The Porch

The Porch

Southerners on New Ground presents The Porch, SONG’s new podcast that explores the many facets of Queer Southern Organizing for Liberation in our Lifetime. We want to fill your glasses with refreshing and radical storytelling, movement insights, and strategies from key figures on the frontlines of Queer and Trans resistance. Come sit and stay a while as we build new worlds where we can all thrive—free from fear.

Episodes

June 24, 2025 62 mins

The Porch sat down with two beloved founders of Southerners on New Ground (SONG), Mandy Carter and Pat Hussain. With collectively over 100 years of organizing experience, Mandy and Mama Pat chat about how they first got started as teenagers in the War Resistance and Civil Rights movements, the 1987 March on Washington for Gay, Lesbian and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, and how they began to connect the dots between LGBTQ rights an...

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Continuing our Creating Change series, the Porch sat down with narrative activists Sam Master and Diamond Stylz to discuss queer and trans liberation in our lifetime. The two talk about their southern roots and the legacy of organizing passed down by women in their families, being a femme as a politic, as well as surviving American racial and gender apartheid. Sam and Diamond also call on marginalized people’s history of resilience...

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Join your guest hosts, Kendra R. Johnson and Rolynné Anderson, on the Porch with Southerners on New Ground.

This is the inaugural edition of the Porch, a new podcast hosted by Southerners on New Ground. At Creating Change 2025, we sat down with trans elder and lifelong activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy and Shelby Chestnut, Executive Director of the Transgender Law Center. The two discuss the unfolding hellscape in the United States...

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