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Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the events we’re encouraged to forget, repress, and reinterpret in order to abet genocide, carcerality, or abandonment to a pandemic, and the power of refusing to forget.
Transcript forthcoming.
Read Vicky's essay, "Remembering As an Act of Revolt," here:
https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/a-list-of-things-we-have-been-told-to-forget/
And find her book, In Defense of Looting, here:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vicky-osterweil/in-defense-of-looting/9781645036678/?lens=bold-type-books
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again,” which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider abandoning them.
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
Runtime 1:29:17, 18 March 2024
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Beatrice speaks with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about the CDC’s recent abrupt decision to drop its 5-day covid isolation guidance and the latest developments in the campaign to stop the CDC from dramatically weakening infection control practices in healthcare settings.
Sign on to NNU’s latest campaign here: nationalnursesunited.org/cdc
Transcript forthcoming.
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
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Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss Biden’s State of the Union address—from the “illegals” moment to Biden’s attempt to co-opt “ceasefire”—as well as the many media reactions to the speech, and what it all tells us about how the Biden administration are trying (and failing) to pretend they can’t hear their critics.
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
Runtime 1:04:57, 11 March 2024
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Beatrice, Phil, and Jules speak with Claire Dunning about the complex history of how nonprofit organizations became so pervasive in US political life and the issues with how the non-profit system promises to address big, structural problems while at the same time structurally constraining what these groups are and aren't allowed to do.
Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/nonprofit-neighborhoods
Find Claire’s book, “Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State” here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo159872695.html
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
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Beatrice speaks with Shira Hassan about reclaiming harm reduction from public health, reclaiming formations of "peer work" from the nonprofit world, and building the politics and practice of surviving together.
Find Shira's book, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-lives
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
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Beatrice speaks with Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu about attempts to dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation as mental illness, and why settler colonialism relies so heavily on drawing lines between madness and “reason.”
Transcript:
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/aaron-bushnell
More on Project LETS here:
https://projectlets.org/
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
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Bea, Artie and Jules discuss the last few weeks of pundit speculation about Biden’s age and cognitive ability and the history of the relationship between bodily capacity and definitions of the “body politic.”
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
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Runtime 1:19:39, 26 February 2024
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Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about how we respond to crises, from climate collapse to covid, and how the state’s primary response to these crises is to try to narrow the possibilities for political action around them.
Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/dean-spade-collapse
Read Dean’s piece, “Climate Disaster Is Here—and the State Will Never Save Us” here:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/climate-disaster-ecological-crisis-deluge-ministry-markley-robinson-gelderloos
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
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Bea, Artie and Phil discuss why the fact that a record 20 million people are now on ACA (Obamacare) plans is not the unequivocal good news that Democrats are portraying it as, how to understand those numbers in the context of the ongoing Medicaid unwinding, and why it’s long past time to move beyond the ACA.
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
Runtime 1:06:48, 19 February 2024
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Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss this week’s news that the CDC is planning to drop its covid isolation guidelines, and how the proposed change is emblematic of the Biden administration’s long running practice of undoing pandemic policies as a form of labor disciple.
Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/cdc-says-back-to-work
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
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Note: In this episode, Artie mentions an old episode, from January 2022, that shares the same title with this episode (“CDC Says Back to Work”). We decided to use that title again, for this episode, because it felt appropriate. You can find the old episode here https://www.patreon.com/posts/60691090 -
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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss Pamela Paul's recent piece in the New York Times, "As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do."
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
Runtime 1:45:28, 12 February 2024
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Beatrice and Jules discuss Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, which traces the historical roots of "trans panic" as a product of empire, colonialism, and policing.
Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
Find Jules' book here, out now from Verso:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
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Beatrice and Abby are joined by Melissa Gira Grant to evaluate the Biden administration’s recent announcements for its plans on reproductive healthcare and why Biden’s campaign promise to “restore the protections of Roe v. Wade” leaves significant room for interpretation.
Find our episode with Melissa from last year on mifepristone and the Comstock act, "Statutes of Limitation," here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/statutes-of-w-04-81971897
Read Melissa’s piece in the New Republic, “Joe Biden Is Running on Roe. It’s Not Enough” here: https://newrepublic.com/article/178382/joe-biden-running-roe-its-not-enough
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/
Runtime 1:16:13, 5 February 2024
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Beatrice speaks with Alice Wong about Alice's campaign to reinstate a mask mandate at UCSF, a hospital system home to a number of physicians who have played an outsized, deleterious, role in advocating for a premature end to covid protections.
Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/alice-wong-ucsf
Find Alice's call to action here: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/25/n95s4ucsf-call-to-action/
Find our template letter from Abby here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTyI4yLBuOJQR_IgnYVc17GxCbBT2G32QiENnFLq0kZCDmoLy-c23o8eLX_ISNlCMCA6xARBAUkWfqQ/pub
Find Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s template here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JxT8VQbV7ju-xUrKCG6NDeW2scOROyis10wjNg4YnTY/edit
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny (out this week!) here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
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Further reading:
Alice Wong’s most recent column for Teen Vogue: COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-isnt-going-anywhere-masking-up-could-save-my-life
Alice Wong, August 2022 (Disability Visibility Project): My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2022/08/07/my-icu-summer-a-photo-essay/
Alice Wong, 2020 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Oracles and the Coronavirus
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus/
Alice Wong, March 2023 (Teen Vogue): The “Unwinding” of Medicaid Coverage Will Be Difficult for Disabled Americans, Leave More People Uninsured
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/medicaid-coverage-covid
Alice Wong’s 2023 interview with KQED: Alice Wong: I Still Have a Voice
https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601142614/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice
Alice Wong, January 2024 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon
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Beatrice, Abby, and Jules discuss the symbolic aspects of masking as a public health intervention and demonstration of solidarity, through critiques of a recent New York Times piece by Pamela Paul, "When Public Health Loses the Public," and a new book by Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time."
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Find Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/
Runtime 2:07:35, 29 January 2024
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Beatrice shares messages from Death Panel listeners in Gaza and speaks with Danya Qato about how the totalizing nature of the genocide of Palestine can't be captured in death and injury statistics alone.
This episode is for Z, J, R, A, M, G and S. We pray it finds you safely.
Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/letters-from-gaza
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
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https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny
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Beatrice speaks with Maryam Jamshidi about how US law has been shaped in recent decades to specifically guard against Palestinian self-determination, and the direct role that Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, and other Israeli officials had in crafting contemporary state definitions of what constitutes “terrorism.”
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Runtime 1:18:26, 22 January 2024
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Beatrice, Artie, and Phil discuss how recent claims that Biden has tried to bring about “the largest expansion of the welfare state in a half century” ignore his track record of ending every last pandemic welfare program.
Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/biden-unmaking-welfare
Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/
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Bea, Artie, and Phil offer their critique of "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care", a recent book from two economists—and blurbed by the likes of Emily Oster and Matt Yglesias—that promises a bold new vision for US health policy: what if we did universal healthcare, but we intentionally made it really bad?
Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Runtime 1:22:26, 15 January 2024
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