Bensplaining

Bensplaining

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Bensplaining episodes

  • Prisons and Power

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    ‘The prison has become a black hole into which the detritus of contemporary capitalism is deposited’ – Angela Davis

    In the long-awaited return of Bensplaining podcast, I interview activist and academic Marlee Raible about the prison-industrial complex. We chat about:

    • the racist history and present of the Australian and US prison systems
    • why being ‘tough’ on crime perpetuates it
    • the links between profit, poverty and prisons
    • alternatives to incarceration, like restorative justice
    • Marlee’s experience with the Zapatista movement in southern Mexico.
      • Reading List
      • Marlee’s phenomenal podcast Carceral Complex dives deep into these issues.
      • The 13th, available on Netflix. An exceptional documentary on the history, horror, and corruption of the American prison-industrial complex.
      • Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis. A powerful case for prison abolition that changed my mind on the issue.
      • The Tall Man, by Chloe Hooper. A devastating exploration of the cover up of a white police officer’s killing of an Aboriginal man on Palm Island in 2004.
      • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander. An analysis of how the U.S. criminal justice system uses the War on Drugs as a primary tool for enforcing traditional, as well as new, modes of racial discrimination and oppression.
      • The Little Book of Restorative Justice, by Howard Zehr. A practical guide to tools communities can use for a restorative, rather than retributive, approach to justice.
      • Discipline and Punish, by Michel Foucault. A seminal analysis of crime, justice and state power.
      • The moving story of Hector Black, told by Radiolab.

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        Bensplaining is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://benjaminhickey.org/

        1 hr 22 min
      • Psychosis & Sanity with Alex
        Check out the art of Louis Wain
        https://benjaminhickey.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ep-6_-psychosis-sanity-with-alex.m4a

        What’s it like to lose contact with reality? In Episode 6 of Bensplaining, artist and activist Alex Childs shares the moving story of her experience of psychosis.

        Alex has studied psychology and cared for a friend experiencing schizophrenia, so brings a multidimensional insight to questions of mental health.

        We discuss:

        • The process of healing

        • Effects of stigma and self-stigma
        • The relationship between environment and psychology
        • How cultural understandings of sanity differ
        • Advantages and disadvantages of the medicalisation of well-being.
        • Tips on supporting people struggling with delusions

        If you’d like to have a better understanding on how to assist people experiencing a mental health crisis, why not do a Mental Health First Aid course?

        If you’d like to speak to someone about anything in this podcast, please don’t hesitate to contact SANE Australia or Lifeline.

        Thanks for listening, and thanks again to Alex for sharing her experience.

        Remember to subscribe on iTunes!

         

        Bensplaining is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://benjaminhickey.org/

        1 hr 18 min
      • Cognitive Traps with Leo
        When is our mind tricking us? I chat to Leo Bremanis about how cognitive bias and heuristics effect marketing, behavioural economics, conspiracy theories, fascism and mental health.
        1 hr 5 min
      • Bensplaining Ep 3: Sound Design & Theme Music with Mitch
        https://benjaminhickey.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/3-e28093-sound-design-theme-music-with-mitch1.mp3

         

        In this episode, audio engineer and musician Mitchell Pasmans makes a theme song for the show and talks music industry, art, baselines and automation. Check out his stuff at:

        https://mitchellpasmans.bandcamp.com

        Bensplaining is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://benjaminhickey.org/

        1 hr 23 min
      • Ep 2: Queer and Gender Politics with Kay
        https://benjaminhickey.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2-e28093-queer-and-gender-politics-with-kay.mp3

        Welcy Welcy to Episode Two of Bensplaining. I chat to writer and activist Kay Wilde about:

        • Trans rights!

        • Colonialism!
        • Intersectional feminism!
        • TERFS!
        • Gender abolitionists!
        • Marriage equality!
        • Toxic Masculinity!
        • Capitalism’s impact on the LGBTI movement!
        • Relationships!
        • George Christensen!

        And heaps more.

        Here are the legendary trans and non-binary figures Kay mentions:

        • Norrie May-Welby

        • Sylvia Rivera
        • Marsha P. Johnson
        • Juliet Jacques
        • Leslie Feinberg

        Here is Helen Razer’s controversial queer case against Marriage Equality.

        And here is the Ursula Le Guinn quote from The Dispossessed at the end of the episode:

        “Shevek saw that he had touched in these men an impersonal animosity that went very deep. Apparently they, like the tables on the ship, contained a woman, a suppressed, silenced, bestialized woman, a fury in a cage. He had no right to tease them. They knew no relation but possession. They were possessed.”

        Bensplaining is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://benjaminhickey.org/

        1 hr 27 min
      • Ep 1: The Commodification of Time
        https://benjaminhickey.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1-e28093-the-commodification-of-time-with-pat.mp3

         

        Welcy welcy to the first ever episode of my podcast, Bensplaining!

        Listen to me and Pat chat about:

        Time!

        Work!
        Biorhythms!
        Capitalism!
        Idleness!
        Elon Musk!
        Automation!
        Four day weeks!
        Why punctual people are racists!
        Anarchism!

        And heaps more.

        Bensplaining is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://benjaminhickey.org/

        1 hr

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      Each episode, Ben Hickey discusses an idea with special guest who knows more about it than he does but talks just as much as they do anyway.