Disability may be the final frontier for our consideration of human rights, following pushes for Black people and other people of color to get civil rights, for women's rights, and for gay/lesbian/bi people and now also trans people. Some people will start life with some kind(s) of disability/-ies, but everyone will become disabled in some way in their lifetime. COVID is considered a mass-disabling event, mirroring in some ways the ways HIV killed so many gay men and Black women, and, again, is downplayed because of who is most heavily impacted: people of color, the poor, the elderly, and immunocompromised or otherwise disabled people. What will it take for us to care about others' experiences? Can we make things more accessible for all without getting caught up in how we have to change to accommodate others?

While often referred to as "the LGBTQ+ community," this label is a bit more hopeful than it is realistic. There's so much diversity between each letter in the whole 2SLGBTQIA+ acronym and even a lot of diversity within each letter. We'll also explore the impact of various systems of oppression among LGBT people to highlight how our marginalization as gender/sexual minorities does not make us incapable of hating or harming others - even those within the "community." There are sexist gay men, transphobic and/or biphobic gays and lesbians, and racism, fatphobia, ableism, classism, and even pretty privilege can all affect all LGBT people's interactions. We're not as communal as we could be, but that's also influenced by the internalization of homophobia and transphobia that we all have to unlearn.

This episode is a bit of a bummer but it's still very necessary to address sexual violence and femicide. There is no word in the English language for killing a man on account of his gender, but women are killed on account of their gender often enough that "femicide" was coined, and we'll cover some important stats on the issue. We'll also look at how generally unsympathetic our society is to survivors of sexual violence and why that is, then turn to how hard recovery is for men who have been sexually victimized because of the systems of oppression we live under.