Podcasts about force majeur

This week, Josh and Drusilla are joined by a very special guest: Matt Landsman, manager of the newly re-opened Vista's Video Archives Club and Programmer at Be Kind Video. The episode is focused on 1968's Spirits of the Dead. From wiki: “Spirits of the Dead (French: Histoires extraordinaires, lit. 'Extraordinary Tales', Italian: Tre passi nel delirio, lit. 'Three Steps to Delirium'), also known as Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Tales of Mystery,[8] is a 1968 horror anthology film comprising three segments respectively directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini, based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe. A French-Italian international co-production, the film's French title is derived from a 1856 collection of Poe's short stories translated by French poet Charles Baudelaire; the English titles Spirits of the Dead and Tales of Mystery and Imagination are respectively taken from an 1827 poem by Poe and a 1902 British collection of his stories.But they also discuss Bulldog Drummond, Quentin Tarantino, micro cinemas, VHS, Tales from the Darkside, Monster Squad, Sleepaway Camp, Blood Beach, Fright Night, Creepshow, Jill Schoelen, The Peoples' Joker, The Pit, The Gate, Troll, Ghoulies, Critters, Speak No Evil, Force Majeur, Bad Boy Bubby, the love of Terrence Stamp and Jane Fonda, and more! NEXT WEEK: Inside (2007) Follow them across the internet:Matt Landsman:https://twitter.com/MattLandsmanhttps://twitter.com/archivesclubhttps://twitter.com/bekindvideo Bloodhaus:https://www.bloodhauspod.com/https://twitter.com/BloodhausPodhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/Drusilla Adeline:https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/Joshua Conkelhttps://www.joshuaconkel.com/https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/ 

Force Majeur is so convoluted, Dan watched it twice. The last minute of Thin White Line had Dr. Redmond almost in tears.

Le cas de force majeur n'existe plus dans le code du tourisme depuis sa révision en 2018. Il a été remplacé par des circonstances exceptionnelles et inévitable. Ça change tout. Avec Chloé, nous vous donnons quelques informations et conseils sur le sujet. Vous avez des Questions, remarques ou suggestion d'invités. Envoyez moi un mail à podcastxperientiel@gmail.com. Pour plus d'informations sur Francois Huet: https://francoishuet.net

The food crisis is here. The EU’s agricultural ministers held an emergency meeting, and are set to activate a “Food Crisis Contingency Mechanism” in anticipation of the shortages resulting from the blocked 40% of global wheat exports that are no longer flowing from Ukraine/Russia. S. Korea’s animal feed producers are preparing to declare force majeur, […]

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde analyzed last week's cyberattack on four major ports in South Africa, and what that has to do with the ongoing global shortage of semiconductor chips.Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com. You can also get in touch on LinkedIn, Twitter, the Clubhouse app (@bid), and the Wisdom app (@bidemi).Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

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Le français Gaspard Augé, moitié du duo Justice, qui sort son premier single solo « Force Majeur »

From legal, financial, charters, infection protection, this episode has a wonderful line up of guests as Kitty attends the very unique experience (this year!) at the Steelpointe Yacht & Charter Show at Bridgeport Harbor Marina With guests: - Christopher Anderson, Robert Allen Law to discuss superyacht transactions, the current market and what impact "Force Majeur" has actually has had. - Robert Christoph, Bridgeport Harbor Marina about the many developments and preparations for this marina, making this unique event possible, and the great positive extensions for the community surrounding. - Pat Kennedy, Director of Infection Protection with Ryan Medical, explaining about the use of UVC light robots, and the application of these very effective sterilizing units for not just operating rooms, but also in creating a safe environments for events, and within our industry, superyachts. - Lauren Key, Vice President, Shore Premier Finance discusses the financial and investment developments within the marine division this year. - Dhardra Blake, Luxury Day Charters, tells about the very positive charter season seen this season in the U.S., a great experience of their yacht show excursion, and some enticing delicacies with oysters! #boatshow #yachtshow #yachting

Miguel Angel Serra, Partner at Albors Galiano Portales, lawyer specialised in the superyacht industry for over 20 years, joins us this week to help clarify the “Plan for the transition to a new normal” (PTNN) here in Spain and what the government's announcement means for the yachting industry, and a greater undestanding of the term "Force Majeur¨and how it is applicable only in some parts of the world.

Downhill is an American version of a popular Swedish festival hit comedy, Force Majeur starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell.

