Act Out! podcast

By Eleanor Goldfield

What's Act Out! podcast about?

A nerderific podcast that wanders through questions big and small, deep and shallow, from the philosophical to the political to the cultural. Step inside the nerdery...

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Act Out! podcast episodes:

07.30.2021
Act Out Update!
A quick announcement for y'all about Act Out! Get/stay in touch at artkillingapathy.com
07.16.2021
Episode 278 - Understanding Backwards & Sometimes Boundaries Don't Work
Following a relatively sheisty July, Eleanor ruminates on her emotional and mental boundaries, and whether or not it's possible to always respect them. And how does this differ or diverge depending on who you're interacting with - i.e. dear friends...
06.25.2021
Episode 277 - We're Walking Blind & Orwell Told Us So
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” - George Orwell Without history, we wander through our present and build our future - totally blind. As racists foam at the...
06.11.2021
Episode 276 - The Racist Imperialism Lurking in Your Body Image
A seldom considered connection is the one between genocidal imperialism and body image. But as we sift through history and into the shallow dumbshittery of eugenics, we find not only the drive to mass murder "inferior races," but to define...
05.28.2021
Episode 275 - The Multitudes Within For The Multitudes Without
Multiple things can be true at the same time. Our very existence proves that. We exist as multitudes, holding multiple truths not only about ourselves but about the world around us. For instance, the rise in anti-Jewish violence must be...
05.14.2021
Episode 274 - Be the Plantain. Finding Place Far From Home
If you're like me - a white person with a background that criss-crosses borders from Europe to the Middle East, you may struggle with the word "home." It might feel hopeless digging into a deep past, before colonialism, to find...
04.30.2021
Episode 273 - On Prepping for Police, Infighting and Infiltrators
Shit happens - especially when you're trying to topple the largest empire the world has ever seen. Preparation is therefore key. Preparation that reminds us of our goals and centers those most targeted by the state is vital, so that...
04.16.2021
Episode 272 - Square Pegs, Courage & Cowardice
Are you square pegging it just like me - rounding your edges to appease? A musing on not fitting in, on latching on to boulders sinking with the weight of a cowardly resolve - and on courage, the radical world-building...
04.02.2021
Episode 271 - Spoken Word, Insidious Systems, Science & Magic
Coming off a particularly vicious bout of food poisoning, I thank you all for the inspiration that brewed up a new spoken word piece for this episode! Meanwhile, let's talk about who profits from our programmed feelings of self-worthlessness, and...
03.19.2021
Episode 270 - Bogus Borders, State Of (In) Your Mind & What It Means To Be American
Cue the "this is so un-American" speeches. Anytime something horrible happens, it's immediately lambasted as being un-American when in reality, it's actually very VERY American. Eleanor dives into the arbitrary dividing lines of borders and nations, the struggle for the...
03.05.2021
Episode 269 - The Gift, Creativity You Can’t Commodify & The Spectrum of Artists
How do artists and creatives think of their work in terms of dollars and cents? It feels wrong - because it inherently is. Art and creativity, the labor of creation - is the antithesis to a system based on destruction,...
02.19.2021
Episode 268 - Coloring Outside The Lines, Inside Each Other
Huey P. Newton wrote that "we all belong to one society yet live in different worlds." The layers of self in these worlds, the infinite intersections, the myriad truths are all sources of power - when combined. When kept in...
02.05.2021
Episode 267 - Failures, Focus and Boundaries
An anti-capitalist nerderific look at failure, focus and boundaries: Why do we have such a troubled relationship with failure? Why can't we feel the life in the ruins? Oh woe when we take our daily distracted energy into our movements...
01.22.2021
Episode 266 - That Idea's Not New, Team Human & Cyclical Rebirth
Come into the nerdery and help me chew over some of the ideas from Douglas Rushkoff's book Team Human. How do linear belief systems fuck over the planet and ultimately of course, humans too? How can a cyclical perspective change...
01.08.2021
Episode 265 - Needed A Radical Change, Can't Build By Burning Bridges
The institutionalization of activism - much like charity - depends on preserving the current capitalist system. So, it feels like an apt and vital time - for a radical change. At the same time, whatever you call it, if "it"...
12.26.2020
Episode 264 - Reflection in the Dark, Weight Training & A Joyful Unbalance
It's remarkable how much more we can reflect on in the dark... A special solstice thinky-dink nerderific episode on accountability, jagged boundaries and the differences between not caring and self caring. artkillingapathy.com
11.27.2020
Episode 263 - How Myths Warp Our Past & Endanger Our Future
