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

Posted: June 22, 2018 in Uncategorized
Tags: animal abuse registries, animal cruelty, animals, Eurydice Dixon, gendered violence, homonormativity, Jess Ison, prison abolition, prisons, queer, sex offender registries, sexual assault, state repression, the monster myth, the state, transformative justice

Jess Ison and her dog buddy Gretchen.

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 (67mins, 53MB).

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.

All these #whatabouttehmenz and #notallmen derailers in the wake of the murder of Eurydice Dixon and subsequent victim blaming. Just for the record, I care about the men too, and would really love it if they'd stop assaulting and murdering each other as well.

— Celeste Liddle (@Utopiana) June 19, 2018

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.

I'm now a regular host of @FOSradio and I think the show is really important in giving a voice to #animal advocates and pro-animal voices generally, which are so often left out of other media. Please donate to help the show and @3CR generally going! Nick https://t.co/ioy64Y6AQz

— Progressive Podcast (@ProgPodcast) June 10, 2018

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 ‘2^nd 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 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.

pro tip: if everyone you admire keeps disappointing you with awful sex scandals, try admiring more women.

— Laura Bradley (@lpbradley) November 9, 2017

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

Many of the apples are also rotten. But fixing workplace harassment requires fixing workplaces, generally. https://t.co/Fe0l7Uz2Oh

— Alyx Gorman (@AlyxG) November 30, 2017

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 161: Ideally We’d Care About ALL Victims

Posted: February 1, 2017 in Uncategorized
Tags: Chelsea Manning, consent, consent education, content warnings, crime, Criminology, domestic violence, family violence, feminism, ideal victim, Julian Assange, just world theory, media, Nils Christie, sexual assault, survivors, the monster myth, trigger warnings, Vanessa, victim blaming, victims, victims of crime

Image from: melissahuang.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 (42mins, 33MB).

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.

Image from: http://www.slideshare.net/BaileyParnell/slut-shaming-and-social-media

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 95^th and 96^th 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’.

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

Episode 191: #MeToo – Where To From Here?