1 hr 16 min
The Intersection Season 3 Episode 1: Interview with Josh Paul The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse
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The Intersection and this episode "Interview with Josh Paul" are meant for educational purposes. Josh Paul is the State Official whose resignation letter went viral as former Director of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.
Paul resigned in protest of the US sending additional arms to Israel during its siege on Gaza. He had been with the PM for 11 years and served the government through four Presidential administrations.
Since then, Paul has become the leading voice of informed dissent for the Peace in the Middle East movement.
Josh Paul has appeared on Democracy Now, Reid Report, Amanpour, PBS, Middle East Eye, and was a featured speaker at March on DC for Gaza, 1-13-2024. We were lucky to be the first non-news show and the only LGBTQ+ platform to interview him.
Josh and I collaborated to provide a thoughtful, historical, and accessible show about Gaza.
The show will be accessible to everyone, no matter if you have felt too overwhelmed to do the research on your own.
This important conversation includes queer people of color, gender non-conforming, and trans people’s domestic struggles for bodily autonomy and integrity and the intersection of the occupation and war on Gaza.
We address the problem of dehumanization domestically and in Gaza and the self-determination of an entire nation. We discuss some potential hopeful solutions for Palestine’s future integration and statehood. Season 3, Episode 1, “An Interview with Josh Paul” premieres February 3, 2024 at 6PM PST.
We hope you will join us!
BIO: Previously - and for the last decade - Josh Paul has served as Director of Congressional & Public Affairs, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, U.S. Department of State, with responsibility for shaping and implementing a holistic communications strategy in support of U.S. security assistance, arms transfers, and global defense partnerships.
The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse is a podcast made by and for queer people of color, gender non-conforming people, and trans people. We often discuss topics already in the minds and hearts of our community. And we don't shy away from paths less traveled.
We encourage critical thinking and show relationships within the intersection of social justice and confronting systems of racism, homophobia, and transphobia, sexism, xenophobia, ableism.
Our intersection also exists between host and guest and between our social and political lives, our personal lives and lived experience. Interview taped December 21, 2023
***TRIGGER WARNING: There are a few moments where we mention someone who had been killed, violations of human rights, and risks people in the Middle East have experienced. None of the descriptions are inherently explicit but they do name violence, violations, or killings.
If you would like to learn more about Josh Paul's work, check out his LinkedIn page where he originally published his resignation letter: / josh-paul-655a25263
Credits: Intersection audio engineer: Ben Kramer Merchants Media http://www.merchantsmedia.com Ben.kramer@mac.com
Intro/Outro music: L’envol Du Papillon by Patchworker f.k.a. [friendzoned] | / patchworker Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
The Intersection and this episode "Interview with Josh Paul" are meant for educational purposes. Josh Paul is the State Official whose resignation letter went viral as former Director of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.
Paul resigned in protest of the US sending additional arms to Israel during its siege on Gaza. He had been with the PM for 11 years and served the government through four Presidential administrations.
Since then, Paul has become the leading voice of informed dissent for the Peace in the Middle East movement.
Josh Paul has appeared on Democracy Now, Reid Report, Amanpour, PBS, Middle East Eye, and was a featured speaker at March on DC for Gaza, 1-13-2024. We were lucky to be the first non-news show and the only LGBTQ+ platform to interview him.
Josh and I collaborated to provide a thoughtful, historical, and accessible show about Gaza.
The show will be accessible to everyone, no matter if you have felt too overwhelmed to do the research on your own.
This important conversation includes queer people of color, gender non-conforming, and trans people’s domestic struggles for bodily autonomy and integrity and the intersection of the occupation and war on Gaza.
We address the problem of dehumanization domestically and in Gaza and the self-determination of an entire nation. We discuss some potential hopeful solutions for Palestine’s future integration and statehood. Season 3, Episode 1, “An Interview with Josh Paul” premieres February 3, 2024 at 6PM PST.
We hope you will join us!
BIO: Previously - and for the last decade - Josh Paul has served as Director of Congressional & Public Affairs, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, U.S. Department of State, with responsibility for shaping and implementing a holistic communications strategy in support of U.S. security assistance, arms transfers, and global defense partnerships.
The Intersection: Diverse Folx Converse is a podcast made by and for queer people of color, gender non-conforming people, and trans people. We often discuss topics already in the minds and hearts of our community. And we don't shy away from paths less traveled.
We encourage critical thinking and show relationships within the intersection of social justice and confronting systems of racism, homophobia, and transphobia, sexism, xenophobia, ableism.
Our intersection also exists between host and guest and between our social and political lives, our personal lives and lived experience. Interview taped December 21, 2023
***TRIGGER WARNING: There are a few moments where we mention someone who had been killed, violations of human rights, and risks people in the Middle East have experienced. None of the descriptions are inherently explicit but they do name violence, violations, or killings.
If you would like to learn more about Josh Paul's work, check out his LinkedIn page where he originally published his resignation letter: / josh-paul-655a25263
Credits: Intersection audio engineer: Ben Kramer Merchants Media http://www.merchantsmedia.com Ben.kramer@mac.com
Intro/Outro music: L’envol Du Papillon by Patchworker f.k.a. [friendzoned] | / patchworker Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
1 hr 16 min