Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/114867221 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 settler officials had in crafting contemporary state definitions of what constitutes “terrorism.” Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-hea...
Oct 27, 2024•19 min
Beatrice speaks to Nour and Sarah, two members of Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), about the role the New York Times has played in portraying the genocide in Palestine as just and reasonable, the campaign to get NYT readers to unsubscribe from the paper and for writers to boycott them, and the counter-propaganda project “New York War Crimes.” More on the call to boycott the Times here: https://www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/boycott-nyt Read The New York War Crimes here: https://newyo...
Oct 24, 2024•56 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113880253 Beatrice speaks with Sarah Jaffe about the politics of grief and grieving: who is allowed to grieve and how, what we are allowed to grieve and aren’t, and how taking the time to experience grief and loss are anathema to capitalism. Sarah’s new book is From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/from-the-ashes/97815...
Oct 22, 2024•22 min
Jules speaks about her book A Short History of Trans Misogyny, the need to integrate material analysis into trans politics, and how it is that such a (relatively) small population of people have become the subject of such a high degree of political ire. Transcript forthcoming. This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September. We collaborated with conference organizers to host five discussions there over labor day weekend. Today's episode is the final ...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113747049 Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent article called “Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?” that earned enormous backlash from the disability community for arguing that young people are faking or exaggerating disabilities in order to secure preferential treatment and “financial compensation.” Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-healt...
Oct 15, 2024•20 min
Liat Ben-Moshe, Sasha Warren, and Leah Harris discuss the political economy of psychiatric incarceration and strategies for resisting surveillance and carcerality that center liberatory care and international solidarities. Transcript forthcoming. This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September, under the session title "Care Not Courts: Resisting Carceral Psychiatry and the Pathologization of Dissent." This panel was the rare exception where a DP memb...
Oct 11, 2024•54 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113438086 Today, Death Panel are joining the calls of organizers around the world to strike for Palestine. As such, today's Death Panel is an episode in two parts: Part One — One Year (0:00:00 - 0:20:45) A statement on one year of genocide from us at Death Panel through parts of three texts from the past year. Part Two — Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar (originally released November 21st, 2022...
Oct 08, 2024•21 min
Beatrice speaks with Mon Mohapatra, Tracy Rosenthal and Victoria Law about how the rhetorics of “care,” support, and empathy are often deployed to expand and reinforce carcerality—to make carcerality appear innocuous, or even an expansion of social welfare and public health. Transcript forthcoming. This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September, under the session title "Carewashing: Carcerality Disguised as Social Welfare." We collaborated with conf...
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 14 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/113089961 Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss the deeper problems behind JD Vance’s recent comments that Trump wants to separate the sick into their own “risk pool,” and how the US’s system of private healthcare itself generates resentment towards the sick. Then we take a close look at Medicaid unwinding, as some of the final unwinding data now shows that 25 million people were disenrolled fr...
Oct 01, 2024•17 min
Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how, as we near 11 months and 100+ years of genocidal settler colonial violence in Palestine, it is vital to remain steadfast in our demands for Palestinian liberation. We discuss turning away from despair towards patience and boldness in our actions, why our demands must push for and beyond “ceasefire,” and draw connections between settler colonialism here and in Palestine; inviting us all to become more skillful in keeping each other alive. Transcript...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 15 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112625641 Beatrice and Jules discuss an amicus brief Jules co-authored for the upcoming Supreme Court case United States v. Skrmetti, a case being heard next month that could have a dramatic impact on young people’s access to medical transition. We talk through the brief and the historical evidence it contains dispelling popular myths that trans kids are new or that transition is itself da...
Sep 24, 2024•24 min
Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis about the demands of the growing tenants movement, why so-called “affordable housing” policies fail to keep people in their homes, and why we need to abolish rent once and for all. Tracy and Leonardo are the authors of Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, out next week: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent Transcript forthcoming. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-c...
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 34 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112179324 Beatrice speaks with Ja’Loni Owens about what we can learn from the discussion of abortion in last week’s Harris/Trump debate and how much of the subsequent fact checking of debate statements leaned into anti-abortion stigma. Find Ja'Loni's zine mentioned in the episode, Friends Help Friends Have Abortions, here: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGNlKBtwt8/9DgvIJT14dLd2z9ngqtkLQ/edi...
Sep 17, 2024•23 min
Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the political economy of the pandemic and how organizing around covid and long covid intersects with priorities in movements across the left, including labor struggles and economic justice, disability justice, and abolition. Transcript forthcoming. This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago. We collaborated with conference organizers to host five discussions there over labor day weekend. Recordings and transcripts of those session...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/111673467 Beatrice speaks with Victoria Law about how prisons and jails have acted as vectors of covid transmission throughout the pandemic, the experiences of people on the inside from early in the pandemic through fights happening now over long covid in incarcerated people, and why it’s still not too late to bring back a common demand from 2020: to free them all for public health. Find V...
