'The Advocates' Podcast: Did Women Lose at the Oscars?

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The Advocates Podcast: Did Women Lose at the Oscars?
Jessie and Tracy discuss if women really were empowered at this year's Oscar ceremony.
 Jessie Earl
          
          Mar 06, 2018
          
        
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The newest episode of the new podcast The Advocates is now available. Hosts Jessie Earl and Tracy E. Gilchrist sit down with Gerod Rody, founder of OUT for Sustainability, to discuss the intersection of being LGBT and an environmentalist. Also, Tracy and Jessie discuss if women actually lost at the Oscars, if Call Me by Your Name or The Shape of Water is a better movie, the Lesbians Who Tech convention in San Francisco, and their mutal love of Orphan Black. 
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The Advocates Podcast: Did Women Lose at the Oscars?

Jessie and Tracy discuss if women really were empowered at this year's Oscar ceremony.

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