Christine Hatfield

@christine.21st.show

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producer of Illinois Public Media's @21st.show, journalist, trans nerd. 🏳️‍🌈📻🏳️‍⚧️ she/her. based in Champaign-Urbana. past: UIS PAR '21, WPR. the usual blurb: http://seedisclaimer.com/

christine is wearing a red shirt, a long red skirt, some black tights, and a pair of doc boots
Christine, a twenty-something white trans woman with short blonde hair and glasses, wears a colorful shirt that's a mix of red, white and black. It's long-sleeved, and has some ruffles at the front. She's wearing a black skirt, red tights, and knee-high boots with heels.
Christine, a twenty-something white trans woman with a pixie cut haircut, smiles for the camera. She's wearing a grey dress with a flowery black pattern, a necklace with two interlocked Venus symbols, and her press badge.
Christine, visiting the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago, sits behind Stephen Colbert's Late Show desk from his week in Chicago.
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Slackbot message at 9:16 a.m.: Hey, Christine Hatfield! A lot has happened in Slack this week :tada: You have 2 more AI search previews. Let's summarize what you accomplished this week. Two buttons appear below. One reads "What did I accomplish this week?" The other reads "Don't ask again."
A random right click menu in Windows for a .wav file, giving me the option to edit this file in Notepad for some reason.
a bubble in Christine's weather app reading "Trending Now: Snow Could Be Measured In Feet"
a picture of Christine next to a picture of Jeff Rogers. the text reads: New Board Members Elected. Two of those elected are brand new to the INBA board, and each does work representing newer directions in broadcast journalism. Christine Hatfield is a producer of the 21st at Illinois Public Media in Champaign. The award-winning radio talk show features news and culture, and airs on 5 NPR stations in Illinois. Jeff Rogers is Editor of Capitol Illinois News in Springfield, a state-government focused nonprofit news organization. His team produces primarily print stories, but also offers some radio and TV versions. . Christine and Jeff were elected alongside Devin Brooks of WQAD-TV in the Quad Cities, Alex Degman of WBEZ in Chicago, and Redrick Terry of WHBF-TV in the Quad Cities, who has recently returned to the industry. All 3 have served on the board previously. Yvonne Boose of WNIJ radio and Mike Miletich of WAND-TV continue in the second years of their terms.
A black structure meant to hold benches and a picnic table, with the benches and table removed.
Christine, a fairly young trans woman with a short pixie cut-esque blonde haircut, sits in the back seat of the station van. She's wearing a blue Illinois Public Media polo, her usual necklace, and a nametag indicating she's Christine Hatfield, producer of The 21st Show at Illinois Public Media.
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A wall clock is shown rapidly speeding through seconds, advancing at a rate of about 4 seconds per second
Christine's inbox, showing several emails from comms people in the General Assembly, in the span of 10 minutes, highlighting several bills making progress in the legislature.
Front page of the May 9, 2025 Irish Daily Star. The top reads "It's American Pious," and below is a picture of Pope Leo XIV overlooking crowds in the vatican. Below, in bold caps, is the headline "YES WE VATICAN."
A girl with short blonde hair wearing a shirt with a lot of cherries on it, and earrings that look like cherries, smiles while wearing her new glasses, which are a colorful swirl of white, blue, and brown.
Album cover -- Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly." In a radio studio, a white, brown haired, middle-age man sits holding a cigarette with a vintage radio microphone and turntable in front of him. On the wall are a clipboard and a clock reading about 4:09.
A red card called "An Hour of Shouting" from the board game The Networks. The card depicts three men in suits with their mouths wide open and their teeth bared, all apparently shouting at each other.
Christine, a white trans woman with short blonde-ish hair, stands in front of some bushes and a tree that's flowering. Christine is wearing a blue and black dress with a black coat, and is wearing glasses, a necklace with two intertwined "female" symbols, and earrings with the colors of the trans flag.
In a television studio with black walls (and some brick facades off to the left), Camryn Proctor and Emily Antonacci of emily the band talk with 21st Show host Brian Mackey. Camryn is a young Black non-binary person. They're holding a guitar. Emily is a young white woman. She's holding a ukulele. Brian is a middle-aged white man. All three are sitting in front of microphones.
I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems. I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next? All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.
Christine, a blond-ish haired trans woman with glasses, reads a paperback copy of Alexandra Lange's "Meet Me By The Fountain," a book about the history of American malls.
Budzinski Priorities Passed in National Defense Bill WASHINGTON, DC — This week, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) celebrated key local and national priorities passed in the National Defense Authorization Act, including pay raises for service members, bringing military boot production back to America, funding to secure our telecommunications infrastructure and support for the iFAB Tech Hub at the University of Illinois. The legislation now heads to the United States Senate for consideration. “Our service members risk their lives every day to keep us safe and defend our freedoms. This pay raise is both a well-deserved recognition of their sacrifice and a way to support our troops facing the rising cost of living,” said Congresswoman Budzinski. “I am also encouraged by the inclusion of funding for key priorities I have long advocated for, such as securing our telecommunications infrastructure, supporting the iFAB Tech Hub and bringing military boot manufacturing back to American soil - including in Belleville, IL. While this bill is not perfect, it represents an important step forward in addressing critical issues that impact our national security and our local community.” Key local provisions in the bill include: Bringing Manufacturing Back to America The legislation also includes language requiring the Department of Defense to provide a briefing to Congress on the feasibility of changing regulations to ensure that boots worn by service members are entirely American-made. This provision stems from language from Budzinski’s BOOTS Act, which would address safety concerns for our military personnel while bringing military footwear manufacturing back home to the United States with American-sourced materials. The BOOTS Act would support domestic military footwear production at places like the Belleville Shoe Manufacturing Company.
the weather conditions for Champaign, IL, on a blue background. It's listed as 12 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny, with a few rays of sun shown to the right on my weather app to illustrate the point. Underneath all of that, the high is listed as 23, and the low listed as 10. Circled in red is the text "Feels like -5°".
Christine, a white trans woman with short brown hair and glasses, holds a sign saying "I HEART The 21st Show!"
A picture of Christine's desk setup at Illinois Public Media. The main desk has two computer screens and a laptop off to the right of the screens. Also on the desk are some business cards and a "Public Radio Nerd" waterbottle. Along the wall are some mementos from her time in journalism and her personal life. On the first shelf are various tchotchkes, including a statue of Mario from Super Mario Bros 3, Funko Pops of Alex Trebek and Wynonna Earp, a small Kirby plushie on top of a giant estrogen pill, and a statue of a Dancer stone from Final Fantasy XIV. On the top shelf are greeting cards, a message board reading "say more about that!", a statue of Sylveon, and some maps of Midwest independent bookstores.