Saguaro stealing, a (now) politically correct sun devil, and an Arizona pilgrimage to Barry Goldwater's home state...

Our GRITS travel correspondent Mama Behn is BACK!

Find out why no one ever talks about his photo collection...

Now that they're neighbors, Aftyn and Anna discuss their roles in Nashville's gentrification and why diverse neighborhoods are the FRUIT OF LIFE.  Oh, and Aftyn talks about her coffin ⚰️while Anna selects her 8, yes, that's right, 8 bridesmaids...👰🏼

🗣Support these organizations and politicians!

• Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
• Rep. Gloria Johnson (Knoxville)
• Councilman Sean Parker (District 5, Nashville)

📣Visit these East Nash POC owned businesses! 

• El Metate
• Shugga Hi Bakery

👉🏻What we mentioned in this episode...

• WPLN's The Promise Podcast
• How You can Fight Gentrification
• Health Disparities in Nashville Neighborhoods
• Briefing on Neighborhood Stigma
• Nashville Scene, "Taking the Dick out of Dickerson"
• Deep Values Based Canvassing

Anna and Aftyn return to discuss Tennessee's plan to extend paid family leave to 12 weeks and how the US falls short in terms of progressive pro-family policies. #letsgetprolifegritty

Get Involved

📣Check out A Better Balance, the organization pushing for better family policies! Sign up for their e-mail list here! 

Links

• Gov. Lee and Tennessee's 12 weeks paid family leave
• US vs. the World (paid family leave)
• Birth Strike, by Jenny Brown
• 2020 Presidential candidates and pro-family policies
• Gov. Lee denies adoption to same sex couples

Ahead of our 2020 launch, enjoy this gritty episode from 2019 featuring our guest, Anna's sister! Join us as you relive Casadagate, we answer your outstanding questions, and prepare for 2020 gritiness! 

...Why is Anna taking showers with her cats? 

...Why are Tennessee's kids losing health insurance?

...Why did Tennessee's pro-birth bald congressman pay for an abortion for his mistress?

Links 

• Tennessee's #MeToo Movement
• 128,000 kids lose health coverage in Tennessee
• "Pro-Life" Scott Desjarlais pays for his mistress' abortion

The legendary Dr. Carol Paris, former President for Physicians for a National Health Program, joins the girls to talk about the battle for Medicare for All in Nashville from her arrest during the federal ACA hearings to her removal from a Trump rally, pushing Rep. Jim Cooper to sign on to M4A. Tune in to find out what's next for #MedicareForAll!

#LetsGetMedicareForAllGritty #ScrewIncrementalism 

Show Notes

🍍Tennessean's article on Dr. Carol Paris following Trump rally

🍍Dr. Paris' arrest in the Senate Finance ACA hearings

🍍Dr. Don McCanne's PNHP Quote of the Day

🍍Rep. Cooper signed onto Medicare for All in 2017

🍍Business Initiative for a Health Policy

Aftyn's mom, the GRITS field correspondent, joins the girls in Anna's cramped closet to take the audience far away to a tropical destination where accountants wear sarongs and menstruating women are prohibited from entering temples. #LetsGetBaliGritty

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mama Grittles out there! A special thanks to our mothers for putting up with us, especially during our rebellious, gritty high school years.

🍍Pictures from Bali

From activism to decision fatigue, Southern women are exhausted from working 80 hour weeks, causing good trouble and choosing where to eat on date night. If it's 2019 and this is the new definition of Southern belle, we're already tired. Next!

Grittle Shownotes

🍍Buzzfeed Millennial Burnout

🍍Plantation Mistresses by Catherine Clinton

🍍Outside the Magic Circle by Virginia Foster Durr

🍍Gender Equality Affects Southern Women the Most

🍍A Woman's Work is Never Done by Susan Maushart

With the Tennessee State House recently banning abortion after six weeks, Aftyn and Anna describe why southern states are on the front lines in the battle for a woman's right to choose. #LetsGetReproductiveGritty

Gritty Show Notes:

🍍Birthright: A War Story 

🍍The sexist and racist history of the medicalization of childbirth 

🍍The other abortion ban: I wanted to provide abortions for my patients. My med school wouldn't teach me how. 

🍍ACA Reduces of of Abortions

🍍Colorado Study on Abortion

Aftyn's mom guest stars on the pod, discussing her recent voyage to revolutionary France! In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, she spills the riveting history of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas and provides her Bolivia rebuttal to Aftyn's tall tale. Let's get Mama gritty!

Gritty Show Notes:

🍍The Black Count (Book)

🍍Paris, Tennessee

🍍Pics from Mom's Paris Trip

Where can you find karaoke and a history of the Democratic South? Look no further than your favorite GRITTY pod! Aftyn outlines how the GOP became the party of the South, and Anna explains why progressives win the culture wars.

Gritty Show Notes:

🍍Check out Lincoln Durham!

🍍Who was Fannie Lou Hammer?

🍍Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars

You called, you tweeted, you harassed them while standing in line at Kroger's, and after 9 months of silence, THE GIRLS HAVE RETURNED. Aftyn and Anna, showing little remorse, update all the grittles on their adventures and shed light on what's to come in 2019.

Anna's List of Show Notes:

🍍Submit comments to oppose Medicaid work requirements

🍍Anna's maternal mortality paper

🍍Picture of Nugget (Aftyn's new kitten)