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These short introductions delve into the anarchist canon to recover some of the distinctive ideas that historical anarchists advanced about power, domination, injustice and exploitation, education, prisons and a lot more besides. The theoretical toolbox that this small assortment of anarchists helped to construct is there to use, amend and adapt. Agitate, Educate, Organise!
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James Corbett of corbettreport.com presents a weekly podcast series, "The Well-Read Anarchist." In this series, James will read the major works of the great anarchist philosophers, from the foundational anarchist writers of the early 19th century right through to the contemporary thinkers of the 21st century. Joining us along the way will be a range of guests who will help to explain and contextualize these works.
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We Will Remember Freedom is a monthly fiction podcast series edited by Margaret Killjoy. Each episode brings a new story written by authors who are willing to imagine worlds without oppression or worlds where we fight against that oppression.
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STFU Podcast

Nishea Balajadia

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Welcome to STFU Podcast with Nishea Balajadia. I am a single mother, survivor of childhood abuse and domestic violence, a retired foster parent, a community advocate in Fresno, California. I grew up in corporate tech world (I worked at Fortune 500 Companies like AT&T, Google, and Flextronics) and left in 2017 to pursue community organizing and advocacy where I was roped into evangelical megachurch cult life and escaped their grasps in 2019 while fostering three toddlers under three. I began ...
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We never left, so we are not back. We just like to keep you guessing about episode times. This time we talk about the brilliant Saint of Bright Doors, a decolonial multifaceted dark fantasy novel that's quite a thinker, but also pretty accessible. Give it a read! Eden recommends playing "Laysara: Summit Kingdom", which kinda fits the theme of this …
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Andre and I recorded this episode a couple of weeks before his album Make It To Tomorrow released. Our conversation talked about Andre's creative process this album and the stories behind his writing. We had a beautiful discussion about accountability in families and shed a few tears together. I was able to listen to the EP afterwards and have been…
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This conversation with Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard is so important when it comes to adoption, the difference between private adoption, foster-to-adopt, and fostering, and how this system is designed to harm all three parties [birth parent(s), child, and adoptive parent(s)]. I love this conversation with Kelsey and really grateful that we were able …
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We talk about Ammonite, a somewhat under-the-radar excellent sci-fi book about a virus killing all the men in a far-off planet and exploring indigenous lands as a colonizer anthropologist Themes explored: - Anthrophopolitics and diversity within identity - Biopolitics and virology - "Going Native" (TM) - Some Ursula LeGuin themes Eden's ep of death…
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I am really excited to be able to start this season off with this conversation with Tiff. We talk about red flags in the church, what it's like to find spirituality daily, and after leaving a cult mega church. If you have ever been in toxic and abusive spaces you know how difficult it is to leave, Tiff and I discuss what the enmeshment untangling l…
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We talk about the sci-fi strategy game Ixion and its somber adventure through space. Some topics discussed: - Shameful space - Space is silence and death - Gravestone science - Accelerating the flows - The eternal recurrence of the same - Middle management euphemisms Referenced Some More News video 'Jeff Bezons Learned Nothing in Space': https://ww…
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Citizen Sleeper is touching and optimistic without being saccharine and might be just what we need in these trying times. The podcast opens with us venting our feelings and thoughts about another demonstration of incredible violence from Israel against the Palestinian people. Free Palestine! Then we talk some themes. Here's what you can expect: Gam…
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We talk about Corey J White's modern vision of Cyberpunk: Repo Virtual, reimagining the genre and its radical potential. Topics discussed: - Data creep - Radical potential of games - Firearms in smart cities - Cyberpunk's questionable beginnings - Opting in / Opting out - Identity politics and data dystopia Referenced pieces: - Video discussing (am…
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We discussed the role-playing game Spire, with its different ways of representing oppression and the struggle against it. - Epistemic vice and epistemic resistance - Construction of knowledge and infrastructure space - Adevnturism and the challenge of struggling in a hopeless fight - Good weird and bad weird Links: Eden's podcast appearance about m…
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Mordew is a down-to-earth, complex fantasy world, and a promising beginning to a promised trilogy. We talk about: - Realist fantasy - Materialist morality - Knowledge and Protagony - Mark Fisher's Red Plenty See much more anarchist science fiction at anarchysf.com External links: Protagony, by Innuendo Studios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R943_…
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We dive deep into "The Matrix (1999)" and a little bit into the sequels. No Resurrections here as this was recorded before it came out. Topics discussed: - What is the Matrix? - Snooty philosophers vs. the Matrix - Abolishing everything - The Messiah Complex - Do we want to escape to the Desert of the Real? - Fighting together Editing took a while,…
