October is both Mental Health Awareness and National Antibullying Month. Chase Masterson stops by the show to talk about her 501(c)3 nonprofit Pop Culture Hero Coalition, its history, as well as her own super hero origin story.

Pop Culture Hero Coalition uses evidence based video and tools with engaging pop culture references to teach behavior health skills in ways young people find relatable, teaching inclusion and acceptance in hopes to end bullying. For more information or to donate, https://www.popculturehero.org

In our special Trek the Vote episode, Heather Rae Barker interviews Emily Levy, founder and director of Scrutineers, an action-oriented, nonpartisan online community working for USA election fairness & transparency.

Heather and Emily talk about the history of the organization and how they help educate, train, and mobilize nonpartisan election scrutineers.

For more information or to donate to Scrutineers: https://scrutineers.org/about/mission-history/

For more information about Trek the Vote - https://www.trekthe.vote

In late September, we were invited to host a TREKtivism panel at Thunder Bay's ThunderCon! Thunder Bay is Matthew's hometown and he was honoured to be invited back for Canada's first TREKtivism panel and our first TREKtivism booth at a convention!

We were joined by Patrick Kwok-Choon of Star Trek Discovery, the Ontario Klingon Cosplaying group of Peter and Caelan Hutchison, and ThunderCon representative Elise Frizado to talk about fundraising as Klingons, how conventions can support local initiatives, and being neurodivergent on a starship!

You can also support a current ALS research fundraiser spearheaded by the Klingons in memory of Discovery's Ken Mitchell by going to https://alscanadawalktoendals.als.ca/ontario/teamklingon