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This podcast features interviews with a variety of theorists, artists and activists from across the globe. It's guided by the search for radical solutions to crises that are inherent to colonial capitalism. To this end, I hope to keep facilitating conversations that bring together perspectives on the liberatory and transformative power of care, in particular.

Jeanne Sarson & Linda MacDonald refuse to abandon victims to a vicious world

53 mins; February 02, 2022

Nora Loreto signals the need for social change & pushes journalists to dig deeper

58 mins; January 24, 2022

Melanie Yazzie traffics in radical certainty & fights against the fallout of political atomization

54 mins; January 14, 2022

Rupa Marya and Raj Patel radicalize care through deep medicine and an urgent appeal for plurality

67 hours 58 mins; January 05, 2022

Imre Szeman campaigns for a revolution in energy use and environmental communication

82 hours 17 mins; December 16, 2021

Jeff Diamanti zooms in on the terminal & reinforces the elemental otherness of the planet

97 hours 55 mins; December 03, 2021

Jeff Diamanti zooms in on the terminal & reminds us of the elemental otherness of dead matter

97 hours 55 mins; December 03, 2021

Matt Bors curates a space for alternative cartooning and traces the roots of the webcomic

64 hours 37 mins; November 26, 2021

Neil Cohn rethinks visual literacy and underscores the unexplored dynamics of comic books

87 hours 55 mins; November 11, 2021

Carlyn Zwarenstein shatters our misconceptions about opioids and refuses the violence of prohibition

65 hours 53 mins; October 19, 2021

Francesca Ekwuyasi yearns for stories about pleasure and writes searingly about pain

66 hours 2 mins; September 22, 2021

Henry Adam Svec plays with norms of songwriting & storytelling, urging us to plug in & pick a team

71 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2021

Judith Butler dismantles the forces that unleash violence

80 hours 7 mins; June 08, 2021

Andreas Malm thinks through how to break the spell of climate change defeatism & fossil fascism

49 mins; May 25, 2021

Nora Loreto uses humour and critical debate to confront the neoliberal politics of fauxminism

67 hours 1 min; May 04, 2021

Natasha Lennard elevates oppositional movements & attacks the conditions for contemporary fascism

73 hours 48 mins; April 23, 2021

Daniel Lombroso documents a groundswell of racist populism and tracks the sources of violence

57 mins; April 14, 2021

Caroline Monnet finds meaning in the border spaces and experiments with strategies for change

55 mins; April 01, 2021

Anna Tsing mines the meanings of ferality and summons the ghosts of haunted landscapes

61 hours 6 mins; February 18, 2021

Holly Jean Buck takes seriously the innovation and revolutionary change needed to repair the planet.

42 mins; February 05, 2021

Kathi Weeks expands on economic power, essential work and the tension between reform and revolution

65 hours 46 mins; December 17, 2020

Cara Daggett sparks a dialogue on dynamism and works to demystify the human relationship to energy.

60 hours 56 mins; December 15, 2020

Derf Backderf discusses how comics can nurture dissent, empower readers and offer new perspectives.

64 hours 11 mins; November 06, 2020

Alexis Shotwell outs the lie of individual purity & encourages an entangled sense of responsibility.

66 hours 23 mins; October 22, 2020

Max Taylor resists public apathy & throws his hat into the ring, powered by the TikTok boom.

36 mins; October 10, 2020

Jesse David Fox reckons with the ways that comedy restores, challenges and reorients us.

65 hours 57 mins; October 02, 2020

Andy Brown on the languages of the literary graphic novel & the intuitive art of editing.

48 mins; August 07, 2020

Summer Pierre captures the ways that music moves us and images come to matter.

47 mins; July 26, 2020

Veronica Post draws links between borders, injustice & the power of stories to provoke thought.

53 mins; July 16, 2020

Rebecca Roher outlines the exhilarating puzzle of making comics that inspire a sense of wonder.

60 hours 19 mins; July 12, 2020

Cassie Thornton imagines how radical collaboration and revolutionary care networks are possible.

51 mins; July 07, 2020

Liza Mandelup sheds light on the meaning and making of her documentary Jawline.

48 mins; June 25, 2020

Elaine Power on the politics of food provision and the necessity of a basic income guarantee.

45 mins; June 18, 2020

Dave Zirin on anti-racism and nonviolence in contemporary sports and culture.

29 mins; June 04, 2020

Linda MacDonald & Jeanne Sarson on feminism as a means of opposing misogyny and mass violence.

76 hours 17 mins; May 22, 2020

Priscilla Wald on microbial metaphors, outbreak narratives and the politics of pandemic disease.

59 mins; May 03, 2020

Joe Duggan on using emotion to communicate the empirical truth of climate change

47 mins; April 27, 2020

Max Haiven on the desire for vengeance and the demons of capital

59 mins; March 29, 2020

Jodi Cooper on the promise and challenge of crowdfunded filmmaking.

37 mins; March 07, 2020

Box Brown on the complex frivolity of comic books

20 mins; March 07, 2020

Jeff Diamanti on capturing the climate emergency in a system that resists change

47 mins; March 07, 2020

El Jones on the power of critical intervention as a driver of social justice

42 mins; March 07, 2020

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