My guest this week is the incredible film maker, speaker & activist Kelli Jean Drinkwater, and she has a huge fire in her belly about how fat people are represented onstage! Fat people have been virtually invisible in the creative arts, but Kelli Jean’s mission is to bring them into the limelight! In order to combat weight stigma and create a world in which all bodies belong, it is VITAL that fat people are represented in the creative arts. And not just as a boring STEREOTYPE, but as fully rounded, amazing, positive and UNAPOLOGETIC humans! Join me for a fantastic conversation as Kelli Jean & I unpack how things are changing in the industry & what still needs to be challenged. And hear all about Kelli Jeans’ simply INCREDIBLE projects! This is a fabulous & inspiring episode from an artist who professionally BLOWS PEOPLE’S MINDS!     Shownotes   My guest is Sydney based film maker, speaker and activist Kelli Jean Drinkwater, who is totally fired up about fat representation in the media. Louise talks about how she & Kelli Jean first met several years ago on the set of Insight, a tv program in which there was an ‘ambush’ of fat activists and Kelli Jean was in the front line of host Jenny Brockie’s fatphobia. Her anger acts as fuel to change how fat people are being represented. We can get fired up in 2 ways, because although on one hand representation and casting of fat characters are getting better, there’s still a long way to go! There’s been a recent spate of films and tv shows especially in the USA which feature fat narratives, but they are still centred around cis gendered, white, heterosexual perspectives, and also the smaller side of fat people being cast. We have stories like Shrill, where the character is fat and staying fat, and Dietland, adapted from the amazing novel by Sarai Walker, where it’s still very good & fat positive but still some decisions made in that process which reflect weight bias. Like in both Shrill & in Dietland the main fat characters had love interests or sexual partners that were just awful men! In Shrill, her love interest feels ashamed of her and makes her leave out of the back door. She’s meant to be this onto it fat woman and wh???? So eventually he comes around and says ok meet my friends, and she doesn’t dump him. And in Dietland the main character is a virgin, and rather than having a good experience she has this awful experience with a fetishist and a feeder who then rapes her. And it’s like - “ok, so that’s the kind of sex we’re going to see?” It could be done differently, and that’s frustrating. And then there’s the movie “Dumplin”, which Louise liked, she never saw anything like that when she was growing up. And it’s lovely to see the thin character (the mum, Jennifer Aniston), as the one always dieting, miserable and insecure. There’s some great characters in this - the fat auntie, who is always supportive of her. But then the aunt dies, and we’re not told why but it’s implied it’s because she was fat!? The love interest in Dumplin was great, he’s the hot guy and he is also lovely, he has no qualms about being attracted to her, and they just get together and it’s all ok. This is a narrative we need to see. Love is possible no matter what you look like. The hot guy can want to be with the fat girl. Kelli Jean related to her love of Dolly Parton, and the camp friends! Also the swimsuit scene at the end - they were in swing dresses and not bikinis??? There are things like that that we’re still not seeing, and Kelli Jean is keen as a film maker to push things further, to include more inclusivity and positivity to fat characters. Having a fat character in a story is not good enough, we need to see it handled properly. Kelli Jean’s first documentary was Aquaporko, all about the fat women’s synchronised swimming team that she started. The women are all extremely smiley, and they’re all in fantastic swim hats - which she got online from Esther Williams. Kelli Jean loved the beach and has always loved swimming and being in the water. But for years she did not go to the beach or swimming because of how she felt about her body. It’s such a basic thing, to swim and be in water, but for fat people this can be fraught. Aquaporko is a beautiful, fun, unapologetic and confronting story of fat people being in their bodies and loving it. And also of being in public, and taking up space. It was an important and transformative film for the people who were involved. That’s why she did Aquaporko, she did not want other people to not do things they love for years and years. The film came about after Kelli Jean got some friends together and at a Sydney public pool they taught themselves synchronised swimming, just for laughs. There was no agenda, but people would clap us when we got out of the pool. It got some traction and media attention, a chapter started in Brisbane & in Melbourne. The Melbourne team practised & became quite good. It got to the point where they were going to do a performance at the pool, Kelli Jean thought - well, I am a film maker, and so the film was born! It premiered at the Mardi Gras film festival in Sydney, and everyone loved it. It won the audience award. It’s colourful, it’s different, it’s a bit camp, it’s just very joyful. It’s shown in 47 countries now as part of different film festivals. It still gets requests to screen. Now Kelli Jean has made a feature film, Nothing to Lose, this also gets attention, but Aquaporko is just loved. Nothing to lose is Kelli Jean’s first feature film. She co-directed it, without funding. It’s the story - in 2013 she was approached by Kate Champion, a very well known choreographer and theatre director for Force Majeur. She wanted to a dance theatre production exploring the fat dancing body, body politics and explore why this is such a taboo subject. In clubs, Kate’s eye was always drawn to bigger people dancing. Realising that she is a very slim, trained dancer, Kate realised she needed to collaborate with a fat artist who understands not just the performance but also the politics. Kelli Jean was the perfect choice! Kelli Jean offered artistic direction on the production, and decided to make a film about it on the way. It took 3 years off and on to make the show, and the film goes from the auditions to opening night. The show and the film explore not just the choreography and what fat bodies can do, but also about the people involved and their relationship to their bodies. It was amazing to have this show, commissioned by the Sydney Festival, choreographed by an accomplished person like Kate Champion. This really is ‘mainstream’ art in Sydney! At the time, nothing like it had been done. Dance theatre isn’t just dance, it’s theatre as well. It was very well received, and there was lots of media attention on it from all over the world. Just the concept of fat people dancing blew people’s minds. In the film they talked about the level of interest - is that just ‘the freak show’ or are people genuinely interested? But it got really positive reviews, almost all positive. Which was a bit disappointing as no piece of art is perfect. On Kate’s advice Kelli Jean and the cast decided during the performance time not to read comments or reviews. To allow themselves to just do the shows without worrying about how it was being received. Which is a good idea - there is an underground, Reddit based group of people who almost professionally hate fat people for no apparent reason. The show toured to Melbourne but not internationally. It’s almost like the people putting on these shows are ok with it because it is very ‘of the moment’ - it is controversial, which gets attention and therefore money. But they are still very cautious about it. Which is why it was good to work with Kate because she is not cautious! So it’s the same thing: yes, you can do a fat story - BUT, it has to be a white woman, and fat but not massively fat - and not TOO happy. And of course that is part of the story - you don’t just go I’m fat & I’m happy about that, we carry all of this baggage around with us all of the time. And so it makes sense that the characters who are written also carry this around - it would be weird if they didn’t. But there is ways we can push. And to not tour internationally is a shame, because it would have gone off! But this is why it’s