Episode 227: A Brief Note Written After Learning the National Parks Service Removed the word Transgender from Stonewall'

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Music

Pockets of Light by Ludomyr Melnyk
All in Circles and Janvie by Shida Shahabi
Between Trees by Akria Kosemura

Notes

There are a million things to read about Stonewall, but the thing that I feel like deepened my understanding enough was The New York Public Library's The Stonewall Reader. Particularly the audiobook. Couldn't recommend it enough.

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