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My whole book "We See Each Other", We See Each Other black transduring through tv and film, is all about this concept of visibility being a paradox on one hand we as trans people are more visible than ever right in the pop cultural imagination but the vitriol as you've already just explained that's aimed at trailblazing folks like leotamas were also experiencing unprecedented violence as a community from the sports band to the don't say gay to the you know the all the other legislation not to mention the murders that are happening right of our siblings and our sisters more especially how do you reconcile that drastic difference of experience that we're having at the same time if you reconcile it at all

You can even pick up a copy of my fabulous, wonderful book We See Each Other, A Black Trans Journey Through TV and Film.

Highly recommend.

this weekend, for those of you in the Boston area, I'll be doing a book talk with the All She Wrote Bookstore about my first book, We See Each Other, A Black Trans Journey Through TV and Film.

They'll be there in person to discuss and sign copies of their new book, We See Each Other, A Black Trans Journey Through TV and Film.

But first, today is a very special day as my first book, We See Each Other, A Black Trans Journey Through TV and Film is officially available at a bookstore near you and on audiobook read by me.

It is both a culmination of my reporting over the last decade on the issue of diversity in Hollywood and it reflects a little bit of my own identity formation throughout that same period, weaving in some cultural critique about the things we've seen on TV and in movies.

Not only do I think you need to check it out, I think you need to purchase it and then purchase one for your car, purchase one for your job, purchase one for your family. It is truly so good.

And so when I decided to, instead of doing a comprehensive thing to just focus on the movies, the shows that kind of helped me come into myself and helped people who I am in community with come into themselves, that kind of changed things.

So many people still believe that they've never met a trans person. And so all that they're really getting about us is coming from what they see on TV or what they see in movies.

today is a very special day as my first book, We See Each Other, A Black Trans Journey Through TV and Film is officially available at a bookstore near you and on audiobook read by me.

It is both a culmination of my reporting over the last decade on the issue of diversity in Hollywood and it reflects a little bit of my own identity formation throughout that same period, weaving in some cultural critique about the things we've seen on TV and in movies.

Not only do I think you need to check it out, I think you need to purchase it and then purchase one for your car, purchase one for your job, purchase one for your family. It is truly so good.

I want you to feel like, you know, like Trayvail is giving you this information. And because I'm concerned and invested in upholding my complexities as an individual, hopefully the book also recognizes and honors and uplifts that complexity as well.

you're also gonna get a little fun, a little razzle dazzle, as I like to say. Trauma and murder and a little razzle dazzle.

as I discuss in my book, We See Each Other, A Black Trans Journey Through TV and Film, out May 9th and available for pre-order wherever you get slate worthy books, even where you get basic books as well. It's everywhere.

Visibility is a paradox, right? Because as we see trans people enjoying the most visibility in culture perhaps ever, state legislatures across the country are trying to erase us.

In case you were wondering, my books make for great birthday and holiday gifts. Also for that gender reveal party you probably shouldn't be going to, We See Each Other, A Black Trans Journey Through TV and Film,

In case you were wondering, my books make for great birthday and holiday gifts. Also for that gender reveal party you probably shouldn't be going to, We See Each Other, A Black Trans Journey Through TV and Film, and the NAACP Image Award winning, Historically Black Phrases from I Ain't One of Your Little Friends to Who All Gone Be There are both available wherever good books are sold and bad ones too.

He was really embraced by the kind of like tech elite because they were fascinated by his story, his book, his ambition.

So, yeah, there's a sense of like, well, does he really represent us to the VC candidate that we want? And then there's people that are supporting him and super excited to have someone who understands their business and their business incentives potentially in the White House.

And so, it's not going to be a clean win necessarily.

We are now at a point where we may be contractually obliged to at some point reference Hillbilly Elegy in all of the shows we do now at this point.

Never going to read it, never going to watch it. We'd rather stab my eyes out with a fork.

We'd rather stab my eyes out with a fork.

