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Capítulo 029: Mi cuerpo, mis reglas · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: Um is a really exciting cap because I mean, we're
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Speaker 1: and Rebecca Ruise from Plant Parenthood. Welcome. Say hello, hi everyone,
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having us by the way, Hello everybody.
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Speaker 1: We love making the trick out here and love being
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Speaker 1: in Espatio eighteen, dirty and nine. So happy to be here. Yes, welcome, welcome,
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Speaker 1: and Anna and Rebecca are here from Plant Parenthood and
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Speaker 1: there are also organizers of the Orange County Women's March,
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Speaker 1: so we're really excited to talk about both things. So
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Speaker 1: can you two just introduce yourselves for our listeners for
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Speaker 1: our look on what is I know that that you
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Speaker 1: listen as well to the podcast Love It Love It UM. Well,
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Speaker 1: my name is Rebecca Reese. They mentioned I am a
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Speaker 1: health educator for a Planned Parent It's I work for
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Speaker 1: their education department. What I basically do is go UM
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Speaker 1: to schools organizations basically all Orange County, teaching reproductive and
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Speaker 1: sexual health to the youth. So yeah, I love what
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Speaker 1: I do. It's great, really rewarding. Hopefully they do listen
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Speaker 1: to me because we'll talk about that and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk more about UM what Anna and Rebecca do. But
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Speaker 1: so yeah, Anna, tell us about yourself. So for Plant Parenthood,
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Speaker 1: I am the public affairs director and I work for
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Speaker 1: the political and advocacy arm of the organization. So there's
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Speaker 1: a health center side, and that's the side that does
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Speaker 1: all the wonderful services UM that you see. And also
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Speaker 1: Rebecca gets to go out in the community and talk
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Speaker 1: to all of our folks, and we are the side
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Speaker 1: that protects all of that legislatively and making sure that
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Speaker 1: our community understands UM legislation and what goes on as
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Speaker 1: far as UM as that is concerned with the elect
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Speaker 1: officials and all that jazz. So that's what I get
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Speaker 1: to do on the advocacy side. And if there's issues
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Speaker 1: or we need to go protest on an issue, that's
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Speaker 1: our team that goes out and puts all of that together.
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Speaker 1: So it's a very exciting, exciting time right now for
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Speaker 1: all of us. Fabulous, it's amazing. Thank you for the
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Speaker 1: work that you do very importantly. Are huge supporters upon
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Speaker 1: parent HU. Really we really do, we really, we won't
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Speaker 1: get into those. We really appreciate you. Yeah. So, I
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Speaker 1: mean one of the topics today that we want to
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Speaker 1: specifically we're going to focus on is the Latino community,
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Speaker 1: right and why sex education is really important, especially in
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Speaker 1: the Latino community. So can we just get into it
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Speaker 1: and let's talk about it? Yeah, um, sure, So I
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Speaker 1: guess from my perspective being like growing up in a
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Speaker 1: Mexican household and stuff, it was always very taboo either
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Speaker 1: because you know, not everybody, of course, but there's always
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Speaker 1: like the religious aspect of it and like the family
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Speaker 1: and the fixing and the traditional stuff, so nobody really
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Speaker 1: talks about it. But also nobody really expects you to
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Speaker 1: do it. And it's like, well, okay, that doesn't make
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Speaker 1: any sense, right, So then um, but there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of misconceptions going around too. So um we go to
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Speaker 1: especially like lower income communities where there again the lack
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Speaker 1: of resources, a lack of inphone education, and then there
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Speaker 1: a lot of young people are already engaging in sexual
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Speaker 1: contact and stuff like that. So then you get all
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Speaker 1: these kinds of questions like oh, I can't kept pregnant
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Speaker 1: if I'm on top or like, for example, there's the
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Speaker 1: concept of like virginity and like if you do it
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Speaker 1: like anally, like it doesn't count and all this stuff,
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Speaker 1: and it's like and then I have to like sit
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Speaker 1: there and explain well, like virginity is and idea, But
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Speaker 1: any kind of sexual contact there's always like a risk.
