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w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Abby Cartus.

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Death Panel episodes:

05.21.2024
Water for Gaza (05/20/24)
Every Monday we release an extra full episode just for patrons; this week we've chosen to make today's patron episode public in hopes that it encourages people to donate to Gaza Muni (link below). Death Panel is entirely listener supported,...
05.17.2024
Massification, Debility, and 40 Years of Crisis in Bhopal w/ Jiya Pandya (05/16/24)
Beatrice and Jules speak with historian Jiya Pandya about how the Bhopal gas leak—often described as the worst industrial disaster in living memory—continues to be an unchecked crisis 40 years later, what it teaches us about how to respond to...
05.14.2024
Teaser - The Pandemic and the Fantasy of Governing Through Statistics (05/13/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/104189586 Beatrice, Artie, Phil and Abby discuss how, as of May 1st, hospitals in the US are no longer required to report covid hospitalization data to the federal government, the...
05.09.2024
Carewashing and the Right to Public Space w/ Tracy Rosenthal (05/09/24)
Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal about the pending Supreme Court ruling that could dramatically strip the rights of unhoused people in the US, how politicians frequently invoke a rhetoric of “care” to promote expansions of the carceral system, and how...
05.07.2024
Teaser - Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution w/ Karen Tani and Katie Eyer (05/06/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103758145 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...
05.01.2024
What the Solidarity Encampments Demand w/ Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter (05/01/24)
Beatrice speaks with Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter about the proliferation of Palestine solidarity encampments, their experiences at the encampments at CUNY and at Columbia, and to share a call to action for today, May Day: strike in solidarity with...
04.30.2024
Teaser - The Cass Retort (04/29/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103298391 Beatrice, Jules and Artie discuss the findings, impact, and fallout of “The Cass Review,” the recently released 388 page NHS-commissioned report that has led media figures across the political...
04.25.2024
A Killing Peace w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (Part Two) (04/25/24)
Part Two of our discussion with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t changed since the last time Rasha spoke with us on October 13th,...
04.23.2024
Teaser - "No Use to the State" w/ Micah Khater (04/22/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102847558 Beatrice speaks with Micah Khater about the intersection of race, disability, and incarceration in the southern US in the early 20th century, and her work documenting the history of...
04.19.2024
A Killing Peace w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (Part One) (04/18/24)
Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t changed since the last time Rasha spoke with us on October 13th, and why appeals...
04.15.2024
Teaser - Storming Bedlam w/ Sasha Warren (04/15/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102407156 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,...
04.11.2024
"The Wheelchair-to-Warfare Pipeline" w/ Liz Jackson and Rua Williams (04/11/24)
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, “How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build...
04.09.2024
Teaser - Liberalism, “Illiberalism,” and Public Health (04/08/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101959148 Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss the recent book “Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time,” which presents itself as chronicling public health’s many missteps since the...
04.05.2024
Letters from Gaza w/ Danya Qato
This episode was originally released on January 25th. We are re-releasing it today as we approach the sixth month of the ongoing genocidal campaign on Palestine, with a new introduction and a brief update at the end. Beatrice shares messages from...
04.02.2024
Teaser - One Year of Medicaid Unwinding (04/01/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101515457 Beatrice, Artie and Phil reflect on the impact of the ongoing Medicaid “unwinding”, which began one year ago today and has already seen 20 million people kicked off of...
03.29.2024
The Comstock Mindset w/ Melissa Gira Grant (03/28/24)
Beatrice and Abby speak with Melissa Gira Grant about this week’s oral arguments in a Supreme Court case that could dramatically limit the availability of medication abortion in the US, and the Comstock Act, the 19th century obscenity law looming...
03.26.2024
Teaser - Data Can't Speak (03/25/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101050023 As we prepare for this week’s Supreme Court hearing on mifepristone, Beatrice and Abby discuss the controversy surrounding a recent paper that claims that pregnancy-associated deaths are dramatically overcounted...
03.22.2024
Refusing to Forget w/ Vicky Osterweil (03/21/24)
Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the events we’re encouraged to forget, repress, and reinterpret in order to abet genocide, carcerality, or abandonment to a pandemic, and the power of refusing to forget. Transcript forthcoming. Read Vicky's essay, "Remembering As an Act...
03.19.2024
Teaser - On NPR's "Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again" (03/18/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/100622256 Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again,” which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable...
03.13.2024
Policy-Based Evidence Making w/ Jane Thomason (03/14/24)
Beatrice speaks with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about the CDC’s recent abrupt decision to drop its 5-day covid isolation guidance and the latest developments in the campaign to stop the CDC from dramatically weakening infection control practices...
03.12.2024
Teaser - "Impression Management" and "Bedwetters" (03/11/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/100189248 Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss Biden’s State of the Union address—from the “illegals” moment to Biden’s attempt to co-opt “ceasefire”—as well as the many media reactions to the speech,...
03.08.2024
The Birth of the Nonprofit Industrial Complex w/ Claire Dunning (Unlocked)
This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on September 4th 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice, Phil, and Jules speak with Claire Dunning about the complex...
03.04.2024
Teaser - Liberatory Harm Reduction w/ Shira Hassan