As Karen Armstrong writes, "human beings have always been mythmakers." We seek meaning, we seek protection and comfort. But not all myths are created equal. Some myths are incredibly dangerous - they distort and cover up a harsh reality that...
11.13.2020
Episode 262 - Loudly Losing (Layers Of) Illusions
A cathartic step into the nerdery this week - spinning some spoken word, calling out the grating cheers for a war criminal racist sexist, a symphony requiem mass for the illusions we must lose - if we want to win...
10.30.2020
Episode 261 - Deception 2020 & The Solidarity of the Shaken
Got a special episode for y'all this week - featuring the voices of Deception 2020 - the series I've been doing in the lead-up to the election. Hear from Dan Kovalik, Nick Braña, Dr. Margaret Flowers, Mickey Huff, Eugene Puryear...
10.16.2020
Episode 260 - Danger! Fear! Let's Put the Elections in Context, Swap Vote Shaming for System Shaming
Fear is incredibly useful - until it's not. Here's a look at how fear is pushing people to make rash (and ultimately unhelpful) decisions in the face of actual systemic dangers. And this isn't about vote shaming - this is...
10.02.2020
Episode 259 - Breaking the Stalemate and Feeling Weird
Movement spaces can feel uncomfortable at times - and at times, that's a good thing. But if rigid radicalism is at work, people and spaces will break under the weight of replicated oppression and narrow-mindedness. Embracing feeling weird, building space...
09.18.2020
Episode 258 - The Problem With Equality, Rewriting the Future
This week's nerdery hang dissects the problem with equality in a system where people have unequal needs and access. Technology divides, it isolates, but it is not the inherent enemy. That is capitalism - and we don't have to look...
09.04.2020
Episode 257 - Voting Doesn't Count, The Possibilities of Political Engagement
In so many ways, voting doesn't count. And for those who lift their heads from the sand every 4 years just to proselytize the virtues of voting for evil, y'all can fuck right off. Change won't come from voting or...
08.21.2020
Episode 256 - Fuck Fate and The State, Many Worlds & Trawling for the Unconscious
Sometimes you get delicious fish, sometimes you get tires. Either way, to know and to deal with what's beyond the surface, you gotta dig. This isn't just for our selves but for global systems as well. Don't accept their painting...
07.24.2020
Episode 255 - No Nonsense Nuance + What Else We Can Do Now
Some decisions are binary - yes or no, south or north, on or off. Some decisions include manifold options, backstories, possibilities. Organizing is hardly ever binary. Embracing some nuance - tho it might feel uncomfortable and icky at times -...
07.10.2020
Episode 254 - Humans as Commodity and Consumer; Value and Worth Outside of Capitalism
Any capitalist answer to feelings of worthlessness is no answer at all – it is merely a momentary glaze on a chipping facade of programmed self-hatred and feelings of worthlessness. From body positivity to self-worth and monetary value, let's dive...
06.26.2020
Episode 253 - The Language of Action & Proud to Be un-American
A somewhat trip back to the nerdery - this time it's about language. The power of words - or the lack of power, as it sometimes happens. How what we choose to say or write changes how we think about...
06.12.2020
Episode 252 - A Trip Into the Nerdery, The Origin of Ghosts & Calicified
Step into the nerdery with me as I dig into the seemingly at-odds worlds of science and magic. Plus, I have a hypothesis on the origin of ghosts...no, really. PLUS... The out-of-touch take the pulse of a dying body politic...
05.29.2020
Episode 251 - Clowns n Capitalism, Commodified Rebellion and Obligations to Life
Oh what a tangled web! Feeling squirrely today on this release date of my first ever documentary. Either way, we're rolling with it! We're diving head first into the muddy waters of conflicting, contradicting emotions in order to marinate and...
05.15.2020
Episode 250 - Anarchist Bandits, Smelling Roses & Digging Up Stories
Curious instead of judgemental, like a kid with a rose...particularly in this hideous unknown, and this damned storm... it will polish the sky so the brilliance will blind – but I will never be the same PLUS, history on repeat...
05.01.2020
Episode 249 - General Strike, The REAL Virus & May Day!
May Day! This is crisis. Capitalism's a virus. May Day! Musings from the 134th anniversary of Haymarket. What are the effects of this amputated past? And how is this moment unique in fighting and building for the future? PLUS General...
04.17.2020
Act Out 248 - The Anti-Capitalist Therapy Hour (or half)
I had a bunch of notes planned - updates on travels and new projects that I was gonna share. Best laid plans... Welcome to the new era of Act Out! Talking through some of the craziness we're all feeling -...
02.28.2020
Episode 247 - Keep Acting Out!
The end of an era – a look back and a look ahead, to work that's been done, and all yet to come. It's been almost five years of Act Out! and while this chapter is ending, this book is...
02.21.2020
Episode 246 - Wet’suwet’en Strong: Unceded and Unwavering + Mining the Deep Ocean is Green
Trans rights are human rights – because human rights are only valid if they include every person in their entirety. Next, mining on land is so 20th century – the new frontier of mining is just as deep and dark...
