59 episodes

F*****g Cancelled is a podcast with three aims. First, we analyze and critique a phenomenon on the left that we call the nexus: a synthesis of identitarianism, social media, and cancel culture. Second, we offer emotional, spiritual, and ethical insights into the process of rejecting and exiting the nexus. Third, we move toward a different vision for the left grounded in solidarity, freedom, and responsibility.

We are leftists who have spent many years inside the nexus. We have been too afraid to critique it and we have suffered the consequences of critiquing it. We know all too well the destructive impact the nexus has on our communities, our movements, our spiritual, emotional, and mental health, and our capacity to be responsible, ethical actors. We are also recovering addicts who live our lives by a set of spiritual and ethical principles which are starkly at odds with the rules of the nexus. We offer these principles as a guiding light toward a different left.

Fucking Cancelled is a podcast for anyone who feels stifled or trapped by the authoritarian, punishing culture that dominates the left. It’s a podcast for anyone who is too afraid to say what they really think. It’s a podcast for people who have been cancelled, who are afraid of getting cancelled, or who have taken part in the cancellation of others and wondered if it was right. Fucking Cancelled is a podcast for leftists who dream of a left grounded in solidarity, freedom, and responsibility, rather than coercion, authoritarianism, and punishment.

www.fuckingcancelled.com

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    • Society & Culture
    • 4.6 • 119 Ratings

F*****g Cancelled is a podcast with three aims. First, we analyze and critique a phenomenon on the left that we call the nexus: a synthesis of identitarianism, social media, and cancel culture. Second, we offer emotional, spiritual, and ethical insights into the process of rejecting and exiting the nexus. Third, we move toward a different vision for the left grounded in solidarity, freedom, and responsibility.

We are leftists who have spent many years inside the nexus. We have been too afraid to critique it and we have suffered the consequences of critiquing it. We know all too well the destructive impact the nexus has on our communities, our movements, our spiritual, emotional, and mental health, and our capacity to be responsible, ethical actors. We are also recovering addicts who live our lives by a set of spiritual and ethical principles which are starkly at odds with the rules of the nexus. We offer these principles as a guiding light toward a different left.

Fucking Cancelled is a podcast for anyone who feels stifled or trapped by the authoritarian, punishing culture that dominates the left. It’s a podcast for anyone who is too afraid to say what they really think. It’s a podcast for people who have been cancelled, who are afraid of getting cancelled, or who have taken part in the cancellation of others and wondered if it was right. Fucking Cancelled is a podcast for leftists who dream of a left grounded in solidarity, freedom, and responsibility, rather than coercion, authoritarianism, and punishment.

www.fuckingcancelled.com

    Book Club with Tara and DJ: 'After Black Lives Matter' by Cedric G. Johnson

    Book Club with Tara and DJ: 'After Black Lives Matter' by Cedric G. Johnson

    In Episode 59, we get together with DJ Fraser and Tara McGowan-Ross for the first episode of our new segment, Book Club. This month’s book is ‘After Black Lives Matter’ by Cedric G. Johnson. We were privileged to interview Cedric Johnson a few episodes back, but we wanted to delve even deeper into this masterful and important piece of political thought, which we encourage everyone to read.
    If you’d like to follow along for the next episode of Book Club, we will be doing ‘The Ministry for the Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson!
    This is part of the Book Club series.
    Show Notes
    Freddie deBoer on Jordan Neelie: ‘It Only Counts When it Hurts’
    ‘Capitalist Realism’ by Mark Fisher
    Episode 43 with Adolph Reed Jr.
    Episode 37 with Touré Reed
    ‘Toward Freedom’ by Touré Reed
    ‘Stolen Focus’ by Johann Hari
    Surveillance Capitalism (Wikipedia)
    Follow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.
    Find merch in our shop.
    ClementineMorrigan.com
    JayLesoleil.com
    Fucking Cancelled
    Theme song by ST x LIAM.
    Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora.
    Jay Lesoleil is a writer, artist, and shelter worker from Montréal with a background in political anthropology. Jay is also one half of the podcast F*****g Cancelled.
    Clementine Morrigan is a socialist-feminist writer, educator, and public intellectual based in Montréal, Canada. She writes popular and controversial essays about culture, politics, sexuality, and trauma. A passionate believer in independent media, she’s been making zines since the year 2000 and is the author of several books. She’s known for her iconic white-text-on-a-black-background mini-essays on Instagram. One of the leading voices on the Canadian Left and one half of the F*****g Cancelled podcast, Clementine is an outspoken critic of cancel culture and proponent of building solidarity across difference.


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    • 1 hr 41 min
    Talking Shit with Jason Myles: This is a Rock Show, It's Supposed to be Fun

    Talking Shit with Jason Myles: This is a Rock Show, It's Supposed to be Fun

    In Episode 58, we are joined by writer, musician, political commentator, and punk historian, Jason Myles. Jason is co-host of the popular This is Revolution podcast. We discuss the impact of BLM on the Sanders campaign and the rise of Ibram X. Kendi’s brand of anti-racism. We consider the impact of capitalist realism on hardcore, and what happens when our subcultural and political movements are bought and sold back to us, the topic of Jason’s new mini-book I was a Teenage Anarchist.
    Part of the Talking Shit Series.
    Show Notes
    This is Revolution
    I was a Teenage Anarchist
    I was a Teenage Anarchist Launch Party: November 18th
    Bitterlake
    The Man Who Sold the World by Jason Myles
    Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
    Talking Shit with Cedric Johnson: After Black Lives Matter
    The Unbearable Futility of Whiteness (ft. Jay Lesoleil) on This is Revolution
    Black Lives Matter protesters shut down Sanders event in Seattle
    Follow F*****g Cancelled on Instagram.
    Find merch in our shop.
    ClementineMorrigan.com
    JayLesoleil.com
    Theme song by ST x LIAM.
    Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora.
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    • 1 hr 45 min
    Talking Shit with Cedric Johnson: After Black Lives Matter

