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What is the impact of media coverage on indigenous perspectives?
You are like trying to cobble together like every cent that you can possibly pull out of a fucking couch cushion. Because, like, you know, I've said this on the show before, right? Like, if you're a trans person in the U.S., even before all the turf tariffs hit, right? Like, you were living in, like, 1936 Great Depression levels of unemployment.
And, you know, and so that means that, like, it actually matters a lot when other outlets do your stories and don't attribute it to you because, like...
you have to find a way to fucking make money and like almost all trans journalists are like the most hideously broke people you've ever heard of in your entire fucking life like and this is also you know and this is this is also part of the way that like class plays out in in the trans media you see is like you know the people with the biggest platforms tend to be trans people who were already doing okay because those are the only people who can afford to fucking do this
And, like, that's why most of you have heard of me and most of you probably have not heard of David and Mira, even though David and Mira do, like, quite frankly, more important journalism than I do. And, like, in terms, especially in terms of, like, and, like, break way more fucking stories than I do because it's not kind of, like, not exactly, like, my thing, right? Right.
But that's because I was like, you know, like I was already sort of like in a place that was financially secure and everyone else is so unbelievably fucking broke all the time.
And it matters when fucking stories get stolen because the only way that if you're a trans journalist and you're, you know, you're working at your own outlet because an outlet won't fucking hire you because that's just the way that the fucking... Yeah.
It's not just liberal media, or it's not just, like, the cis-liberal media, too. Sometimes, like, I had a similar thing with when I broke the story of RAINN and some other sexual abuse nonprofits removing all of the trans people from their websites. That became a national news story, and the Washington Post picked it up also.
And I think part of that was because I complained so much about the previous time where they almost didn't cite me that maybe they were a little bit more cautious about me is my theory. But anyway, after that initial news story that cited me, same thing happened where it's like, everyone's like, oh, well, we can just cite the Washington Post now instead of this person no one knows.
And the first website to do that was like a queer news outlet. And then I just kept watching as like, I think it was like three or four different queer or like feminist websites women-focused news outlets did the same thing of not citing me.
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