857: Museum of Now

pArtifacts and exhibits of this particular moment we are living through. /ppVisit a href=https://thisamericanlife.supercast.com?utm_source=rssutm_medium=shownotesutm_id=lifepartnersthisamericanlife.org/lifepartners/a to sign up for our premium subscription./pulliExhibit One: Ira talks to producer Emmanuel Dzotsi, who brings the first exhibit into the studio with him: a chunk of concrete with some yellow paint on it. He got it from the demolition site in Washington, DC, where the giant Black Lives Matter letters are being dug out of the street with heavy equipment. (8 minutes)/liliExhibit Two: Producer Aviva DeKornfeld talks to Ranjani Srinivasan, who tells the story of how her life was transformed over five days via a series of events that started out confusing and escalated to frightening. (25 minutes)/liliExhibit Three: Producer Laura Starecheski takes us inside one dramatic court hearing on the Trump administration’s executive order and new policy banning transgender people from serving in the military. (20 minutes)/li/ulpTranscripts are available at a href=https://www.thisamericanlife.org/857/transcriptthisamericanlife.org/a/ppa href='https://www.thisamericanlife.org/page/privacy-policy'This American Life privacy policy./abr /a href='https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices'Learn more about sponsor message choices./a/p