Meraxes Medina, we speak your name, Wisconsin governor vetoes anti-trans legislation again and South Carolina wins the NCAA Women’s Basketball National Championship – April 8, 2024
This week on the Queer News podcast Anna DeShawn shares the findings of Cecilia Gentili’s death. We will also speak the name of Meraxes Medina, a 24 year-old Latina trans woman was murdered in LA. In politics, we’ve got some wins to celebrate in Sacramento & Wisconsin. In culture & entertainment, you know we got to talk about the NCAA Women’s National Championship game between South Carolina & Iowa. On TikTok Mercury Stardust & Jory are back raising millions of dollars for gender affirming care and how the Macarena is helping a trans sibling fight back against the trolls. Let’s go!
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QCrew, what’s going on. It’s April so I’ve got another exclusive interview for you this month. This month I had an opportunity to be in conversation with Dr. Yvonne Welbon. Dr. Yvonne is an award-winning filmmaker, holder of the largest archive of Black women filmmakers, professor and founder of Sisters in Cinema. Sisters in Cinema is a Chicago based non-profit and they envision a world where all Black girls, women and gender nonconforming media makers and storytellers have equal opportunities to create and thrive. Sisters in Cinema recently had a grand opening of its biggest & boldest iteration of the work in a Media Arts Center. We get to talk about how 30 years of work has culminated to this moment.
Today, we also drop our first episode of Queer Open Mic hosted by Derric. It’s up and available on our YouTube channel and just another reason to hit that subscribe button. We’ll be playing those interviews on the feed as well. I hope it gives you an opportunity to learn and support about some queer artists you may not have heard of before.
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Now for the news. I’ll share with you the findings on Ceceilia Gentili’s death. We will also speak the name of Meraxes Medina , a 24 year-old Latina trans woman who was murdered in LA. In politics, we’ve got some wins to celebrate in Sacramento & Wisconsin. In culture & entertainment, you know we got to talk about the NCAA Women’s National Championship game between South Carolina & Iowa. On TikTok Mercury Stardust & Jory are back raising millions of dollars for gender affirming care and how the Macarena is helping a trans sibling fight back against the trolls. Let’s go!
