Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Margaret interviews the author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world
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Prince Shakur returns to finish reading Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August
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Margaret continues talking to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care
Original Air Date: 10.22.2025
Sources:
https://translifeline.org/about/history/
https://translifeline.org/response-to-988-cuts/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/27/359434925/bernard-mayes-nprs-first-chairman-founder-of-suicide-hotline-dies
https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Bernard-Mayes-to-be-honored-as-lifeline-to-3516576.php
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11447250/Bernard-Mayes-priest-obituary.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20141026134947/http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/24/bernard-mayes-kqed-fms-first-general-manager-dies-at-85
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds
https://www.sfsuicide.org/about/
https://translifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Problem-With-988-Report-November-2024-Text.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11733462/
https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6978712/
https://www.psychiatry.org/News-room/APA-Blogs/Marking-Two-Years-of-988-The-Suicide-and-Crisis-Li
https://behavioralhealthlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/988-History-Journal-Article_JohnDraper.pdf
https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/blog/suicide-mental-health-crisis-resources-not-police
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/her-death-sparked-transgender-day-remembrance-22-years-later-still-n1233809
https://www.them.us/story/rita-hester-trans-remembrance-visibility-memorial
https://translifeline.org/why-no-non-consensual-intervention/
https://www.them.us/story/trans-lifeline-report-988-police-interventions
https://madattheinternet.substack.com/p/online-censorships-institutional
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121226
https://glaad.org/tdor/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250107195548/https://cohost.org/lizthegrey/post/1520523-some-philanthropy-th
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Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care
Original Air Date: 10.20.2025
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Prince Shakur reads Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August
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