Ep. 19: LIVE (on tape) FROM NEW YORK with talk-of-the-town Maud Maron and Hippiesq!

This episode goes coast-to-coast as I catch up with Karen, author of the Hippiesq Substack and my first-ever guest on the podcast. We are joined by Karen’s neighbor and compatriot Maud Maron, who’s recently made headlines in the New York Times with her ‘right-wing’ stance on merely discussing whether to have public-school sports that are reserved for girls only, as the U.S. has done without incident for fifty years now — and for including those girls in the discussion.

Maron, a Democrat until recently, will soon announce her candidacy to run as a Republican for District Attorney of New York City, in hopes of replacing current DA Alvin Bragg. She told The New York Post that she would work to restore public safety and justice, remove violent mentally ill people from city streets, prosecute criminals regardless of immigration status and repeal Bragg’s infamous “Day One memo.”

All of this is taken up in this lively conversation that you won’t want to miss!

Links:

Here’s the live video of Karen addressing the School Board last month (courtesy of Liz Fedak of ROAR Women NYC¹ — see Liz’s call to New Yorkers below)

Here’s the YouTube link to the whole (nearly 4-hour) meeting!

The Dec. 2 New York Times article about Maud’s ‘right wing’ advocacy for DISCUSSING girls-only sports. This is paywalled, but I have a personal copy that I’ll forward via email if you ask me.

1. Message from Liz: “ROAR has released a petition that NY-ers can sign to have the review of the 2019 Gender Guidelines outlined in Resolution 248 implemented. Here's the blog post if you'd like more context.”

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