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Interdependent Study
By Interdependent StudySociety & Culture
Interdependent Study episodes
- 2025 Year in Review
It is almost time to close out 2025 which means it’s time for our final episode of the year! Listen as Aaron and Damien reflect on the past year of our podcast, and each share our top 5 moments from the show. Thank you so much for listening to Interdependent Study! We’ll see you in 2026!
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28 min - Uranium Mining, Disposability, and Death
The harmful impact of environmental racism and nuclear colonialism on the health and well-being of Navajo miners and Indigenous communities cannot be overstated. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “They Worked Underground in the Uranium Mines. They’ve Been Surrounded by Death Ever Since.” by Sarah Lazare in In These Times, which shares the story and health struggles of a former Navajo uranium miner as a case study for analyzing the federal government’s efforts to disproportionately build the dangerous uranium mining industry on Navajo lands, which negatively impact the health and well-being of Indigenous communities, as well as the federal government’s work to modernize the industry to expand its nuclear arsenal, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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20 min - The Radical Practice of Friendship
There is so much potential in the power of friendship in our personal lives and in our movement work for social justice and collective liberation. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities by Laura C. Forster and Joel White (and published by Pluto Press), which explores and analyzes the concept and utility of friendship as a political and radical practice in community building, solidarity, resistance, and social change, and what we learn and take away from this incredible book in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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22 min - Weaving Abolitionist Principles
It is important to mobilize people who are already organizing for and around a variety of issues and harness their energy into the work of prison abolition organizing. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the fourth piece in a six-part series titled “Abolitionist Lessons from the Prison Belt” in Inquest called “Organizing the Already Mobilized”, which features a conversation between Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Judah Schept, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Craig Gilmore about the importance of building a coalition of non-abolitionist organizers and bringing them into prison abolition work through political education, collective analysis, and solidarity to strengthen the fight for prison abolition, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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23 min - Cross Movement Solidarity Against Fascism
We need solidarity across our movements and organizing work in the fight against fascism and authoritarianism and for our collective liberation. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss two pieces in The Forge, including “The Climate Movement Must Be A Movement Against Fascism” by Aru Shiney-Ajay and “Solidarity is the Solution” by Jeremiah Smith, which highlight the connectedness in our struggles for housing justice and environmental justice as well as the importance of and necessity for solidarity across all of our organizing and movements, and what we learn and take away from these incredible pieces in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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22 min - Alabama's Depraved Prisons w/ Dakarai Larriett
The state prison system in Alabama is one of the deadliest in the nation and a case study for the need for abolition. Listen as Aaron and Damien AND special guest Dakarai Larriett discuss the documentary “The Alabama Solution” (directed by Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman), which exposes and chronicles the widespread corruption, brutality, and inhumane conditions present throughout Alabama’s state prison system from the first-hand perspective of inmates and incarcerated organizers, as well as their activism and fight for progress and change within the system, and what we learn and take away from this incredible documentary in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. A huge thank you to Dakarai Larriett (https://dakarailarriett.com/) for joining us in this conversation!
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31 min - The People's Streets
The Trump administration’s deployment and use of the National Guard and federalization of local law enforcement is a dangerous tactic with a potentially significant long-term impact moving forward. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss a piece in Hammer & Hope titled “Whose Streets? Trump’s Federalized National Guard and the Long Arc of White Supremacy”, which features a conversation between Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Elizabeth Hinton about the dangers and impact of the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard and federalization of local law enforcement, as well as the connection of those actions to history, policy, white supremacy, and social justice organizing, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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26 min - Listen When Things Fall Apart
There is so much we can all learn from seasoned activists, scholars, and organizers as we continue to fight for social justice and collective liberation during these challenging times. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, edited by Kelly Hayes (and published by AK Press), which is a compilation of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines of social movement work offering wisdom, history, personal anecdotes, and practical advice for navigating fascism, social ills, loss, and the challenging times we face, and what we learn and take away from this incredible book in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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30 min - Prisons Are Not Inevitable
An important outcome of prison abolition organizing is to help address the political economic geography of unfreedom. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the third piece in a six-part series titled “Abolitionist Lessons from the Prison Belt” in Inquest called “Custody and Power”, which features a conversation between Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Judah Schept, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Craig Gilmore about the legal, structural, and financial mechanisms through which the carceral state organizes itself to imprison people, as well as the impact of formal and informal spheres of local and regional power on the prison industrial system, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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25 min - Unlearning for Collective Liberation
The key to unlearning lies in community, and we must embrace unlearning as a collective practice in order to fight for collective liberation. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Radical Unlearning: The Art and Science of Creating Change from Within by Lewis Raven Wallace (and published by Beacon Press), which explores and analyzes the concepts of radical unlearning and neuropsychology, as well as many of the possible pathways to free ourselves of dangerous and supremacist ways of thinking and being as individuals and collectively, and what we learn and take away from this incredible book in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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About Interdependent Study
From the publisher's feed
Class is in session. Interdependent Study is about the learning and unlearning work for social justice and collective liberation.
Interdependent Study is hosted by Damien Franze, an angry Black man from Baltimore who wears his heart on his sleeve, and Aaron Hood, an angry white man from Florida who is always thinking. We’re two friends who work in education and share a commitment to social justice.
We believe that we are always learning; always arriving. People constantly learn and unlearn by reflecting on their experiences. Interdependent Study is designed to be a community for this work.
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