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Speaker 1: But even with my own mom, like she's always been
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Speaker 1: pretty um not super covered up and not super open either,
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Speaker 1: mainly because I think she doesn't know, but not through
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Speaker 1: any of our their own fault, right, Like she grew
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Speaker 1: up in Mexico, Like who's gonna tell her that? She's
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Speaker 1: like when I got my period, I thought I was dying.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, even though she had older sisters, so she
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Speaker 1: didn't want to give that us that experience. So she
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Speaker 1: sat there and talk to us about it. But I
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Speaker 1: remember one time I was like using the restroom and
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Speaker 1: I had a tampon it and she was like, how
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Speaker 1: do you impe with that? And so like I had
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Speaker 1: to sit there and explain to her, like give her
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Speaker 1: an anatomy lesson. So it just stems from that lack
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Speaker 1: of education and stuff, I think. But so true like
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Speaker 1: in our community and the Latino communities there really is
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Speaker 1: that we just do not talk about it at all. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I remember when I was in high school and I
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Speaker 1: wanted to use the tampon because I wanted to go swimming, right,
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Speaker 1: And it was a huge deal that I would like
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Speaker 1: even think about wearing a tampon, right, because then it
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Speaker 1: meant something else, right, my cousins, Like, that's only for
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Speaker 1: across that I've already had sex, and I was like, yes,
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Speaker 1: my mom would say that you would only use tampons
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Speaker 1: after you had children, Like what kind of lodgic, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean? But that was they bent their
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Speaker 1: own little things too. Yeah, And it's I also feel
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Speaker 1: that so much of this has to just do with like,
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Speaker 1: if you need to know anything about anything in the world,
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Speaker 1: you know, the math that we learn, the trigonometry, we
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Speaker 1: learn all this ridiculous ship and then we know nothing
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Speaker 1: about our body. Right, It's so wild, Like that's like
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Speaker 1: home base. That's the first piece of knowledge we should
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Speaker 1: be having is our own bodies, right. I always say that,
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Speaker 1: like health should be required every single year, like math is.
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Speaker 1: But I mean it might be pretty wias but anyway,
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Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna use for the rest of your life.
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Speaker 1: Are you gonna use a proble later? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not. You should know how your period happens, you know,
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Speaker 1: because I'm sitting there explaining the menstrual cycle and everybody's
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Speaker 1: like what, yeah, so, and there's so much to learn.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's a ton of information. I'm even learning.
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Speaker 1: We're all learning at our organization every single day. Every
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Speaker 1: day something new is coming out every day. There's advances
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Speaker 1: and something, especially when we're talking about the queer community too,
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Speaker 1: because we also talk about gender and sexuality, like we
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Speaker 1: have a whole presentation on that, and then that goes
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Speaker 1: back to our you know, Latin XT communities to how
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of homophobia sometimes and like a lot
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Speaker 1: of traditional views and ideas. And sometimes the kids want
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Speaker 1: to challenge you on that, but because you know, that's
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Speaker 1: all they've known. But even then I tell them, like,
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Speaker 1: I get it. It's a little overwhelming. Sometimes you have
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Speaker 1: new terms every single day, but like all you can
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Speaker 1: do is like the understanding. You know, even that in
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Speaker 1: and of itself, it's kind of hard to keep up
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Speaker 1: with sometimes, and that's a tough place to be. There's
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Speaker 1: so many layers because you have, like, for example, my
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Speaker 1: particular community and context are Roman Catholic Mexicans, so you
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Speaker 1: have that the religious piece, the culture piece, the sex
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Speaker 1: shaming on top of like the heteronormativity. It's just all compounded,
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Speaker 1: so you have no wiggle room, right, And so then
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Speaker 1: they're like and when if and when they do talk
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Speaker 1: to you, it's about like getting married or having children,
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Speaker 1: and it's like God do you know if I'm straight,
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Speaker 1: you don't know. I think. One of the only times
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Speaker 1: my mom referenced sex with me was we had a cousin,
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Speaker 1: well a lot a lot of the women in my
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Speaker 1: family have children very young fifteen sixteen, and so we
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Speaker 1: had a cousin and they called us to tell us
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Speaker 1: that our cousin was going to have a baby. And
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Speaker 1: my mom said to me, this was the only time
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Speaker 1: she talked to me about sex of my first memory.
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Speaker 1: If you ever get pregnant, you might as well buy
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Speaker 1: your father his coffin, because you will kill your father.
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm like, so how do I avoid this,
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Speaker 1: this thing, this horrible, awful thing, because they threaten you,
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Speaker 1: but then they don't tell you how, but then they
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Speaker 1: expect you to be like, you know, absinute or whatever.
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Speaker 1: And it's like in this day and age, come on,
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Speaker 1: come on, rest, I get it. You don't want to
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Speaker 1: think of your child, you know, engaging lot stuff, but like, again,
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Speaker 1: let's let's be real. Listed yeah. No. My mom her
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Speaker 1: sex talk to me was like I don't have I
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Speaker 1: don't have sex and married okay by and then she
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Speaker 1: shut the door of my room and I was like, Okay.
