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    In the wake of the recent mass shootings in El Paso, TX, Dayton, OH, and Gilroy, CA, Jaye discusses gun violence, including many of the root issues that contribute to the gun violence epidemic in the United States, and the importance of properly addressing these issues. She takes on white supremacy, misogyny, other right-wing extremist ideologies, and Donald Trump's failure to unqualifiably condemn white supremacy. Is gun control the answer to the scourge of mass shootings?

    Content Warning: This episode includes discussion of sexual violence, gun violence, suicide, and murder, including mass murder. Listener discretion is advised.

     

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    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/as-his-environment-changed-suspect-in-el-paso-shooting-learned-to-hate/2019/08/09/8ebabf2c-817b-40a3-a79e-e56fbac94cd5_story.html

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/el-paso-suspect-said-he-was-targeting-mexicans-told-officers-he-was-the-shooter-police-say/2019/08/09/ab235e18-bac9-11e9-b3b4-2bb69e8c4e39_story.html

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/el-paso-mass-shooting-arrest-warrant/1ffd2f8f-a950-402e-93b3-5c2dd922b514/


    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/10/el-paso-shooting-227612

    https://www.prri.org/research/partisan-polarization-dominates-trump-era-findings-from-the-2018-american-values-survey/


    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-antifa-teror-group-white-supremacy-violent-white-supremacists-a9035106.html


    https://time.com/5643405/what-to-know-shooting-dayton-ohio/


    https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/connor-betts-twitter-politics-social-media/


    https://theweek.com/articles/857197/misogyny-murder-often-handinhand


    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dayton-shooting-hit-list-rape-list-bellbrook-high-school-classmates-say-ohio-shooter-connor-betts/


    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2582989


    https://theundefeated.com/features/fivethirtyeight-breaks-down-the-more-than-33000-annual-u-s-gun-deaths/


    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-accidents/


    https://pediatricsnationwide.org/2019/05/17/a-narrowing-gender-gap-in-youth-suicides/


    https://www.npr.org/2019/08/08/748665339/the-pistol-that-looks-like-a-rifle-the-dayton-shooters-gun


    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/dayton-shooter-pornogrind-band


    https://life.shared.com/my-ex-boyfriend-was-the-dayton-shooter-former-girlfriend-connor-betts


    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/09/gilroy-garlic-festival-gunman-warrant/1964304001/


    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-being-investigated-domestic-terrorism-fbi-n1039681


    https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime--law/dayton-shooting-oregon-district-gunman-left-decade-red-flags/E5UoTI8To1CJDaWUndXBlO/


    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/us/mass-shootings.html


    https://theweek.com/articles/857197/misogyny-murder-often-handinhand

     

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    enNovember 10, 2022

    108 - The Dry Depths of My Soul: Conversation with Allison K. Garcia

    108 - The Dry Depths of My Soul: Conversation with Allison K. Garcia

    Christian novelist Allison K. Garcia joins Jaye for an engaging conversation about the book The Dry Depths of My Soul, the first installment in The Mosaic series. This is Allison's initial foray into the genre of Queer Christian fiction. This exciting, energetic discussion includes discussion of LGBTQ+ identity and Christianity, mental health, church clarity, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and much, much more. 

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    107 - Broke the Bread, Spilled the Tea: Conversation with Mitchell Kesller

    107 - Broke the Bread, Spilled the Tea: Conversation with Mitchell Kesller

    CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes brief discussion of abuse and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.

    Author Mitchell Kesller joins Jaye for a meaningful conversation about his debut book, Broke the Bread, Spilled the Tea. Broke the Bread, Spilled the Tea seeks to bridge the gap between Christian faith and LGBTQ+ identity, making the case that there is much more to faith in Christ than what is often preached on Sunday mornings. This fascinating, in-depth discussion touches on the harm done to the LGBTQ+ community by the American church, apologetics, the politicization of conservative Christianity, separation of church and state, the search for a deeper understanding of God and the Bible, and more.

