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Equality Arizona Updates
by Equality Arizona
Hear audio versions of our action alerts and newsletters; meet the poets, artists, activists, and politicians who define queer culture in Arizona; and take a deep dive into the issues behind the issues in today's politics. equalityarizona.substack.com
Episodes
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Equality Policy Podcast: Episode Two
Equality Policy Podcast Ep 2 – Rising Authoritarianism in Arizona and the U.S. Welcome to the Equality Policy Podcast. This podcast explores all things public policy and the impact of public policy the state of equality for the American people. Frances Wright, an early Scottish American feminist,...
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Equality for Some - the First week of Trump Executive Orders
Welcome to the Equality Policy Podcast. This podcast will explore all things public policy and how they impact the state of equality for the American people. Frances Wright, an early Scottish American feminist, abolitionist, and activist wrote, “Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact,...
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Governor Hobbs Vetoes Bathroom Ban
Civic Advocacy On Thursday, June 8, Governor Hobbs announced her veto of SB 1040, a bill that would have restricted bathroom access for transgender students. This action marks a full decade of failure for anti-trans bathroom bills in Arizona, a particular obsession of state Senator John Kavanagh....
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Pride Means Power
It’s the start of Pride Month, so we’re shaking up our usual format to talk about the big picture of what’s happening in Arizona, why we do what we do, and how you can get involved. And because it’s Pride Month, we’re going to extend a special invitation to join us as a monthly donor; make sure…
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Arizona Equals Shae
On today’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, we’re joined by Shae from Arizona Trans Together for a wide-ranging discussion about mutual aid and community building, hormone therapy and its gatekeepers, and the overlaps between neurodivergent and trans communities. Links * Arizona Equals...
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Join the Movement!
Civic Advocacy Each month we host two Civic Advocacy Jams, the centerpiece of our strategy to make policymaking and local government more accessible to the queer community. In just an hour and a half, we take real problems from our lives and transform them into policy solutions. It's a little…
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Arizona Equals Canella
On this week’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, we talk with Canella Caro, a student at ASU who plan to be a history teacher, about hope in uncertain times, the process of learning empathy, and the culture of right-wing echo chambers online. The Arizona Equals Conversation is an...
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Ask Governor Hobbs to Veto Anti-Trans Bills
Action Alert On Monday, half a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ bills cleared their final vote in the legislature. Among these was SB 1001 — the first bill of the session — which threatens to rob trans and non-binary kids of life-saving affirmation and support. Governor Hobbs has already publicly pledged to…
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Arizona Equals Samuel
With a busy start to the week for anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the legislature, this week’s episode, featuring Samuel Ndinjiakat Jr is coming out a little behind schedule, but it’s well worth the wait. Woven through his story of student organizing is a fascinating conversation about race and gender with…
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Housing Justice Can't Wait
Action Alert: SB 1161 Call on your Representatives to vote for affordable housing! As the session winds quickly to a close, there’s very little time left to accomplish important action on the state’s housing crisis. We have a shortage of over a quarter-million homes, and LGBTQ+ people are...
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Arizona Equals Matthew
On today’s episode, we’re joined by our friend Matthew Coelho to talk about the joys of family, music, and the Southern Arizona desert. This is the third in a series of three interviews recorded in Matthew’s home in Tucson, following our episodes with Juan McElroy and Matthew’s husband Blake...
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End Censorship
Weekly Roundup * Wednesday: with a slate of problematic bills cracking down on free speech and internet privacy at the federal level, we joined a press conference with Fight for our Future, the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, the ACLU, and Senator Ron Wyden to talk about the impact these bills...
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Arizona Equals Blake
On today’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, Blake Coelho shares his experience growing up in Tucson, moving to LA and Nashville for his career in the music industry, and how he eventually found his way back home to Tucson. We cover the joys of collaborative creativity, the contrast...
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School Boards & Anti-Trans Extremism
Ask Smart People Smart Questions is a podcast and event series where we create the context to have bigger conversations about some of the big issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community. This month we’re talking about public education, specifically through the lens of governance. Over the past few...
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Anti-Trans Policy Fails in Peoria
Weekly Roundup * Tuesday: during floor debate for SB 1001, a bill that restricts trans students’ pronouns and chosen names at school, Representative Lorena Austin countered Representative Beverly Pingerelli’s unscientific claim that transness is a social contagion — “if you’re scared of social...