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Speaker 1: I remember when I was I feel like because I
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Speaker 1: came out at a really young age, came out right,
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Speaker 1: and I um, I feel like I didn't have my
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Speaker 1: parents were able to avoid the sex talk in like
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Speaker 1: a very specific wave, but they were like what are
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Speaker 1: we going to tell you? Right? So I remember plant
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Speaker 1: parents had been one of the first resources online like
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Speaker 1: being able to look like, well, how do I protect myself,
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Speaker 1: like if I'm having sex with another woman? Right? Another girl? Right?
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Speaker 1: It was in high school, so plan parent had was
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Speaker 1: like one of the only resources at the time where
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Speaker 1: I could like really learn about any type of sexual
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Speaker 1: or my own sexuality, right. And then also in our communities,
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Speaker 1: like it's really pushing me preventing the pregnancy stuff. But
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Speaker 1: they almost never touched on the st I its like
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Speaker 1: maybe I've heard my mom once or twice say like like, okay,
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Speaker 1: you know what this is kind of getting into. Why
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Speaker 1: don't we talk about what are some of the misconceptions
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Speaker 1: that you hear the most often? Because there's probably like
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Speaker 1: a top ten Oh, so like we get a lot
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Speaker 1: of can I get pregnantive dot dot dot hypotheticals? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: if I'm on top, if I'm on on JCUZI if
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Speaker 1: I'm this, if I'm that, and I'm just like listen
10:02
Speaker 1: anytime that fluid gets anywhere near or around the volva.
10:06
Speaker 1: And I do have to sometimes explain what a volve
10:08
Speaker 1: is for those of you out there who don't know.
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Speaker 1: When a person has a vaginant and they're laying down,
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Speaker 1: it's everything that you can see on the outside, okay,
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Speaker 1: because the giant is on the inside. It's okay, we
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Speaker 1: all learned sometimes, but if the ejaculation gets anywhere near
10:21
Speaker 1: around there, it can cause a pregnancy. And then a
10:23
Speaker 1: lot of misconceptions too, is that abstinence is just like
10:27
Speaker 1: you know, penetrative sex like penis to vagina because like
10:30
Speaker 1: again it's a very narrow way and a very straight
10:32
Speaker 1: way of looking at it. But I'm like, no, any
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Speaker 1: kind of sex, there's always a risk, whether it's vaginal sex,
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Speaker 1: sinal sex, oral sex. And then the thing that like
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Speaker 1: they look super shocked when I say, is I'm like
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Speaker 1: naked general to general rubbing and or contact, like nothing
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Speaker 1: even has to make an inside doesn't have to mean
10:48
Speaker 1: any penetration or insertion all right, Again, it takes this
10:51
Speaker 1: for those flutes to touch to either cause the pregnancy
10:54
Speaker 1: or anta transmission, and then they're like, well, how do
10:56
Speaker 1: you cause a pregnancy through oral sex? I'm like, I mean,
10:59
Speaker 1: you know what, don't know? People are doing their personal life.
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Speaker 1: There's so many different ways that Yeah, I don't know
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Speaker 1: where the affluids are going, all right, but okay, I'll
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Speaker 1: give you. I'll give that to you. Not likely will
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Speaker 1: call it a lower risk in the field, but I'm like,
11:13
Speaker 1: but you can still get an s T I. Another
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Speaker 1: misconception is how Plan B works. People think they just
11:20
Speaker 1: take it and it's like a fail safe um. But
11:24
Speaker 1: the thing is that it's not a birth control method.
11:25
Speaker 1: We don't call it a birth control method. The sooner
11:28
Speaker 1: someone takes it, the more effective it'll be, so like
11:30
Speaker 1: by day one it's going to be in your eighty
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Speaker 1: nine range. But those and the Plan B as well
11:36
Speaker 1: as the oral birth control also there are limits as
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Speaker 1: far as like weight and how effective they are right
11:44
Speaker 1: right right rate, So like Plan B M it was,
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Speaker 1: Plan B is not recommended for anybody that weighs over
11:49
Speaker 1: a hundred and sixty pounds like most people. Yes, that's
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Speaker 1: why sometimes at our health winners and stuff, they'll tell
11:56
Speaker 1: you to take L instead just for everybody to take
11:58
Speaker 1: because that one doesn't have the weight restriction. Interesting. Yeah,
12:02
Speaker 1: that's good to know. I don't know. I don't know
12:05
Speaker 1: that's something new today. Okay, So that's a big misconception too,
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Speaker 1: is like you've taken it's like a failsafe to from
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Speaker 1: my pregnancy. But all it's trying to stop is ovulation.
