Funders for LGBTQ Issues invites you to listen to Justice Ain’t Cheap: A Queer Philanthropy Podcast! This podcast, which debuted in 2023, has been a labor of love from our team, and we hope that it creates a home for tough, honest conversations (led with love and grounded in care) about the state of the LGBTQ movement and the role philanthropy has to play in this crucial moment for our communities.
Episode 4: The Time We've Been Waiting For
April 18, 2024
This episode of Justice Ain’t Cheap brings together Black queer and trans professionals to discuss what liberation truly looks like and means in philanthropy.
Recorded live during Funding Forward 2023 in Chicago, Funders’ President Saida Agostini-Bostic joins board member Glo Ross (Arcus Foundation) and Lisa Owens (Hyams Foundation) to discuss how Black femme, trans, and gender nonconforming philanthropic leaders are organizing to build a world where everyone is free.
Episode 3: We Should All Be Organizers
January 24, 2024
This episode of Justice Ain’t Cheap brings together legislators and organizers on the movement front lines who have been impacted by the far right’s legislative assault, targeting trans and gender non-conforming communities.
Host Saida Agostini-Bostic talks with Representative Kim Abbott (MT, HD 83), Representative Mauree Turner (OK, HD 88), and Emmett Schelling (Transgender Education Network of Texas: TENT), who are organizing against this tide of anti-trans hate.
**content warning: this episode contains references to suicide**
This episode of Justice Ain’t Cheap is co-sponsored by Funders Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) and National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP).
Episode 2: We Are the Hope
September 28, 2023
In this episode of Justice Ain’t Cheap, host Saida Agostini-Bostic talks with Trishala Deb (Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity), Imara Jones (TransLash), and Kierra Johnson (National LGBTQ Task Force) about the intersections of the attacks on reproductive rights and the LGBTQ community, as well as how philanthropy can be in right relationship with LGBTQ movements in this moment of crisis.
This episode of Justice Ain’t Cheap is co-sponsored by Women’s Funding Network (WFN) and Funders for Reproductive Equity (FRE).
Episode 1: A Billion Dollar Problem
July 24, 2023
In the premiere episode of Justice Ain’t Cheap, host Saida Agostini-Bostic talks with Funders for LGBTQ Issues’ board members Ana Conner (Third Wave Fund) and Paulina Helm-Hernández (Foundation for a Just Society) about the heightened attacks on transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) communities and the role philanthropy plays in resourcing social justice movements.