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Practicing New Worlds w/ Andrea Ritchie (11/16/23) Nov 16, 2023

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Beatrice speaks with Andrea Ritchie about working to build abolitionist futures in the face of rising fascism and unrelenting state violence, resisting the ongoing annihilatory campaign on Gaza, and her new book Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies. Transcript forthcoming. Find Andrea's new book here: https://www.akpress.org/practicing-new-worlds.html And two links Andrea mentions early in the episode: "Stop Gaza Genocide," a public toolkit: https://bit.ly/StopGazaGenocide Another toolkit to find protests and more: https://gazaispalestine.org/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - The Unwinding and the Waning of Pandemic Time (11/13/23) Nov 14, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/92818714 We’ve gotten a lot of requests from patrons for an update on where things stand with the Medicaid “unwinding,” so today Beatrice, Abby and Phil discuss what it means that so far this year over 10 million people have lost their Medicaid coverage, and how it is that—with a full 2/3 of the “unwinding” still to come—politicians have continued to avoid blame and the media has treated it like business as usual. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:28:11, 13 November 2023 🧬

Taking Back the Library w/ Mariame Kaba & Melissa Gira Grant (11/09/23) Nov 09, 2023

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Beatrice and Jules speak with Mariame Kaba and Melissa Gira Grant about the importance of understanding the library as a site of political contestation and a rare expression of the commons in contemporary US life, and how left organizers are fighting back against right wing attacks on public space. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/library-mariame-kaba-melissa-gira-grant Join up with For the People: A Leftist Library Project here: https://www.librariesforthepeople.org/ And find the latest updates here: https://librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/library-solidarity-with-palestine Read Melissa’s piece, “Librarians Didn’t Sign Up to Be Queer Activists—but This Year, They Are” here: https://newrepublic.com/article/175567/librarians-new-queer-front-lines Referenced in this episode: “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” directed by Brett Story (2016) https://www.prisonlandscapes.com/ “The People and the Library: Reflections on Grass-Roots Efforts to Preserve and Expand the Library As a Commons” here: https://justseeds.org/the-people-and-the-library-reflections-on-grass-roots-efforts-to-preserve-and-expand-the-library-as-a-commons/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - Proxy Discourses (11/06/23) Nov 07, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/92418379/ Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the ongoing escalation of violence on the people of Gaza and the many proxy discourses that have kept US media and politicians busy talking about everything except what’s actually happening. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:10:36, 6 November 2023 🧬

Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar Nov 02, 2023

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on November 21st 2022. We are re-releasing it today, alongside a new transcript of the conversation, because in the past few weeks we have found Jasbir’s work tremendously useful in understanding the enormity of what’s happening in Gaza. Episode description: Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about the violent global effects of settler colonialism and how they shape our understanding of what we mean by “disability” and “debility.” We discuss how colonial occupation itself can be understood through a theory of debility, colonial constructions of who is labeled a "terrorist," and some of the most important insights from Jasbir's 2017 book The Right to Maim. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/jasbir-puar-body-politics Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - The Sociology of Mask Mandates w/ Ellie Murray (10/30/23) Oct 31, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/91950097 Beatrice and Abby speak with epidemiologist Ellie Murray about how the many arguments against masking tend to repeat the same set of misunderstandings about how population health works and who health interventions are for. We also discuss why universal masking is so effective, the issues with dropping mask mandates in healthcare settings in particular, and how dynamics within the field of public health left space open for the social production of the ‘end’ of the pandemic. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:44:13, 30 October 2023 🧬

A Death Panel Halloween IV (10/26/23) Oct 27, 2023

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Phil reads an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's 1938 novel "Murphy." Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/73396…l-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - "Failure to Appear" and Housing First w/ Brian Nam-Sonenstein (10/23/23) Oct 24, 2023

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/91515360 Beatrice speaks with Brian Nam-Sonenstein about two recent briefs he wrote for Prison Policy Initiative focused on a few key intersections of housing, disability, incarceration, and the administrative state. The first concerns how "failure to appear" laws add additional layers of criminalization into the court system, and the second concerns Housing First programs. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:27:38, 23 October 2023 🧬

CDC: Release the Draft w/ Jane Thomason (10/19/23) Oct 19, 2023

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Beatrice and Abby speak with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about the latest in an ongoing campaign to stop the CDC from further weakening infection control guidance, how newly revealed documents show the CDC prioritizing employer costs and profits over public health, and how you can help lend pressure to NNU's campaign. Sign onto the letter and sign up to testify here—if you signed on last time, please sign on again!: https://bit.ly/DPNNU2 Our previous episode with Jane can be found in the Death Panel public feed, posted August 17th 2023, or here: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/how-the-cdc-could-further-weaken-infection-control-w-jane-thomason-081723 Transcript forthcoming. Read the newly released meeting notes here: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/cdc-hicpac-work-group Find the webinar Jane mentions here: https://rutgerstraining.sph.rutgers.edu/PreventATD/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Teaser - Refusing Genocide w/ Rasha Abdulhadi (10/16/23) Oct 17, 2023

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Listen to this week's patron episode free in its entirety on our patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/91121697 Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about how to stand in solidarity with Palestinians in this moment, the importance of refusing the idea that the genocide of Palestinians is inevitable, and how the language we use to resist the colonial project can sometimes fail to meet the scale of our demands. Rasha Abdulhadi is a writer, editor, and cultural organizer, and a queer Palestinian Southerner disabled by Long Covid. Find the poem Rasha reads at the top here: https://thedeadlands.com/issue-16/believe-the-graves/ The documentary Rasha recommends in the episode called “Women in Struggle” (2005) can be watched via Solidarity Cinema’s radical film archive: https://www.solidaritycinema.com/ Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:47:00, 16 October 2023 🧬

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