Minnesota State Legislator Bianca Virnig joined us for a conversation on her first session in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Bianca represents District 52B in Minnesota House.

Learn more about Rep Virnig at https://www.biancavirnig.com

You can send this one to your educators. I got to sit down with Dr. Amy Zsohar! Amy was named the Minnesota Board of Trustees Educator of the Year for 2023, she is a professor at Inver Hills Community College, and she is also the staff advisor for their LGBT+ Club!

What’s fun about this conversation is that Amy seems to have been named as Educator of the Year at least in part because of her “unusual” teaching methods. I asked her all about them and now I understand how what she does to educate her students can work to change our lives for the better. I loved it and I’m pretty sure your friends in education will love it too.

We talk with author Zaylore Stout about the censoring of queer media and the oppression of LGBTQ+ culture. And as luck would have it - our very first episode was a celebration of Zaylore's book Our Gay History in 50 States; a book of queer history that has been targeted by anti-LGBTQ+ activists.

Zaylore is also the founder of Zaylore Stout & Associates so he is able to give us a unique perspective on book bans in America.