What's The Strategy? Corporate Activism And Anti-Trans Bills

Corporations have spoken out against the new restrictive voting law in Georgia, but to what end? Sam talks to <em>Slate </em>writer <a href="https://slate.com/author/dahlia-lithwick">Dahlia Lithwick</a> about whether that tactic actually effects change—and whether it's just a performance. Plus, Sam talks to author and historian <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/gp_jls">Jules Gill-Peterson</a> about the historic flood of anti-trans bills in state legislatures and how these bills echo anti-gay rhetoric of the past. Then, friends of the show <a href="https://twitter.com/theferocity">Saeed Jones</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ZachStafford">Zach Stafford</a> join Sam to play Who Said That.<br/><br/>— Read Dahlia Lithwick's Slate article, "<a href="https://bit.ly/3dQhieT">The Problem with Boycotting Georgia</a>"<br/><br/><em>You can follow us on Twitter </em><a href="https://twitter.com/NPRItsBeenAMin"><em>@NPRItsBeenAMin</em></a><em> and email us at </em><a href="mailto:samsanders@npr.org"><em>samsa</em></a><a href="mailto:samsanders@npr.org"><em>nders@npr.org.</em></a>