This week’s text:
✍️ “Compulsary Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” by Adrienne Rich

This week’s guest:
Lindsay Johnson, aka The Radical Connector, is a sales & visibility coach for misfit entrepreneurs building their businesses to the beat of their own drums and radical enough to believe they can change the world! Lindsay’s superpower is getting entrepreneurs over their fear and discomfort of selling, taking bold action, and gaining the confidence to put themselves out there! After 20+ years of helping entrepreneurs make money in a way that feels good, their message is clear: you matter, your work is important, and you deserve to make excellent money while you change the freaking world!

Find Lindsay:
🌐 theradicalconnector.com
▶️ youtube.com/c/theradicalconnector
📱instagram.com/radicallinds

Discussed in this episode:

• What to do when important ideas come from problematic people
• Cancel culture, nuance, and evolving past rigid thinking
• The roots of compulsory heterosexuality in capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy
• Lindsay’s vulnerable journey to understanding their non-binary identity
• How proximity to power complicates identity and solidarity
• The dangers of the incel pipeline and raising feminist boys
• Queerness, gender, and neurodivergence as natural human expressions
• The power and politics of the “lesbian continuum”
• Choosing labels vs. living beyond them

Resources Mentioned:

• “You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery” by Dara Hoffman-Fox
• “The Invention of Heterosexuality” Jonathan Ned Katz (essay)
• Adolescence on Netflix
• “Is Gossiping Feminist?” by Abbie Teal

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