02.14.2020
Episode 245 - When Motherhood Kills: The Effects of For-Profit Healthcare in Empire’s Capital
A special episode that looks at a grotesque statistic and asks the question – if you can judge a government by how they treat their most vulnerable and marginalized --- how more pointed is that judgement when you look at...
02.07.2020
Episode 244 - Starve the Beast, Feed the Community + Kings of a Graveyard
Uncle Sam's manifest destiny is to become king of a global graveyard – how our economic warfare kills and tortures millions worldwide and how folks here and elsewhere are organizing to fight back against so-called sanctions. Next, updates on whistleblowers...
01.31.2020
Episode 243 - It's the Unnatural Disasters That Kill + War On the Home Front
More than 16,000 quakes of varying sizes have hit Puerto Rico. But the real shocks come from capitalism and colonialism. In this FULL INTERVIEW, coordinators with the Mutual Help Center of Lares talk about the natural and unnatural disasters pummeling...
01.24.2020
Episode 242 - Mental Health Alternatives to Police + Dangerous Talk
Thousands of calls to 9-1-1 don't need police. So what if an emergency call could bring out mental health and social workers instead? Enter White Bird Clinic. PLUS, some theories on theories just in time for the year of lip...
01.17.2020
Episode 241 - The Refugee Industry & Australia’s Still Burning - Coal
Caged for seeking freedom – migrants and refugees in the land of the free. Next, zooming out on the global refugee industry – because yes, that too – is a booming business. Finally, global droughts, and the fires of human...
01.10.2020
Episode 240 - How To Fight War Fever, Power Stand-Off + Fire & Water
Tho filmed before Iran's military reaction, we touch on some important information regarding Soleimani and the need for loud and resolute international antiwar responses. Updates on bad ass organizers, activists and whistleblowers. Next, what we really need in order to...
12.27.2019
Episode 239 - 2019’s Front Line & Censored Stories
From Iran to Venezuela to the forests of Southern Illinois to the borderlands. It’s been a full year of Acting Out! Here’s to many more. artkillingapathy.com
12.20.2019
Episode 238 - Chile’s Warning to the World + The Untold Story of Fracking
COP 25 is over and the people have spoken – from Chile to Madrid, largely indigenous-led protests are highlighting the uselessness of these climate summits and the danger of falling for greenwashed false solutions in the age of climate chaos....
12.13.2019
Episode 237 - Making Cents, Losing Sense: What It Pays to Starve the People + German Reflections
There's only so much you can take from someone. And with the recent plans to starve some 700,000 Americans, we may have reached that threshold. We dive to the bottom line to uncover the real impetus behind such legislation and...
12.06.2019
Episode 236 - Can Whales Save the Humans? + Prepping One Community at a Time
A whale of a deal for the IMF and all those folks out there who wanna keep consuming but want someone else to deal with the fall out. Next up, the whole damn system is guilty as hell –...
11.29.2019
Episode 235 - Why We Consume, Trading in Trash & Setting a Decolonized Table
Thanksgiving is bullshit. But that doesn't mean that we can't bring some truth to the table while diving into issues such as indigenous foods, farming practices and food sovereignty. Plus, it's not just what we consume - indeed, it's not...
11.22.2019
Episode 234 - DACA: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t + Never Again Means Now
DACA is in the supreme court. Far from being a legislative or constitutional battle for Trump's administration, this is fascist virtue signaling. The arguments over legality thinly veil the systemic truth: this is an overt ramping up of policies already...
11.15.2019
Episode 233 - Chile, Bolivia and AFRICOM: Imperialism, Revolution & What We Must Ask Of Ourselves
Bolivia was too happy. Ideas that are but dreams here in the US are legislative realities in Bolivia, and that can not stand. Meanwhile, the echoes of US imperialism plays loudly in the streets of Chile. US residents asking when...
11.08.2019
Episode 232 - Open Wounds, Open Wars: Veterans and the Fight for Our Lives, Against Empire
We need to be open and honest about what the empire means and how we all suffer from it – and how these diverse but shared experiences can be our strength, not our fault lines. As we rattle thrones, we...
10.25.2019
Episode 231 - Grassroots from the Treetops
Transformation NOT Reformation. From regenerative farming to revolutionary inclusion, these voices from the Forest Convergence tell it like it is, draw connections between our struggles and unapologetically demand real and direct action. Wherever you are, that is your frontline. Know...
10.18.2019
Episode 230 - Meat is (Ecological) Murder, Greenwashed Deforestation & Fighting Toxic Prisons
Recent reports suggest that eating meat isn't bad for you. But wait before you reach for that burger. Because this isn't just about you personal health - there's a planet at stake here. PLUS deforestation gets a greenwash AND Mei...

