Despite Everything, I'm Going to Continue to Choose Hope. AKA, Getting Back to Basics

Hello again!Sorry for the long wait. Here's episode 19.I don't have an excuse! I'm burnt out. Let's yap!***I wanna make it clear that even though I reference Knight and Bowe's engagement during the Heated Rivalry section of the podcast episode, I did not mean to imply that they were inspired by the show or book to get engaged or to be public about said engagement. I meant it more so to talk about how real-life gay hockey is as a sport, but I understand if it comes off that way in the podcast. I apologize! For the record, Knight and Bowe have been in a relationship since the 2020 Bejing Olympics. I was confusing the attack on Pascal Kaiser with Knight and Bowe's engagement. which is why I erroneously say "hockey player was attacked after proposing to his partner" in this section.***Content warnings: Swearing, xenophobia, some explicit conversations around money and capitalism, discussions of state-sanctioned violence and murder, sexualization and fetishization, racism and hate speech, references to nazism, hospitalization, misogyny and patriarchy, mentions of abortion, homophobia, lesbophobia, biphobia, and transphobia (the whole rainbow!), radical feminism, transmisogyny, gender essentialism, anti-Black racism, graphic depictions of violence, blood, policing of mental illness, psychosis mentions, homophobic violence and threats of hate crime, mentions of religion (Islam and Christianity), suicide and suicidal ideation, mentions of colonialism and chattel slavery, and some abelist language. Topics discussed: Where I've been: Ramadan 2026, Burnout, Wedding StressDoechii and "Real" LesbianismHeated Rivalry and why I'm sick of (talking about) itICE's besiege on Minnesota