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w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abby Cartus.
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How the Security State Plans to Target Palestine Solidarity w/ Maryam Jamshidi (06/27/24)
Beatrice speaks with Maryam Jamshidi about a number of new laws, and amendments to existing laws enacted at the onset of the war on terror, that Congress is currently drafting in order to crack down on actions in support of Palestinian liberation. We talk through what these laws do, how they target actions like the solidarity encampments seen at Universities this spring, and how they reveal the true intentions behind what gets called “national security.”
Transcript forthcoming.
Read Maryam's piece for LPE Blog, "Securitizing the University," here: https://lpeproject.org/blog/universities-securitization-palestine/
Find Maryam's last appearance on the show (mentioned in this episode), from January, here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96989016
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
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Teaser - On New York Magazine's "The Case for Forcing the Mentally Ill Into Treatment" (06/24/24)
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Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss a recent piece by Freddie deBoer in New York Magazine that attempts to present a "left" case for supporting involuntary commitment policies and the expansion of the carceral state—claiming that “the disability activist community and their enablers in the media have done everything in their power to obscure the truth.”
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Teaser - 3 Feet Under (06/17/24)
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Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss the recent resurgence of debates over social distancing guidance in 2020 and 2021 brought on by former NIH Director Anthony Fauci’s comment to Congress that six feet of social distancing “sort of just appeared” and “wasn’t based on data.” We talk through why these recent statements aren’t quite the gotcha they’ve been made out to be and how the arguments that have followed have omitted significant context around the debates over social distancing earlier in the pandemic, instead portraying covid protections as a mistake that came at “enormous cost.”
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The Rise of Mask Bans (06/20/24)
Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss New York Democrats’ plan to ban masks on the subway and beyond, and take a close look at the latest updates on North Carolina’s anti-mask bill HB237, “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals,” which state lawmakers managed to make significantly worse since we last talked about it on the show at the end of May.
Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/rise-of-mask-bans
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
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"No Use to the State" w/ Micah Khater (Unlocked)
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Beatrice speaks with Micah Khater about the intersection of race, disability, and incarceration in the southern US in the early 20th century, and her work documenting the history of how Black women experienced and theorized disability from within Alabama prisons.
Read Micah’s full article, “No Use to the State: Phrasing Escape and a Black Radical Epistolary of Disability in Early Twentieth-Century Alabama Prisons” here:
dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9662/8007
Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/micah-khater
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
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Teaser - Reflection Papers and "Integrity Modules" w/ Sophie Lewis (06/10/24)
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Beatrice and Jules are joined by Sophie Lewis to discuss how last month NYU disciplined students involved in Palestine solidarity encampments by compelling them to write confessional “reflection papers” and complete so-called “Integrity Modules,” a series of exercises designed by “behavioral intervention management” company Symplicity. We look at how the documents form a perfect storm of pop psych, management consulting speak, and hegemonic repression, and attempt to complete one of the modules ourselves.
You can pre-order Sophie's next book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation, here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2489-enemy-feminisms
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
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