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Act Out Update!

Episode 278 - Understanding Backwards & Sometimes Boundaries Don't Work

Episode 277 - We're Walking Blind & Orwell Told Us So

Episode 276 - The Racist Imperialism Lurking in Your Body Image

Episode 275 - The Multitudes Within For The Multitudes Without

Episode 274 - Be the Plantain. Finding Place Far From Home

Episode 273 - On Prepping for Police, Infighting and Infiltrators

Episode 272 - Square Pegs, Courage & Cowardice

Episode 271 - Spoken Word, Insidious Systems, Science & Magic

Episode 270 - Bogus Borders, State Of (In) Your Mind & What It Means To Be American

Episode 269 - The Gift, Creativity You Can’t Commodify & The Spectrum of Artists

Episode 268 - Coloring Outside The Lines, Inside Each Other

Episode 267 - Failures, Focus and Boundaries

Episode 266 - That Idea's Not New, Team Human & Cyclical Rebirth

Episode 265 - Needed A Radical Change, Can't Build By Burning Bridges

Episode 264 - Reflection in the Dark, Weight Training & A Joyful Unbalance

Episode 263 - How Myths Warp Our Past & Endanger Our Future

Episode 262 - Loudly Losing (Layers Of) Illusions

Episode 261 - Deception 2020 & The Solidarity of the Shaken

Episode 260 - Danger! Fear! Let's Put the Elections in Context, Swap Vote Shaming for System Shaming

Episode 259 - Breaking the Stalemate and Feeling Weird

Episode 258 - The Problem With Equality, Rewriting the Future

Episode 257 - Voting Doesn't Count, The Possibilities of Political Engagement

Episode 256 - Fuck Fate and The State, Many Worlds & Trawling for the Unconscious

Episode 255 - No Nonsense Nuance + What Else We Can Do Now

Episode 254 - Humans as Commodity and Consumer; Value and Worth Outside of Capitalism

Episode 253 - The Language of Action & Proud to Be un-American

Episode 252 - A Trip Into the Nerdery, The Origin of Ghosts & Calicified

Episode 251 - Clowns n Capitalism, Commodified Rebellion and Obligations to Life

Episode 250 - Anarchist Bandits, Smelling Roses & Digging Up Stories

Episode 249 - General Strike, The REAL Virus & May Day!

Act Out 248 - The Anti-Capitalist Therapy Hour (or half)

Episode 247 - Keep Acting Out!

Episode 246 - Wet’suwet’en Strong: Unceded and Unwavering + Mining the Deep Ocean is Green

Episode 245 - When Motherhood Kills: The Effects of For-Profit Healthcare in Empire’s Capital

Episode 244 - Starve the Beast, Feed the Community + Kings of a Graveyard

Episode 243 - It's the Unnatural Disasters That Kill + War On the Home Front

Episode 242 - Mental Health Alternatives to Police + Dangerous Talk

Episode 241 - The Refugee Industry & Australia’s Still Burning - Coal

Episode 240 - How To Fight War Fever, Power Stand-Off + Fire & Water

Episode 239 - 2019’s Front Line & Censored Stories

Episode 238 - Chile’s Warning to the World + The Untold Story of Fracking

Episode 237 - Making Cents, Losing Sense: What It Pays to Starve the People + German Reflections

Episode 236 - Can Whales Save the Humans? + Prepping One Community at a Time

Episode 235 - Why We Consume, Trading in Trash & Setting a Decolonized Table

Episode 234 - DACA: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t + Never Again Means Now

Episode 233 - Chile, Bolivia and AFRICOM: Imperialism, Revolution & What We Must Ask Of Ourselves

Episode 232 - Open Wounds, Open Wars: Veterans and the Fight for Our Lives, Against Empire

Episode 231 - Grassroots from the Treetops

Episode 230 - Meat is (Ecological) Murder, Greenwashed Deforestation & Fighting Toxic Prisons