great that Kelli Jean made the film. Everyone who worked on the film did it for free, for years. Because they believed this story needed to get out, and because the show did not tour. The film premiered at a queer film festival in San Francisco in 2018 and a massive premiere at Quuer screen at Mardi Gras in 2018. It has gone on to have a number of international screenings too, so it is getting seen! Also SBS on Demand bought it, so Australians can view it for free (link in resources). The film is the legacy of the show, and they’re all so glad it’s having success. Louise was in the audience (again) for Kelli Jean’s TED Talk which she gave at the Opera House. That came about from a funny story: Kelli Jean was in the audience at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Opera House in Sydney, listening to Sarai Walker, author of Dietland, who was talking about radical fat acceptance. Her talk was all about the need to stop distracting from ideas of pure, radical acceptance by talking about ‘health’. At the end of her talk all of the questions were about health! Kelli Jean got up and caused a scene! She got up and said - I don’t have a question, but I just want to say I am embarrassed that here we are at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, and here we are again talking about health! It was very triggering for Kelli Jean, because of the Insight experience and how she was hijacked there. Kelli Jean was like, “oh my god it’s happening again”. Afterwards, Edwina Throsby who was the head of TEDx Sydney, came up and said I want you to do a TED talk. Kelli Jean got a standing ovation for her comment at Sarai’s talk (Louise was not brave enough to get up!). For Kelli Jean, it’s not a choice. “I can’t not say something.” Kelli Jean felt bad for getting a standing ovation and taking the focus off Sarai, but she thanked her later for saving her. Here we are, Festival of Dangerous Ideas, with an accomplished novelist with some amazing ideas. And people still could not let go of their bullshit around health.? The entitlement of that - the idea that they can say “no you’re wrong, this is a wrong idea” - rather than “I’m really challenged by what you’re saying”. It’s just “No, you’re wrong, and you’re going to die because you’re fat”. People cannot let that go, because letting that go challenges and threatens their whole way of being in their own bodies, and their own relationships with their bodies. If we go “Hey, we’re fat, we’re going to live in our bodies and wear bikinis and show our bodies and love them and have sexy time and eat whatever the fuck we want”, people can’t deal. A lot of people invest so much time into trying to maintain a thin body, that to suggest that time could be better spent is too much. Small people don’t have it easy either: they may feel they have to invest a lot into maintaining it, because of a belief that it maintains happiness or acceptance or health. Engaging in diet culture is tiring for all of us. If you challenge that, they freak out. People get defensive and don’t want to listen. Kelli Jean gets it - it’s a massive capitalist machine. There’s a lot of money to be made by making sure women hate their bodies. The sexist, [atriarchal structure of capitalism is a lot to challenge. But come on - if you’re paying for a talk which is specifically to challenge you, be challenged! Kelli Jean is sure that if TED talks had a question time, the exact same thing would have happened. The TED talk was one of the scariest things Kelli Jean has ever done. But if someone says to you hey, do you want to talk to potentially millions of people on the main stage of the Opera House about something that you love - you’re not going to say no! There were 2500 people at the Opera House, but there were also 20 000 people watching live around the world! And no auto cue - Kelli Jean had to remember the whole thing off by heart. She did have notes stuffed down her bra. This was also one of the first TED talks to ever address the topic of fat positivity. So it got picked up by TED.com - they call it “Big Ted” in the USA & put on their platform. So now nearly 2 million people have watched it! Of course, when the talk went up there was a huge number of hateful comments. Kelli Jean spoke to the TED people to say that this is really damaging for fat people who might read these comments, so they actually disabled the comments both here and in the USA. Kelli Jean never read them, but heard how awful and violent they were, and she didn’t want people exposed to that. Kelli Jean knows how awful it can be, and knows it’s coming if she puts something out there. But she feels for the people who may not know and be impacted by the vitriol and outright hatred. It’s awful to think there are people out there who have nothing better to do than hate on people, especially women, who are ok with themselves. That threatens the patriarchy, the status quo, and it freaks people out. Some people (??Dylan Meryn?) meet people who troll them & find out they are just sad or have difficult lives or whatever. Kelli Jean does not want to do that! But she does want people to understand that people who troll like that are sad & have their own issues. So the resistance to fat representation centres on 2 main ‘arguments’: 1) “but what about health”, and 2) hatred. Without doubt the most vitriol comes from straight men. But as a queer woman, Kelli Jean could not care less if they find her attractive or if she offends them visually. Which is possibly why they find people like her threatening! This trolling and hatred fuels Kelli Jean’s fat activist fire. And it doesn’t feel like a choice for Kelli Jean. and it’s wonderful to see how far activism has come. There are some really popular and mainstream artists, like Lizzo, and this is very different from when she grew up. Kelli Jean loves the fact that so many fat younger people are owning it, wearing crop tops etc and just unapologetic about their size. As a teenager she never ever saw stuff like that! She bought into it for ages - and then, just got jack of it! Although she’s been in this thinking and activism space for a long time, it is still a process. There are still hard times. Kelli Jean is now directing a short film called “The Rainbow Passage”, it’s about Cadence Autumn-Bell. It’s her story about her transition, and her girlfriend is also transitioning, and they’re in Bathurst (small NSW country town). While fat positivity is important, Kelli jean also wants to focus on body positivity overall, and all of the intersections and layers of this, affirming gender diversity, differently abled bodies, being intergenerational, holding space for people of colour and their stories. Because it’s all interconnected. Intersectional feminism is the only way really! The other project is top secret, and we’re super excited about it! All of these ideas of loving who you are and pushing back against the dominant narrative are interconnected. We talk about the Insight show & how people questioned whether or not Kelli Jean was a swimmer. She just is! At the end of the Insight taping, kelli Jean told them that they could not show any of the scenes from Aquaporko on the show, because they’d treated her so awfully. Kelli Jean is often asked to take part in shows like this and she usually says no, because she will not set herself up for another ambush. It’s understandable that many fat activists are wary about appearing in the media, because they are so often ambushed with the interviewer’s own internalised weight stigma. The host of Insight, Jenny Brockie, obviously has her own issues with weight, because we’d never seen her so un-objective and accusatory towards a guest on the show. Jenny Brockie really went for Kelli Jean, but as usual she handled it like a champ! Resources: A link to the SBS Insight show which they called “Fat Fighters” (we did not know this was going to be the title, another aspect of the ambush) The transcript from the SBS show Insight Sarai Walker’s (author of Dietland) talk at the Festival of Dangerous ideas on radical Fat Acceptance Shrill by Lindy West - the book. Shrill the tv series. Dietland the book and the tv series Dumplin Aquaporko Aussie people can watch Nothing to Lose on SBS on Demand Watch Kelli Jean’s Ted Talk Find out more about Kelli Jean here

