Posts Tagged ‘feminism’

Episode 167: Climate Change? No Kidding!*

Posted: April 18, 2017 in Uncategorized
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Image from The Weather Channel on Youtube

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We start off this episode by discussing child-free women and climate change, drawing on articles by Katie, Linda Yang, Ruby Hamad and Wil Anderson.

Katie was amused by this sign we saw in Edinburgh – you can see more photos from our UK trip here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/progpodcast/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1654962444519419

Ruth Sanderson-Dredge from the Species Barrier podcast and Prevent Unwanted Pets Lincoln also discusses the sexism she faced as a young woman wanting to get a sterilisation. This is a continuation of Katie and Ruth’s discussion on child-free women from episode 166.

One of the puppies we got to hang out with in Lincoln thanks to Ruth’s work rescuing dogs (linked to above) – you can see more photos from our UK trip here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/progpodcast/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1654962444519419

We finish the episode by discussing: child-free/childless women in politics, comedian Myq Kaplan’s new album ‘No Kidding’, Jason Brownlee’s article on US intervention Syria, and the upcoming event in Townsville The Food We Eat: Its impact on environments & bodies – which Nick will be speaking at. For more articles on population recommended by Marcus from the Species Barrier, see here.

This episode is brought to you by “Marky Mark” – thanks to Mark for donating to our Crowdfunding campaign! You can read Mark’s writing about population on newmatilda.com and you can also hear Mark on our podcast, discussing population amongst other environmental issues.

Clips:

Anohni ‘4 Degrees’, Myq Kaplan ‘Money, Drugs and Nicholas Cage’ from the album ‘No Kidding’, Garfunkel and Oates ‘Frozen Lullaby’.

*Title shamelessly stolen from Myq Kaplan’s latest stand-up comedy album ‘No Kidding’, which you can buy here and check out all of his stuff at myqkaplan.com!

Episode 166: Girls Just Don’t Want a Bun (in the Oven)

Posted: March 23, 2017 in Uncategorized
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The message Katie left at the Leeds Museum – you can see more photos from our UK trip here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/progpodcast/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1654962444519419

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This episode features The Species Barrier on child-free women. The discussion covers: the importance of adopting kids, debating the issue not the person, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, anti-natalism and the origin of the “missionary” position.

We also discuss section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, free speech and privilege.

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Clips:

Logic ‘Begging You’, Cyndi Lauper ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fun’, Mistro ‘Your Lullaby’.

Episode 163: Taking on the Trump Administration – Beware the Alternative Fa(s)c(is)ts

Posted: February 3, 2017 in Uncategorized
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Image from the US Holocaust Museum, posted by @alt_doj on Twitter.

Sound familiar? Image from the US Holocaust Museum, posted by @alt_doj on Twitter.

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On this episode we cover the Trump shitstorm, with the help of Jen, who has lived most of her life in the US and is currently completing a doctorate in German and gender studies.

More specifically, we cover Trump and fascism, alternative facts, the Muslim ban and inspiring protests against it, and critiques of white feminism.

For more coverage of Trump, check out our recent Facebook posts and particularly tweets.

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Clips:

Hurray for the Riff Raff ‘Rican Beach’, Sam Cooke ‘A Change is Gonna Come’.

 

Episode 161: Ideally We’d Care About ALL Victims

Posted: February 1, 2017 in Uncategorized
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Image from: melissahuang.com

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This time Nick is joined by Vanessa, a forensic psychology doctoral student and one of the hosts of VeganSci podcast. We discuss some of the content we taught in a Criminology unit on victims of crime, focusing on Nils Christie’s ideal victim concept and how it can help in understanding how the legal system, media and community respond to victims of crime. We also discuss: the monster myth, just world theory and what we can to do challenge victim blaming.

Nick also covers content warnings and free speech, as well as Julian Assange breaking his pledge to travel to the United States if whistleblower Chelsea Manning was pardoned.

If you’d like to hear more discussion on similar issues to those covered on this episode, check out our 95th and 96th episodes (featuring Kathryn Joy and Katie). You can also hear more from Vanessa on episode 159 – discussing animal activism and her experiences working in prisons. Please help Vanessa out by completing a survey for her doctoral research on investigative journalism!

