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11/06/2025

Re-run tonight of last weeks’ show with strategies for keeping safe and fed during hard times.

As the government shutdown continues SNAP and WIC benefits will be ending next week for many of our neighbors. If you are or know someone who needs food assistance please listen. The BloomingOUT team has complied a list of locations to pick up or drop off food and other supplies that are needed. If you are able to donate please give what you can. If you need help, please use these locations. You are part of the Community and deserve dignity and security.



Banks https://www.foodpantries.org/ci/in-bloomington
Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard (The Hub) 1100 W. Allen St.
Monroe Community Kitchen 1515 S Rogers ST
Hoosier Hills Food Bank 2333 W Industrial Park Drive
Shalom Center 620 South Walnut Street
Bloomington Township Trustees 2111 Vernal Pike
Pantry 279 3609 SR 46, Ellettsville
Monroe County Humane Association (pet supplies) 791 S Fieldstone Blvd
Perry Township Trustees 1010 S Walnut St
2nd Baptist Church 321 N Rogers, Bloomington
Grace Center Food Pantry 9206 S. Old State Road 37, Bloomington
First United Methodist 219 East 4th St. & also 2413 Rechter Rd, Bloomington

Little Pantries https://lfpbloomington.org/find-a-pantry
Bryan Park (Palmer St.) Community Pantry
VanBuren Box on Shadybrook Drive
Cornerstone Christian Fellowship Blessing Box
United Presbyterian Blessing Box
Ellettsville LFP
Crestmont Big Little Free Pantry
LFL pantry conversion
Grace's LFL Pantry conversion
Unionville Hotshots 4-H Club Pantry
3420 W Indian Creek Dr
Stone Belt LFP
1261 N Lindbergh Dr
Broadview LFP
SCCAP LFP
UU Hunger Task Force & Needmore Coffee Roasters LFP
W 11th Pantry
The Overlook LFP
Community Orchard LFP
Girl Scout Troop 2497 Little Free Pantry
200 E Southern Dr
Southern Drive LFP
801 W 9th St LFP
Brandywine LFP

Contact us at BloomingOUT via:
email: [email protected]
text: 812-671-0119

09/20/2025

Hey, loves! We're coming back to the internet and Apple Podcasts! Check out the fundraising episodes from the past couple of weeks with Judith, Lucie, and London! Now, with post-Paris Justin Mead Robertson!!! Support local, independent media that comes from you and your neighbours! We have a fund-matching grant from an anonymous donor that will increase your giving by 100%! Award-winning news and Public Affairs programming, as well as local and national music acts, and Youth Radio all enrich our minds and lives. You cannot get this anywhere else, and if you're like, "Hey, I just cancelled Disney+ and HULU, what do I do with this extra $?" Donating small amounts monthly can allow for greater impact over the course of the year!

London Calling:

London is back in a spirited discussion of the post-assassination environment, along with our Fund Drive wrap-up! You can always support your community radio! BECOME A SUPPORTER OF WFHB! Inv…

09/20/2025

Hey, loves! We're coming back to the internet and Apple Podcasts! Check out the fundraising episodes from the past couple of weeks with Judith, Lucie, and London! Now, with post-Paris Justin Mead Robertson!!! Support local, independent media that comes from you and your neighbours! We have a fund-matching grant from an anonymous donor that will increase your giving by 100%! Award-winning news and Public Affairs programming, as well as local and national music acts, and Youth Radio all enrich our minds and lives. You cannot get this anywhere else, and if you're like, "Hey, I just cancelled Disney+ and HULU, what do I do with this extra $?" Donating small amounts monthly can allow for greater impact over the course of the year!

Here's Judi and her Arm Candy!

Judi and Luci are back to discuss Spencer Pride’s CommUnity Center news and upcoming events! Justin is finally back from Paris! Check us out on Apple Podcasts and Spotify BECOME A SUPPORTE…

11/19/2024

Hi, Loves. I'm inviting you all on Wednesday, November 20th to the 2024 Bloomington observance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance where we honour those who were taken from us through violence in the past year. Join us in the downtown Monroe County Library Auditorium (first floor). Doors open at 6:45, event begins at 7. I didn't make an event this year just to be a bit safer regarding who gets to see it. There will also be security as in past years. This is a somber event, please respect that. And let any of our community who are not members of this group know. Thank you.

10/07/2024

Indiana peeps, today is it! Check your voting registration, many have been kicked off including several friends without reason and didn’t find out until I pressed the issue with them. I was kicked off 2 years ago. Don’t wait because today is the deadline to register.

Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.

