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Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes explore their own organization's capacity for converting alt-right types; while Josiah, a former alt-right type, explains his discovery that the hard-right is just as steeped in liberalism as the left.

Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell discuss the continuity of our current transgender moment with the pattern of origin stories found in the ancient myths—and how the Genesis narrative serves as a polemic against the anthropology of primal androgyny.

Live Q&A Scheduled for May 31 at 2pm: https://youtu.be/DvfjhuShVVA

Ask a Question on Discord to jump to the front of the line (note that more details of asking via Discord are available in the announcements channel of Discord): https://discord.gg/yhSP39YbMP

Androgyne essay: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315641300-1/image-androgyne-nineteenth-century-busst

This is the end of Gender—Ivan Illich's book, that is. Join as Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell wrap up with Illich's best chapter yet, including a critique of capitalism and how to build a gendered world.

Holy Spime blocks! Today, Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell venture further into Illich's gendered domains, exploring an older world of gendered tools and spaces, and musing on how these worlds manifest (or don't) today.

Are today's traditional gender roles really traditional? In this episode, Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell discuss Illich's description of the gendered world of pre-modernity and why stay-at-home moms are as lonely as ever.

The regime of sex, the reign of gender, a cynical take on capitalism and sexism, and shadow work of the 1950's house wife's... join in for all this and more as Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell discuss chapters 1 & 2 of Ivan Illich's provocative text, "Gender." 

If you're late to the game, catch up on the reading with the pdf link here:  https://debate.uvm.edu/asnider/Ivan_Illich/Ivan_Illich_Gender.pdf Or buy the book (unfortunately the publisher links to Amazon: https://amzn.to/3OgDlgl ) 

Ch. 3 is next!

Blessed Easter to you! No long podcast in honor of this great solemnity, but we'd like to invite you to join our second "Politics of Gender Book Club." Follow along by reading the first three chapters of "Gender" by Ivan Illich (buy the book [https://amzn.to/3OgDlgl], or you might be able to find the pdf online [https://debate.uvm.edu/asnider/Ivan_Illich/Ivan_Illich_Gender.pdf]).

Thomas doesn't comment on modern gender theory—directly. But in this podcast, Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell explore how Thomas' notion of "human law" (combined with the brilliant insight of Ivan Illych on modern gender) help us grasp how our primordial task to image God as creative "world-builders" manifests the realm of gender.

Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell return for more gender trouble—but this time, gender trouble for the liberal project. The goal is to make all genders equal and free before the law, so we begin with liberalism’s first task: the creation of an equal legal definition.

New Polity is very excited to announce the opening of its Make Shop in Steubenville—a place where locals can get access to productive property, learn new skills, and receive business support in selling what they make. Mike Sullivan, local contractor and former president of Catholics United for the Faith, sits down with Jacob Imam to discuss the shop as well as a few ideas about work and ownership.