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Rrrrn and Tiberius sit down with local anti-ableist organizer Garrett Winters to discuss issues within both the left and society in general as they relate to how we treat the disabled among us and how we can overcome this. For those who want to learn more about what we discussed and take that and run with it, here's Garrett's list of links and further readings as well as their PayPal support link:

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Personal page An Articulate Autistic (https://www.facebook.com/articulateautistic/)

Platform for marginalized voices to be heard which is always recruiting (tell people to contact the page for details) The Outcast (https://www.facebook.com/TheOutcastPost/) and the accompanying blog The Outcast Post (https://theoutcast.info/)

The Revolution Needs All Kinds of Minds: on Slacktivism and Ableism (https://theoutcast.info/the-revolution-needs-all-kinds-of-minds-on-slacktivism-and-ableism-2/) is a key post related to stuff I mentioned in the podcast and in the beginning are (https://www.autistichoya.com/2013/08/critiquing-temple-grandin.html), (https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/27/temple-grandin-devalues-us-again-in-print-this-time/), and (https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/01/08/temple-grandin-displaying-near-textbook-hfaas-elitism/) about Temple Grandin

Ally's Guide for Autism Acceptance Month (https://theoutcast.info/autism-acceptance-month-guide/) is something I made before I left to help allies help autistics by taking direct action regarding Autism $peaks, A Red Rage #RedInstead (https://theoutcast.info/a-red-rage-redinstead/) was my Autism Acceptance article from a couple years back and is one of my favorite articles, my other is You're Not As Important As You Think: on "Being Divisive" (https://theoutcast.info/youre-not-as-important-as-you-think-on-being-divisive/)

Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (https://autisticadvocacy.networkforgood.com/projects/23616-your-gift-will-help-empower-the-autistic-community) and Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network (https://awnnetwork.org/donate-to-awn/) are both good orgs also if people want to support me it's...very hard to find a job that's not overloading and I have been searching for a long time so here's my Paypal (https://www.paypal.me/GarrettWinters)"

Time for some Inside Baseball, comrades, as Sauce and Tiberius are joined by guest Valerie Sinclair (https://twitter.com/maruchan1312) to discuss the recent DSA West Coast Regional Convention in LA and generally dive into the internal challenges and structural issues within the DSA. Stick around at the end (at about 49m 28s)to hear why both Sauce and Valerie are running to be on the NPC themselves!