NBN Book of the Day - Erin Mayo-Adam, “Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation” (Stanford UP, 2020)

Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation (Stanford UP, 2020) examines not only the policies that political movements advocate for, and those that are achieved, but the research pays particular attention to the dynamics that contribute to the movement formation itself and how this part of the story is often overlooked or obscured. Erin Mayo-Adam’s new book aims, in her research, to explore political movements in the United States, while also making a great effort to center the activists themselves, spotlighting their voices and experiences, and their perspective on how these movements come together, and also fragment over time. Mayo-Adam’s research focuses on three movements, the labor movement, the immigrant movement, and the LGBTQ+ movement, and how these distinct social/political movements took up policy advocacy together in Arizona and in Washington State in response to the passage of restrictive policy. Queer Alliances specifically focuses on the formation of these coalitions, rather than focusing on their successes or outcomes—though those are also noted and discussed within the text—distinguishing the research and the approach from much of the work that is generally done in political science around political coalitions. This is part of Mayo-Adam’s project, to shift our thinking around understanding political movements and how we should assess them and the capacity they bring to political engagement.

Queer Alliances examines the inter- and intra-movement dynamics, highlighting the way these different political advocates come together in unified coalitions, at least for a time, and then also assessing what happens when policy changes are achieved or when they fail. Part of the story that Mayo-Adam is telling is also about the various approaches that these coalitions take in order to get to a policy win, and how some of these approaches may have longer legs, having impacts beyond the immediate policy pursuit of the particular coalition. This is a fascinating analysis, honoring the activists and advocates who came together to form political coalitions by enunciating their voices and their approach to political engagement, and how and why they are able to build coalitions, in these cases, that integrate immigration advocates, labor advocates, and advocates for a broad array of LGBTQ+ rights.

Lilly J. Goren is professor of political science at Carroll University in Waukesha, WI. She is co-editor of the award winning book, Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics (University Press of Kentucky, 2012), as well as co-editor of Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern America (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Email her at lgoren@carrollu.edu or tweet at her @gorenlj.

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The NewsWorthy - New Virus Strain Spreads, Electoral College Challenge & NYE in 2020- Thursday, December 31st, 2020

The news to know for Thursday, December 31st, 2020!

We're talking about:

  • the new COVID-19 strain now confirmed in at least two states
  • which area seems to be struggling the most as hospitals around the country are overwhelmed
  • another challenge to the presidential election results, this time in Congress
  • new plans for college bowl games
  • Amazon embracing podcasting even more with its latest purchase
  • where and how to celebrate New Year's Eve safely tonight

All that and more in around 10 minutes...

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New COVID-19 Strain in CA: LA Times, NY Times, AP

Hospitalizations Hit New Records: COVID Tracking, CBS News, CNN

Nashville Bomber Warnings: Nashville Tennessean, ABC News, FOX News, AP

Republicans Challenge Electoral College Results: Politico, WaPo, USA Today, Sen. Hawley

New Congress Starts Sunday: Roll Call, Politico, CBS News

Rose Bowl: CBS Sports, AP, ESPN

Sugar Bowl: CBS Sports, The Hill, AP

Ticketmaster Fined for Hacking Rival: The Verge, Reuters, ABC News, DOJ

Amazon Buy Wondery: CNBC, Variety, Axios, Amazon

Apple Pulls Secret Parties App: The Verge, Ars Technica

Weekend Meteor Shower: CBS News, Business Insider, NASA

Thing to Know Thursday: Virtual NYE Celebrations: NY Times, The Guardian, AP, Variety

The Daily Signal - Fact or Fiction: Addressing the Talking Points of Climate Activists (Repeat)

Top 5 of 2020 Day 4: During this Christmas season, we're sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year to allow our team to take time off for the holidays.


Are rising sea levels a threat to our planet? Is global warming to blame for wildfires and hurricanes?


Geologist Gregory Wrightstone, author of “Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know,” joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the truth about climate change. In our conversation, Wrightstone addresses these talking points by climate activists and much more.


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Curious City - Here Are The Winners Of The 2020 Haiku Contest

It’s the last day of 2020, which means we’re revealing the winners of our 2020 Haiku Contest. Plus, hear an interview from our friends at Reset, WBEZ’s daily talk show. In a multimedia project titled “The River Speaks,” a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago gives a unique personality to each of the six branches of the Chicago River.

Curious City - Here Are The Winners Of The 2020 Haiku Contest

It’s the last day of 2020, which means we’re revealing the winners of our 2020 Haiku Contest. Plus, hear an interview from our friends at Reset, WBEZ’s daily talk show. In a multimedia project titled “The River Speaks,” a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago gives a unique personality to each of the six branches of the Chicago River.

60 Songs That Explain the '90s - Master P—“Make ‘Em Say Uhh!”

Rob explores Master P’s platinum single “Make 'Em Say Uhh!” by discussing the rapper’s famed business acumen, what he means to New Orleans hip-hop, and how his label No Limit Records paved the way for empowering rappers.

This episode was originally produced as a Music and Talk show available exclusively on Spotify. Find the full song on Spotify or wherever you get your music.

Host: Rob Harvilla

Guests: Micah Peters and Taylor Crumpton

Producers: Isaac Lee and Justin Sayles

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Closing the Gap on Food Insecurity: The Hunger Industrial Complex (Part 3)

What is the hunger industrial complex, and who is pulling the strings in our nation’s food system? In the latest installment of our Closing the Gap series, Reset brings on a food security expert who says the problem is much bigger than we think — and that “more food” is not the answer to ending hunger in the U.S. 

Also, a farmer joins the show to share why agriculture is the “revolutionary” solution to historic injustice for Black people.

GUESTS: Andy Fisher, executive director of EcoFarm; author of Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups

Kamal Bell, CEO of Sankofa Farms

Consider This from NPR - Congress Is Sending Relief But Many Cities And States Didn’t Get What They Wanted

While it took time for congress and President Trump to agree on the $900 billion pandemic relief bill, one thing has been certain for a while. Many mayors and governors did not get the money they requested.

Tracy Gordon, a senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, explains that while states will get funding for things like public education and vaccine distribution, what mayors and governors really want are unrestricted funds to spend how they'd like.

NPR's Ailsa Chang reports on how public transit has been hit especially hard during the pandemic. And scaled-back services, while saving some money, hurt passengers who rely on them.


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The Gist - The World’s Worst Year Ever

On the Gist, Fauci guess-timates. And, today in Remembrances of Things Trump: dead ducks and poisoned undies. 

In the interview, Harvard professor Michael McCormick is here to tell Mike about the worst year in recorded history. According to him, it’s 536 A.D., a year when a volcanic eruption blocked out the sun, a bubonic plague that recurred every few decades began, and Ireland was without bread for four years. He and Mike discuss how we’re able to pinpoint so precisely the date of these events, how it affected humanity, and that sometimes the history lesson is things can always get worse. McCormick is the Frances Goelet Professor of Medieval History at Harvard University.

In the spiel, if our ancestors got through, so can we.

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