Margaret interviews the author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world

Margaret interviews the author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

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As long as there&rsquo;s been oppression, there&rsquo;ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be&mdash;and fight to be&mdash;free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

Part One: Cory Doctorow on Speculative Fiction for Social Change

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/bcec3066-8978-4683-abae-b4a1012991df/transcript

Margaret continues talking to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care

Original Air Date: 10.22.2025

Sources:

https://translifeline.org/about/history/ 
https://translifeline.org/response-to-988-cuts/ 
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/27/359434925/bernard-mayes-nprs-first-chairman-founder-of-suicide-hotline-dies 
https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Bernard-Mayes-to-be-honored-as-lifeline-to-3516576.php 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11447250/Bernard-Mayes-priest-obituary.html 
https://web.archive.org/web/20141026134947/http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/24/bernard-mayes-kqed-fms-first-general-manager-dies-at-85 
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds 
https://www.sfsuicide.org/about/ 
https://translifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Problem-With-988-Report-November-2024-Text.pdf 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11733462/ 
https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6978712/ 

https://www.psychiatry.org/News-room/APA-Blogs/Marking-Two-Years-of-988-The-Suicide-and-Crisis-Li

https://behavioralhealthlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/988-History-Journal-Article_JohnDraper.pdf 

https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/blog/suicide-mental-health-crisis-resources-not-police 

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/her-death-sparked-transgender-day-remembrance-22-years-later-still-n1233809

https://www.them.us/story/rita-hester-trans-remembrance-visibility-memorial 

https://translifeline.org/why-no-non-consensual-intervention/

https://www.them.us/story/trans-lifeline-report-988-police-interventions 

https://madattheinternet.substack.com/p/online-censorships-institutional 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121226 

https://glaad.org/tdor/

https://web.archive.org/web/20250107195548/https://cohost.org/lizthegrey/post/1520523-some-philanthropy-th

Margaret continues talking to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care
Original Air Date: 10.22.2025
Sources:
<a href="https://translifeline.org/about/history/">https://translifeline.org/about/history/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://translifeline.org/response-to-988-cuts/">https://translifeline.org/response-to-988-cuts/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/27/359434925/bernard-mayes-nprs-first-chairman-founder-of-suicide-hotline-dies">https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/27/359434925/bernard-mayes-nprs-first-chairman-founder-of-suicide-hotline-dies</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Bernard-Mayes-to-be-honored-as-lifeline-to-3516576.php">https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Bernard-Mayes-to-be-honored-as-lifeline-to-3516576.php</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11447250/Bernard-Mayes-priest-obituary.html">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11447250/Bernard-Mayes-priest-obituary.html</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141026134947/http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/24/bernard-mayes-kqed-fms-first-general-manager-dies-at-85">https://web.archive.org/web/20141026134947/http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/24/bernard-mayes-kqed-fms-first-general-manager-dies-at-85</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.sfsuicide.org/about/">https://www.sfsuicide.org/about/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://translifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Problem-With-988-Report-November-2024-Text.pdf">https://translifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Problem-With-988-Report-November-2024-Text.pdf</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11733462/">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11733462/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html">https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6978712/">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6978712/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.psychiatry.org/News-room/APA-Blogs/Marking-Two-Years-of-988-The-Suicide-and-Crisis-Li">https://www.psychiatry.org/News-room/APA-Blogs/Marking-Two-Years-of-988-The-Suicide-and-Crisis-Li</a>
<a href="https://behavioralhealthlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/988-History-Journal-Article_JohnDraper.pdf">https://behavioralhealthlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/988-History-Journal-Article_JohnDraper.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/blog/suicide-mental-health-crisis-resources-not-police">https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/blog/suicide-mental-health-crisis-resources-not-police</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/her-death-sparked-transgender-day-remembrance-22-years-later-still-n1233809">https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/her-death-sparked-transgender-day-remembrance-22-years-later-still-n1233809</a>
<a href="https://www.them.us/story/rita-hester-trans-remembrance-visibility-memorial">https://www.them.us/story/rita-hester-trans-remembrance-visibility-memorial</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://translifeline.org/why-no-non-consensual-intervention/">https://translifeline.org/why-no-non-consensual-intervention/</a>
<a href="https://www.them.us/story/trans-lifeline-report-988-police-interventions">https://www.them.us/story/trans-lifeline-report-988-police-interventions</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://madattheinternet.substack.com/p/online-censorships-institutional">https://madattheinternet.substack.com/p/online-censorships-institutional</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121226">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121226</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://glaad.org/tdor/">https://glaad.org/tdor/</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250107195548/https://cohost.org/lizthegrey/post/1520523-some-philanthropy-th">https://web.archive.org/web/20250107195548/https://cohost.org/lizthegrey/post/1520523-some-philanthropy-th</a>

CZM Rewind: Part Two: Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/b8ca3a90-54a3-4b04-9901-b49c014e762c/transcript

Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care

Original Air Date: 10.20.2025

Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care
Original Air Date: 10.20.2025

CZM Rewind: Part One: Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/41c25b7e-fab7-4173-af3e-b49a013fb058/transcript

Margaret finishes her talk with Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan

Sources:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html 
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill 
https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ 
https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html 
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d 
The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield
https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery 
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill 
https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf 
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill 
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 
https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ 
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass 
https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ 
https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm 
https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm 
https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/ 

Margaret finishes her talk with Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan
Sources:
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill">https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/">https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html">https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d">https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d</a>&nbsp; The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield <a href="https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery">https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill">https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf">https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill">https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948">https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/">https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass">https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/">https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm">https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm">https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/">https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/</a>&nbsp;

Part Two: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/7f473395-ed0e-494e-8b7d-b496002cf363/transcript

Part One: Cory Doctorow on Speculative Fiction for Social Change

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