Would you rather never see a movie again or the only movie you can see is Hillbilly Elegy? 100% never see a movie again. No question.

If we can get beyond some of the optical things that got Twitter obsessed, like Michael Luddick's very deliberate speaking style. I mean, what was very notable here, and you had to really dig through some pretty esoteric conversations about specific provisions of the 12th Amendment, the Electoral Counts Act, but was the fact that Donald Trump and John Eastman both knew that what they were proposing was illegal and unconstitutional and dishonest, and they were doing it anyway.

Dan's book, Battling the Big Lie, How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America is out now. You should check it out. Get your copy.

And to that point, the book is called Battling the Big Lie, how Fox, Facebook and the mega media are destroying America.

And as I write in my book, that is a way to get regular people and other media outlets to cover what you do because you're a quote unquote journalist.

And I think, and it's why I wrote the book, it's the most powerful weapon in American politics and it's the greatest threat to democracy.

I do highly recommend picking up. It is great.

It's really good. I highly recommend it.

I do highly recommend picking up. It is great.

One thing that stands out to me is that this is all really exciting and incredible and wonderful. And I'm so excited people are talking about it.

They shared food, food from different cultures, just a very concerted effort to show like, we're in this together. This is a community. This is us against the bosses, us against Amazon.

It's really good. I highly recommend it.

Her book, Undue Burden, follows the stories of patients affected by abortion bans and was published earlier this year.

They used to say abortions after 20 weeks. Then they started saying abortions after 15. Sometimes they say abortions after 12.

And they highlight this amendment, the Equal Protection Amendment, and they say that they recognize that it protects the right to life, liberty, and due process.

And they say it's not only state-based, it's national. And it could be used to eventually ban abortion nationwide.

And so I heard a surprising amount of enthusiasm from some abortion opponents who pointed to this 14th Amendment phrasing and said this is the most important thing.

So to talk more about what J.D. Vance's promotion to VP candidate means for the election, for the Republican Party, and for the country, I talked to Zach Beachum, a senior correspondent for Fox and the author of a new book on right-wing authoritarianism called The Reactionary Spirit, How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World.

That book comes out today.

I think J.D. Vance is the physical embodiment of what I call in the book The Reactionary Spirit.

Someone who is opposed to social change sees it happening through the democratic system.

And that is basically what J.D. Vance's political persona has become.

The Reactionary Spirit, how America's most insidious political traditions swept the world

The Reactionary Spirit, how America's most insidious political traditions swept the world, which is out now.

So you wrote a piece back in March where you questioned the idea of a growing political divide between men and women, but given the recent polling that shows the gender gap growing between Harrison Trump voters, do you still think that divides overstated at least when we're talking specifically about American voters?

The honest answer to that question is I don't know.

And so you ended up getting these polls that with, you see them a lot in this cycle that showed Trump getting an improbably large percentage of black voters for example, one that would defy anything close to the conflict.

That was my conversation with Zach Beachum, Senior correspondent for Vox and author of the book, The Reactionary Spirit, how America's most insidious political traditions swept the world which is out now.

Then there was the insane detail from a forthcoming book from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman that Trump had at times flushed documents down the toilet to the point of clogging the toilet.

And that is part of a broader concern that he may have taken documents to Mar-a-Lago and that he may have destroyed others.

including this anecdote in an upcoming book from reporter Maggie Haverman that the former President was apparently flushing documents down the toilet at one point.

Then there was the insane detail from a forthcoming book from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman that Trump had at times flushed documents down the toilet to the point of clogging the toilet.

There's also some reporting about paper shredding and general document destruction, including this anecdote in an upcoming book from reporter Maggie Haverman that the former President was apparently flushing documents down the toilet at one point.

I saw that article. I mean, I have no idea if that's true. It's pretty strange.

It is pretty strange as an understatement.

And I have no idea. I mean, I just saw the article in the newspaper about the allegation of flushing articles and plugging up the toilet. I mean, I don't know if that's true. If so, that would not be in conformance with his obligations under the law.

