Part 5: Back to the Future

Hosts Bronwin Parks and Elinor Svoboda take the podcast on location and meet up in present day Calgary (2024) and it was a more visceral experience than either one of them expected. They tour their elementary school, explore old artifacts and finally answer the question of the podcast: What if they would have been friends from a more impressionable age in 1988? Resources: It Gets Better by Dan Savage (book - youth) - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/309525/it-gets-better-by-dan-savage/9780452297616 One In Every Crowd by Ivan Coyote (book - youth) - https://www.amazon.ca/One-Every-Crowd-Ivan-Coyote/dp/1551524597 Gender Born, Gender Made: Raising Healthy Gender-Nonconforming Children (book - adult) – Diane Ehrensaft https://a.co/d/g8BYE5H The Family Acceptance Project (organization) - https://familyproject.sfsu.edu/ How to talk (and listen) to transgender people by Jackson Bird (video) - https://youtu.be/HbQZ7jAvgoI?feature=shared