    Talking Shit with Cedric Johnson: After Black Lives Matter

    In Episode 57, we are joined by Dr. Cedric G. Johnson, Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to discuss his book After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle. We discuss the origins of modern policing, the classed reality of Black life in the US, and how neoliberalism dooms us all to poverty and catastrophe unless we act -- together -- to stop it. We were so excited to hear Cedric talk about this important book, and we know you will be too.
    Part of the Talking Shit series.
    Show Notes
    After Black Lives Matter by Cedric G. Johnson
    Cedric’s Verso author page
    Cedric's Instagram
    Darren Seals on Youtube
    Follow F*****g Cancelled on Instagram.
    Find merch in our shop.
    ClementineMorrigan.com
    JayLesoleil.com
    Theme song by ST x LIAM.
    Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora.


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    • 1 hr 23 min
    F*****g Feelings: The Attunement Model of Consent

    F*****g Feelings: The Attunement Model of Consent

    In Episode 56, we announce that Fucking Cancelled has moved to substack! Please follow us fuckingcancelled.substack.com if you haven’t already, and consider becoming a supporter of the pod for $5 Canadian a month. You’ll get a bunch of bonus content and help keep the podcast alive! After this announcement we discuss Clementine’s attunement model of consent, which she wrote about in her zine, The Forgotten Art of Fucking. This model includes: attunement, shared responsibility, mixed styles of communication, valuing the erotic, and recognizing the inherent risk in sexuality. Clementine offers this model as an alternative to the contractual model of consent that defines consent only as ongoing verbal asking throughout sex.
    Part of the Fucking Feelings series.
    Show Notes
    Consent for people's real sex lives where we don't sound like robots
    The Forgotten Art of F*****g
    Talking Shit with Zachary Zane: Sex is a Huge Part of My Sexuality
    Refusing to be Accountable: Responsibility, Boundaries, Intervention and Punishment
    Follow F*****g Cancelled on Instagram.
    Find merch in our shop.
    ClementineMorrigan.com
    JayLesoleil.com
    F*****g Cancelled
    Theme song by ST x LIAM.
    Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora.
    Jay Lesoleil is a writer, artist, and shelter worker from Montréal with a background in political anthropology. Jay is also one half of the podcast Fucking Cancelled.
    Clementine Morrigan is a socialist-feminist writer, educator, and public intellectual based in Montréal, Canada. She writes popular and controversial essays about culture, politics, sexuality, and trauma. A passionate believer in independent media, she’s been making zines since the year 2000 and is the author of several books. She’s known for her iconic white-text-on-a-black-background mini-essays on Instagram. One of the leading voices on the Canadian Left and one half of the Fucking Cancelled podcast, Clementine is an outspoken critic of cancel culture and proponent of building solidarity across difference.



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    • 1 hr 28 min
    Cancel Club with Sam Cat: Polyamory and Cancel Culture

    Cancel Club with Sam Cat: Polyamory and Cancel Culture

    In Episode 55 we have a conversation with Sam Cat of Shrimp Teeth about the intersections of cancel culture and polyamory. Sam Cat is a sexuality, polyamory, and relationship educator out of the United States who has long taken a stance against cancel culture. She discusses the impact cancel culture is having on her clients as they navigate polyamory and try to do it ‘right.’ We talk about conflict, mismatched relationship style preferences, sex negativity, and why cancel culture is bad for polyamory.
    Part of the Cancel Club series.
    Show Notes
    Shrimp Teeth
    Canceling Canceling
    How Cancel Culture Shows Up In Polyamory
    Love Without Emergency
    Love Without Emergency 2
    Trauma Informed Polyamory
    Follow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.
    Find merch in our shop.
    ClementineMorrigan.com
    JayLesoleil.com
    Theme song by ST x LIAM.
    Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora.


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    • 1 hr 29 min
    Talking Shit with Zachary Zane: Sex is a Huge Part of My Sexuality

    Talking Shit with Zachary Zane: Sex is a Huge Part of My Sexuality

    In Episode 54, we are joined by author and bisexual icon, Zachary Zane, of the book Boyslut. We talk about bisexual men, biphobia, and bisexual audibility. We discuss sexual shame, sexual risk, and the complexities of consent. An unabashedly pro-sex, pro-desire writer, Zachary shines light on what men-who-f**k-men communities can teach the rest of us. This is three thirsty bisexuals talking shit. Absolutely iconic. 
    Part of the Talking Shit series.
    Show Notes
    Boyslut, the book
    Boyslut, the zine
    Zachary Zane's instagram
    Follow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.
    Find merch in our shop.
    ClementineMorrigan.com
    JayLesoleil.com
    Theme song by ST x LIAM.
    Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora.


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    • 1 hr 14 min

Customer Reviews

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119 Ratings

119 Ratings

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These March 2023 programs have been really excellent.
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