In Episode 60, we return to our principles and discuss freedom. What is it? Why do we care about it so much? And what does it mean for socialists to have freedom as a spiritual principle?

Part of the Principles Before Personalities series.

Show Notes

New stickers!

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Rosa Luxemburg on freedom

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In Episode 59, we get together with DJ Fraser and Tara McGowan-Ross for the first episode of our new segment, Book Club. This month’s book is ‘After Black Lives Matter’ by Cedric G. Johnson. We were privileged to interview Cedric Johnson a few episodes back, but we wanted to delve even deeper into this masterful and important piece of political thought, which we encourage everyone to read.

If you’d like to follow along for the next episode of Book Club, we will be doing ‘The Ministry for the Future’ by Kim Stanley Robinson!

This is part of the Book Club series.

Show Notes

Freddie deBoer on Jordan Neely: ‘It Only Counts When it Hurts’

‘Capitalist Realism’ by Mark Fisher

Episode 43 with Adolph Reed Jr.

Episode 37 with Touré Reed

‘Toward Freedom’ by Touré Reed

‘Stolen Focus’ by Johann Hari

Surveillance Capitalism (Wikipedia)

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Jay Lesoleil is a writer, artist, and shelter worker from Montréal with a background in political anthropology. Jay is also one half of the podcast Fucking Cancelled.

Clementine Morrigan is a socialist-feminist writer, educator, and public intellectual based in Montréal, Canada. She writes popular and controversial essays about culture, politics, sexuality, and trauma. A passionate believer in independent media, she’s been making zines since the year 2000 and is the author of several books. She’s known for her iconic white-text-on-a-black-background mini-essays on Instagram. One of the leading voices on the Canadian Left and one half of the Fucking Cancelled podcast, Clementine is an outspoken critic of cancel culture and proponent of building solidarity across difference.

In Episode 58, we are joined by writer, musician, political commentator, and punk historian, Jason Myles. Jason is co-host of the popular This is Revolution podcast. We discuss the impact of BLM on the Sanders campaign and the rise of Ibram X. Kendi’s brand of anti-racism. We consider the impact of capitalist realism on hardcore, and what happens when our subcultural and political movements are bought and sold back to us, the topic of Jason’s new mini-book I was a Teenage Anarchist.

Part of the Talking Shit Series.

Show Notes

This is Revolution

I was a Teenage Anarchist

I was a Teenage Anarchist Launch Party: November 18th

Bitterlake

The Man Who Sold the World by Jason Myles

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Talking Shit with Cedric Johnson: After Black Lives Matter

The Unbearable Futility of Whiteness (ft. Jay Lesoleil) on This is Revolution

Black Lives Matter protesters shut down Sanders event in Seattle

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In Episode 57, we are joined by Dr. Cedric G. Johnson, Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to discuss his book After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle. We discuss the origins of modern policing, the classed reality of Black life in the US, and how neoliberalism dooms us all to poverty and catastrophe unless we act -- together -- to stop it. We were so excited to hear Cedric talk about this important book, and we know you will be too.

Part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

After Black Lives Matter by Cedric G. Johnson

Cedric’s Verso author page

Cedric's Instagram

Darren Seals on Youtube

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In Episode 56, we announce that Fucking Cancelled has moved to substack! Please follow us fuckingcancelled.substack.com if you haven’t already, and consider becoming a supporter of the pod for $5 Canadian a month. You’ll get a bunch of bonus content and help keep the podcast alive! After this announcement we discuss Clementine’s attunement model of consent, which she wrote about in her zine, The Forgotten Art of Fucking. This model includes: attunement, shared responsibility, mixed styles of communication, valuing the erotic, and recognizing the inherent risk in sexuality. Clementine offers this model as an alternative to the contractual model of consent that defines consent only as ongoing verbal asking throughout sex.

Part of the Fucking Feelings series.

Show Notes

Consent for people's real sex lives where we don't sound like robots

The Forgotten Art of Fucking

Talking Shit with Zachary Zane: Sex is a Huge Part of My Sexuality

Refusing to be Accountable: Responsibility, Boundaries, Intervention and Punishment

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Jay Lesoleil is a writer, artist, and shelter worker from Montréal with a background in political anthropology. Jay is also one half of the podcast Fucking Cancelled.

