Resetting The Table Podcast

 Celine   Hey listeners, Celine here. Before we get into today's episode, I wanted to share a few words of introduction. Today's conversation with the brilliant Silver Stephens is about body sovereignty, which we will expand on throughout the episode, decriminalization and sex work. If you've been following previous episodes, you'll know the Atlanta massacre has been heavy on our hearts. And we've been holding grief, love and rage for the victims, their families and our Asian kin. We also want to honor these women's experiences in their entirety. And that includes the fact that their association with sex work was a key factor in how vulnerable they were to white supremacist and patriarchal violence. For us, it's important to center the voices of Indigenous women, families and Two Spirit people when talking about sex work. Because indigenous sex workers bear the brunt of white supremacist, colonial patriarchal violence and lead the way in embodying radical de...

 Maria   Hey folks, Maria here. Before we get into today's episode, we have a correction and an apology to make. In our last episode on anger after Atlanta, I used the term female body in an attempt to describe my experiences of feeling unsafe in certain public situations based on who I am in my body and how I present to the world. After the episode aired, we were very lovingly reminded by someone that using the term female body can present various levels of baggage and barriers to our non binary and trans listeners. By using the term female body, I was participating in language harmful to trans and non binary people. And that excludes trans and non binary experiences of gender based harassment and transphobia. I'm sorry, thank you so much for being gracious enough to call my use of language out and for inviting me and us to do better. We're all on a learning journey together and really hope that this learning experience for us will also benefit our podcast community as a...

 Maria   Hey everyone, and welcome to Resetting the Table, expanding imagination around race, place and faith for our collective liberation. Celine   I'm Céline chuang. Trixie   I'm Trixie Ling. Celine   And I'm Maria Mulder. We host this podcast from traditional ancestral unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory, otherwise known as Vancouver, Canada. Acknowledging the land is one way we want to commit to decolonization. And to begin each episode in a good way, expressing solidarity with the Indigenous struggle for rights, reparations and sovereignty. Celine   So we had our next episode lined up and ready. And then events in Atlanta happened. And we thought we would change our plans. And instead host a conversation between the three of us where we can show up for each other process together work through the grief and the anger, not only the shooting, but the narratives, the media narratives around what happened as wel...