Sep 10, 2024•20 min
This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 15th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Sasha Warren about the lessons we can take from the history of anti-psychiatry movements, and other movements aligned against earlier forms of asylums and mental hospitals, with a particular focus on two groups active in the 1960s and 1970s: Institutional Psychotherapy in France and Dem...
Sep 05, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110969806 Beatrice speaks with Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché about how the fight to abolish prisons touches other movements, what abolitionist movement wins tell us about taking the long view in organizing work, and their new book How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement against Imprisonment. Find their new book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2212-how-to-abolish-pris...
Sep 03, 2024•22 min
Beatrice speaks with Betsy Ladyzhets of The Sick Times about what wastewater surveillance does—and doesn’t—tell us about the level of covid spread and how the rise of covid wastewater monitoring fits inside the larger picture of the privatization of both covid risk and covid data. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/promises-and-perils-of-wastewater-data Find Betsy’s report, “Wastewater surveillance for Covid-19 keeps evolving. Here’s what you need to know” here: https://thesicktimes.org/...
Aug 28, 2024•1 hr 33 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110836544 Beatrice speaks with Silky Shah about the harsh immigration and border detention rhetoric on display at both the DNC and RNC this summer, the historical and material links between the rise of the immigration detention system and mass incarceration, and her new book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-heal...
Aug 27, 2024•25 min
Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the mask ban passed in Nassau County last week, the latest in a dramatic rise in legislation criminalizing face masks and targeting the Palestine solidarity movement. We look at what happened in the overtly hostile public hearing over the ban, the history of the New York statute that ban proponents want back, and how the threat of mask bans goes far beyond public health: mask bans embolden racist policing; they’re anti-trans; and they target the whole of the lef...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 31 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110415159 Beatrice speaks with October Krausch about how the cultural imaginary of covid and covid risk has shifted from some of the earliest interpretations of the pandemic, how social pressure amongst liberals to place trust in institutions led many to ignore ongoing risk, and their recent article for Truthout, “The US Government Has Abandoned Us to Endless COVID. We Can Do Better.” Read...
Aug 20, 2024•21 min
Beatrice and Jules discuss “managed care,” a seemingly innocuous term for a guiding principle in contemporary US healthcare that structures and incentivizes medical rationing and austerity. We also discuss how the use of managed care in state Medicaid programs leads to widespread denials for trans care. Transcript forthcoming. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 21st, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at ww...
Aug 15, 2024•1 hr 25 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109988706 Beatrice speaks with Kareem Rabie about how capitalist visions for “the day after” ceasefire often rely on economic development projects that act as an extension of settler colonialism, Rabie’s research on housing development projects in the West Bank in 2005-2009, and his 2021 book, Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the W...
Aug 13, 2024•20 min
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.” Note: intro from Artie ends at 0:03:30 Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/aaron-bushnell This episode was originally released on February 29th, 2024 and we're re-releasing it today to mark nearly six months since Bushnell's action against the still ongoing genocide. T...
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109524186 Beatrice speaks with William Boyd about how “risk assessment” became a central focus of health safety and environmental law since the 1970s, and how the political and economic factors that structure how those risks are assessed have resulted in law and policy far less likely to protect against environmental and health hazards. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4...
Aug 06, 2024•22 min
This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on July 8th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod 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 bo...
Aug 01, 2024•1 hr 32 min
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109069424 Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the sudden ascendance of Kamala Harris as the new Democratic Party nominee and take a close look at her record and early stances on Palestine, policing, and her (not quite) Medicare for All platform from 2020. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3...
Jul 30, 2024•23 min
Beatrice and Jules mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a discussion of just how limited the law is compared with how it's portrayed, how to understand the ADA as part of the broader story of welfare state retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s, and the broader story of how it got this way. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/the-ada-as-welfare-reform This episode was originally released on August 3rd, 2023 to mark the 33rd anniversary of the passage...
Jul 25, 2024•2 hr
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108630596 Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss Biden’s decision to step down, break down last week’s Republican National Convention, and how fitting it is that the last straw in Biden’s reelection campaign was a covid infection. 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-...
Jul 23, 2024•13 min
Bea, Artie and Jules discuss pundit speculation about Biden’s age and cognitive ability and the history of the relationship between bodily capacity and definitions of the “body politic.” This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on February 26th, 2024. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Transcript forthcoming. Find this week's patron episode that continues this conversation in the context of the d...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 19 min