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We talk about a medley of Kurt Vonnegut books, how they play around with cynicism and sentimentalism, how they're anarchist and humble and absurdist. Near the end Eden mentions this paper by David Graeber and David Wengrow: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/62756/1/__lse.ac.uk_storage_LIBRARY_Secondary_libfile_shared_repository_Content_Graeber%2C%20D_Farewe…
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We had a great time talking about Oval, by Elvia Wilk. It's a complicated little story about being an artist in Berlin and watching as the world around you burns, or turns. Discussions: - Leftism's "call to action" - Reciprocity vs. Transactions - The Relationship Between Hi-Tech and Art - How Tech Falls Apart - Human Nature and Economics Reference…
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We talk about a cool little action movie that didn't do well in theatres but has its own little place in our hearts with its scathing critiques of bad environmentalism, bad identity politics, and bad cyberpunk. Paper on design fiction (though it doesn't use the term): https://www.hellofosta.com/writing/the-future-mundane…
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We talk about the Rivers Solomon's thought provoking and gut punching "An Unkindness of Ghosts". But we promise there are no spooks! Some rough discussion topics though (Body manipulation, sexual assault and rape). Topics discussed: - The pneumatics of power - The revolutionary potential of food - Afropessimism - Racialization - Midwives - Gendered…
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We talk about the incredible film adaptation to the early 20th century epic poem Aniara. Pretty depressing stuff, but we refuse to be doomers. Discussion topics: - Why are the people who cause calamity in charge of fixing it? - Why do we obey? - Why do we work? - How do temporary hierarchies become permanent? - Opium for the masses - The complicity…
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We talk about Jeff Vandermeer's New-Weird book - Annihilation, a book about climate horror and accepting uncomfortable changes. Issues discussed: - The horror of climate change - Unintelligible politics - The failure of facts and logic - Doing better than Lovecraftian racism - Becoming other - Permeable boundaries…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Malatesta is the living link between the demise of the First International in 1871 and the start of the struggle against European fascism some forty years later. As an anarchist-communist and organisationalist, Malatesta rejected individualism as gestural politics, and whil…
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We talk about the excellent solitary space adventure that is Moon (2009). Topics discussed: - How exploitation is marketed to white men - Foucault's "Care of the self" - How space capitalism is an especially risky form of exploitation - How space can be an opportunity to organize - The race between capitalist exploitation and worker organization - …
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Godwin was an eighteenth-century radical writer and journalist and one of the leading participants in the debates sparked by the French Revolution. Godwin is sometimes credited with being the first philosophical anarchist, but this underplays the character of the philosophy…
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We talk about Ada Palmer's "Too Like the Lightning", how it portrays the enlightenment, gender, politics, all the goodness. It's a challenging read, but it delivers on its promises Themes discussed: - How the social contract makes a new person - What was the Enlightenment? - Confusing gender roles - Fabricating consent - Ideology…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Born to an enslaved woman in 1851, Parsons explored class conflict through the prism of the American Civil War. A keen advocate of independent labour organising in the late nineteenth century, Parsons was active in the Knights of Labor and the anarchist International Workin…
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We talk about the pen and paper role playing game Shadowrun, focusing on the themes it allows its players and storytellers to explore. Shadowrun is a troperific mix of sci-fi and fantasy that takes everything that's wrong about the world and blows it up at the same time. Subjects discussed: - Accelerationism and the Frankfurt school's influence on …
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We talk about Jack Womack's "Random acts of senseless violence" - a "minute into the future" dystopia told from the perspective of a 12 year old girl. It's gritty and depressing, just our speed. Topics include: - How this is a horror story for the Bourgeois - The atomization of daily life - Hobbesian themes - Derrida and the duality between center …
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We talk about a Sci-fi album by the band Clipping - Splendor and Misery. The album is a prime example of Afro-Futurism, dealing with such topics as time, space, bodies, space travel, slavery, and much more that we couldn't cover. The discussed album: https://clppng.bandcamp.com/album/splendor-misery Topics discussed: - Queer time and its relevance …
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We discuss one of science fiction's titans: Ursula K. Le Guin, in one of her slightly less read books: The Telling, offering a radical perspective on religion, colonialism and reason. Some themes: - Center-based vs. non-center-based epistemology - Decolonialism - Non-ideal anthropology - Multiple views on religion - Ways of life as resistance Audio…
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Sexual abuse is now a part of my genetic makeup (trauma changes a survivor on the molecular level {citing every psychology and biology report on trauma}). And while I deal with it every day, I know there are others who also have the pain of dealing with the consequences of someone else's actions on their life. This is my experience with my abuse, r…
