Posts Tagged ‘queer’

Episode 104: Social Justice Unionism vs Homophobes for Gay Rights

Posted: June 28, 2015 in Uncategorized
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You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (56mins, 45MB).

On this episode we’re joined by Dr Tim Dymond who speaks about Unionists for Refugees and APHEDA – the Australian Council of Trade Union’s overseas humanitarian aid program.

We also discuss the recent racially-motived terrorist attack in South Carolina and link the language used by the shooter to the racist Reclaim Australia movement in Australia. We also take on Reclaim Australia’s hijacking of progressive causes and their fake “concern” for feminism, animal rights and queer rights – you can share our meme on this (below) on Facebook and Twitter.

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See links above to share this meme around on Facebook and Twitter

Other stuff covered on the episode is: call in culture versus call out culture, who is to blame for animal exploitation?, and we read out a tweet (embedded below) which debunks the idea of being socially progressive but economically conservative.

https://twitter.com/crushingbort/status/463132110006784000

We also promote our very first Progressive Podcast Australia meet up. This will be on Wednesday 8th of July at 6.30pm at the vegan restaurant Smith & Daughters – 175 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne. RSVP by the 3rd of July through the Facebook event page or by emailing us at progressivepodcast@gmail.com.

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Clips:

Mr Grevis ‘The Refugee Song’, Interview with Dr Tim Dymond, The Awful Truth ‘Strikebreakers’, Colour Me Wednesday ‘(I’m Not Coming to Your) BBQ’, Less than Jake ‘Hopeless Case’, Propagandhi ‘The Only Good Fascist Is A Very Dead Fascist’.

You can listen to a short (10 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of our interview with Dr Tim Dymond, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 94: The Joy of Resisting Reclaim Australia Fascists

Posted: April 5, 2015 in Uncategorized
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This placard from the Perth Rally Against Racism was created by @KyeRussell on Twitter. See links below to share it around on Facebook and Twitter.

You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (71mins, 27MB).

Nick is joined by Kathryn Joy for the whole episode and we discuss Reclaim Australia and the Rally Against Racism counter rallies. Reclaim Australia is an anti-Islamic movement with neo-Nazi links. There is an interview with Ray Grenfell, an anarchist activist and host of RTR92.1FM Indymedia, who discusses his experiences at the Melbourne Rally Against Racism and the importance of directly confronting fascists. Kathryn also discusses the Melbourne rally and Nick discusses his experiences at the Perth Rally Against Racism. We also play a couple of speeches from the Perth rally.

Other stuff covered on the episode is: bullshit claims from Reclaim Australia about “Halal funds terrorism” and the “threat” of Sharia Law, Crimethinc and Queer Punx on anti-fascist action, militant anti-fascism and gender, spectacle and protest, diversity of tactics, #ReclaimJeremy, Anarchist Affinity’s guide to being safe and effective against Reclaim Australia, and Indigenous resistance to Reclaim Australia.

You can share around the above pic of the boycott water placard on Facebook and Twitter. Also check out and share around our memes on Reclaim Australia and: Indigenous Australians (Facebook, Twitter), racism (Facebook, Twitter), neo-Nazi links (Facebook, Twitter), apples are Halal (Facebook, Twitter), and oxygen is Halal (Facebook, Twitter). For more on opposing Islamophobia, check out our 70th episode. To hear more from Kathryn, you can listen to her talk on the place of animals in social work, which was played on Team Earthling.

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Clips:

Progressive Podcast Australia ‘Perth Rally Against Racism‘, ZSK ‘Antifascista’ – lyrics in English, Legally Brown ‘The Brown Radio Shock Jock’, Interview with Ray Grenfell, Speaker from RRAN at the Perth Rally Against Racism, Farida Iqbal speaking at the Perth Rally Against Racism, Colour Me Wednesday ‘Purge Your Inner Tory’.

