Ep.20: Pods Doing Social Justice

Rainey, Blue & Liz discuss pods doing social justice after reading Philly Stands Up (Esteban Kelly, Jenna Peters-Golden, Qui Dorian, Bench Ansfield and Beth Blum)’s chapter in Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.  Philly Stands Up is a small collective of individuals working in Philadelphia to confront sexual assault in their community.  This bookclub-feel episode focuses on building a pod in your geographic community, the challenges & benefits of a pod, surviving sexual assault & doing social justice.  Trigger Warning: This episode mentions sexual assault and rape.