February 21 - Beyond the Breath: A Reflection on Modern Discourse - 180s - Take a Listen 9:16 - Clip

25 Feb 2025 · 3 min

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This content was created by Heather Hester. This content was uploaded by Heather Hester. This is a YouTube clip titled "February 21 - Beyond the Breath: A Reflection on Modern Discourse - 180s - Take a Listen 9:16 - Clip" (created 2025-02-25T19:48:36Z). The excerpt is a solo, podcast-style monologue in which the host encourages listeners not to give up in the face of recent executive orders, advises self-care and community resilience, and highlights positive actions: buying Girl Scout cookies from trans girls/trans troops and supporting organizations such as the National LGBTQ Task Force and the legal-tracking outlet Just Security. The host frames the piece as a free-flowing reflection on modern discourse, invites listener feedback, and promises links in the show notes.

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And most of all, do not throw in the towel. Do not give up. Do not think that all is lost. Do not obey in advance. Remember, many of these executive orders are unlawful, and all of them, each and every one of them, is purposefully meant to confuse you, to overwhelm you, to knock the wind out of us as a collective American people. So take a breath and know that. Do what you need to do to center yourself, to protect yourself and your family, and to stand strong. I wanted to end today with two do-good things, things that you can do in the world kind of like I did last week with where you can buy Girl Scout cookies from trans girls and trans Girl Scout troops that you can buy your Girl Scout cookies from, which I just loved, uh, this week. And I'm gonna end like this every week because I think it's important to remember the, the positive things that are happening as well. And this week is really just two things that you can watch and keep your eye on and pay attention to because it will help you know that things are happening when it feels like nothing is happening positive. The first, and I will link these in the show notes so you can just click on 'em, but the first is the National LGBTQ Task Force doing amazing work. You can go on there, check out what they are doing specifically to support all of our LGBTQ+ people. And then there is Just Security, which is listing out all of the legal challenges to the Trump administration actions, which is kind of fascinating. So if you are interested in the very legal side of this and what's happening in that way, I highly encourage you to go check this out. I hope that you are enjoying this more kind of free-flowing version of the podcast, and it is certainly so far really fun for me. I'd love to hear from you if you have ideas of something that you, you know, want to offer, that you want me to talk about, that you know of going on. If you know of great things that are going on, good feel-good things that are going on. Email me and let me know. I would love to talk about it.