Apr 26, 2021
You may have heard of a Dyad in the force, but this week on the Illumination we have the one and only Triad of the Force! We talk about what keeps us connected to Star Wars as marginalized groups and Tartakovsky's Clone Wars before continuing our conversation on gun violence and contrasting DC's bid for statehood with...
Apr 20, 2021
Welcome aboard the Illumination! This week we start unpacking the very real and very US of A problem that is Gun Violence, while also hearing from our guest, Rachel of Followers of the Force Podcast, around the successful advocacy work that brought about the Illinois Reproductive Health Act of 2019 and the Equal...
Apr 15, 2021
Another week on the Illumination and we have more imperial activity to warn the galaxy about! From the basic premise of Gerrymandering that has allowed the empire to thrive, to the nuance of Florida's HB1 "anti-protest" legislation, we talk this week about all the ways in which the New Republic is poised to fail if we...
Apr 5, 2021
Happy 1/3rd of the year! We celebrate by bringing our first guest, Ben McDonald of The Khetanna Cast, on board the Illumination to discuss how language can make people do terrible things by how it frames reality. From Matt Gaetz's misconstrued idea of how old a woman is, to demonizing health care as experimentation in...