09/14/2024

This didn’t post so trying again. HAPPY PRIDEFEST!!!
If you’re wondering what’s going on today, have a listen! We had a lot of fun with these guys.

Thanks to Cale Ulery and. Zachary Taylor of Bloomington Pride and a million other projects for comin

08/29/2024

It’s short notice, but would any of my amazing MCCSC current School Board Trustee friends and/or parents of LGBTIQ+ students currently enrolled in an MCCSC School like to come on the show tonight (Thursday) to talk a bit about the new equity policies enacted in this week’s meeting? BloomingOUT is live from the studio 6-7pm.
No “gotcha” questions, you can remain anonymous, just text or DM before 5-ish? I’ll cover parking.
I can give general info, but I would simply LOVE the thoughts, voices, and experiences of you all!

08/13/2024

Just found out that South’s supposedly “safe” bathrooms are called the “trΛииу bathrooms,” and a trans friend of Kat’s was confronted by a group of emboldened guys demanding to know if they were “one of them” people.

Bullying is a problem everywhere, but culture determines how bad it gets. Home and school cultures in regards to LGBTIQ+ folks (and POC and women) have become ever more rancid over the past few years.

Permitting this and allowing the twisted prejudices of the past to infest the minds of yet another generation is nauseating to watch and aggravating to live with. As a society we have to make a decision and take action to end the cycle.

08/02/2024

First, uneducated Christian American persecution fetishists blew the hell up in hyperbolic rage over their hypocritical, homophobic misidentification of a performance of a Dionysian feast with a fictionalised painting of The Last Supper, which they didn’t have a problem with when Dump was cast as Jesus in an actual mockery of the original painting. Leonardo was gay or bi as well - don’t tell them!

Now, the outrage queens, having spent the last handful of years crafting the spectre of societal annihilation and imminent violence from transgender girls and women integrating into society as if trans women were a new phenomenon (and trans men didn’t exist), in order to manufacture evidence of their assinine assertions, have begun accusing girls and cisgender women, often but not always Black women, who are in whatever way more skilled or stronger than the fragile storybook fantasy princesses all Real™ women obviously are, of being men in disguise.

To complicate things, there are inters*x women (and men and nonbinary folk) whose bodies defy easy categorisation. The Algerian boxer who broke the Italian bover’s nose had the increasingly popular accusation of sinister covert maleness levied against her. It turns out that she may have a Y chromosome, and this could happen in a number of ways. Simply having a Y chromosome doesn’t mean you will develop as a male. There are two women, mother and daughter, who were born appearing like every other female baby, grew up as such, developed normally as women, got pregnant in the usual way, and turned out to have XY chromosomes. How? Because our bodies are not inherently female or male. Specific hormones secreted by the body or introduced through umbilical cord from medications, cause all of the physical changes to the blank canvas foetuses. Also, the body’s cells have receptors for those hormones, and should the receptors be faulty, s*x differentiation will be disrupted. There is an infinite variety of ways this can express itself, from not being noticeable to children with ambiguous genitalia. And puberty can likewise go in any number of ways that challenge the fallacious concept of the binary. So, we don’t know anything for sure about Imane Khelif’s genetic makeup or physical development. Regardless, she is a woman who grew up in a virulently q***rphobic society. She would not be affirmed in this or any other way if she was trans. The doctor here gets most things correct in his speculative explanation. DSD - Disorders of Sexual Development (not Differentiation) is surprisingly common, about 1:50 births, most not apparent without testing. It took 23 years, an ultrasound, MRI scan, several confused doctors and techs and nurses, and a Karyotype test to figure out what went on with me.

This does not stop the ignorati wailing and frothing and lashing out with all the unsubstantiated vitriol of a bigot’s frothy conviction. If Khelif should be disqualified, where is she supposed to go? She’s not bult like a male boxer. She doesn’t have the hormones levels of one. Should we disqualify all basketball players over 6’ because they’re taller than the average person? What are the acceptable measurements to define a woman or man?

This is way more complicated than most people think - the reality of male/female differentiationUFC and Boxing Videos:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrd...

07/07/2024

The computer can haz internets, again, after a wipe and reinstall. here is the most recent BloomingOUT episode!

We're going over recent rulings and movements that threaten our nation and the LGBTIQ+ Community in

07/04/2024

The parade may have been cancelled, but we’re still doing a live BloomingOUT this evening at 6pm! Justin and I will go over the last week’s WTFs, what we can expect, and then what to do going forward. 6-7pm every Thursday on WFHB and Apple and Spotify Podcasts by the next Saturday.
Listen in and get OUT there! Despite the seeming setbacks, there’s time enough to take the power back! Love you all!