EP 35: The Tories won – Here is an hour of hope

This week

To cushion the blow of the worst goddam election result, we put together an hour of tales about trans heroes and how you can keep it together for the fights to come!

Also:

Graham Linehan could win “d**k of the year”!

Big dictionary names “They” as their word of the year!

Marvel comics FINALLY gets a trans superhero (sort of).

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1. LOOK AT ALL THE PEOPLE NOMINATING GRAHAM LINEHAN FOR DICK OF THE YEAR!

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DickOfTheYearNominee&src

Have no idea what we’re talking about? Read all about it!

https://gcn.ie/graham-linehan-dck-of-the-year/

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/11/graham-linehan-channel-4-dick-of-the-year-the-last-leg-transphobe/

2. Mirriam Webster name “They” as their word of the year!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50735371

3. MARVEL HAS A TRANS SUPERHERO!

Here is the comic: 

https://www.marvel.com/articles/tv-shows/marvel-s-hero-project-recap-the-mighty-rebekah

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/130535/marvel-just-introduced-its-first-ever-trans-superhero-12-year-old-mighty-rebekah/

4. Sylvia Rivera

Speech video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-JIOWUw1o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera

5. Dr Alan L. Hart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_L._Hart

https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/hart_alan_1890_1962_/#.XfMzaOj7SUk

6. Emily Williams

If I had a voice video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhAkcoSQP34

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/59-inspirational-lgbtq-people-making-16630676

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