12:14
Speaker 1: And I'm sure we all ovulated in here. Can we
12:18
Speaker 1: know when that happens with right Most most of the
12:21
Speaker 1: time it's a human to me. It's not like you're like,
12:25
Speaker 1: oh my god, my egg fought my right over, you know,
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Speaker 1: real it, and it changes through diet, through stress of activity.
12:31
Speaker 1: So it's just like better than doing nothing. But like
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Speaker 1: we hear a lot of young people, especially like I'm
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Speaker 1: just gonna pop win in, go out and protected sex.
12:37
Speaker 1: I'll be cool. It's like that's not how r Yeah, No,
12:41
Speaker 1: that this is all really important to know. And I
12:43
Speaker 1: know that we have listeners who are younger, but even
12:45
Speaker 1: our listeners who are like adult women, you know. Yeah,
12:48
Speaker 1: there's so much there is so much misinformation at all
12:51
Speaker 1: age levels. I feel like now that I'm in a
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Speaker 1: relationship with a sister heterod man, like I've had to
12:57
Speaker 1: really like up my sex education because I wasn't having
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Speaker 1: you know, sex with men, and so now it's like
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Speaker 1: really being twenty four, like having to like basically take
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Speaker 1: sex out again right on my own. So for me,
13:09
Speaker 1: like having these type of free resources are really important
13:12
Speaker 1: because we're still learning at any age. You know. It's
13:15
Speaker 1: such a great movie to talk about this too, Like
13:17
Speaker 1: that's culturally relevant. The movie King signa Yes. I was
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Speaker 1: thinking that that fabulous movie because it also includes a
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Speaker 1: queer character, the queer brother, and and she she has penetrated,
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Speaker 1: she doesn't, but she got pregnant. Pregnant. Oh my god,
13:32
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run home and watch it because like I've heard,
13:36
Speaker 1: and it's and it also combines, you know the issue
13:38
Speaker 1: of gentrification because it's based in Silver Lake. Oh so
13:42
Speaker 1: they're like they're like a Mexican American family that's like
13:45
Speaker 1: originally from the neighborhood and they're dealing with all these
13:48
Speaker 1: white people coming in and she's getting pregnant and the
13:52
Speaker 1: queer brother and brother. It takes it really takes like
13:55
Speaker 1: the Virgin Hord's dichotomy and like flips it off, okay,
13:58
Speaker 1: and it's really good. All our listen, listen. Yeah, yeah,
14:01
Speaker 1: it's really good. Yeah. No, it's really interesting that you
14:04
Speaker 1: mentioned the virgin because like I had a really cool
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Speaker 1: women's studies professor in college, but she's like and we
14:09
Speaker 1: were like, um, it was like um feminism and like
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Speaker 1: Latina Latin X communities or whatever, and we have like
14:15
Speaker 1: the virgin Mary, right, the whole concept again going back
14:17
Speaker 1: to religion where she was a mother, because it's very
14:20
Speaker 1: important to be a mother and all that, but she
14:22
Speaker 1: was a virgin. So it's like that kind of subconsciously
14:25
Speaker 1: like sometimes messages the women in our community sext right, Yeah, exactly.
14:30
Speaker 1: It's an impossible standard. Yeah, you're damned if you do
14:33
Speaker 1: damned if you don't have a possible role model. Yeah.
14:37
Speaker 1: So I think this is a good time to go
14:38
Speaker 1: into our break song break um, and and we are back.
15:29
Speaker 1: So we are leading into our in January, right, So
15:31
Speaker 1: we're leading into the Women's March. Right. Last year local
15:35
Speaker 1: we covered it on Bucket Moving in Bethan right, right,
15:39
Speaker 1: if we're gonna hold like women accountable, that was like
15:41
Speaker 1: our sink or something like that. It's it's round two.
15:46
Speaker 1: So we're gonna be talking about the Orange County Women's March. Um,
15:49
Speaker 1: we're really excited, so let's let's get into it. I
15:52
Speaker 1: know Rebecca that you're one of the organizers, and Anna
15:55
Speaker 1: so are you. So what can we look forward to
15:57
Speaker 1: this year for the OC Women's March? So this year
16:00
Speaker 1: it'll be a little bit different. We're getting get ready
16:03
Speaker 1: for the crowds. Last year, just to kind of take
16:05
Speaker 1: you back in time, we weren't expecting more than maybe
16:08
Speaker 1: a thousand and five thousand folks and we ended up
16:10
Speaker 1: having in downtown Santana, which is not a big space. UM,
16:15
Speaker 1: but it was really nice to see just the community
16:18
Speaker 1: and everyone come out. UM. So this year we're really
16:21
Speaker 1: going to be focusing more on the power of women.
