Episode 79: Mauree Turner

Tuck speaks with Oklahoma representative Mauree Turner (they/she), the first openly nonbinary state legislator in the United States.

Topics include:

• Reimagining the justice system in the incarceration capital of the world.
• Working in spaces that weren't built to accommodate your existence.
• The pros and cons of representing so many different identities while your white cis coworkers get to just, like, chill.
• Dress codes.... they're bad!
• Plus: Which Steven Universe character is Mauree?

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Special thanks this week to Oliver-Ash Kleine and Callie Wright

Producer: Isaura Aceves

Logo: Ira M. Leigh

Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

Additional Music: "Glass Runner" by Blue Dot Sessions

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