Then there was the insane detail from a forthcoming book from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman that Trump had at times flushed documents down the toilet to the point of clogging the toilet.

Maybe this explains his bizarre and controversial theory that modern toilets need to be flushed a million times.

And that is part of a broader concern that he may have taken documents to Mar-a-Lago and that he may have destroyed others.

I saw that article. I mean, I have no idea if that's true. It's pretty strange.

It is pretty strange as an understatement.

Historically Black Phrases, from I Ain't One of Your Little Friends to Who All Gone Be There is out today.

And two friends of WAD, Washington Post reporters Robert Sanuels and Tolu Olorinipa, won the General Nonfiction Award for their book His Name Was George Floyd. The Pulitzer board called the book quote, an intimate, riveting portrait of Floyd, whose murder sparked a racial reckoning in the US that was heard around the world.

an intimate, riveting portrait of Floyd, whose murder sparked a racial reckoning in the US that was heard around the world.

One of the things that we wanted people who participated in the book to know was that we were serious about treating the story with the empathy and the care that it deserved.

I was not going to ask them what everyone else asked them, which was, where were you when you found out this video? What did you see? I didn't want them to go through that trauma.

They were telling the story of systemic racism in America, the people who had known George Floyd without even knowing what they were doing. That's how pervasive it is.

One of the things we wanted to do was not have an expose in Black pain or just have this be a voyeuristic exercise of, look how horrible this police officer was to this Black person.

And it was important for us at the Washington Post to make sure that we were grappling with the issue of systemic racism and explaining for people who may see that as a abstract idea or something that's too dense to really understand. We wanted to show it.

I saw a picture of her with my parents. My parents worked on the campaign in Massachusetts and I saw this well-dressed black woman sitting with them and I thought she was my Auntie Sally because my Auntie Sally kind of had the same aesthetic and my parents corrected me.

In fact, when my mother was in the final throes of her leukemia battle, unbeknownst to me until she had transitioned, I did not know she had been putting together a book for me. And the final tab is for inspiration and it's printed speeches of Shirley Chisholm.

I called the book Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics because of the way that she understood power, that she understood how power worked and that the kind of power that she was seeking on behalf of the people was not heteronormative, patriarchal, white supremacist power.

Those early years of my life on the island of Barbados gave me the spirit, gave to me the spunk that was necessary to challenge all of these age old traditions.

But then, as you've read in the book, one of her person who became sort of her chief of staff, her executive assistant, helped introduce her to a wig shop and she rocked those wigs for several years. It was like part of her uniform, too, right? Like she had her dresses and her wigs ready to go.

I saw a picture of her with my parents. My parents worked on the campaign in Massachusetts and I saw this well-dressed black woman sitting with them and I thought she was my Auntie Sally because my Auntie Sally kind of had the same aesthetic and my parents corrected me.

In fact, when my mother was in the final throes of her leukemia battle, unbeknownst to me until she had transitioned, I did not know she had been putting together a book for me. And the final tab is for inspiration and it's printed speeches of Shirley Chisholm.

I cried many nights because I was misinterpreted. She wanted to take things away from the black man. She's one that's going to divide the black men from the black women, all of this crazy stuff that was coming off the wall. But I didn't let it affect me that much because I understood our history.

Those early years of my life on the island of Barbados gave me the spirit, gave to me the spunk that was necessary to challenge all of these age old traditions.

I called the book Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics because of the way that she understood power, that she understood how power worked and that the kind of power that she was seeking on behalf of the people was not heteronormative, patriarchal, white supremacist power.

She was running for president. And I did not know that because the press hadn't really covered her campaign.

She spoke fluent Spanish. She stood up for immigrant rights. She was against the Vietnam War. She was an early childhood educator. I mean, she was really a very progressive black woman, reproductive rights, the whole nine yards.

She called me little girl.

if you believe in making systemic change and if you believe in changing the rules of the game, she said, because you can't stay on the outside. You've got to get on the inside. Right. Remember, those rules weren't made for you. So you've got to help change the rules of the game.