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    106 - From the Moon I Watched Her: Conversation with Emily English Medley

    106 - From the Moon I Watched Her: Conversation with Emily English Medley

    CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of trauma, mental illness and sexual assault, including the sexual abuse of children. Listener discretion is advised.

    Novelist Emily English Medley joins Jaye for a conversation about her debut book, From the Moon I Watched Her. From the Moon I Watched Her is an engaging, raw coming-of-age tale about skeletons lurking under church pews, and the little girl who finds them. This heartfelt and open conversation touches on themes such as mental illness, trauma, abuse of power within the American church, searching for authenticity, and more.

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    Bonus - Harder Core Urban Legends

    Bonus - Harder Core Urban Legends

    In a public release of this bonus episode originally released on Patreon in November 2019, Jaye talks more urban legends by discussing a couple of processed food-related legends. Is McDonalds adding animal byproducts and other gross fillers to their hamburgers? Are popular meat substitutes such as Beyond Burger and the Impossible Burger "indistinguishable" from dog food? Jaye also provides a bit of historical context for Americans' distrust of corporations involved in food processing, which often drives food-related urban legends.

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    Source Links:

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-eyes-of-texas/ 
    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/worm-meat-used-mcdonalds-hamburgers/  
    http://ushistoryscene.com/article/second-industrial-revolution/  
    https://interestingengineering.com/how-the-first-and-second-industrial-revolutions-changed-our-world  
    https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm  
    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/upton-sinclair-meat-industry  
    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/04/beyond-meat-impossible-foods-and-the-diet-truth-of-the-summer-burger.html  
    https://thetakeout.com/impossible-burger-grocery-sales-bestseller-1838775225  
    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/impossible-burgers-dogfood/  
    https://www.realagriculture.com/2019/07/dog-food-or-fake-meat-most-cant-tell-the-difference/  
    https://www.milkbusiness.com/article/can-going-vegan-save-planet  

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    105 - My Gay Church Days: Conversation with George Azar

    105 - My Gay Church Days: Conversation with George Azar

    Author and former evangelical pastor George Azar joins Jaye to discuss his new book, My Gay Church Days, his memoir about his life while in evangelical Christianity, where he eventually joined church leadership, while keeping secret his truth as a gay man. This real and candid conversation touches on themes such as belonging and the cost of acceptance, identity and intersectionality, purity culture, spiritual abuse, and more. 

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    104 - They Will Not Stop at Roe

    104 - They Will Not Stop at Roe

    In this episode of Potstirrer Podcast, Jaye reacts to the leaked draft US Supreme Court Opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Written by Justice Samuel Alito, the draft majority opinion signals an overturning of the Roe v. Wade precedent regarding abortion, and would leave abortion rights up to the states. Jaye argues that Alito's reasoning in Dobbs for overturning Roe is particularly alarming, as the way Roe was decided is similar to that of several other civil rights cases handed down by the Court over the past seventy years. Using historical analysis, Jaye makes the case that overturning Roe v. Wade was always meant to be a starting point in a right-wing quest to roll back a host of civil rights and liberties, and ultimately solidify authoritarian minority rule in the United States.

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    Source Links:
    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473 
    https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21835435/scotus-initial-draft.pdf 
    https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka 
    https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/brown-v-board-of-education 
    https://www.npr.org/2003/06/11/1294680/wallace-in-the-schoolhouse-door 
    https://www.history.com/news/brown-v-board-of-education-the-first-step-in-the-desegregation-of-americas-schools 
    https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/can-liberty-university-be-saved 
    Balmer, Randall. 2021. Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
    https://socialchangenyu.com/review/green-v-connally-segregated-private-schools-denied-charitable-exemption-deduction/  
    https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/agent-intolerance/ 
    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/330/1150/2126265/ 
    https://theoutline.com/post/8536/catholic-history-abortion-brigid 
    King, Martin Luther, Jr. 2000 [1964]. Why Can’t We Wait. New York: Signet Classic.


