This episode was originally released June 30th 2025 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Mon Mohapatra of Community Justice Exchange (CJE) about their new resource “If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure,” a resource looking at the strategies deployed in anti-carceral organizing over the last few decades for strategies to stre...
Jun 11, 2026•1 hr 37 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/160543761 Beatrice speaks with Alice, Fish, and Caris from a Turtle Island-based Free Clinic about care as a site of struggle, abolishing the medical industrial complex, and their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. Runtime 2:30:51 This is the fifth episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this epis...
Jun 08, 2026•27 min
This episode was originally released March 23rd for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Mohini Mookim and Veryl Pow about practicing what they call “prefigurative lawyering” to support movements and protect mutual aid work, and how to work towards what they call “hospicing the law.” Read their piece in LPE here: https://lpeprojec...
Jun 04, 2026•1 hr 15 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153205544 Beatrice speaks with Da’Shaun L. Harrison about how the body itself is being mobilized as a nationalist symbol under the second Trump administration and what it will take to fight back. Read Da'Shaun's piece here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us-explain-body-fascism/ Find Da'Shaun's book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness here: https://...
Jun 01, 2026•20 min
This episode was originally released May 6th, 2024 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Phil speak with legal scholars Karen Tani and Katie Eyer about how the Supreme Court used cases related to disability and deinstitutionalization in the 1970s and 1980s as an opportunity to remake and expand its own powers, the role that these cases had in securing conservatives’ “New Federalism...
May 28, 2026•1 hr 26 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/159116603 Beatrice speaks with Lentil Soup of People's Health Education Program, now known as Action Readiness Collective of NYC (ARCNYC), about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. This is the fourth episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaki...
May 26, 2026•14 min
This episode was originally released January 26th for Death Panel patrons and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod In the shadow of the federal occupation of Minneapolis and a year of catastrophic expansion of the carceral state, Beatrice speaks with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore about their concept of “the anti-state state,” the process of the state’s transition from supporting social...
May 21, 2026•2 hr 33 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/acap-03-southern-158600397 Beatrice speaks with Jasmine of Southern Solidarity about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. This is the third episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working...
May 18, 2026•3 min
This episode was originally released December 22nd for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod In this special presentation, Beatrice and Artie discuss the damage done by the first year of Trump's agenda to "Make America Healthy Again," how the state's relationship to health is changing, and what it means for political movements today. FULL TRANSCRIPT: h...
May 14, 2026•1 hr 28 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157981124 Beatrice speaks with Raju, Silvia and Marguerite of Community Liberation Programs about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. This is the second episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival pro...
May 10, 2026•17 min
This episode was originally released November 10th, 2025 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod National Health Service (NHS) evolved under the neoliberal turn and what the recently released NHS 10 year plan tells us about the future of health struggle not just in Britain but internationally, promising as it does to make the NHS “the most AI enabled care system in the world” and to transform it ...
May 07, 2026•2 hr 38 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157359074 Beatrice speaks with the members of a Kensington-based harm reduction group (name redacted to preserve anonymity) about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. This is the first episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people eng...
May 04, 2026•20 min
This episode was originally released April 11, 2024 and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Liz Jackson and Rua Williams about the history and ongoing practice of design objects ostensibly created for accessibility being repurposed into tools of war. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/wheelchair-to-warfare Read their article in the New Republic, “H...
Apr 30, 2026•57 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/156680243 Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she calls “injured landscapes;” how one community in Arizona organized against longstanding environmental pollution from arms manufacturing; and her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Runtime 1:31:27 F...
Apr 27, 2026•22 min
This episode was originally released February 16th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Alberto Toscano about what characteristics second Trump term fascism shares—and doesn’t share—with prior historic formations of fascism, the driving concepts behind Make America Healthy Again that we at Death Panel have been calling “health...
Apr 23, 2026•2 hr 13 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/156085527/ Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about the violent global effects of settler colonialism and how they shape our understanding of what we mean by “disability” and “debility.” We discuss how events like the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the bombings in 2014 are often described through the number of dead, when they also entail mass disablement and mass debilitation, and how...
