Call the Question

After a long delay (thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic), Lesli and Maria finally welcome Adrienne Smith, Vancouver-based transgender human rights activist and social justice lawyer, to the podcast. Adrienne challenges both the hosts and our pod's listeners to think about inclusion, allyship and social justice goals in a new frame, and from a distinctly intersectional feminist perspective. We talk about defunding the police, women-only spaces, transgender rights education, and more. They also share their general discomfort with being called a 'lawyer,' and how they trained as a lawyer mainly to "smuggle a legal education over to our side of the barricade". In What the Fuck!, Maria and Adrienne take on the recent disturbing pandemic trend of normalizing poor bashing and anti-homelessness sentiment in Yaletown, the Downtown Eastside and elsewhere in our city. You can learn more about Adrienne Smith and contact them at adriennesmithlaw.com