My guest this week is the incredible film maker, speaker & activist Kelli Jean Drinkwater, and she has a huge fire in her belly about how fat people are represented onstage! Fat people have been virtually invisible in the creative arts, but Kelli Jean’s mission is to bring them into the limelight! In order to combat weight stigma and create a world in which all bodies belong, it is VITAL that fat people are represented in the creative arts. And not just as a boring STEREOTYPE, but as fully rounded, amazing, positive and UNAPOLOGETIC humans! Join me for a fantastic conversation as Kelli Jean & I unpack how things are changing in the industry & what still needs to be challenged. And hear all about Kelli Jeans’ simply INCREDIBLE projects! This is a fabulous & inspiring episode from an artist who professionally BLOWS PEOPLE’S MINDS!     Shownotes   My guest is Sydney based film maker, speaker and activist Kelli Jean Drinkwater, who is totally fired up about fat representation in the media. Louise talks about how she & Kelli Jean first met several years ago on the set of Insight, a tv program in which there was an ‘ambush’ of fat activists and Kelli Jean was in the front line of host Jenny Brockie’s fatphobia. Her anger acts as fuel to change how fat people are being represented. We can get fired up in 2 ways, because although on one hand representation and casting of fat characters are getting better, there’s still a long way to go! There’s been a recent spate of films and tv shows especially in the USA which feature fat narratives, but they are still centred around cis gendered, white, heterosexual perspectives, and also the smaller side of fat people being cast. We have stories like Shrill, where the character is fat and staying fat, and Dietland, adapted from the amazing novel by Sarai Walker, where it’s still very good & fat positive but still some decisions made in that process which reflect weight bias. Like in both Shrill & in Dietland the main fat characters had love interests or sexual partners that were just awful men! In Shrill, her love interest feels ashamed of her and makes her leave out of the back door. She’s meant to be this onto it fat woman and wh???? So eventually he comes around and says ok meet my friends, and she doesn’t dump him. And in Dietland the main character is a virgin, and rather than having a good experience she has this awful experience with a fetishist and a feeder who then rapes her. And it’s like - “ok, so that’s the kind of sex we’re going to see?” It could be done differently, and that’s frustrating. And then there’s the movie “Dumplin”, which Louise liked, she never saw anything like that when she was growing up. And it’s lovely to see the thin character (the mum, Jennifer Aniston), as the one always dieting, miserable and insecure. There’s some great characters in this - the fat auntie, who is always supportive of her. But then the aunt dies, and we’re not told why but it’s implied it’s because she was fat!? The love interest in Dumplin was great, he’s the hot guy and he is also lovely, he has no qualms about being attracted to her, and they just get together and it’s all ok. This is a narrative we need to see. Love is possible no matter what you look like. The hot guy can want to be with the fat girl. Kelli Jean related to her love of Dolly Parton, and the camp friends! Also the swimsuit scene at the end - they were in swing dresses and not bikinis??? There are things like that that we’re still not seeing, and Kelli Jean is keen as a film maker to push things further, to include more inclusivity and positivity to fat characters. Having a fat character in a story is not good enough, we need to see it handled properly. Kelli Jean’s first documentary was Aquaporko, all about the fat women’s synchronised swimming team that she started. The women are all extremely smiley, and they’re all in fantastic swim hats - which she got online from Esther Williams. Kelli Jean loved the beach and has always loved swimming and being in the water. But for years she did not go to the beach or swimming because of how she felt about her body. It’s such a basic thing, to swim and be in water, but for fat people this can be fraught. Aquaporko is a beautiful, fun, unapologetic and confronting story of fat people being in their bodies and loving it. And also of being in public, and taking up space. It was an important and transformative film for the people who were involved. That’s why she did Aquaporko, she did not want other people to not do things they love for years and years. The film came about after Kelli Jean got some friends together and at a Sydney public pool they taught themselves synchronised swimming, just for laughs. There was no agenda, but people would clap us when we got out of the pool. It got some traction and media attention, a chapter started in Brisbane & in Melbourne. The Melbourne team practised & became quite good. It got to the point where they were going to do a performance at the pool, Kelli Jean thought - well, I am a film maker, and so the film was born! It premiered at the Mardi Gras film festival in Sydney, and everyone loved it. It won the audience award. It’s colourful, it’s different, it’s a bit camp, it’s just very joyful. It’s shown in 47 countries now as part of different film festivals. It still gets requests to screen. Now Kelli Jean has made a feature film, Nothing to Lose, this also gets attention, but Aquaporko is just loved. Nothing to lose is Kelli Jean’s first feature film. She co-directed it, without funding. It’s the story - in 2013 she was approached by Kate Champion, a very well known choreographer and theatre director for Force Majeur. She wanted to a dance theatre production exploring the fat dancing body, body politics and explore why this is such a taboo subject. In clubs, Kate’s eye was always drawn to bigger people dancing. Realising that she is a very slim, trained dancer, Kate realised she needed to collaborate with a fat artist who understands not just the performance but also the politics. Kelli Jean was the perfect choice! Kelli Jean offered artistic direction on the production, and decided to make a film about it on the way. It took 3 years off and on to make the show, and the film goes from the auditions to opening night. The show and the film explore not just the choreography and what fat bodies can do, but also about the people involved and their relationship to their bodies. It was amazing to have this show, commissioned by the Sydney Festival, choreographed by an accomplished person like Kate Champion. This really is ‘mainstream’ art in Sydney! At the time, nothing like it had been done. Dance theatre isn’t just dance, it’s theatre as well. It was very well received, and there was lots of media attention on it from all over the world. Just the concept of fat people dancing blew people’s minds. In the film they talked about the level of interest - is that just ‘the freak show’ or are people genuinely interested? But it got really positive reviews, almost all positive. Which was a bit disappointing as no piece of art is perfect. On Kate’s advice Kelli Jean and the cast decided during the performance time not to read comments or reviews. To allow themselves to just do the shows without worrying about how it was being received. Which is a good idea - there is an underground, Reddit based group of people who almost professionally hate fat people for no apparent reason. The show toured to Melbourne but not internationally. It’s almost like the people putting on these shows are ok with it because it is very ‘of the moment’ - it is controversial, which gets attention and therefore money. But they are still very cautious about it. Which is why it was good to work with Kate because she is not cautious! So it’s the same thing: yes, you can do a fat story - BUT, it has to be a white woman, and fat but not massively fat - and not TOO happy. And of course that is part of the story - you don’t just go I’m fat & I’m happy about that, we carry all of this baggage around with us all of the time. And so it makes sense that the characters who are written also carry this around - it would be weird if they didn’t. But there is ways we can push. And to not tour internationally is a shame, because it would have gone off! But this is why it’s