16:23
Speaker 1: Obviously we're gonna be highlighting me too and make sure
16:25
Speaker 1: that turns into never again because we've been dealing with
16:28
Speaker 1: that for way too long. And we're also going to
16:31
Speaker 1: talk about women in leadership roles and voting because it's
16:34
Speaker 1: important if women actually come out to vote, this place
16:37
Speaker 1: would look a very different LA and Orange County. UM.
16:40
Speaker 1: And last year, the reason we did it in Orange County,
16:42
Speaker 1: we were actually thinking of taking a pink bus all
16:45
Speaker 1: of us up to l A and joining the l
16:47
Speaker 1: A crowd and one of our folks, um, one of
16:50
Speaker 1: our community partners, said, you know, we can't keep burning
16:52
Speaker 1: away from Orange County if we wanted to change, we
16:54
Speaker 1: got to stay here interesting and make this change. So
16:57
Speaker 1: we said, you know it, Yeah, let's do it it
17:00
Speaker 1: and and we we were tired, but we did it
17:02
Speaker 1: and it was amazing. Um. So this year, I know
17:04
Speaker 1: one of the criticisms last year was it wasn't as
17:07
Speaker 1: as inclusive like you said, Stan right, we want a
17:10
Speaker 1: whole white women accountable. Well, this year really making sure
17:13
Speaker 1: that it's inclusive, um, for all of our Latino community
17:16
Speaker 1: and for all of our communities represented in Orange County,
17:18
Speaker 1: from our API communities or African American communities. Um, we're
17:21
Speaker 1: gonna have great speakers from Black Lives Matter. We're really
17:23
Speaker 1: excited to have Rain Baltez, who's an actress right now.
17:26
Speaker 1: She's a transactress on Georgia's show. She was on the
17:28
Speaker 1: show Transparent. She'll be one of our speakers as well. UM,
17:31
Speaker 1: we have a lot of our own community speakers and
17:33
Speaker 1: what I like to see our own celebrities there just
17:36
Speaker 1: because it's our community and folks need to know what's
17:39
Speaker 1: in their community. So it's going to be an exciting,
17:42
Speaker 1: very emotional. Last year was emotional. Um. I got to
17:45
Speaker 1: do my my piece last year because we were one
17:48
Speaker 1: of the lead organizers. Was just kind of making sure
17:51
Speaker 1: that the crowds were where they were supposed to be
17:53
Speaker 1: and people were kind of just marching. They were happy.
17:56
Speaker 1: I didn't see a frown. I didn't see anybody upset. Um.
17:59
Speaker 1: You know, one of the we had counter protesters show
18:01
Speaker 1: up that we're anti everything. They ended up leaving because
18:04
Speaker 1: they saw how many people and they were just like,
18:06
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yeah, so they left. They skipped out real quick.
18:14
Speaker 1: So this year, we know we're going to see probably
18:16
Speaker 1: very similar crowds, but we really want to make sure
18:20
Speaker 1: that we're inclusive of our communities, especially of our Sunthana communities.
18:23
Speaker 1: So today we have a group that's out in Santana
18:26
Speaker 1: right now knocking on doors inviting our vicinos, making sure
18:28
Speaker 1: they come out and get involved and get engaged, because
18:31
Speaker 1: we're not going to make any change without them for
18:33
Speaker 1: us to build solidarity. So I got my build solidarity together. Sure,
18:37
Speaker 1: my other welcome here. Sure. Yeah. So we need to
18:41
Speaker 1: make sure if in our communities come out, they learn
18:43
Speaker 1: about the issues that are important to them, and they
18:45
Speaker 1: also learned how to vote to protect them because this year,
18:48
Speaker 1: I mean, we know, we were fighting all kinds of
18:49
Speaker 1: stuff from last year to this year, and we gotta
18:52
Speaker 1: still march and we gotta still fight. Yeah, So you mentioned,
18:55
Speaker 1: you know that voting is going to be a huge emphasis.
