest and most memorable of 2021.
We talk about the historic visibility of trans and nonbinary people, the brouhaha over critical race theory, the divisive anti-vaccine movement, and the effort to unionize workers across the country.
Show Notes:
This is our last What A Day of 2021. We’ll be back with new episodes on Tuesday, January 4th, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, December 17th. I'm Gideon Rezinc. I'm Jesse DeFurais. I'm Treville Anderson. |
| 0:10.8 | And I'm Priyanka Rabindi and this is what a day where we are using the excuse of all |
| 0:14.8 | being together to start the show with a full-blown Christmas Carol. Yeah, I'm leaving. Sorry. |
| 0:20.4 | If you if that's what you're gonna do go ahead but I won't be doing that. You had a whole |
| 0:24.1 | solo plan. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I got stage fright and I'm too nervous to do this. |
| 0:28.4 | Gideon's just gonna say the words as we sing them. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That is what makes me feel |
| 0:33.4 | comfortable and therefore it is what I'm doing. All right, Watts-Gwad, the gang is all here. How about |
| 0:43.1 | that? It is truly lovely to have us all in the same space at the same time looking at each other, |
| 0:49.6 | breathing in our various variants. It is truly beautiful. I mean, just a beautiful, beautiful |
| 0:56.4 | group of people indeed. Truly. The reason we're all together is because this is our last show for 2021 |
| 1:03.0 | before we take a two-week break for the holidays. And so we are gonna do something special today. |
| 1:08.3 | Yeah, so number one, make sure there's no news in the next few weeks because we will be off and |
| 1:12.0 | can't cover it. It has been a very wild year. So we wanted to look back and talk about the stories. |
| 1:18.4 | Each of us thought was one of the biggest that we will remember from 2021. And I'm going to start |
| 1:24.3 | us off because 2021 was a trash box politically speaking for trans and non-binary communities. |
| 1:31.2 | There were Republicans in several states who attempted and succeeded at restricting trans youth |
| 1:36.5 | from playing on the sports teams that align with their truths, which is really heartbreaking when |
| 1:40.8 | you hear trans kids themselves speak out against these laws. Here's then fourth-grader Kai Shapley |
| 1:46.8 | testifying in front of the Texas Legislator in April. I do not like spending my free time asking |
| 1:52.0 | adults to make good choices. I've been having to explain myself since I was three or four years old. |
| 2:01.2 | Texas legislators have been attacking me since pre-K. I am in fourth grade now. |
| 2:08.0 | When it comes to bills that target trans youth, I immediately feel angry. It's been very scary |
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