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Arizona Equals Juan
The Arizona Equals Conversation is back, and we’ll be publishing our first three interviews from Tucson over the next few weeks! To kick things off, we have an interview with Juan McElroy, a nurse, father, and longtime Tucson resident. To listen to past episodes of the podcast, or to sign up to…
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Housing is an LGBTQ+ Issue
Weekly Roundup * Tuesday: with the legislature on recess, we met Attorney General Mayes and the LGBTQ+ caucus for a breakfast at the capitol to share the important issues facing queer communities in Arizona. * Wednesday: we met up at Brick Road for our weekly Grounds for Connection social hour.…
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We live at the capitol now, it's okay
Weekly Roundup * Tuesday: when the House Education Committee decided to give SB 1040 a hearing, it meant continuing a decade of destructive debate over trans people’s access to bathrooms. We showed up in numbers and used the opportunity to contrast the resilience of our community with the…
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LGBTQ+ Criminalization and Incarceration
We’re back with another episode of Ask Smart People Smart Questions, recorded live at the Tempe Public Library on March 22, 2023. With each installment of the series, Equality Arizona convenes a panel of experts to talk about the big picture of some of the biggest issues that affect the LGBTQ+...
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Arizona Equals Gav
On this week’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, Jeanne interviews Gav Orman about their experience relocating to Arizona in the early months of the pandemic, their career in the environmental sector, and the way they approach disclosure of their identities as a queer, neurodivergent...
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TransContinental Run
We’re starting this week’s newsletter with a message from Cal Dobbs, a transgender ultramarathoner who will be joining us at our next Queer People Fit event on March 23! He's running across the country to draw attention to the work organizations like us are doing in states that have been...
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Arizona Equals Elijah
On this week’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, we’re joined by Elijah Watson, a young gay man who's established himself as a kind of independent lobbyist at the state capitol. He doesn't have a traditional path into advocacy, and he doesn't take a traditional approach, but at the same...
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Far-Right Extremism in School Boards
Equality Arizona is working to make local government more accessible to the LGBTQ+ community. To support our work, consider becoming a paid subscriber today! Civic Advocacy With the help of our Media & Events volunteer team, we’re building up our capacity to track policy and politics in Arizona’s...
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Religion and LGBTQ+ Life
We’re back with another episode of Ask Smart People Smart Questions, our show about big ideas and the big issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community. This conversation, featuring guest panelists Taylor Kerby and Reverend Hannah Adair Bonner was recorded live at the Tempe Public Library on February…
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Arizona Equals Celia
One of the big goals of the Arizona Equals Conversation is to learn from our guests how queer communities are built and how they evolve over time, and today’s interview with Celia is a perfect study. Since moving to Arizona, she’s had to build community for herself from the ground up, twice. Now,...
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Join Our Volunteer Teams!
Now that we’ve crossed the first committee deadline in the legislature, lawmakers are working long weeks in committee of the whole meetings, where bills are debated, and floor sessions, where bills receive their final vote before crossing over to the next chamber. Once a critical mass of bills…
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Arizona Equals Don and Jose
A note from Jeanne: On today’s episode, we’re joined by Don Williams and Jose Ortega, a gay couple living in the east valley. When Don messaged us on Instagram a little over a week ago, I was already familiar with his story. As covered on AZCentral, he and his husband are facing discrimination at...
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Crossing a Milestone in the Legislative Session
For anyone who spent this week at the state capitol, sitting through hours of committee meetings, day after day, only to be met with hostility or simply dismissed out of hand — first, thank you — but second, it’s probably clear that there’s a major accessibility problem in the Arizona…
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Kid’s Rights Up for a Vote
With an important deadline coming up in the Arizona legislature, legislators only have one more week to get committee hearings for their bills. Any legislation that hasn’t passed a committee by the 17th will be dead for the session, so the next few days are going to be packed with hearings. Seven...
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Loaded Questions
In last week’s update, we included an alert about a felony drag ban, SB 1028, that was scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Judiciary committee. Your response was powerful, and the hearing room was packed with people taking time out of their day to share vulnerable stories and painful truths…
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Ranked Choice Voting
Today, we’re releasing a new episode of Ask Smart People Smart Questions, a discussion series about big ideas and the big issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community. Subscribe to the show for twice-monthly panel discussions with experts on everything from drag culture to neurodiversity and more.…
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Arizona Equals Dawn & Hayden
On today’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, we talk with Dawn Shim and Hayden Nguyen, two leading members of Support Equality Arizona Schools, a student activist group based in Chandler. There’s a good chance you’ve heard about them in the news, for their protest at Chandler City Hall,...
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Felony Drag Ban up for a Vote
In a first for Arizona, Governor Katie Hobbs hosted a group of LGBTQ+ youth on the 9th floor last week, showing support for the community after signaling publicly the week before that anti-LGBTQ+ bills would be guaranteed a veto. Despite this, there remains a group of legislators committed to...