18:58
Speaker 1: What are some of the other like shoes that are
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Speaker 1: related to specifically Santana that the o C Women's March
19:04
Speaker 1: is going to be wanting to include and focus on
19:06
Speaker 1: this year. So we're gonna be talking about housing is
19:10
Speaker 1: a big one. It's Orange County as it's hard to
19:13
Speaker 1: live there, it's not cheap. We are going to be
19:15
Speaker 1: talking about housing. Um, We're gonna be talking about our
19:18
Speaker 1: duck and our dreamers. We have some great speakers that
19:20
Speaker 1: are going to be touching about that as well and
19:22
Speaker 1: bringing those, um, those issues to light, and also just
19:26
Speaker 1: talking about the right to work. Um, we have a
19:28
Speaker 1: lot of great unions, we have a lot of great workers,
19:30
Speaker 1: and a lot of those workers are women, and we
19:32
Speaker 1: want to talk about and really talk about the pay
19:34
Speaker 1: gap and the opportunity to work and just the right
19:36
Speaker 1: for women to work and how important it is for
19:38
Speaker 1: them to be in those in those spaces. Absolutely amazing. Wow,
19:42
Speaker 1: y'all are doing such incredible County. I'm so happy that
19:46
Speaker 1: y'all could be here. Today's thank you so much. Yeah,
19:49
Speaker 1: you know, during our songbreak, we were discussing amongst the
19:51
Speaker 1: four of us about you knows or maybe women that
19:55
Speaker 1: have a misconception of birth control, right, and you shared
19:58
Speaker 1: something about birth control specific Can you tell our listeners
20:01
Speaker 1: about that? Yeah, So it actually happened because one of
20:03
Speaker 1: our so for Plan parent and I'll jump back and
20:06
Speaker 1: forth with the women's marching Plan Parenthood, but for Plant Parenthood,
20:08
Speaker 1: we have are what we call our Plan Parenthood Generation Action.
20:11
Speaker 1: These are college kids and these are college campus groups
20:13
Speaker 1: that do advocacy. And there was of course a birth
20:16
Speaker 1: control mandate that was happening, um where there was a
20:20
Speaker 1: mandate where they were going to restrict and not have
20:24
Speaker 1: birth control be free um and covered by your insurance. Right.
20:27
Speaker 1: So we were talking at one of the clubs and
20:31
Speaker 1: they had their parents. There is likely they bring the
20:33
Speaker 1: parents to talk about these subjects, and a lot of
20:35
Speaker 1: the moms were saying, well, why do they need a
20:38
Speaker 1: birth control? Is only for people that get pregnant, you know,
20:42
Speaker 1: and we had to kind of stop, and I'm not
20:44
Speaker 1: the health educator, the fabulous Rebecortora, and so what we're talking, yeah,
20:49
Speaker 1: you know, and and intersects. You know, you talk about
20:52
Speaker 1: the laws that affect us, and then we talk about
20:54
Speaker 1: just sex education. And this is why they're able to
20:57
Speaker 1: do these things and create these horrible laws and rest
21:00
Speaker 1: distance such a way because our folks don't know, right,
21:03
Speaker 1: some of those reproductive right now. Some of those medical
21:05
Speaker 1: reasons include like people with a varian cysts for example,
21:08
Speaker 1: Like they're prone to that. So wealth country gonna help
21:10
Speaker 1: with that. Irregular periods, same thing. Um, long you lead heavily,
21:14
Speaker 1: you have really backcrams that can help you regulate it
21:17
Speaker 1: acne to like, um, so all those different things as well,
21:21
Speaker 1: some really life saving issues, so like people with polycystical
21:24
Speaker 1: variance syndrome for example. So, um, it's very important that
21:28
Speaker 1: we look like, yeah, it's for family planning. We want
21:30
Speaker 1: to take care, we want to decide when to have
21:32
Speaker 1: our children. That's also very important. But there's also some
21:35
Speaker 1: other medical reasons for it that people are not aware of, right, yeah,
21:38
Speaker 1: absolutely right, and that there are no go ahead, no
21:41
Speaker 1: at the march, we're going to be talking about reproductive
21:43
Speaker 1: rights as well. Um, we have a few great speakers
21:45
Speaker 1: that are gonna be talking about that. Um. And the
21:47
Speaker 1: other big, big issue in Orange County and it's a
21:50
Speaker 1: serious one. It's human trafficking. Okay, we're when I have
21:52
Speaker 1: some great, two amazing speakers Dr Nadi and UIs that
21:57
Speaker 1: are going to talk about human trafficking and what that
22:00
Speaker 1: looks like. And um, you know it's just Orange Canty
22:03
Speaker 1: Is is a big, big that's a huge issue in
22:05
Speaker 1: our area. So that's such sex trafficking, sex special media.