Apr 21, 2026•18 min
This episode was originally released June 23rd, 2025 for Death Panel patrons and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with William C. Anderson about the liberal tendency to limit political action to voting while simultaneously blaming victims of the electoral system for their own oppression (e.g. dismissal of the south as somehow “deserving” Republican control). We also discuss...
Apr 16, 2026•1 hr 35 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/155540630/ Beatrice speaks with Kate Brown about the history of mutual aid agriculture projects in the US and Europe after the enclosure of the commons, how autonomous community agriculture has historically been met with expulsion or co-optation by the state, and her book Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City. Find Kate Brown's book Tiny Garde...
Apr 12, 2026•22 min
This episode was originally released January 22nd and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about their work organizing Crips for eSims for Gaza, a mutual aid project which has facilitated keeping countless people connected in Gaza over the past years of genocide and heightened blockade, and about lessons and legacies from Alice...
Apr 09, 2026•1 hr 1 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/154941544 Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about how mutual aid allows us to reclaim and collectivize the labor of survival itself, how the practice is much more radical than it’s often been portrayed since it became a topic of mainstream press discussion, and the new second edition of Dean’s 2020 book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next). Find the new edition ...
Apr 06, 2026•26 min
This episode was originally released November 13, 2025 and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Natalie Rupp of Trans Income Project about their work providing cash transfers, meals, medication and more to trans people in Louisiana and how Trans Income Project is stepping in to try to fill the gaps created by the federal government’s attacks on trans coverage under Medicai...
Apr 02, 2026•1 hr 24 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/154337626 Beatrice speaks with Micah Khater about her award winning article on the intersection of race, disability, and incarceration in the southern US in the early 20th century, and her work documenting the history of how Black women experienced and theorized disability from within Alabama prisons. Read Micah’s full article, “No Use to the State: Phrasing Escape and a Black Radical Epis...
Mar 30, 2026•18 min
This episode was originally released March 9th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie about how we should understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, lessons in resisting proposed “reforms” that would actually give more power to I...
Mar 26, 2026•1 hr 38 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153761379 Beatrice speaks with Mohini Mookim and Veryl Pow about practicing what they call “prefigurative lawyering” to support movements and protect mutual aid work, and how to work towards what they call “hospicing the law.” Runtime 1:15:02 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still ...
Mar 23, 2026•12 min
This episode was originally released March 3rd for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Cassius Adair about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight as an expression of administrative violence, and about the long history of state identification documents being used as a tool to enforce norms and...
Mar 19, 2026•1 hr 29 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153205544 Beatrice speaks with Da’Shaun L. Harrison about how the body itself is being mobilized as a nationalist symbol under the second Trump administration and what it will take to fight back. Read Da'Shaun's piece here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us-explain-body-fascism/ Find Da'Shaun's book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness here: https://...
Mar 16, 2026•20 min
Beatrice speaks with Minneapolis organizers Jonathan Stegall and Anne Kosseff-Jones about how the last few months of anti-ICE organizing and mutual aid work in Minnesota built directly on the foundations laid during the 2020 uprisings, why the twin cities still need support even after the announcement of a “draw down,” and lessons to take forward with us. Note: Shortly after this episode was recorded it was reported that closer to 650 ICE officers remain in Minnesota, not 500 as stated in the ep...
Mar 12, 2026•1 hr 26 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/152641029 Beatrice speaks with Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie about how we should understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, lessons in resisting proposed “reforms” that would actually give more power to ICE, and how community care and community defense help build a world toward abolition. Block It!: A Mini Toolkit to Ta...
Mar 08, 2026•24 min
Beatrice and Tracy speak with Zoie and Kevin of the LA Tenants Union about their work organizing community defense against raids by ICE and Border Patrol, how they came to set up the first Centro de Defensa Communitaria, and lessons they can share for other organizers wanting to take on the same work as ICE raids expand across the US. This episode was originally released December 4th and is being re-aired today as ICE continues to be a pressing threat and as organizers in places like Minneapolis...
Mar 05, 2026•1 hr 35 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/152164375 Beatrice speaks with Cassius Adair about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight as an expression of administrative violence, and about the long history of state identification documents being used as a tool to enforce norms and surveil and punish populations. Runtime 1:28:36 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find...
Mar 03, 2026•11 min
