In this episode Calpi, Clay & Todd talk with Queer & Genderqueer Author, Dog Trainer & Freelance Writer Sassafras (Lowrey) Patterdale. Their first book, Kicked Out, is an anthology written by & about the experiences of unhoused queer youth. When Kicked Out was first published back in 2010 around 40% of unhoused youth openly identified as LGBTQ+. In the face of the recent Grants Pass v Johnson ruling and aggressive rollback of civil rights for BIPOC, trans, and queer people, we find ourselves terrified over what the youth not face.

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Sassafras is a celebrated author whose queer and leather books (Roving Pack, A Little Queermas Carol, Leather Ever After, and Lost Boi) have been honored by the American Library Association, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the International Leather Association- Writing Awards. Sassafras’ work regularly appears in leading magazines/publications, and Sassafras has taught queer storytelling workshops at colleges, conferences, bookstores, festivals, and squats from Atlanta to Berlin to NYC to Oakland to Amsterdam. The film rights to Sassafras’ queer leather novel Lost Boi were recently optioned!!

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You can find links to Sassafras’s writings, projects, and social media here:

Website: https://sassafraspatterdale.com/

Sassafras’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SassafrasPatterdale

Kicked Out: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7717332-kicked-out

Additional Links

p:ear Mentor Center: https://www.pearmentor.org

Transponder Community Resources: https://transponder.community

Center for American Progress – Federal Response to Gay & Transgender Homeless Youth [PDF]: https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2010/06/pdf/lgbtyouthhomelessness.pdf

DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dhs-now-allows-for-surveillance-based

What to know about the Tate brothers, social media influencers who face trafficking charges: https://apnews.com/article/romania-andrew-tristan-tate-travel-ban-lifted-3c8b56be5d99f9ed04045f4680e5f8c0

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Your online presence & device usage pose certain security risks. What can you do about it?

It can be really difficult to know where to start in your efforts to be more safe about your online presence. Because of this we’ll be producing a series of detailed how-to videos, providing a ton of resources, starting from a foundation of Security Culture, helping you to understand the changes you & your community can make to limit certain risks.

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In this episode of Hard Left News Calpi & Todd had an important talk with Author, Educator & Activist Race Bannon. We all discussed Race’s most recent book, his history of activism, politics & direct action, fascism and what that means for the kink, queer, trans and non-binary communities, as well as vetting and creating safer spaces.

Race Bannon has been an organizer, writer, publisher, educator, commentator, leader, speaker, and activist in the LGBTQ, leather/kink, polyamory, and HIV/STI prevention realms since 1973. He is an author, widely published writer, active speaker, community organizer and project leader, and has received numerous national and local awards. Race is one of the authors and editors of a new book, Kink Is, highlighting kinksters from around the world set to be published by Unbound Edition Press in September 2024. He’s also a regular cast member of the online series, On Guard Cigar Salon.

Episode Page: https://www.hardleftnews.com/2-16-25-race-bannon

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You can find links to Race’s writings, projects, and social media here:

Website: https://linktr.ee/bannonrace

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/racebannon.bsky.social

Mastodon: https://woof.group/@racebannon

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RaceBannonChannel

On Guard Cigar Salon: https://onguardsalon.com/

Kink Is, Divine Deviance, Foreword by Margaret Cho

An Anthology of Surprisingly Relatable True Stories About Sex, Power, and Joy:

https://www.unboundedition.com/product/kink-is-divine-deviance-collective-anthology/

Documentary film series: https://kinkismysuperpower.com/

Finding Me - Viola Davis:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58687126-finding-me

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez - A Review:

https://adfontesjournal.com/book-review/jesus-and-john-wayne-a-review/

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