22:09
Speaker 1: It's just a huge for it because you know, the
22:12
Speaker 1: more tourism there is, the higher the rates of human
22:14
Speaker 1: trafficking are. Unfortunately, and people think that it's something happening
22:18
Speaker 1: like in a far away land, you know, they think
22:20
Speaker 1: of the movie Taken. But then like again we mentioned education,
22:23
Speaker 1: like hey, sorry to give you this by the information,
22:26
Speaker 1: but it's happening right at home. Yeah, I am with
22:29
Speaker 1: my job. They actually sent me to do a two
22:31
Speaker 1: day training in Connecticut one year with this organization called
22:34
Speaker 1: the Polarist Project, and they're an anti slavery organization and
22:37
Speaker 1: they're based out of DC. So they really treat sex
22:41
Speaker 1: trafficking as slavery, right, and they give us this training
22:44
Speaker 1: and the specific and they flew in specifically like Spanish
22:48
Speaker 1: speaking um and like Latino X, like rape crisis advocates
22:52
Speaker 1: from all across the country, especially from states where there's
22:56
Speaker 1: larger like Latin X populations. And so we were learning
22:58
Speaker 1: about sex trafficking in the shoot, but the case study
23:01
Speaker 1: that they gave us to exemplify the issue was out
23:03
Speaker 1: of Mexico and the sex trafficking that has just been
23:07
Speaker 1: born out of there and has been cultivated over the generations,
23:10
Speaker 1: and how you know, the Southwest, but also New York
23:14
Speaker 1: and the Eastern seaboard, like all these like mexicanas and
23:16
Speaker 1: Central American women, Caribbean women, women from all over. We're
23:19
Speaker 1: really coming through Mexican and then coming to these different places.
23:23
Speaker 1: I also like, I think that it's so telling too,
23:25
Speaker 1: because we don't have the information about our own bodies
23:28
Speaker 1: and about our own sexuality, and we don't have control.
23:30
Speaker 1: But here we are being trafficed for the purposes of sex.
23:33
Speaker 1: And then again there's all sorts of misc consumptions then
23:36
Speaker 1: and then the whole shaming comes back to like if
23:38
Speaker 1: that happened to you some people, some women are ashamed
23:41
Speaker 1: to come forward with it because again these internalized ideas
23:44
Speaker 1: like you know, I'm somehow disgusting or dirty or disdained
23:48
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know. And again we need more of
23:51
Speaker 1: that education, more of that because everything, all of it
23:53
Speaker 1: comes full circle and that connects together the voting rights,
23:56
Speaker 1: our bodies. You know, if you need to understand how
23:58
Speaker 1: important it is for you to vote because you're going
24:00
Speaker 1: to protect your own body and all that stuff. And
24:02
Speaker 1: sometimes again people in our community, um, again not do
24:05
Speaker 1: any full of their own Sometimes you know, people don't
24:08
Speaker 1: have access to those resources. There's tools to let them
24:11
Speaker 1: know what I do or to go to vote, like
24:12
Speaker 1: what I vote on you know. Right, So, and these
24:16
Speaker 1: issues in Orange County especially and everywhere everywhere else you're
24:19
Speaker 1: in your bubble, right and everybody thinks Orange County is
24:22
Speaker 1: this like Disneyland is are and you know, the beaches
24:25
Speaker 1: are there and all this other stuff. Um, but if
24:27
Speaker 1: we don't bring these issues to light, and we're not
24:29
Speaker 1: going to change them. So we got to get folks
24:31
Speaker 1: a little uncomfortable, let them know this is happening in
24:33
Speaker 1: your backyard, so we can make these changes. We can
24:36
Speaker 1: shake the table a little bit, just a little bit,
24:38
Speaker 1: the same with plug for for my department. So with
24:41
Speaker 1: all this education is very important. So if anybody's out
24:44
Speaker 1: there in Orange County, whether it's a youth organization, we
24:46
Speaker 1: also work with adults and parents, training for professionals and
24:50
Speaker 1: anything like that, go ahead and just reach us through
24:52
Speaker 1: our website, contact us for some education if you like,
24:54
Speaker 1: because again it starts starts in the macro area. The
24:57
Speaker 1: microw are sorry, starts at home. So absolutely that's something
25:00
Speaker 1: we talked about a lot here on the podcast. There's
25:02
Speaker 1: a lot of these conversations need to start at home,
25:04
Speaker 1: right Yeah, we also I know that, and you also
25:10
Speaker 1: mentioned that there was going to be a focus for
25:12
Speaker 1: queer lgbt Q help rights issues if you want to
25:18
Speaker 1: tell our listeners a little bit more about that. With
25:20
Speaker 1: regards to the Women's March, So the thing that kind
25:23
Speaker 1: of makes Orange County a little bit different from the
25:25
Speaker 1: other organizers because you know there's every county, a lot
25:28
Speaker 1: of cities are doing it this year. On UM we
25:31
Speaker 1: are a coalition of about thirty different organizations and of
25:35
Speaker 1: those organizations, one of them is the LGBTQ s t
25:37
Speaker 1: Q Center, the o C Women's Health Project and those
25:40
Speaker 1: two organizations really fight and make sure that they calculate statistics,
25:44
Speaker 1: they work and make sure their services for our LGBTQ
25:48
Speaker 1: community and are not the next community. They're really doing
25:50
Speaker 1: what they can in Orange County to make sure that
25:52
Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community or trans community are served, and they
25:55
Speaker 1: not just served, but also UM track them, you know,
25:58
Speaker 1: how are they doing and actually have statistics to show
26:00
Speaker 1: let hey, these people exist and you know, our folks
26:03
Speaker 1: all exist and here they are and this is healthcare.