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Clips:

The Smith Street band ‘Why I Can’t Draw’, Tea Consent video, Australian government advertisement challenging violence against women, War on Women ‘Say it’.

Episode 155: Musicians Doin’ It for the Cause

Posted: December 22, 2016 in Uncategorized
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Melbourne band Camp Cope. Photo by Matt Warrell, from abc.net.au

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On this episode, which marks 5 years of the podcast and the launch of our crowdfunding campaign, the main theme is political music. We discuss Camp Cope and their feminist message in their lyrics and beyond.

We also discuss Akala, hip hop and Shakespeare.

Other stuff covered throughout the episode is: homophobic actors, Katie’s reviews on Happy Cow, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Star Wars Rogue One and further discussion on why reverse “sexism” is BS.

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Clips:

Akala ‘Comedy, Tragedy, History’, Extras ‘Season 2, Episode 5’, NOFX ‘The Cause’, Camp Cope ‘Jet Fuel Can’t Melt Steel Beams’.

You can listen to a short (7 minute) version of this episode, which features us discussing our Crowd Funding campaign, here: Support us to put out 50 Episodes in 2017. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 153: Anarchism, Animal Liberation and a Little Bit of Misandry

Posted: December 17, 2016 in Uncategorized
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Lara Drew (left), Jess Ison (centre) and Nick Pendergrast (right). Photo thanks to Leigh-Chantelle: http://www.leigh-chantelle.com/

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This episode features part two and three of a panel discussion on anarchism and animal liberation, featuring Jess Ison, Lara Drew and Nick. You can hear part one of this talk on episode 152 – this episode also has links to all of the talks from the 2016 Institute for Critical Animal Studies conference, where this panel was recorded.

During the panel, Nick discusses the book Free Women Of Spain: Anarchism And The Struggle For The Emancipation Of Women and his article with Dr Theresa Petray on Indigenous and animal activism – you can listen to a talk on this here: Experimental Utopias and Social Change – Examples from Australian Non-Hegemonic Activism.

The episode also includes a little bit of Dinesh Wadiwel’s talk from the Queer Animalities panel discussion, also featuring Jess Ison and Javed.

At the end of the episode there is a brief discussion on the importance of prioritising women’s voices, which can lead to accusations of reverse “sexism”.

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Clips:

Frenzal Rhomb ‘Guns Don’t Kill Ducklings (Ducklings Kill Ducklings)’; Part 2 of Panel discussion on anarchism and animal liberation, featuring Jess Ison, Lara Drew and Nick: Why does Anarchism and Animal Liberation need to be considered?; Dinesh Wadiwel’s talk from the Queer Animalities panel discussion; Part 3 of Panel discussion on anarchism and animal liberation, featuring Jess Ison, Lara Drew and Nick: What does Animal Liberation and Anarchism look like in practice?; Daryl Hall & John Oates ‘Maneater’.

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Photo thanks to Leigh-Chantelle: http://www.leigh-chantelle.com/

You can listen to a short (10 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of the anarchism and animal liberation panel, here: Anarchism and Animal Liberation in Practice. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 149: So America Screwed the World…What Now?

Posted: November 14, 2016 in Uncategorized
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Image from @ozcjr on Twitter.

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Sick of hearing about President Trump? Us too…so here is some more Trump coverage! We discuss the election result and the importance of the Left moving beyond ‘progressivism of the rich’.

To analyse the election and the fall-out, we draw on Naomi Klein, Thomas Frank, Bernie Sanders and Russell Brand.

There’s a discussion of left-wing critiques of identity politics and an anarchist defence of identity politics – thanks to Rebecca from Anarchist Affinity. For more on identity politics, check out our 117th episode.

There’s also a breakdown of who voted for which party based on race, income etc.

For more of our coverage of the election, check out our recent posts on Facebook and Twitter.

Clips:

Morrissey ‘America is not the World’, Lazertits ‘Boss Bitch’, South Park ‘Kumbaya My Lord’, Russell Brand The Trews ‘Trump. Right. Okay, the world’s gone nuts (E372)’, B. Dolan ‘Which Side Are You On?’ – for more versions of this classic song, check out Which Side podcast.

You can listen to a short (11 minute) version of this episode, which features our discussion on Trump and class, here: Who Are These People Who Voted for Trump?. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

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