Listen to Your Inner Voice or Suppress It? (with Raquel Willis)

Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

When author and activist Raquel Willis came out to her parents, they didn’t both react positively at first. While that was hard for her, she did not let it stop her from continuing to come out to others and live her truth as a proud trans woman. Sam asks Raquel how online forums helped her find community when she was a young queer person, why she wishes more members of the mainstream media would trade in their “objectivity” for empathy, and what she would like young people to learn in school about sex and gender.

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1:05.0	Every few years, Republicans around the country and in DC and those aspiring to join their rank seem to create a new litmus test.
1:15.6	Who can defeat our Cold War foes?
1:18.4	Who can get rid of the most environmental regulations and destroy our country fast enough.
1:23.0	Who can make sure no woman ever gets to make another decision about her body ever again?
1:29.0	And of course, the litmus test, du jour, who can be the most creatively cruel to the trans community.
1:36.7	If you want to be the GOP nominee, it better be you.
1:40.2	The thing is, they don't need a new litmus test because the current one, jerks who had to go to prom with their
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