26:05
Speaker 1: This is just what healthcare work like, right UM and
26:08
Speaker 1: our lgbt Q UH it's it's called l g bt
26:12
Speaker 1: Q Center on Fourth Street in downtown Santana. They're huge
26:16
Speaker 1: partners of ours as well. And UM they provide services
26:20
Speaker 1: from youth to you know, youth to adults for our
26:23
Speaker 1: l g pt Q um UH folks and they can
26:26
Speaker 1: go there. It's a safe space. UM. They do so
26:29
Speaker 1: much as far as just education as well, and they
26:32
Speaker 1: work with us a lot on doing forums, educational forums
26:35
Speaker 1: in our community. So we're really excited to have them
26:37
Speaker 1: as one of our planning. There are really awesome space
26:40
Speaker 1: like they hold clubs UM for different age ran just
26:43
Speaker 1: to like if you need to connect with other people
26:45
Speaker 1: that are going with through your things and stuff like that.
26:47
Speaker 1: We have a high school peer group. Sometimes they come
26:49
Speaker 1: speak to them, so they try to, you know, let
26:51
Speaker 1: them know they're they're really awesome space for UM, l
26:54
Speaker 1: g B, t Q, youth up to adults to to
26:57
Speaker 1: find like a space where they kind of fit and
26:59
Speaker 1: hang out and just talk to other people. That's great. Yeah,
27:02
Speaker 1: thanks for sharing that resources. Yeah, thank you so much
27:04
Speaker 1: for sharing all of those resources. We're coming towards the
27:07
Speaker 1: end of our today and we want to thank you
27:09
Speaker 1: so much again, Rebecca and Anna from Planned Parenthood and
27:13
Speaker 1: Orange County Women's March for being here. And you know,
27:16
Speaker 1: before we go, I want us to talk about and
27:19
Speaker 1: also recognize that. You know, recently this week UMM had
27:22
Speaker 1: a transgender woman by the name of Vicky Us was
27:25
Speaker 1: killed UM in a fire here in Pico Union in
27:29
Speaker 1: l A, which is my community where I come from,
27:31
Speaker 1: and she was from Luras. She was murdered. She was murdered.
27:35
Speaker 1: She was murdered, second trans women to be murdered. It's
27:38
Speaker 1: been named to hate crimes and so just to recognize her,
27:43
Speaker 1: recognize her, UM, there's a bomb is organizing a go
27:47
Speaker 1: fund me last night, there was on Friday, she there
27:50
Speaker 1: was a vigil in her honor, to honor her life
27:53
Speaker 1: and her legacy. And there's also a go fund me
27:55
Speaker 1: going around so we can link that UM in our bio. Yes, yes,
27:59
Speaker 1: absolutely so. UM. Once again, thank you so much for
28:03
Speaker 1: tuning in to another cup people look radio. Thank you
28:06
Speaker 1: to our guests for being here, Thank you for having
28:09
Speaker 1: thank you for all the work that you're doing, for organizing,
28:13
Speaker 1: for doing all the grassroots groundwork. It's amazing. We're really
28:17
Speaker 1: happy that you could be here, especially for Orange County listeners.
28:20
Speaker 1: If you can make it out to the Women's March,
28:22
Speaker 1: please do it. Sounds like they have an amazing, amazing
28:25
Speaker 1: lineup for that day, amazing energy that will be, you know,
28:28
Speaker 1: all encompassing. So thanks again. Do you want to tell
28:31
Speaker 1: our listeners where they can find you all on social media?
28:35
Speaker 1: So social media it's at Women's March O c or no,
28:38
Speaker 1: it's at OC Women's March, and then online it's OC
28:41
Speaker 1: Women's March dot org and you'll find all the information
28:44
Speaker 1: fires times obviously it's January from one pm there in
28:50
Speaker 1: downtown Santana awesome. And then if you eat need any
28:53
Speaker 1: educational resources you people can go on better than sex
28:56
Speaker 1: ed dot org. Fabulous, Thank you, so and talk and
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