Tag: podcasts

Red Nation on trusting white people

Loved this take on how to organize across differences in privilege:

“One of my favourite organizers in history is a guy named Witold Pilecki, who organized a resistance cell inside Auschwitz… He said that the people he chose for that cell were the ones that he saw do an action that helped another person and harmed them. Help another person, and gain nothing.

You wanna know if you can trust the white people you organize with? Put them in that position. Do it over and over and over again.”

From this episode of The Red Nation Podcast.

Reminds me of the classic Real Ally Shit zine— finding the difference between pretty words and dependable people:

Enemy Feminisms

Ahhh I knew I would love this latest Death Panel podcast with Sophie Lewis talking about their book Enemy Feminisms but it’s so so fun.

I appreciate Sophie Lewis for being willing to take things to their logical conclusion. If there are all these historical examples of feminists collaborating with fascist groups (cops, kkk, imperialists, nazis, alt-right transphobes…) why can’t we describe those forms of feminism as fascist?

Is there a book award for best book titles? I would nominate Sophie Lewis for lifetime achievement. (Enemy Feminisms, Full Surrogacy Now, Abolish the Family…)

Millions Missing and counting…

Photo of a 72-cell plug tray with camas seedlings emerging like thin blades of grass

I’m posting these little camas babies for #MillionsMissingFlowers , a monthly chance to talk about ME/CFS.

This month I am thinking about how long it takes to get an ME diagnosis, 5+ years or more on average. ME is already listed as a common (5%+) outcome of covid infections, and we’re just finishing year four. I wonder how many people will realize this year that they got ME from covid in 2020. I wonder about Omicron in 2022.

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I really appreciated Bea in this episode of Death Panel, talking about the process of self-diagnosing before deciding to see a doctor.

She spent a year thinking she was just reading too much, before realizing she was going blind. Different conditions, but that’s so familiar to me– I spent a year thinking I was just sleep deprived or stressed before realizing I had cognitive and energy impairments.