Today we present a conversation with Dr. Toni D'orsay, pronouns: Empress, Goddess, and Ruler of all known universes. Toni is a nationally recognized expert on the lives of Trans Folks and is working for Borrego Health to create better systems to treat and support Trans Lives. Toni talks with Gustavo about radical authenticity, collaborative human rights work, and unpacking internalized colonial White Supremacy and Westernization as well as the trade-offs we make under capitalism.  We would like to apologize for the audio quality this week. We had issues recording the episode and we will fix it for later sessions.    

On Today's conversation, we talk to Angie Balderas, Sierra Club National organizer and LGBTQIA/ social justice advocate from the Inland Empire. We talk about the music that's helping us through the struggle, what self-care looks like for Black and Brown community organizers, and the mess that is Pride. If you wanna follow Angie's work check out the My generation campaign, where she fights for clean air quality in the inland region.  https://www.sierraclub.org/mygeneration [email protected] As always you can check us out at https://www.rainbowprideyouthalliance.org/ or IG: rainbowprideyouthalliance For our Tobacco Control work check https://sites.google.com/view/proudtobefree/home or IG: proud2bfree  

Welcome to the first episode of All Chat No Smoke! A podcast focused on conversations between Queer and Trans folks about smoking, public health, and what liberation looks like to them.  On Today's episode, we will be talking with Debbie Martinez, a local IE anti-tobacco advocate, about what gives us hope, political mistakes in our lifetime, and how we can think about community planning that prioritizes people over profits. Plus our comfort food hot takes!!!