Fucking Cancelled

In Episode 65, Jay and Clementine discuss We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown. We discuss the context this book enters into, the courage it took to write it, the response the book received, and how this work significantly differs from our own thinking on cancel culture and identitarianism.

This is part of the Book Club series.

Show Notes

We Will …

In Episode 64, we are joined by writer, organizer, and Chapo Trap House co-host, Amber A’Lee Frost to discuss her new book, Dirtbag. We talk about socialist memoirs, Occupy, the Bernie Sanders campaigns, the necessity of organized labour, and how to deal with wreckers.

This is part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

Amber’s new book, Dirtbag

Chapo Trap House

The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson

I Tried to be a Communist by Richard Wright

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In Episode 63, we get together with DJ Fraser and Tara McGowan-Ross for the second episode of Book Club. This month’s book was The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, a brutal (and hopeful) near-future 'climate-fiction’ novel published in 2020.

We’ll announce the next Book Club book shortly!

This is part of the Book Club series.

Show Notes

The Ministry for the Future

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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.

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In Episode 62, we are joined by London, Uk based writer, Katherine Angel, author of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again. We discuss the affirmative consent model, the expectation that women should “know what they want”, and how this framework holds desire hostage to violence and misunderstands the emergent nature of desire. We discuss heterosexuality, gender roles, context based desire, and the looming threat of sexual violence in women’s sex lives.

Part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

Katherine’s substack

Katherine’s instagram

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

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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 writer and public intellectual based in Montréal, Canada. She writes popular and controversial essays about culture, politics, ethics, relationships, 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 a proponent of building solidarity across difference. She is a socialist, a feminist, and a vegan for the animals and the earth.

In Episode 61 we’re joined by friend of the pod Joey Santore of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t podcast. We talk about how being in tune with the ecosystems you live in can be a deeply rewarding experience for the poor alienated souls of late capitalism and how to get started if you want to learn about basic botany. We also talk about the similarities between botany and history — and how much we hate lawns and parking lots.

Part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t main website

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t podcast on Spotify

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t on Youtube

The Kill Your Lawn TV show

How to kill your lawn

iNaturalist

Joey interviewing Jay on Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t

Jay’s promo episode about Namibia

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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 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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Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora.

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.