Clementine Morrigan is a socialist-feminist writer, educator, and public intellectual based in Montréal, Canada. She writes popular and controversial essays about culture, politics, sexuality, and trauma. A passionate believer in independent media, she’s been making zines since the year 2000 and is the author of several books. She’s known for her iconic white-text-on-a-black-background mini-essays on Instagram. One of the leading voices on the Canadian Left and one half of the Fucking Cancelled podcast, Clementine is an outspoken critic of cancel culture and proponent of building solidarity across difference.

In Episode 55 we have a conversation with Sam Cat of Shrimp Teeth about the intersections of cancel culture and polyamory. Sam Cat is a sexuality, polyamory, and relationship educator out of the United States who has long taken a stance against cancel culture. She discusses the impact cancel culture is having on her clients as they navigate polyamory and try to do it ‘right.’ We talk about conflict, mismatched relationship style preferences, sex negativity, and why cancel culture is bad for polyamory.

Part of the Cancel Club series.

Show Notes

Shrimp Teeth

Canceling Canceling

How Cancel Culture Shows Up In Polyamory

Love Without Emergency

Love Without Emergency 2

Trauma Informed Polyamory

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In Episode 54, we are joined by author and bisexual icon, Zachary Zane, of the book Boyslut. We talk about bisexual men, biphobia, and bisexual audibility. We discuss sexual shame, sexual risk, and the complexities of consent. An unabashedly pro-sex, pro-desire writer, Zachary shines light on what men-who-fuck-men communities can teach the rest of us. This is three thirsty bisexuals talking shit. Absolutely iconic. 

Part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

Boyslut, the book

Boyslut, the zine

Zachary Zane's instagram

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In Episode 53, we are joined by spoken word poet and gay-famous wisdom holder, Andrea Gibson. We discuss living and dying, loving the lives we have, gratitude, and presence. Andrea shares about their experience with cancer, their life as a poet, and what they've learned through it all. We talk about the impact of cancel culture on human beings and we close out by touching on the topic of aliens. This is a beautiful interview. You don't want to miss it.

Part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

Andrea's Instragram

Andrea's Substack: Things That Don't Suck

Andrea's Website

You Better Be Lightning

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In Episode 52, we welcome back friend of the pod Freddie deBoer to discuss his upcoming book How the Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement and why we should take social justice politics seriously. We talk about identity politics and identiarianism, condescending deference, cancel culture, and the right wing reaction to all of this. We find out that when it comes to aliens, Freddie wants to believe.

Part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

How the Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement (Freddie's new book)

Freddie's substack

Freddie's website

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In Episode 51, we discuss Black American English, also known as AAVE, as a way to consider some of the differences between identitarian and identity politics approaches. Black American English is minority dialect in the United States of America. The identitarian approach to protecting Black American English typically involves appropriation discourse and the restriction of who can use Black American English on the basis of racial idenity. We offer another approach, one based in identity politics, which treats Black American English as a minority language deserving of legal protection and recognition. This approach does not restrict who can learn or speak Black American English, but does insist there are correct and incorrect ways to speak it, and, more importantly, focuses on the rights of native Black American English speakers, regardless of racial identity. 

Part of the Identity Crisis series.

Show Notes

Could Black English Mean a Prison Sentence? by John McWhorter: "An upcoming study in the linguistics journal Language found that 27 Philadelphia [court] stenographers, presented with recordings of Black English grammatical patterns, made transcription errors on average in two out of every five sentences, and could accurately paraphrase only one in three sentences."

Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter: Black Like Us

Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter: What Had Happened Was Storytelling

Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter: White Author, Black English. Problem?

Quebec's Charter of the French Language

Aboriginal Language Knowledge and Youth Suicide: "Youth suicide rates effectively dropped to zero in those few communities in which at least half the band members reported a conversational knowledge of their own Native language."

Indigenous Language Organizations and Initiatives

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