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99724675 Beatrice speaks with Shira Hassan about reclaiming harm reduction from public health, reclaiming formations of "peer work" from the nonprofit world, and building the politics and practice of surviving...
02.29.2024
Legitimate Protest and the Construction of "Reason" w/ Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu (02/29/24)
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.” Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/aaron-bushnell More on Project LETS here: https://projectlets.org/ Find our book Health Communism...
02.27.2024
Teaser - (How We Talk About) Gerontocracy (02/26/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99264802 Bea, Artie and Jules discuss the last few weeks of pundit speculation about Biden’s age and cognitive ability and the history of the relationship between bodily capacity and definitions...
02.22.2024
Collapse w/ Dean Spade (02/22/24)
Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about how we respond to crises, from climate collapse to covid, and how the state’s primary response to these crises is to try to narrow the possibilities for political action around them. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/dean-spade-collapse Read Dean’s piece,...
02.20.2024
Teaser - Let Them Eat Statistics (02/19/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98784955 Bea, Artie and Phil discuss why the fact that a record 20 million people are now on ACA (Obamacare) plans is not the unequivocal good news that Democrats are...
02.16.2024
CDC Says: Back to Work (02/15/24)
Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss this week’s news that the CDC is planning to drop its covid isolation guidelines, and how the proposed change is emblematic of the Biden administration’s long running practice of undoing pandemic policies as a form...
02.13.2024
Teaser - Pamela Paul, the New York Times and the Social Contagion Myth (02/12/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98356495 Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss Pamela Paul's recent piece in the New York Times, "As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do." Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find...
02.08.2024
A Short History of Trans Misogyny (02/08/24)
Beatrice and Jules discuss Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, which traces the historical roots of "trans panic" as a product of empire, colonialism, and policing. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Find Jules' book here, out now from Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Find our book Health...
02.06.2024
Teaser - The Limits of "Codify Roe" w/ Melissa Gira Grant (02/05/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/97922957 Beatrice and Abby are joined by Melissa Gira Grant to evaluate the Biden administration’s recent announcements for its plans on reproductive healthcare and why Biden’s campaign promise to “restore...
02.01.2024
#N95s4UCSF w/ Alice Wong (02/01/24)
Beatrice speaks with Alice Wong about Alice's campaign to reinstate a mask mandate at UCSF, a hospital system home to a number of physicians who have played an outsized, deleterious, role in advocating for a premature end to covid protections. Transcript:...
01.30.2024
Teaser - Masks and Symbols (01/29/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/97441318 Beatrice, Abby, and Jules discuss the symbolic aspects of masking as a public health intervention and demonstration of solidarity, through critiques of a recent New York Times piece by...
01.26.2024
Letters from Gaza w/ Danya Qato (01/25/24)
Beatrice shares messages from Death Panel listeners in Gaza and speaks with Danya Qato about how the totalizing nature of the genocide of Palestine can't be captured in death and injury statistics alone. This episode is for Z, J, R, A,...
01.23.2024
Teaser - Instruments of Dehumanization w/ Maryam Jamshidi (01/22/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96989016 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...
01.19.2024
Unmaking the Pandemic Welfare State (01/18/24)
Beatrice, Artie, and Phil discuss how recent claims that Biden has tried to bring about “the largest expansion of the welfare state in a half century” ignore his track record of ending every last pandemic welfare program. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/biden-unmaking-welfare Find our book...
01.16.2024
Teaser - "Normal Species Functioning" (01/15/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96560443/ Bea, Artie, and Phil offer their critique of "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care", a recent book from two economists—and blurbed by the likes of Emily Oster...
01.12.2024
Pathologizing Palestinian Resistance w/ Liat Ben-Moshe and Leah Harris (01/11/24)
Beatrice and Jules speak with Liat Ben-Moshe and Leah Harris about how Palestinian resistance and rebellion is pathologized and the importance of transnational disability solidarity with Palestine. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/pathologizing-palestine Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch...
01.09.2024
Teaser - The Cynical Politics of the "Border Deal" w/ Silky Shah (01/08/24)
Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96110966 Beatrice speaks with Silky Shah about the negotiations between the Biden administration and Congress that would establish harmful new asylum and immigration policy, alongside billions in additional funding towards...
01.08.2024
Best Of 2023: The New (New, New, New) Normal
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on...
01.07.2024
Best Of 2023: The ADA as Welfare Reform
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released on August 3rd, 2023. To...
01.06.2024
Best Of 2023: Lifetime Care w/ William Bronston
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on...
01.05.2024
Best of 2023: Long Covid and “Methodological Pitfalls”
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on...
01.04.2024
Best of 2023: Ozempic w/ Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on...
01.03.2024
Best of 2023: Unlimited Liabilities w/ Nate Holdren
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on...
01.02.2024
Best of 2023: Refusing Genocide w/ Rasha Abdulhadi
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on...
01.01.2024
Best of 2023: Let This Radicalize You w/ Mariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released on May 18th, 2023. To...
12.31.2023
Best of 2023: The Unwinding and the Waning of Pandemic Time
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on...
12.30.2023
Best of 2023: Organizing and Covid-19 (Parts 1 & 2)
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This two-part episode was originally released on February 16th and...
12.29.2023
Best of 2023: The Sociology of Mask Mandates w/ Ellie Murray
As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on...

