Hard Left News

Nativerse Studios

An important, no-nonsense show featuring leftist, BIPOC & Queer voices discussing current events, history, community, and direct action. Remember, none of this is new!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

  1. Kicked Out: Queer Youth  w/ Sassafras Patterdale

    03/03/2025

    Kicked Out: Queer Youth w/ Sassafras Patterdale

    In this episode Calpi, Clay & Todd talk with Queer & Genderqueer Author, Dog Trainer & Freelance Writer Sassafras (Lowrey) Patterdale. Their first book, Kicked Out, is an anthology written by & about the experiences of unhoused queer youth. When Kicked Out was first published back in 2010 around 40% of unhoused youth openly identified as LGBTQ+. In the face of the recent Grants Pass v Johnson ruling and aggressive rollback of civil rights for BIPOC, trans, and queer people, we find ourselves terrified over what the youth not face. Hard Left News is community supported. Your support allows us to produce instructional & educational content, and to be able to talk with BIPOC, Queer, Trans, & Leftist voices that need to be heard. If these resources are important to you, please subscribe, share, and consider donating. Sassafras is a celebrated author whose queer and leather books (Roving Pack, A Little Queermas Carol, Leather Ever After, and Lost Boi) have been honored by the American Library Association, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the International Leather Association- Writing Awards. Sassafras’ work regularly appears in leading magazines/publications, and Sassafras has taught queer storytelling workshops at colleges, conferences, bookstores, festivals, and squats from Atlanta to Berlin to NYC to Oakland to Amsterdam. The film rights to Sassafras’ queer leather novel Lost Boi were recently optioned!! Episode Page: https://www.hardleftnews.com/3-2-25-sassafras the Hard Left News Resource Page: https://www.hardleftnews.com/resources You can find links to Sassafras’s writings, projects, and social media here: Website: https://sassafraspatterdale.com/ Sassafras’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SassafrasPatterdale Kicked Out: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7717332-kicked-out Additional Links p:ear Mentor Center: https://www.pearmentor.org Transponder Community Resources: https://transponder.community Center for American Progress – Federal Response to Gay & Transgender Homeless Youth [PDF]: https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2010/06/pdf/lgbtyouthhomelessness.pdf DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dhs-now-allows-for-surveillance-based What to know about the Tate brothers, social media influencers who face trafficking charges: https://apnews.com/article/romania-andrew-tristan-tate-travel-ban-lifted-3c8b56be5d99f9ed04045f4680e5f8c0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    47 min
  2. To Joyfully Exist & Resist w/ Race Bannon

    02/17/2025

    To Joyfully Exist & Resist w/ Race Bannon

    In this episode of Hard Left News Calpi & Todd had an important talk with Author, Educator & Activist Race Bannon. We all discussed Race’s most recent book, his history of activism, politics & direct action, fascism and what that means for the kink, queer, trans and non-binary communities, as well as vetting and creating safer spaces. Race Bannon has been an organizer, writer, publisher, educator, commentator, leader, speaker, and activist in the LGBTQ, leather/kink, polyamory, and HIV/STI prevention realms since 1973. He is an author, widely published writer, active speaker, community organizer and project leader, and has received numerous national and local awards. Race is one of the authors and editors of a new book, Kink Is, highlighting kinksters from around the world set to be published by Unbound Edition Press in September 2024. He’s also a regular cast member of the online series, On Guard Cigar Salon. Episode Page: https://www.hardleftnews.com/2-16-25-race-bannon the Hard Left News Resource Page: https://www.hardleftnews.com/resources You can find links to Race’s writings, projects, and social media here: Website: https://linktr.ee/bannonrace Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/racebannon.bsky.social Mastodon: https://woof.group/@racebannon YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RaceBannonChannel On Guard Cigar Salon: https://onguardsalon.com/ Kink Is, Divine Deviance, Foreword by Margaret Cho An Anthology of Surprisingly Relatable True Stories About Sex, Power, and Joy: https://www.unboundedition.com/product/kink-is-divine-deviance-collective-anthology/ Documentary film series: https://kinkismysuperpower.com/ Finding Me - Viola Davis: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58687126-finding-me Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez - A Review: https://adfontesjournal.com/book-review/jesus-and-john-wayne-a-review/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 13m
  3. History of Political Action of the Unhoused w/ Annie Powers

    12/20/2024

    History of Political Action of the Unhoused w/ Annie Powers

    As an intro to some of the important conversations we have with people in our community, here’s a Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills / Talk of the Bay episode (on KSQD) we did earlier this year with Annie Powers. Annie Powers on the history of political action of the unhoused and the impact of Grants Pass v Johnson. Annie Powers is a PhD candidate in the Luskin Department of History at UCLA. Annie is a historian of homeless people's organized political movements in the United States. Annie’s dissertation focuses on the National Union of the Homeless, 1984-1995. Annie is also an organizer with Union de Vecinos, the Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union. A complete bonus interview with a PhD candidate, educator, and community activist Annie Powers, as a part of the series of talks and interviews conducted for “Criminalizing Survival: How the Grants Pass Ruling Impacts Your Hometown.“ that aired from 5PM to 7PM October 7th, 2024, as a joint feature between Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills and Talk of the Bay. Only on K-Squid. 90.7, 89.7, 89.5FM Hard Left Post: https://hardleftnews.com/mot-annie-powers/ Annie on Instagram: @Anniebpowers https://www.instagram.com/anniebpowers/ History of Union de Vecinos, Eastside Local of LA Tenants Union: https://knock-la.com/union-de-vecinos-25-years-los-angeles-tenants-movement/ Op ed co-wrote with fellow organizer/scholar on the history & power of tenant unions: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-04-10/los-angeles-housing-crisis-tenants-unions-evictions-city-council Union de Vecinos, the Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union https://la2050.org/organizations/union-de-vecinos National Union of the Homeless: https://nationalunionofthehomeless.org/ KSQD – Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills RSS Feed: https://ksqd.org/feed/podcast/momentoftruth/ KSQD – Talk of the Bay RSS Feed: https://ksqd.org/feed/podcast/talk-of-the-bay/ KSQD – Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills Website: https://ksqd.org/series/momentoftruth/ ** This interview was conducted, edited, and produced by Todd Zimmerman of Nativerse Studios and Meilin Obinata for Moment of Truth with Ami Chen Mills and Talk of the Bay on KSQD and KSQT, 90.7, 89.7, 89.5FM on the Central California Coast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    40 min

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