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Episode 193: Summer Plovin’ and Other Tales From Under the Marriage Equality Bus

Posted: December 14, 2017 in Uncategorized
Tags: commitment ceremony, consensual non-monogamy, Kyna Reddan, marriage, marriage equality, marriage postal survey, monogamy, pansexual, polyamory, queer, queer critiques of same-sex marriage, relationship anarchy, same-sex marriage

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On this episode Nick is joined by Kyna Reddan aka “The Poly Guru” to discuss same-sex marriage becoming legal in Australia and the marriage equality campaign. We also cover different forms of consensual non-monogamy, including polyamory and relationship anarchy. This discussion continues on our next episode #194.

Abigail Michell: 'To the rich, white, cis gendered, attractive, able bodied, gender normative, monogamous marriage equality campaign : can we come out from under the bus yet?' https://t.co/cFZmF7QyrH

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) December 14, 2017

Other topics discussed on this episode include: critiques of marriage, alternative commitment ceremonies and pansexuality.

Lisa Duggan: ‘The critique of marriage I support is NOT a criticism of folks who decide to marry, given the current legal realities’.

It's more about challenging the unfair system: pic.twitter.com/i6h0kfqJhV

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) December 14, 2017

Check out our 190^th episode for more on same-sex marriage and the marriage equality campaign.

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Clips:

Petrol Girls ‘Phallocentric’, Miranda Lambert ‘Guilty In Here’, Alex the Astronaut ‘Not Worth Hiding’.

Episode 192: Fasting for Freedom and an End to Speciesism

Posted: December 4, 2017 in Uncategorized
Tags: activist media, anarchism, animal activism, animal liberation, Animal Liberation Victoria, Diamond Valley Pork, Fast for Freedom, ICAS 2016, Patty Mark, pig truth, pigs, speciesism, Sy Woon, veterinary industry, vets

Patty Mark with James Aspey and other animal activists.

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This episode features Patty Mark from Animal Liberation Victoria on the 5 Day Fast and Justice Camp happening outside Diamond Valley Pork in Melbourne right now.

Some of my pics from the 5 Day Slaughterhouse Fast and Justice Camp – seeing these pigs being driven to slaughter so close up made this issue very real – most people rarely come into contact with these animals. More pics: https://t.co/8BV43FGSxC pic.twitter.com/ADG2Kr61TD

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) December 4, 2017

There’s also a talk from veterinarian Dr Sy Woon from Sentient on ‘Speciesism – and Inherent Barriers to Ethical Changes and Animal Advocacy – in the Veterinary Industry’. This talk is from the 2016 Institute for Critical Animal Studies (Oceania) conference. See the notes from episode 152 for links to all of the talks from this conference, you can also see episode 179 for the same for the 2017 conference.

Sy Woon.

Also mentioned throughout the episode is: the importance of activist media (check out the radio show Indymedia – whole episodes, individual interviews – for another example of this kind of media), anarchism and animal liberation (for more on this, you can listen to the panel discussion on this topic featuring Nick and others here or on episodes 152 and 153), and the Animal Activists Forum (which we discussed on episodes 187 and 188).

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Clips:

Local Resident Failure ‘The Funeral’, Patty Mark on the 5 Day Fast and Justice Camp, Dr Sy Woon ‘Speciesism – and Inherent Barriers to Ethical Changes and Animal Advocacy – in the Veterinary Industry’, Abolicion ‘Save Me’.

Episode 191: #MeToo – Where To From Here?

Posted: December 2, 2017 in Uncategorized
Tags: Alyx Gorman, cultural change, domestic violence, family violence, feminism, gender, gender norms, gendered violence, Helen Razer, JK Rowling, Kesha, liberal feminism, male privilege, Marxism, Marxist feminism, me too, patriarchy, sexism, sexual assault, sexual harassment

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On this episode we give our take on the #metoo campaign and get onto a number of other related issues, such as gender and domestic violence.

https://twitter.com/lpbradley/status/928718999222972416

We also discuss some solutions to the issues highlighted by the #metoo campaign, including bringing in Marxist perspectives from Alyx Gorman and Helen Razer from the event ‘On Your Marx’.

Some interesting points on the #MeToo campaign from @AlyxG at On Your #Marx @wheelercentre last night.
Mentioned the campaign tends to frame the issue as a case of individual bad apples but it's not a case of rotten apples, the whole apple cart is rotten (it's a structural issue)

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) November 30, 2017

https://twitter.com/AlyxG/status/936055266675535872

Other stuff covered on the episode is ‘Harry Potter fan gets blocked by J.K. Rowling after asking Johnny Depp question‘ and the wage penalty for motherhood but the opposite for fathers.

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…@HelenRazer also pointed out that the dominant solutions coming out of the #MeToo movement are very much within (and reinforce) capitalism eg the need for more female CEOs. Ignoring the fact that capitalism & class play a role in this issue eg the precarious employment example

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) November 30, 2017

Clips:

War on Women ‘Broken Record’, Michigan Democrat says vote for her because she has no penis, #MeToo: What’s next? – The Feed, Kesha ‘Praying’.

Episode 190: Reflections on the Yes Campaign from the Coalition Against Marriage

Posted: November 23, 2017 in Uncategorized
Tags: Carrie Hou, marriage, marriage equality, marriage postal survey, queer, queer activism, queer critiques of same-sex marriage, queer movement, queerphobia, same-sex marriage, same-sex marriage plebiscite, Western Sydney

The yes announcement in Sydney. Pic from perthnow.com.au

On this episode we discuss the Australian public voting yes to same-sex marriage in the recent postal vote. We play a talk from the yes announcement event in Melbourne, by someone from the union movement. You can listen to our recording of more of the talks from this event here.

We also analyse the high no vote in Western Sydney, drawing on a Facebook post from Carrie Hou.

https://twitter.com/JoelRDodd/status/931327673695068160

We also discuss some critiques of the yes campaign and of same-sex marriage in general from within the queer movement. For more on this, check out the articles ‘Marriage equality: yes, it’s about gender’ by Amy Thomas and Hannah McCann and ‘Queers against gay marriage: What to do in this postal vote?’ by Jess Ison. We also did a whole episode (#55) on this topic featuring Jess Ison and returned to this topic with Jess at the end of episode 135.

'Should same-sex marriage be approved, the fear among radical queers is that it would become the gold standard for same-sex relationships and other relationship styles would be regarded as less worthy.' https://t.co/53jar2U9KW

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) November 10, 2017

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We’re not sure if Australia should get too much credit for being a country where only about 6 in 10 people are not blatantly homophobic! Image from 9news.com.au

I'm taking a break. Been telling other people to & ignoring my own signs. Look after yourselves & everyone around you, much love ❤️🏳️‍🌈 pic.twitter.com/2c7Jygne3t

— Pauline Pantsdown (@PPantsdown) September 27, 2017

Clips:

Pop Blast ‘Sydney, Australia Reacts To Gay Marriage “YES” Ruling’, Talk from the yes announcement event in Melbourne by someone from the union movement, The Feed ‘Quick History of Same sex marriage’, Myq Kaplan ‘Tolerance and Vampires’ – from the album ‘Vegan Mind Meld’, Onsind ‘Heterosexuality is a social construct’.

The claimed "silent majority" predictably turned out to be a "vocal minority" of homophobics. We pissed away $112m establishing what polling told us already.#marriageEquality #ausPol

— Nathan Lee (@NathanLee) November 15, 2017

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