Out in the Open Radio Hour Out in the Open

Out in the Open Radio Hour, Episode 33, Lucy Webb talks with Patricia Pedroza Gonzalez, Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies and American Studies at Keene State College, Keene, NH. Patricia talks deeply about the practices of spirituality in relationship to decolonization, indigenous connection, queerness, and community. The connection that all humans are love and asking ourselves how are we showing up to practice love? Sit and listen to this wonderful conversation with Lucy and Patricia and let us know your connections to rural queerness and your spirituality! 

Show Notes mentioned in the episode: 

https://www.eckankar.org/

Out in the Open Radio Hour, Episode 32, Lucy Webb (our guest host and Chair of our Board) has a conversation with Ben Power from the Sexual Minority Archives. Listen to Ben share about his journey as a trans man, his life's work of the Sexual Minority Archives- one of the oldest and largest collections of LGBTQIA+ historical documents, media, and artifacts in the world, creating of intergenerational community, and choosing rural life that is affirming and nurturing. So many gems in this conversations, when asked what message he would give to his younger self, he says, "You are stronger than you think....and you have to join with others to do what you want to do in life." Below are some links to many of the references named in the conversation.

Music at the beginning and end of the episode is from My Gay Banjo. The first song at the beginning of the episode is Exactly Who you Are, and at the end of the episode we hear I'll Meet you in the Streets. Thank you My Gay Banjo for the use of your music! 3

Links: 


Sexual Minority Archives,
The Leslie Feinberg Library,
Out Books on Wheels,
Stonewall Rebellion, listen to our Out in the Open Radio Hour Episode 9,
Christine Jorgensen + Renee Richards, 
Lou Sullivan,
Miss Major,
When asked what the oldest publication in the Sexual Minority archives, Ben shared about the Public Universal Friend, an early rural gender queer person who documented their experience.

Out in the Open Radio Hour, Episode 31, Lucy Webb, Out in the Open's current Board Chair and community member, has a conversation with Jo Lum, our Interim Managing Director. Jo shares about their journey as a queer person, how they are connected to Out in the Open, their love and summer camp, money, and more! Take a listen to this sweet conversation and get to know Jo! 

You'll be hearing several more episodes with Lucy's voice over the next couple of months while HB is on their sabbatical. 

Show notes: 


Friends of Camp Little Notch
People’s Institute for Undoing Racism
Resource Generation
Headwaters Foundation for Justice
Outstanding Returns

Trigger Warning/Content Warning for this episode- issues and reference to police violence, involuntary restraint, and white supremacy are all mentioned in this episode.

This is an audio recording of the Key Findings and Recommendations found in the Final Report on the Community Safety Review Process (full 223 page report can be found here).

This audio recording was recorded by four Out in the Open community members (HB Lozito, Jo Lum, Eli Coughlin-Galbraithand, and one anonymous community member) to support accessibility of the report. The Key Findings and Recommendations is a 22 page excerpt of the final report. Feel free to read/follow along here: https://bit.ly/BCSfindings.

Community Updates as of 1/21/21



At the 1/19/21 Selectboard Meeting the Selectboard voted 3-2 to not increase the BPD training budget from the already existing budget. (The BPD had a %40 increase in the training budget requested).
At the 1/19/21 Selectboard Meeting the Selecboard passed the motion 5-0, that "The SB gratefully accepts the Community Safety Report and directs staff to provide additional info regarding the recommendations in that report to help the SB make decision in Town actions to move forward in this work."



A couple of show notes:


Min 21 sec 26, should be the word "for" instead of "or"
Min 25 sec 51, should be the word "often" instead of "have"

Trigger Warning/Content Warning for this episode- issues and reference to suicidal ideation, police violence, involuntary restraint, and white supremacy are all mentioned in this episode.  


Out in the Open Radio Hour, Episode 29, we talk with Kaz DeWolfe and Laura Stamas, two Brattleboro community members who were members on the Brattleboro Community Safety Review Team Committee. In this episode we hear more about the Brattleboro Community Safety Review Process, which is a process that begun in response to the 2020 Uprisings for Black Lives. Kaz and Laura talk about the process and recommendations made in the final Community Safety Review Report that was published at the end of 2020. Each share their experiences with in Brattleboro around safety and harm, including experiences as marginalized community members. In part two of this series, a number of community members read aloud the Key Findings and Recommendations put forth by the Brattleboro Community Safety Review Final Report. 

Some acronyms and words that came up in the episode:


RFP, stands for Request for Proposals. There were several proposals submitted to the Brattleboro Selectboard on this process, and the proposal that was selected was one set forth by Shea Witzberger and Emily Megas-Russell, LICSW
Mad- Mad is a term used often by psychiatrically labeled folks to [re]claim self determination


Show Notes:


Support the Recommendations of the Brattleboro Community Safety Review Committee- Sign On Letter
Key Findings and Recommendations 
Final Report Brattleboro Community Safety Review 

Out in the Open Radio Hour, Episode 28, we talk with Sophia and Jackson from the Tenants Union of Brattleboro about access to affordable housing, what are issues facing renters in our community, and ways that TUB is organizing. 

Show Notes:



Tenants Union of Brattleboro 
Brattleboro Security Deposit Proposal 
Dillons Rule
Brattleboro Community Safety Review Proposal