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Drag Culture, Then and Now
Today, we’re excited to launch the podcast for our new program, Ask Smart People Smart Questions, a discussion series about big ideas and the big issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community. Subscribe to the show for twice-monthly panel discussions with experts on everything from ranked choice voting...
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Queer Community in Action at the Capitol
Between committee hearings and a community demonstration against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, it’s been a busy week at the Capitol for Arizona’s queer community. We’ve got a lot more information about all of it below the fold, but what stood out most was the strength of our voices and the beauty of…
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Arizona Equals Bridget
We’re back from our winter break with a new episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, featuring an interview with Bridget Sharpe, the Arizona State Director for the Human Rights Campaign. Arizona Equals is our home for the stories of queer people living in Arizona. If you’d like to share yours…
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Up for a Vote
It’s a beautiful gray and rainy MLK Day in Phoenix, Arizona, and we’re bringing you another set of updates on the three pillars of our work: * Civic Advocacy * Political Power * Media & Events It’s a busy week, and we want to make sure that you have all the information you need to make the change...
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What to Expect from Equality Arizona in 2023
It’s a new year, and we’re trying out a new format for our weekly updates. Each Monday, we’ll share a little of what we have going on across each of the three areas of our work: * Civic Advocacy * Political Power * Media & Events With a new legislative session starting today, we want to make sure...
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Arizona Equals Lisa
Today on the Arizona Equals Conversation, Jeanne interviews Lisa Malachowsky, a local entrepreneur and political organizer with a 20 year history in the computing industry. This episode covers a lot of ground, from technology history and workplace organizing to the struggle for marriage equality...
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Arizona Equals Tate
On this week’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, Jeanne interviews her best friend Tate, a graphic designer and photographer working in Phoenix, Arizona. They talk about some of Tate’s fine art photography work, including their project The Labor of Being Transgender, and spend some time...
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Arizona Equals Aeron
Thanks for listening to the Arizona Equals Conversation this year! As a reminder, we’d love to celebrate the holidays with you at our holiday bash next Wednesday, December 14th. RSVP on our website for more details! Links for Context * Disclosure on Netflix * Lancaster LGBTQ+ Coalition Full...
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Arizona Equals Jeanne
On today’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, our very first guest, Geoff Love, turns the microphone on Jeanne Woodbury to record her story. Links & Context * State-by-state name-change guide * Map of informed consent clinics for HRT * “Enragement equals engagement” Full Transcript...
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Arizona Equals Sonora
On today’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, Jeanne interviews Sonora Reyes, author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School and finalist for the National Book Awards. They talk about the complex process of coming out, how writing fiction can be a way to process trauma, and whether…
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Arizona Equals MJ
As results continue to come in from yesterday’s election, we’ll have updates in this newsletter and on social media. While we wait to find out the future we can expect for our state, enjoy this interview with movement specialist MJ Jupitus about community care and the complex joy of gender...
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Arizona Equals Dr. Tekola
On today’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, listen to an interview with BLM Phoenix Metro co-founder Dr. Sarra Tekola about their research in sustainability and colonialism and their political history leading social change work in Seattle and Phoenix. Links & Context * Black Lives…
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Arizona Equals Chris
On this week’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, Chris Tompkins joins Jeanne to talk about his book, Raising LGBTQ Allies, and his journey to becoming an educator, public speaker, and advocate. Links & Shownotes * Raising LGBTQ Allies * Chris’s TEDx Talk * Toastmasters *…
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Direction
I’m going to start and end this newsletter with a personal note. Really, it’s just a funny thing to try to talk about transition of any kind without tying it into my own experience as a trans person. At my first consultation for HRT, there was a lot of ground to cover – my goals for the future…
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Arizona Equals Stephan
On this week’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, Jeanne talks with Stephan Kingsley about their shared experiences with neurodiversity, transition, and homeschooling, and how each of these informs his work as an educator. Curiosity is a skill! Exercise yours today. Links & Show Notes *...
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Arizona Equals Samual
On this week’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, Jeanne talks with Samual Kahrs, a trans teenager who leads his school’s GSA club and who has distinguished himself as a voice for his community at the state capitol, standing up against an onslaught of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. Full...
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Arizona Equals Brother Lee
On today’s episode of the Arizona Equals Conversation, Jeanne talks with Brother Lee Hughes about classics degrees, working in tech, and living life under a rule. For Jeanne, that’s a series of notebooks and sticky notes; for Brother Lee, a married gay man in a religious order, there’s a little…
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Hear audio versions of our action alerts and newsletters; meet the poets, artists, activists, and politicians who define queer culture in Arizona; and take a deep dive into the issues behind the issues in today's politics.
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