Melissa Opel is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and a volunteer minister at the Spokane, Washington Buddhist Temple. Her story is equal parts moving and compelling to me as someone who used to think I knew what was best for everyone else.

Special Election Episode With Return Guests

Oct 23rd, 2020 38m 7s

A special election episode with five of our past guests; Danielle Estelle Ramsay, Rebecca Rossi, Brittany Lovely, Joel Rodriguez, and Fitz Emerald Fitzpatrick. Listen in as they share how this election directly affects them and their many, vari

Sam Quigle and Rebecca Rossi

Oct 9th, 2020 1h 6m

Sam and Rebecca are married, and there was a day when they didn't think that would be possible.

Brandon Rapez-Betty

Sep 25th, 2020 1h 1m

Brandon Rapez-Betty is loud, proud and unapologetically gay...and it took him nearly 30 years to realize it.

Fitz Emerald Fitzpatrick - Part 2

Sep 11th, 2020 1h 13m

Fitz Emerald Fitzpatrick is a white, middle-class, formerly homeless, queer, non-binary person living with a mental illness/disability and a pantheist, interfaith witch. This is the second conversation with Fitz where we dig into what exactly a

Fitz Emerald Fitzpatrick - Part 1

Aug 29th, 2020 1h

Brittany Lovely

Aug 14th, 2020 1h 2m

Brittany Lovely is a multi-racial, formerly incarcerated, educated, woman with a driving passion for justice that orients every aspect of her life.

Joel Rodriguez

Aug 4th, 2020 1h 6m

Joel Rodriguez is becoming an American citizen and he wants us to understand the world is bigger than our back yards.

Rebecca Rossi

Jul 17th, 2020 1h 10m

Rebecca Rossi is a radical feminist, atheist, lesbian; and she just wants to help make the world a better place.

Danielle Ramsay

Jul 3rd, 2020 1h 20m

Danielle is a queer, slam poet, feminist, Methodist pastor, and woman of color...and she is the reason I started this podcast.

Pam Johnson

Jun 23rd, 2020 1h

Pam Johnson is an African American woman working for equality and raising awareness of inequality in our school systems. She works with at-risk students at a last chance alternative high school in Seattle, and when you see this world through he

Ursula Lovely

Jun 3rd, 2020 1h 3m

Ursula Lovely graciously shares her life as a single, black woman existing in a hostile world. Be careful looking through her lenses...there is a responsibility that comes with seeing things as they really are.6/4/20 I need to own up to a stupi

Sam Quigle

May 22nd, 2020 1h 3m

Sam is a lesbian and one of the most grounded individuals I have ever known. Having glimpsed life through her lenses challenged me to think about the assumptions I still hold because of my own more privileged lenses.

Bonus

What's This All About Anyway?

May 16th, 2020 26m 33s

We all wear lenses that were given to us in childhood. You didn't have a choice. You probably haven't even realized it. We can never remove these lenses yet they color every detail, thought, opinion, and reaction we have of the world we live in

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