Posts Tagged ‘queer’

Episode 208: Jockey on Fishing Trip Accused of Animal Cruelty to Stingray – Prisons and Animals

Posted: June 22, 2018 in Uncategorized
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Jess Ison and her dog buddy Gretchen.

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We’re joined by activist and academic Jess Ison who discusses her research challenging the use of prisons and other punitive measures as a way to counter animal abuse. More specifically, she covers: the criminalisation of animal activism; queer people, the state and homonormativity; the new show The Break on Netflix; problems with focusing on individual acts of animal cruelty eg to a stingray, cow or kangaroo, while ignoring more institutionalised cruelty on a much bigger scale; the importance of looking into structural explanations for gendered violence rather than just putting “bad apples” in jail, particularly in light of the recent horrific murder of Eurydice Dixon in Melbourne; sex offender registries; transformative justice; and prison abolition. If you’d like to look further into the issues of prisons and prison abolition, Jess recommends the book Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis.

https://twitter.com/Utopiana/status/1008907410067488769

This episode is replayed from Freedom of Species, an animal advocacy show on 3CR community radio, which Nick now regularly hosts. This show is broadcast live on 855AM in Melbourne 1-2pm every Sunday and if you’re outside of Melbourne you can listen in live 1-2 Melbourne time/AEST on 3cr.org.au – the show is also on iTunes. You can listen to all of the episodes that Nick has been on here.

Jess Ison is a part of The Institute for Critical Animal Studies (Oceania) collective who are organising a discussion forum for animal activists and academics in Melbourne in August. Connect with ICAS Oceania on Facebook, Twitter or sign up for email updates to be notified of the details of this forum once they are announced.

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Clips:

The Broadways ‘2nd Grade Cells’; Goldfinger ‘Iron Fist’; Goldfinger ‘Behind the Mask’ – watch the clip here (content warning for graphic images of animal suffering); Petrol Girls ‘Touch Me Again’.

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

Posted: December 14, 2017 in Uncategorized
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Image from wildgender.com

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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.

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

Check out our 190th 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 190: Reflections on the Yes Campaign from the Coalition Against Marriage

Posted: November 23, 2017 in Uncategorized
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The yes announcement in Sydney. Pic from perthnow.com.au

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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.

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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.

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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

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’.

Episode 176: Leeding Artists

Posted: July 6, 2017 in Uncategorized
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Jack, whose art and music is featured on this episode, at the punk show we saw in Leeds. Follow Jack on Twitter @infogrrrrl

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This episode covers our trip to Leeds, which included visiting an art show, doing an interview with advocates for homeless people, going to a punk show and seeing the LGBT History Month exhibit at Leeds City Museum. You can see some of our photos from Leeds and the rest of our UK trip here.

Katie at Leeds City Museum.

Jack discusses their art piece (below – content warning for mental health issues), zines, mental development, artistic practice and what is art? Check out Jack’s podcast on relationships: How We Connect!

Jack’s art piece *content warning for mental health issues.

Jack’s art piece continued *content warning for mental health issues. Sorry for the blurry pic!

There’s an interview with Haydn Pat from Leeds Homeless Partnership and Leeds Tent City on how to address homelessness in Leeds and beyond. This interview was featured on a Facebook video by Christopher Ellis, which has over 14K views!

Naomi discusses her art piece (below) and challenging whether classic feminist texts are actually feminist.

Naomi’s art piece.

We also discuss identity politics and implicit bias – for more on this, take the Harvard Test and watch this show on SBS.

We mention Nandos cashing in on the queer market. For more on animal exploiting fast food corporations making money off the queer movement, check out Jess Ison’s talk: “Do Gay People Even Eat Fast Food?” Queering animal liberation (animalizing queer?) which we played on episode 140.

We spotted this in Leeds.

We finish the episode by discussing Jack’s involvement with Leeds Survivor Support Group, “ideal victims” and male victims of sexual assault. There is a video on this topic but we will add a content warning for discussion of sexual assault and very frequent use of “the r word”: link for video.

Jack has set up this important group.

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Clips:

Cat Apostrophe ‘Small Things’, Jack on their art work, Interview with Haydn Pat from Leeds Homeless Partnership, Naomi discusses her art piece, Camboys ‘No Timewasters’.

The bands we saw in Leeds – check all of them out on Bandcamp!

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