I saw a picture of her with my parents. My parents worked on the campaign in Massachusetts, and I saw this well-dressed black woman sitting with them. And I thought she was my Auntie Sally because my Auntie Sally kind of had the same aesthetic. And my parents corrected me. They said, nope, that's Shirley Chisholm. She ran for president, and one day you could too.

All Americans need a Bible in their home and I have many. It's my favorite book.

All Americans need a Bible in their home and I have many. It's my favorite book. It's a lot of people's favorite book.

Why is he lying? Lying through his teeth, even the way he says it is comical that man has obviously never opened a Bible in his life.

The Bible also comes with a copy of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

Including the part where it says Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

The price does not include shipping and other fees but the irony is entirely free. That separation of church and state thing is very hard for some people.

getting $5 million to write a book about what a great job he did fighting COVID in said state.

what is going on now? There should be legal and regulatory repercussions. This is unnatural, insane and dangerous

what is going on now? There should be legal and regulatory repercussions. This is unnatural, insane and dangerous

Not only because Robert Moses is one of the most fascinating figures in American history, I do not want to read that book.

It's too big.

Can you please just make it a movie that I can read?

It's infinite just size for sure, right?

It's just, it's too big and I understand it's significance but I'm just not, I'm not going to do it.

The third one I think would be better than Hillbilly LG is The Power Broker by Robert Carroll. Not only because Robert Moses is one of the most fascinating figures in American history, I do not want to read that book. It's too big.

We were currently hunched over Prince Harry's memoir in scanning every page for our names.

Harry says Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton encouraged him to dress up as a Nazi for that one infamous Halloween party in 2005.

He describes how William attacked him in 2019, knocking him over onto a dog food bowl following an argument about Harry's wife Megan.

And he claims that prior to meeting Megan, William and Kate were quote religious fans of her TV show Suits.

he also casually mentions that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan

I'm going to say yes, I'll be purchasing this book. Never read. I don't think it'll be my first celebrity memoir and I am ready. I'm going to rip through that.

It's called The Hollow Parties, The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.

Here to help us tell this story is a Johns Hopkins political scientist named Daniel Schlossman. Daniel literally wrote the book on this story, along with his co-author Sam Rosenfeld. It's called The Hollow Parties, The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.

Could you talk about the way that this process used to work before the change of the 1970s? How were party nominees selected?

I wanted some clarity on what we can expect over the coming days, so I spoke with friend of the show Norm Eisen, author of the book, Trying Trump, a guide to his first election interference criminal trial and former special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee.

That was my conversation with Norm Eisen, author of Trying Trump, a Guide to His First Election Interference Criminal Trial.

His latest book is titled, Trying Trump, a Guide to His First Election Interference Criminal Trial.

That was my conversation with norm eisen author of Trying Trump a guide to his first election interference criminal trial

One is from MGM and it's based on a book called The Anti-Social Network that hasn't been written yet. It's by the guy who wrote the book, the social network was based on.

this new book Mobility is both a story about a woman coming of age as an adult but it's also kind of a climate change story

it's about international relations and kind of one person's journey through life but it's also about climate change really and about how a changing climate affects our world and our economy

the reason that i wanted to write about oil and gas you know that was only sort of interesting to me because it's so clear what the consequences of burning fossil fuels are

it's also the instrument of our destruction and has been the instrument of people's destruction already who have already died from climate change or been displaced

you can order Mobility now from cricket.com or support your local bookstore trust us you won't be able to put this one down

Cricut Media's first book published under our new imprint is out now. Mobility by Lydia Kiesling is a coming of age novel about navigating a world filled with corporate greed that's both laugh out loud funny and politically incisive. It is the perfect addition to your summer reading list.

Later this year, we are getting a movie musical based on Alice Walker's seminal 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

It's been adapted a few times, perhaps most notably by Steven Spielberg.

Later this year, we are getting a movie musical based on Alice Walker's seminal 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning novel.