Margaret talks with Molly Crabapple about her book Here Where We Live is Our Country.

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Margaret talks with Molly Crabapple about her book Here Where We Live is Our Country.
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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.

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: Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Labor Bund

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Margaret continues her interview with author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world

Margaret continues her interview with author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world

Part Two: Cory Doctorow on Speculative Fiction for Social Change

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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

Part One: Cory Doctorow on Speculative Fiction for Social Change

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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

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