great that Kelli Jean made the film. Everyone who worked on the film did it for free, for years. Because they believed this story needed to get out, and because the show did not tour. The film premiered at a queer film festival in San Francisco in 2018 and a massive premiere at Quuer screen at Mardi Gras in 2018. It has gone on to have a number of international screenings too, so it is getting seen! Also SBS on Demand bought it, so Australians can view it for free (link in resources). The film is the legacy of the show, and they’re all so glad it’s having success. Louise was in the audience (again) for Kelli Jean’s TED Talk which she gave at the Opera House. That came about from a funny story: Kelli Jean was in the audience at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Opera House in Sydney, listening to Sarai Walker, author of Dietland, who was talking about radical fat acceptance. Her talk was all about the need to stop distracting from ideas of pure, radical acceptance by talking about ‘health’. At the end of her talk all of the questions were about health! Kelli Jean got up and caused a scene! She got up and said - I don’t have a question, but I just want to say I am embarrassed that here we are at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, and here we are again talking about health! It was very triggering for Kelli Jean, because of the Insight experience and how she was hijacked there. Kelli Jean was like, “oh my god it’s happening again”. Afterwards, Edwina Throsby who was the head of TEDx Sydney, came up and said I want you to do a TED talk. Kelli Jean got a standing ovation for her comment at Sarai’s talk (Louise was not brave enough to get up!). For Kelli Jean, it’s not a choice. “I can’t not say something.” Kelli Jean felt bad for getting a standing ovation and taking the focus off Sarai, but she thanked her later for saving her. Here we are, Festival of Dangerous Ideas, with an accomplished novelist with some amazing ideas. And people still could not let go of their bullshit around health.? The entitlement of that - the idea that they can say “no you’re wrong, this is a wrong idea” - rather than “I’m really challenged by what you’re saying”. It’s just “No, you’re wrong, and you’re going to die because you’re fat”. People cannot let that go, because letting that go challenges and threatens their whole way of being in their own bodies, and their own relationships with their bodies. If we go “Hey, we’re fat, we’re going to live in our bodies and wear bikinis and show our bodies and love them and have sexy time and eat whatever the fuck we want”, people can’t deal. A lot of people invest so much time into trying to maintain a thin body, that to suggest that time could be better spent is too much. Small people don’t have it easy either: they may feel they have to invest a lot into maintaining it, because of a belief that it maintains happiness or acceptance or health. Engaging in diet culture is tiring for all of us. If you challenge that, they freak out. People get defensive and don’t want to listen. Kelli Jean gets it - it’s a massive capitalist machine. There’s a lot of money to be made by making sure women hate their bodies. The sexist, [atriarchal structure of capitalism is a lot to challenge. But come on - if you’re paying for a talk which is specifically to challenge you, be challenged! Kelli Jean is sure that if TED talks had a question time, the exact same thing would have happened. The TED talk was one of the scariest things Kelli Jean has ever done. But if someone says to you hey, do you want to talk to potentially millions of people on the main stage of the Opera House about something that you love - you’re not going to say no! There were 2500 people at the Opera House, but there were also 20 000 people watching live around the world! And no auto cue - Kelli Jean had to remember the whole thing off by heart. She did have notes stuffed down her bra. This was also one of the first TED talks to ever address the topic of fat positivity. So it got picked up by TED.com - they call it “Big Ted” in the USA & put on their platform. So now nearly 2 million people have watched it! Of course, when the talk went up there was a huge number of hateful comments. Kelli Jean spoke to the TED people to say that this is really damaging for fat people who might read these comments, so they actually disabled the comments both here and in the USA. Kelli Jean never read them, but heard how awful and violent they were, and she didn’t want people exposed to that. Kelli Jean knows how awful it can be, and knows it’s coming if she puts something out there. But she feels for the people who may not know and be impacted by the vitriol and outright hatred. It’s awful to think there are people out there who have nothing better to do than hate on people, especially women, who are ok with themselves. That threatens the patriarchy, the status quo, and it freaks people out. Some people (??Dylan Meryn?) meet people who troll them & find out they are just sad or have difficult lives or whatever. Kelli Jean does not want to do that! But she does want people to understand that people who troll like that are sad & have their own issues. So the resistance to fat representation centres on 2 main ‘arguments’: 1) “but what about health”, and 2) hatred. Without doubt the most vitriol comes from straight men. But as a queer woman, Kelli Jean could not care less if they find her attractive or if she offends them visually. Which is possibly why they find people like her threatening! This trolling and hatred fuels Kelli Jean’s fat activist fire. And it doesn’t feel like a choice for Kelli Jean. and it’s wonderful to see how far activism has come. There are some really popular and mainstream artists, like Lizzo, and this is very different from when she grew up. Kelli Jean loves the fact that so many fat younger people are owning it, wearing crop tops etc and just unapologetic about their size. As a teenager she never ever saw stuff like that! She bought into it for ages - and then, just got jack of it! Although she’s been in this thinking and activism space for a long time, it is still a process. There are still hard times. Kelli Jean is now directing a short film called “The Rainbow Passage”, it’s about Cadence Autumn-Bell. It’s her story about her transition, and her girlfriend is also transitioning, and they’re in Bathurst (small NSW country town). While fat positivity is important, Kelli jean also wants to focus on body positivity overall, and all of the intersections and layers of this, affirming gender diversity, differently abled bodies, being intergenerational, holding space for people of colour and their stories. Because it’s all interconnected. Intersectional feminism is the only way really! The other project is top secret, and we’re super excited about it! All of these ideas of loving who you are and pushing back against the dominant narrative are interconnected. We talk about the Insight show & how people questioned whether or not Kelli Jean was a swimmer. She just is! At the end of the Insight taping, kelli Jean told them that they could not show any of the scenes from Aquaporko on the show, because they’d treated her so awfully. Kelli Jean is often asked to take part in shows like this and she usually says no, because she will not set herself up for another ambush. It’s understandable that many fat activists are wary about appearing in the media, because they are so often ambushed with the interviewer’s own internalised weight stigma. The host of Insight, Jenny Brockie, obviously has her own issues with weight, because we’d never seen her so un-objective and accusatory towards a guest on the show. Jenny Brockie really went for Kelli Jean, but as usual she handled it like a champ! Resources: A link to the SBS Insight show which they called “Fat Fighters” (we did not know this was going to be the title, another aspect of the ambush) The transcript from the SBS show Insight Sarai Walker’s (author of Dietland) talk at the Festival of Dangerous ideas on radical Fat Acceptance Shrill by Lindy West - the book. Shrill the tv series. Dietland the book and the tv series Dumplin Aquaporko Aussie people can watch Nothing to Lose on SBS on Demand Watch Kelli Jean’s Ted Talk Find out more about Kelli Jean here

