Calm & Furious

This episode is part one of a three part journalistic piece on the Columbia Student Worker Strike in late 2021. On today's show, we'll introduce the Student Workers of Columbia and the union's particularity within the university workplace. Thank you so much to interviewees and committee members Dominic Walker, Manuela Luengas, and Ethan Jacobs — you are a true inspiration.

The Guatemala Civil War:

Timeline: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/latin_america-jan-june11-timeline_03-07

Overview: https://www.thoughtco.com/guatemalan-civil-war-history-and-impact-4800364

US Intervention: https://thepanoptic.co.uk/2016/11/19/american-intervention-guatemala/

The Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala:

https://minorityrights.org/minorities/maya-2/

The Pan-Mayan Movement:

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/pan-mayan-movement-mayans-doorway-new-millennium

A conversation between Shuci and an Amazon Employee taking place at Amazon Spheres. All consensual trolling, no script. Jeffrey Bezos — you did it!

In this Seattle special of Calm & Furious, let us walk into the enthralling world of the anarchist collective Left Bank Books, a rare gem of the emerald city.

This episode of Calm & Furious is the last part of a three-part discussion about cults and social justice. Joined by our brilliant guest Ms. Brosh, we'll talk about the clickbait question, "Is Social Justice a Cult?", and how we can be better at navigating through spirals of radicalization. Make sure to listen to the previous episodes!

P.S. If you're curious, here are the tenets of Flying Spaghetti Monster believers (apparently called pastafarians): https://pastafarians.org.au/tenets/

The Halloween Special. BoO!

Joined by Ms. Brosh, this episode of Calm & Furious is the second part of a three-part discussion about cults and social justice. We'll talk about how cults interact with social constructs like race and gender, and how they can act as an outlet of both progressive values and bigotry, especially in the digital age. In the next episode, which will be the last one on cults, we'll discuss the clickbait question "Is Social Justice a Cult?" and how we can be better at navigating through spirals of radicalization. Make sure to listen to the episode prior to this one to keep up with our flow of conversation!

This episode of Calm & Furious is the first part of a three-part discussion about cults and social justice. Together with the brilliant Ms. Brosh, we'll talk about the individual and collective psychology of cults and the sociopolitical conditions that give rise to cults and belief systems. In the next two episodes, we'll discuss how cults interact with social constructs like race and gender, especially in the digital age, and the clickbait question "Is Social Justice a Cult?" Stay tuned to hear the full conversation!

This is the second part of the analysis of The Great Gatsby in which Riley, Kylie, and I read the quintessential American novel through critical race theory, going deeper in our discussion about whether we should still read The Great Gatsby along with some additional thoughts on the recent Republican CRT ban.

The NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/us/politics/critical-race-theory.html

Joined by lovely friends Riley and Kylie, this episode discusses the quintessential American novel The Great Gatsby through feminist criticism, gender theory, and queer theory, with some additional thoughts about modern queer media representation.