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Episode 140: Gay People Eating Vegan Fast Food at ICAS

Posted: July 7, 2016 in Uncategorized
Tags: "happy" meat, academia, animal liberation, Burger King, homonormativity, ICAS, Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania, intersectionality, Jess Ison, LGBTIQ, non-human animals, pink dollar, pinkwashing, Proud Whopper, queer, queer activism, queer movement, speciesism

Burger King’s “Gay Pride Whopper”, which Jess Ison discusses in her talk that is featured on this episode. Image from mstarsnews.musictimes.com

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Nick is joined by Jess Ison from the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) Oceania for the entire episode and we play Jess’s talk: “Do Gay People Even Eat Fast Food?” Queering animal liberation (animalizing queer?). You can listen to the Q and A following the talk here. This talk is from the most recent ICAS Oceania conference. See the show notes from our 108^th episode for links to listen to all of the talks from this conference.

We start off the episode by discussing the upcoming ICAS Oceania conference, which will be held from Friday September 30 – Saturday October 1 at the University of Canberra. Full details are here – hopefully see you there!

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Clips:

A/S/L? ‘2coins1side’, Jess’s talk: “Do Gay People Even Eat Fast Food?” Queering animal liberation (animalizing queer?), Team Dresch ‘Fagetarian and Dyke’.

You can listen to a short (11 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of our discussion on the upcoming ICAS Oceania conference, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 139: Bregretting the Brexit, featuring Kirsten Bayes

Posted: July 4, 2016 in Uncategorized
Tags: 2016 federal election, Bregret, Brexit, class, immigration, Jeremy Corbyn, Kirsten Bayes, Liberal Democrats, Pauline Hanson, racism, Remain campaign, same-sex marriage plebiscite, UK politics, UKIP

Image from http://www.mopo.de

On this episode we’re joined by anti-war activist Kirsten Bayes from the other side of the road (or perhaps world) to discuss Brexit.

Disgusting to see this racism #Brexit 'Post EU Referendum Racism Documented Online And It’s Really Scary' https://t.co/iTlBUmaKn7?

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) June 27, 2016

To hear more from Kirsten, check out episode 185 of Which Side Podcast and episode 35 of our podcast. Be sure to follow @KirstenBayes and @StopTheArmsFair on Twitter!

Family rifts over Brexit: ‘I can barely look at my parents’ #Brexit https://t.co/WXJMeMmTuz

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) June 28, 2016

We also discuss the (lack of!) election result in the Australian federal election, Linda Burney, Pauline Hanson, Sammy J on privilege and disadvantage, Dio Wang – leader of the Palmer United Party?, and the dangers of the possibly upcoming same-sex marriage plebiscite – check out episode 135 for more on this.

A response to Pauline Hanson's policies:
Wikipedia says it's a religion. A Royal Commission into the wiki sources? pic.twitter.com/t0HdNIGCoQ

— Nazeem Hussain (@nazeem_hussain) July 3, 2016

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Clips:

Smosh ‘Boxman for President’, Interview with Kirsten Bayes, Faithless ‘Don’t Leave’.

https://twitter.com/Ian56789/status/749707572073103361

You can listen to a short (9 minute) version of this episode, which features the end of our discussion with Kirsten, focusing on what people can do to make positive change post-Brexit, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 138: Party Poopers – How We’re Voting

Posted: June 28, 2016 in Uncategorized
Tags: 2016 federal election, Animal Justice Party, Australian Progressives, Australian Sex Party, Drug Law Reform, House of Representatives, intersectionality, Left Q/A Election 2016, preferential voting, same-sex marriage plebiscite, Save the Planet, Senate, Socialist Alliance, The Greens, The Pirate Party, The Sex Party, voting

Image from @traceywithhope on Twitter.

This episode covers how we’re voting *updated list here* in the upcoming election (feel free to contact us with any suggested changes):

Senate:
1. Socialist Alliance
2. Australian Progressives
3. The Greens
4. Australian Sex Party
5. Pirate Party
6. Drug Law Reform

House of Representatives:
1. HODGINS-MAY Steph – The Greens
2. McKENZIE-KIRKBRIGHT Levi – Drug Law Reform
3. VON DOUSSA Henry – Marriage Equality
4. DANBY Michael – Australian Labor Party
5. SMYTH Robert Millen – Animal Justice Party
6. HOLLAND Peter – Independent
7. GUEST Owen – Liberal
8. MYERS John B – Independent

Plebiscite debate would be 'civilized', says the leader of a party that compares LGBTI people to pedophiles and nazis #auspol #ausvotes

— Claire Boland (@ClaireLBoland) June 20, 2016

We start off the episode by discussing our article ‘(Animal Justice) Party Poopers: Why we’re Not Voting for the Animal Justice Party, even though we’re Vegans’.

We also discuss and play some highlights of the event ‘Left Q/A – Election 2016’, featuring candidates from Save the Planet, the Greens and Socialist Alliance, as well as politics professor Robert Manne. You can listen to this entire event here: part one, part two. This event was at The New International Bookshop – Melbourne’s famous radical bookshop. It is located at Trades Hall, 54 Victoria Street, Carlton, Melbourne, 3053.

Image from newinternationalbookshop.org.au

If you’d like to hear more of our coverage of this election, check out episode 136, where we analysed the election from an environmental perspective, and episode 137 where we discussed the election through an anarchist lens. We also covered the same-sex marriage plebiscide, which will go ahead if the Liberal/National Coalition win, on episode 135.

#Brexit was to immigrants in Britain what the plebiscite will be to Australia's #LGBT community. #ausvotes

— Marijo Požega (@MarijoPozega) June 25, 2016

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Clips:

Nine Inch Nails ‘Capital G’, Highlights of the event ‘Left Q/A – Election 2016’ – featuring Phillip Sutton from Save the Planet and Zane Alcorn from Socialist Alliance, Strike Anywhere ‘Chorus of One’.

You can listen to a short (9 minute) version of this episode, which features some highlights from the Left Q/A – Election 2016 event, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 137: Why Vote When They’re All Fucked? Anarchism and Voting

Posted: June 27, 2016 in Uncategorized
Tags: 2016 federal election, anarchism, anarchy, capitalism, direct democracy, elections, elections as theatre, non-violence, politics, representative democracy, The Greens, the state, voting

On this episode, we weigh up the pros and cons of voting, from an anarchist perspective. For our previous episode on this topic, check out episode 36 (part two).

Also covered throughout the episode is: why we’re anarchists, how anarchist ideas have widespread traction in society, elections as theatre, Aotearoa Anarchist Review on the Greens, the state and violence, and Sammy J’s Playground Politics.

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Clips:

The Chaser ‘They’re All Fucked’, Newstopia ‘Episode 1’, Aamer Rahman ‘Why I’m Not Voting’, The Chaser’s Election Desk ‘Episode 2’, Chumbawamba ‘Mr Heseltine Meets His Public’, Scott Ludlam ‘Thanks to You, the Opposition’, Morrissey ‘World Peace is None of Your Business’.

You can listen to a short (10 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of our discussion on anarchy and voting, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

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