In episode two of HiveMinds with Amanda Joy Ravenhill, Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, we discuss recent climate change predictions, solutions and strategies for our collective evolution, the legacy and insights of Buckminster Fuller, and how we can create a better future for all of life. Show notes: Segment 1: Climate Change - The New IPCC Report that predicts doom by 2030 and requiring global action within the next 3-5 years - Carbon Engineering possibilities - Putting more iron filings into the ocean to create more algae blooms undersea and the potential indirect effects - Putting sulphur dioxide into the air - Physical radiation blockers including putting mirrors into orbit and reflecting more sun and the issue with space debris - Carbon Sequestration - Biochar - Reforestation via drones - The refugee crisis - How climate change will affect the tropics - Amanda’s work with The Drawdown Project Segment 2: Buckminster Fuller - How to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or disadvantage of anyone. - The annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge for $100k - The Dymaxion Design Principles of being inspired by nature - The Geometry of Nature - Living in domes - Intentional communities and ecovillages with domes on them - Tensegrity = The concept of tension and integrity - Carbon 60 and the Buckminsterfullerene Segment 3: Creating a World That Works for Everyone - UN Prediction of 10B population by 2050 - The Importance of Access to Contraception for women in the developing world - Amanda’s dream for the world we create the world she imagines Q&A - Carbon Engineering - Efforts to prepare for living in a post-climate change world - The Center for the Force Majeur in UC Santa Cruz 500 year studies on the Tibetan Plateau (near China, India, Pakistan with so much ice) and ensuring that as it melts, humans can still live in the area. Their proposed solution = a massive reforestation effort over 100 years. - The Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth book in 1968 - The story from this book of humanity as a baby chick emerging from a world of fossil fuels and into regeneration

