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Hosted by Walking Chicago · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 12 episodes
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This podcast explores grid resilience through the lens of a queer immigrant artist who is also an energy consultant AI cybersecurity policy nerd.
Walking Chicago hosts Queering the Grid, a education show with 12 episodes published.
POST-DEI DIVERSITY 101: On Crossing the Lines They Drew For You What does it mean to actually show up: not in an abstract sense, but in person, on a Sunday morning, in a neighborhood you were told to fear? This episode s
What if accountability wasn't a punishment but just... basic care? This episode takes on the discomfort white people feel at being corrected — by friends or strangers pointing out missteps and asks why "I'm sorry" has be
This episode traces an unlikely through-line: from medieval Russia to a teen girl hauling timber at fourteen centuries later, to today where I get to tell you about it, using the history as a case-in-point about why you
What does it mean to spend a career translating "energy transition" into something a neighbor can actually use? This episode follows a single day — tabling at a Juneteenth event in a disinvested pocket of Kenosha, a city
Angie explains how her lived experience allows her to be an effective bridge-builder in enacting change at a systems-level and where her program design methodology succeeds where others fail. Plus how she employed her ne
We live in a reality where queer people are forced to upend themselves and move to Illinois at immense personal and financial cost so as to save their lives. In Carbondale there has been enough newcomers that the city re
Angie and I discuss why Illinois is the best place to be a queer in 2026 and why Carbondale is an unassuming, under-invested sort of place that is also an unexpected hotspot of Illinois queerdom thanks in no small part t
Angie Ostaszewski is a preternatural translator and not because she speaks three languages. In this episode she discusses how her success is rooted in the fact that she is able to communicate her ideas to everyone from h
Angie Ostaszewski implemented bold and bright ideas while employed at Ameren, the utility covering much of the lower two-thirds of Illinois, which earned her a Rising Star Award from the Midwest Energy Efficiency Allianc
bell hooks' Belonging: A Culture of Place is a "deep cut" of hers that I read as an urban planning manifesto. She wrote it much later in life as she moved back to take care of her elderly parents in Berea, Kentucky. It i
What does "grid resilience" have to do with me growing up in semi-rural 1980s Russia without running water? With being an urban planner, energy efficiency consultant, and hobbyist TikTok content creator riding a packed B
Welcome to How to Queer the Grid , a podcast about resilience, belonging, and redesigning the systems we live in, from the edges in. Learn about how I, an artist, urban planner, and energy efficiency consultant got to Am
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Queering the Grid is hosted by Walking Chicago. The show is categorised under education (self improvement) and has published 12 episodes.
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