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    Bonus - The Bill Clinton Impeachment Scandal in the Age of #MeToo

    Bonus - The Bill Clinton Impeachment Scandal in the Age of #MeToo
    CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains content discussing explicit sexuality, sexual assault and harassment, violence, and suicide. Listener discretion is advised.

    In this public release of a Patreon bonus episode originally released in November 2018, Jaye goes back in time to tell the story of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998, and the scandals that led up to it. Clinton - and many of his supporters - believe that he was unfairly targeted by congressional Republicans for a consensual affair with a White House intern. But was that the case? And was Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky simply a "private" matter, an example of immorality unbecoming of the commander-in-chief, or perhaps something else?

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    Citations:

    H. Rept. 105-830 – Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States. 105th Congress (1997-1998). https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/105th-congress/house-report/830/1 

    Isikoff, Michael, and Evan Thomas. 1998. “Clinton and the Intern.” Newsweek. February 2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/nwcover012698.htm 

    Leen, Jeff. 1998. “Lewinsky: Two Coasts, Two Lives, Many Images.” The Washington Post. January 24. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/lewprofile.htm 

    Lewinsky, Monica. 2018. “Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from ‘The House of Gaslight’ in the Age of #MeToo.” Vanity Fair. March. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metoo 

    “Key Events Leading to the Impeachment Trial.” Los Angeles Times. January 31, 1999. http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jan/31/news/ss-3537 
    “The Clinton Impeachment, a Basic Chronology.” The City University of New York. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/clintontimeline.htm 

    “Was Bill Clinton’s Lewinsky Affair an ‘Abuse of Power?’” October 15, 2018. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45865402 

    Zelizer, Julian. 2016. “Bill Clinton’s Nearly Forgotten 1992 Sex Scandal.” CNN. April 6. https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/opinions/zelizer-presidential-election-campaign-scandals-bill-clinton/index.html 


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    enMay 30, 2022

    103 - Speaking Up About Religious Trauma: Conversation with Andrew Pledger

    103 - Speaking Up About Religious Trauma: Conversation with Andrew Pledger
    Activist, artist and podcaster Andrew Pledger joins Jaye on this episode of Potstirrer Podcast to share his compelling story about growing up in Christian fundamentalism and his road to recovery from spiritual abuse. The conversation includes discussion of mental health, religious trauma and abuse, and the role of ultra conservative Christianity in inflicting and enabling trauma. How did a senior art project and an interview with former evangelical author Joshua Harris lead to Andrew's expulsion from conservative Bob Jones University?

    Speaking Up with Andrew Pledger: 
    https://open.spotify.com/show/7gZldnfgcpu4O1JYtNv9iL 
    Religious Trauma is Trauma (Fine Art Photo Series): https://www.instagram.com/4ndrewpledger/guide/religious-trauma-photo-series/17999363926411608/ 
    Every Story Matters with Josh Harris - Interview with Andrew Pledger: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Ca--9vFAxqs 

    Andrew Pledger link in bio: https://www.liinks.co/4ndrewpledger 

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    102 - Potstirrer SCOOPS!: National Deflection

    102 - Potstirrer SCOOPS!: National Deflection

    In this episode, Jaye focuses on a particular argument politicians and pundits make when countries reckon with past and present incidents of national shame, which is that other countries also have shameful incidents in their histories. Jaye discusses why - although the thought experiment is intriguing - the argument itself is deflection which silences the marginalized. She contends that confronting historical and current realities, no matter how difficult or contentious, have individual and collective benefit that are worth the discomfort.

    "What country has the LEAST BAD history?" J.J. McCullough
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auFC_LfO5hQ&t=5s 

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PA4PgG9-eI 
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKpZZCs-Y0k 
    https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/03/14/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects/ 
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/18/more-than-half-of-white-evangelicals-say-americas-declining-white-population-is-a-negative-thing/ 
    https://www.prri.org/research/american-democracy-in-crisis-voters-midterms-trump-election-2018/ 
    https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools 
    https://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/the_residential_school_system/ 

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