Le Catalyste reçoit cette semaine une légende de l'Electro au vrai sens du terme avec Larry McCormick, Aka Exzakt. (tracklist de l'emission plus bas)!! @exazkt https://www.facebook.com/exzakt Larry est un producteur et DJ américain, reconnu depuis près de 20 ans sur la scene electro. Il l'auteur de quelques tueries cosmiques - Musik is the Drug, Speaker Breaka, I Am the Enemy. Il gere maintenant son propore label Monotone et fait son retour sur le devant de la scene avec quelques releases sur Electrix UK et Shipwrec Holland. Il nous livre ici un set bien electro, parfois technoïde, bien groovy, assez dark,mais pas trop, et sans aller dans les extremes! parfait pour tenir un dancefloor, on sent la maitrise du mix et de l'évolution d'un set par toujours évident en Electro. Tracklist News: Throwing Snow - Minotaurs - Houndstooth Joy O & Ben Vince - Transition 2 - Hessle Audio Tiwanaku - Force Majeure - We We We Sampler 1 - Me Me Me Heartthrob - Intersection - ISNISNT Tracklist Larry McCormick: 01. 214 - Miami Nights - Frustrated Funk 02. Djedjotronic - Traffic - Boysnoize Records 03. Housemeister ?– Involution - All You Can Beat 04. Thomas P. Heckmann - Provide_The_Future - Monnom Black 05. Jensen Interceptor - Glide Drexler - Central Processing Unit 06. Randomer ?– Smokin - L.I.E.S 07. Mesak - Max Toisto - Vortex Traks 08. Maelstrom - The Line - Zone 09. The Hacker & Gesaffelstein - Crainte - Zone 10. Djedjotronic Feat. Miss Kittin ?– Pleasure And Pain - Boysnoize Records 11. The Soft Moon - Wrong (Dave Clarke Remix) - 541 12. Late Night Approach - Luvquest - Klakson 13. Gregor Tresher - Inhale - GTO 14. Morphology - Mind Stealers (Sync 24 Remix) - Cultivated Electronics 15. Dave Clarke feat Anika - Im Not Afraid (Larry McCormick Remix) - Skint Records

