A Tender Riot

A Tender Riot

A Tender Riot is a podcast about abolition, socialism, and relating to each other as whole human beings.

  1. After Accountability

    07/14/2025

    After Accountability

    In this episode, Denée and Sean explore a new book by the Pinko Collective, After Accountability: A Critical Genealogy of a Concept. We discuss the older lineages of accountability in socialist organizations (including criticism/self-criticism), as well as more recent efforts like INCITE or Critical Resistance. The concept of “community” looms behind all these conversations (and this podcast), and the book offers some critical insight into the meaning of community in a revolutionary sense. You can get a copy of After Accountability here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2455-after-accountability A Tender Riot will be going on hiatus for a bit this summer, but we may pop in with some guest hosts before we’re back up and running later this year! A Tender Riot is a podcast about abolition, socialism, and relating to each other as whole human beings.

    39 min
  2. Third Spaces (Pilsen Community Books)

    03/31/2025

    Third Spaces (Pilsen Community Books)

    In this episode, we’re joined by Mandy Medley of Pilsen Community Books (PCB) in Chicago to talk about Third Spaces, worker cooperatives, and radical community-building. We discuss how PCB has come to be a beloved radical book store and an important hub of many activist communities in Chicago through grit, vision, and warm vibes. Here is an article about third spaces: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/third-spaces-and-gen-z_l_675ca0fee4b0a6324e3b58ad?air Write to us with your thoughts at tender.riot.pod@gmail.com! A Tender Riot is a podcast about abolition, socialism, and relating to each other as whole human beings.

    37 min
  3. Fissures in MAGA, Uniting on the Left

    03/21/2025

    Fissures in MAGA, Uniting on the Left

    In this episode, Denée and Sean discuss the composition of Trump’s ruling class coalition, what binds the America First crowd with the Silicon Valley far right, and the importance of bursting the bubble of their fear campaign. They also talk about the need for unity on the left, the practical difficulties of uniting with folks we disagree with over substantial issues (or who spent the last year and a half cracking down on the Palestine solidarity protests), and the new openings offered by the shift in terrain and meeting people on a human level. Link to “Trump’s Bid at a New Fusionism”: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/trumps-bid-at-a-new-fusionism Link to “It’s Time for a United Front to Take on Billionaire Rule”: https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-unions-trump-musk-doge-billionaires Write to us with your thoughts at tender.riot.pod@gmail.com! A Tender Riot is a podcast about abolition, socialism, and relating to each other as whole human beings.

    32 min

  4. 03/12/2025

    Nervous Systems and Le Guin

    In this episode, Denée and Sean talk about the experience under the new Trump administration, do some nervous system exercises, and talk about Ursula Le Guin’s short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” Link to Le Guin’s short story: https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf Write to us with your thoughts at tender.riot.pod@gmail.com! A Tender Riot is a podcast about abolition, socialism, and relating to each other as whole human beings.

    37 min
  5. Loving Corrections

    12/20/2024

    Loving Corrections

    In this episode, Denée and Sean discuss what moment it is on the clock of the world, and delve into adrienne maree brown’s new book “Loving Corrections.” Some of the themes we cover are externalized vs. internalized accountability, living with the knowledge of death and wonder for life as individuals and as organizations, and accountability to the earth. Link to the reading guide: https://revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Loving-Corrections-Reading-Discussion-Guide.pdf Write to us with your thoughts at tender.riot.pod@gmail.com! A Tender Riot is a podcast about abolition, socialism, and relating to each other as whole human beings.

    37 min
  6. Birth Politics

    12/03/2024

    Birth Politics

    In this episode, Denée and Sean talk about birth: birth rates, anxieties about having children, supports for parents (or lack thereof), and how the medical industrial complex has turned birthing into something it never should have been. We also talk about having kids as a material bet on the future, and creating the future we want out of love. Read “The Parenting Panic” in Boston Review by Aaron Bady https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-parenting-panic Write to us with your thoughts at tender.riot.pod@gmail.com! A Tender Riot is a podcast about abolition, socialism, and relating to each other as whole human beings.

    28 min
  7. Carceral Higher Ed

    11/19/2024

    Carceral Higher Ed

    We talk to Joshua Hamilton about being an abolitionist and socialist working within carceral universities, the attack on DEI policies, and the contradictions of building community in these spaces. Read Joshua’s article at Tempestmag.org: https://tempestmag.org/2024/10/a-racist-counter-offensive-in-texas Write to us with your thoughts at tender.riot.pod@gmail.com! A Tender Riot is a podcast about abolition, socialism, and relating to each other as whole human beings.

    45 min
  8. Octavia Butler & Patterns of Change

    10/21/2024

    Octavia Butler & Patterns of Change

    Denée and Sean talk about Octavia Butler’s visionary science fiction and the larger political ideas invoke: What kind of future are we creating? Are we ready for the change? What does it mean to shed cynicism, break patterns, and commit to building a liberated future? Write to us with your thoughts at tender.riot.pod@gmail.com! A Tender Riot is a podcast about abolition, socialism, and relating to each other as whole human beings.

    35 min
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A Tender Riot is a podcast about abolition, socialism, and relating to each other as whole human beings.

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  • Creator
    A Tender Riot
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
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