Ep 1 A'Ja & Esmée talk Genspect, Race, Gender Identity

Hey-so, here’s our first real episode!! I have stitched it together in the ways one does, and two things have become clear to me: 1) I need more practice at editing podcasts, and 2) I talk too much. Not in the ‘I’m a woman and I feel I talk too much’ way (please, have we met?), but in the ‘I have learning to do about Hosting As A Craft' way. Still, this was fun and A’Ja and I brought a lot of expertise and humor to this conversation. Like it? Maybe buy the Gorgons a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/medusarisingorg.  The episode of Genspect’s YouTube channel we’re discussing is Trans Ideology and Black America:⁠https://www.youtube.com/live/W6hsM9IxA-M?si=zIL7H6Leu9FcJkp7⁠ Women’s Liberation Radio News, this link is their YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@WomensLiberationRadioNews⁠ And this one is their podcast on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/01lg0y5foXUP2y7mfHvyYw⁠ Gender A Wider Lens is at ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP62aWWtlZV1oVnbMhTRBcg⁠ On Sexual Offenses and incarceration, here’s a summary.  Dates and numbers tend to be all over the place on this subject. People in prisonIn 2021, there were 12,850 people in federal prison for child sex offenses. In addition, 15.5% of the prison population was sentenced for rape or sexual assault, according to The Sentencing Project. ⁠https://www.sentencingproject.org/policy-brief/responding-to-crimes-of-a-sexual-nature-what-we-really-want-is-no-more-victims/⁠  People on sex offender registriesIn 2017, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) estimated that there were over 850,000 registered sex offenders (RSOs) in the United States, according to the NIH. ⁠https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10038390/⁠