Podgodz 223 Recorded 13 December 2016 SNOW! Freakout! Sub zero weather. FREAKOUT LA Talk Radio, a ‘station' filled with KLSX retreads – oh, Cindy Brady hates teh gheys and is pro trump.     Top 5 shows of the Week – LAX   Up for contention but not making the list this week   Extra Hot Great: Filling Our Plates with Top Chef The Incomparable Game Show #50: Low Definition: A Family of Clowns   Top 5 5)    Roderick on the Line #227: Fifth Knob 4)   TV Guidance Counsellor #190: Mark Gallagher 3)   The Incomparable #330: Team Killer Robot (Westworld S1) 2)   No Agenda #884: Lane Splitter, #885: Force Majeur 1)    Eureka Podcast #193: Eureka 2.0   GIO Top 5 5. No Agenda #885 4. ACS #1969 Read More →

Podgodz 223 Recorded 13 December 2016 SNOW! Freakout! Sub zero weather. FREAKOUT LA Talk Radio, a ‘station’ filled with KLSX retreads – oh, Cindy Brady hates teh gheys and is pro trump.     Top 5 shows of the Week – LAX   Up for contention but not making the list this week   Extra Hot Great: Filling Our Plates with Top Chef The Incomparable Game Show #50: Low Definition: A Family of Clowns   Top 5 5)    Roderick on the Line #227: Fifth Knob 4)   TV Guidance Counsellor #190: Mark Gallagher 3)   The Incomparable #330: Team Killer Robot (Westworld S1) 2)   No Agenda #884: Lane Splitter, #885: Force Majeur 1)    Eureka Podcast #193: Eureka 2.0   GIO Top 5 5. No Agenda #885 4. ACS #1969 Read More →

Quelle chance de m'asseoir avec le grand Eddie Izzard ! Il est un superstar en angleterre et il est un des rares humoristes à remplir des stades. Un maitre de l'humour absurde, Monty Python l'adoubé "le membre du Python perdu". Je l'ai retrouvé à Paris pendant sa tournée de la France avec son spectacle "Force Majeur" en français ! Et donc pour vous aussi les Frenchies, on a fait ce podcast en V.F... parce qu'on vous aime au fond ! Bonne écoute !