You can listen to a short (9 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of Nick’s interview with Ray Grenfell, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

Episode 90: Vegan, Progressive Comedian Myq Kaplan on Different Flavours of White Men and Being Queer Culturally

Posted: March 12, 2015 in Uncategorized
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Myq Kaplan promoting veganism as part of US Veg Week, http://usvegweek.com/

You can listen to this episode above and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (74mins, 31MB).

Katie is back for this one and we’re joined by one of our favourite comedians Myq Kaplan, who will be performing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He discusses travelling as a vegan, the potential for comedy to promote important political ideas, and aiming for greater diversity in comedy. We encourage people to check out Myq Kaplan’s podcast Hang Out With Me, buy his CDs, follow him on Twitter and like him on Facebook!

Other stuff covered on the episode is: Lindsay McDougall’s article ‘10 Reasons to go Vegan that have Nothing to do with Animal Rights’, Nick’s talk ‘Hybrids or Hummus: Which has the Biggest Impact?’, a new free online vegan starter pack, comedian Judith Lucy’s show ‘Judith Lucy is all Woman’, privilege and police, and there’s plenty of contributions from our dog Charlie.

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Clips:

Myq Kaplan ‘Adam & Eve’ from the album ‘Small, Dork and Handsome’, Good Clean Fun ‘Vegan Revolution Draft Dodger’, Part 1 of our discussion with Myq Kaplan, Myq Kaplan ‘Ducks and Vegetarianism’ from the album ‘Vegan Mild Meld’, Judith Lucy is all Woman ‘Episode 1’, Myq Kaplan ‘Adam & Eve’ from the album ‘Small, Dork and Handsome’, Part 2 of our discussion with Myq Kaplan, Ani Difranco ‘I’m No Heroine’, Myq Kaplan ‘Buddhism, Feminism and Math’ from the album ‘Small, Dork and Handsome’.

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

Episode 89: Laughing Down the Patriarchy

Posted: March 10, 2015 in Uncategorized
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Meme from @NoorIqbal94 – you can look into Aziz Ansari’s comedy here: http://azizansari.com/

You can listen to this episode above. You can subscribe to our podcast on iTunes. You can also listen to this episode on Stitcher, Cyber Ears or download it on Archive.org (61mins, 29MB).

This time Nick is joined by Graeme Bowman, who is performing in the comedy show ‘Patriarchy: Where Would We Be Without You?’ and is co-founder of Wise Women Will Save the World. He discusses the importance of addressing patriarchy and the role of art in bringing about social change. For more about the comedy show on patriarchy, which will be performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, you can see the blog post, Pozible campaign and Youtube channel for it.

We also play some of Jess Ison’s talk from the Institute for Critical Animal Studies Oceania 2014 conference. This talk looks into links between feminism and concern for animals, analysing writers such as Carol Adams, Breeze Harper and pattrice jones. The talk also covers Carol Adams and transphobia (something we also covered in a discussion we had on Team Earthling podcast), as well as queer and pro-sex worker critiques of second-wave feminism. You can listen to the rest of this talk on episode 54 or listen to the complete talk here.

Other stuff covered on the episode is: The Smith Street Band, the possibility of Tony Abbott being replaced as Prime Minister, and Beyond Green’s campaigns against repressive metadata laws.

Update: We discuss some feedback on this episode on episode 95. 

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Clips: Beyoncé ft. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ‘Flawless’, Nick’s interview with Graeme Bowman, The Smith Street Band ‘Surrey Drive’, The Thick of It ‘Good Resignation’, The Thick of It ‘Series 1, Episode 1’, Mad as Hell ‘Series 5, Episode 3’, Austin Powers, Morrissey ‘I’m Not a Man’, Jess Ison’s talk on Animals Australia’s No Way to Treat a Lady campaign, Consolidated ‘The Sexual Politics of Meat’.

You can listen to a short (10 minute) version of this episode, which features a shortened version of Nick’s interview with Graeme Bowman, below. You can subscribe to these short versions of our episodes through Omny.

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