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Listen people, we're mad about capitalism. We discuss the game Frostpunk and the movie Snow Piercer, two critiques of capitalism in frozen worlds. Themes discussed: - Hobbes' Leviathan - Mark Fisher's "Abandon hope, summer is coming" http://k-punk.org/abandon-hope-summer-is-coming/ - The revolt of nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic_of_E…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Proudhon is famous for two reasons. First, he is responsible for the immortal phrase ‘property is theft!’ Second, he has emerged as the ‘first’ anarchist. This accolade is explained in part by his provocative reclamation of ‘anarchy’. Until Proudhon published his critique o…
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We discuss Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears the Policeman Said". Some themes discussed: - Kant's metaphysics in Philip K. Dick's writing - Power's will to knowledge - Radical embodiment - The danger and potential of drugs - The transparency of police - Self identity as a source of stability
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Learning to love Stirner is not an uncomplicated task – as one of the most controversial anarchists, he is by turns celebrated as the seminal anarchist theorist and marginalised as a political philosopher only tangentially related to the anarchist movement. Stirner’s politi…
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Pandemic special number one! I'm cooped up in my cabin so I'm going to release a bunch of my own stories, read by myself. This one first appeared in Fireside Fiction in 2016. It's a response to nihilism and misanthropy, but mostly it's about how quickly I start talking to myself when I'm alone.저자 Margaret Killjoy
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We discuss 1988 Anime masterpiece "Akira" Some themes discussed: - Deleuze and Foucault's ideas of societies of discipline and societies of control - Hannah Arendt's approach to violence, and violence in leftist ideology - The rise and fall of capitalist Japan - Science as Pandora's box - Radical friendship Catherine M. Valente's Radiance: https://…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Scholar, poet, playwright, socialite and wit, Oscar Wilde is one of those magnetic figures that everyone now seems to want to own a piece of. His literary genius accounts for some of the competition, and 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism', the essay he published in 1891, usu…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Educator, poet, dramatist, novelist, movement historian, orator and agitator Louise Michel rose to prominence during the Paris Commune (1870-71) and was one of some 4,500 Communards deported to New Caledonia in 1872. Michel acquired a commanding public profile in the last d…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Bakunin was feted as a champion of libertarian socialism and he is still celebrated as Marx’s most redoubtable adversary. Numbering Kropotkin, Malatesta and Reclus among his adherents, he became the towering figure of European anarchism in the late nineteenth century. Havin…
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Voltairine de Cleyre was an essayist, educator, poet and advocate of anarchy without adjectives. Voltairine’s anarchism bore the hallmarks of free-thinking and abolitionism: the distrust of government and authority, sensitivity to injustice, anti-clericalism and confidence …
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By Ruth Kinna and Clifford Harper. Read by Barbara Graham and Jim Donaghey. Kropotkin has many claims to greatness. An important conduit for the transmission of Russian revolutionary ideas into western Europe and a powerful propagandist for revolution in Russia in the decades leading up to 1917, he spent most of his life tirelessly promoting anarch…
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We Discuss Monica Byrne's "The Girl in The Road" Themes Discussed: - Franz Fanon's phenomenology and race theory - The Infrastructure Space - Standpoint theory - Byrne's unusual approach to writing an audience-insert character - Embodied writing Links: Fanon's "Black Skins, White Masks": https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003OYIKUG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_…
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Episode Notes About the author: Izzy Wasserstein was born and raised in Kansas. She teaches writing and literature, writes poetry and fiction, and shares a house with a variety of animal companions and the writer Nora E. Derrington. She likes to slowly run long distances. About the host: Margaret Killjoy is a transfeminine author and editor current…
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For our podcast premiere we discussed the ZA/UM movement's game: Disco Elysium. Themes discussed: - Mourning and Walter Benjamin's angel of history - Radical friendship - The Cartesian experiment and the cop within your head - An anarchist love letter to communism - Hauntology Links: Derrida's "Specters of Marx": https://books.google.com/books/abou…
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Episode Notes About the author: Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories, the short story collection, Tender, and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. Her work has won several awards, including the World Fantasy Award. She teaches African literature, Arabic lit…
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Episode Notes This story appeared in Nick Mamatas's collection The People's Republic of Everything, published in 2018 by Tachyon Publications. About the author: Nick Mamatas is the author of seven novels, including Love is the Law, I Am Providence, and the forthcoming Hexen Sabbath. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Y…
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Episode Notes This story appeared in the short story collection Alien Love Disaster Virus Stories, published by Small Beer Press. About the author: Abbey Mei Otis is a writer, a teaching artist, a storyteller and a firestarter raised in the woods of North Carolina. She loves people and art forms on the margins. She studied at the Michener Center fo…
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Episode Notes This story first appeared in der Freitag in 2015. About the author: Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker and activist*. She has written six books, including Bitch Doctrine (Bloomsbury 2017), Unspeakable Things (Bloomsbury 2014) and Everything Belongs To The Future (Tor, 2016). Lau…
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