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Death Panel episodes:

Water for Gaza (05/20/24)

Massification, Debility, and 40 Years of Crisis in Bhopal w/ Jiya Pandya (05/16/24)

Teaser - The Pandemic and the Fantasy of Governing Through Statistics (05/13/24)

Carewashing and the Right to Public Space w/ Tracy Rosenthal (05/09/24)

Teaser - Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution w/ Karen Tani and Katie Eyer (05/06/24)

What the Solidarity Encampments Demand w/ Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter (05/01/24)

Teaser - The Cass Retort (04/29/24)

A Killing Peace w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (Part Two) (04/25/24)

Teaser - "No Use to the State" w/ Micah Khater (04/22/24)

A Killing Peace w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (Part One) (04/18/24)

Teaser - Storming Bedlam w/ Sasha Warren (04/15/24)

"The Wheelchair-to-Warfare Pipeline" w/ Liz Jackson and Rua Williams (04/11/24)

Teaser - Liberalism, “Illiberalism,” and Public Health (04/08/24)

Letters from Gaza w/ Danya Qato

Teaser - One Year of Medicaid Unwinding (04/01/24)

The Comstock Mindset w/ Melissa Gira Grant (03/28/24)

Teaser - Data Can't Speak (03/25/24)

Refusing to Forget w/ Vicky Osterweil (03/21/24)

Teaser - On NPR's "Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again" (03/18/24)

Policy-Based Evidence Making w/ Jane Thomason (03/14/24)

Teaser - "Impression Management" and "Bedwetters" (03/11/24)

The Birth of the Nonprofit Industrial Complex w/ Claire Dunning (Unlocked)

Teaser - Liberatory Harm Reduction w/ Shira Hassan

Legitimate Protest and the Construction of "Reason" w/ Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu (02/29/24)

Teaser - (How We Talk About) Gerontocracy (02/26/24)

Collapse w/ Dean Spade (02/22/24)

Teaser - Let Them Eat Statistics (02/19/24)

CDC Says: Back to Work (02/15/24)

Teaser - Pamela Paul, the New York Times and the Social Contagion Myth (02/12/24)

A Short History of Trans Misogyny (02/08/24)

Teaser - The Limits of "Codify Roe" w/ Melissa Gira Grant (02/05/24)

#N95s4UCSF w/ Alice Wong (02/01/24)

Teaser - Masks and Symbols (01/29/24)

Letters from Gaza w/ Danya Qato (01/25/24)

Teaser - Instruments of Dehumanization w/ Maryam Jamshidi (01/22/24)

Unmaking the Pandemic Welfare State (01/18/24)

Teaser - "Normal Species Functioning" (01/15/24)

Pathologizing Palestinian Resistance w/ Liat Ben-Moshe and Leah Harris (01/11/24)

Teaser - The Cynical Politics of the "Border Deal" w/ Silky Shah (01/08/24)

Best Of 2023: The New (New, New, New) Normal

Best Of 2023: The ADA as Welfare Reform

Best Of 2023: Lifetime Care w/ William Bronston

Best of 2023: Long Covid and “Methodological Pitfalls”

Best of 2023: Ozempic w/ Marquisele Mercedes and Monica Kriete

Best of 2023: Unlimited Liabilities w/ Nate Holdren

Best of 2023: Refusing Genocide w/ Rasha Abdulhadi

Best of 2023: Let This Radicalize You w/ Mariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes

Best of 2023: The Unwinding and the Waning of Pandemic Time

Best of 2023: Organizing and Covid-19 (Parts 1 & 2)

Best of 2023: The Sociology of Mask Mandates w/ Ellie Murray