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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 Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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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 the protections of Roe v. Wade” leaves significant room for interpretation.

Find our episode with Melissa from last year on mifepristone and the Comstock act, "Statutes of Limitation," here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/statutes-of-w-04-81971897

Read Melissa’s piece in the New Republic, “Joe Biden Is Running on Roe. It’s Not Enough” here: https://newrepublic.com/article/178382/joe-biden-running-roe-its-not-enough

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/

Runtime 1:16:13, 5 February 2024

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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: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/alice-wong-ucsf

Find Alice's call to action here: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/25/n95s4ucsf-call-to-action/

Find our template letter from Abby here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTyI4yLBuOJQR_IgnYVc17GxCbBT2G32QiENnFLq0kZCDmoLy-c23o8eLX_ISNlCMCA6xARBAUkWfqQ/pub

Find Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s template here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JxT8VQbV7ju-xUrKCG6NDeW2scOROyis10wjNg4YnTY/edit

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny (out this week!) here:

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Further reading:

Alice Wong’s most recent column for Teen Vogue: COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-isnt-going-anywhere-masking-up-could-save-my-life

Alice Wong, August 2022 (Disability Visibility Project): My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2022/08/07/my-icu-summer-a-photo-essay/

Alice Wong, 2020 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Oracles and the Coronavirus

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus/

Alice Wong, March 2023 (Teen Vogue): The “Unwinding” of Medicaid Coverage Will Be Difficult for Disabled Americans, Leave More People Uninsured

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/medicaid-coverage-covid

Alice Wong’s 2023 interview with KQED: Alice Wong: I Still Have a Voice

https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601142614/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice

Alice Wong, January 2024 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/disabled-outrage-and-podsavejon/

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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 Pamela Paul, "When Public Health Loses the Public," and a new book by Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time."

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/

Runtime 2:07:35, 29 January 2024

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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, M, G and S. We pray it finds you safely.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/letters-from-gaza

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Pre-order Jules' new book here:

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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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 Israeli officials had in crafting contemporary state definitions of what constitutes “terrorism.”

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Runtime 1:18:26, 22 January 2024

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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 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/

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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 and Matt Yglesias—that promises a bold new vision for US health policy: what if we did universal healthcare, but we intentionally made it really bad?

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Runtime 1:22:26, 15 January 2024

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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/

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As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Referenced in this episode:

— Nu’man Abd al-Wahid, "Pathologising Palestinians to revive eugenic genocide"

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/pathologising-palestinians-to-revive-eugenic-genocide

— Mohammad El-Kurd, "Jewish settlers stole my house. It’s not my fault they’re Jewish."

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/09/jewish-settlers-stole-my-house-its-not-my-fault-theyre-jewish/

— Alice Wong, "Why Palestinian Liberation Is Disability Justice"

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/02/why-palestinian-liberation-is-disability-justice/

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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 the ongoing genocide of Palestine.

For more on Title 42, see our episode on the policy—also with Silky—from 2022 here: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/title-42-w-silky-shah-unlocked

Silky is the executive director of Detention Watch Network. Find more on Detention Watch Network and the resources they have available here: https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/

Preorder Silky's forthcoming book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unbuild-walls

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Runtime 1:26:44, 8 January 2024

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