4. Radical Lesbians for President 2024

Althea Laughon-Worrell is a college student engaged in racial justice work in Charlottesville, Virginia — a town that has become more or less synonymous with white nationalist violence after August 12, 2017. On that day, protesters gathered against the removal of a statue commemorating Confederate leader Robert E. Lee. They were met with counter protesters, many students like Althea, and violence ensued. You might have also seen pictures of a mob of young white men wielding tiki torches and polo shirts? That was from the night before, and it is emblematic of the pervasiveness of white supremacy in the area, which is often considered one of Virginia’s liberal hotspots due to UVA. This is a heavy topic, but Althea still makes the conversation a lot of fun.

We talk about our drone-captured Cha-Cha Slide, the amount of money that Charlottesville and  UVA police have spent protesting statues that many people in the city don’t actually want, the radicalization of Gen-Z via Tik Tok, trolling Trump rallies, K-pop, the Gen-Z-Millennial divide, the Georgia Senate runoff, segregation in Virginia public schools, condemning the University of Virginia, and the successes that activists have had in Charlottesville over the last three years.

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