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Bloomberg Law
Battle Over Pronouns in Schools

Bloomberg Law

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2023 34:00 Transcription Available


Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, discusses legal cases over schools not telling parents that their child is using a new preferred pronoun. Ethics law expert Arthur Hellman, a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, discusses the suspension of the country's oldest federal judge. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SUMM IT UP
Safe Spaces and Brave Spaces with Emily Holiday

SUMM IT UP

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2023 31:21


We're living in a time of cultural transition. Individuals are openly expressing gender and sexuality with more freedom than before. At the same time, some still believe that expression outside of the traditional cisgender heterosexual frame is a bad thing. Others want to be supportive, but are unsure about the correct pronouns and terminology to use, or how to respectfully acknowledge queer identities.As beauty professionals, we want all guests and staff to feel safe and welcome in the salon. So how do we normalize queer inclusivity in our lives and professional spaces? Emily Holiday is an activist and humanitarian, owner of Emily Holiday Salon, and a stylist at Sola Salons in Charlotte, North Carolina. She's a facilitator for queer inclusivity and identity workshops for salon companies and other organizations. Emily considers herself a “brave space”-- that means she's here to answer questions that might be uncomfortable or inappropriate to bring up in everyday life. Even if you're new to talking about gender and sexuality, this episode is for you. Emily and Blake break down all of the letters in LGBTQIA+, talk about what it means to be non-binary, and get at the differences between gender, sexuality, and romantic attraction. Emily shares some simple yet brilliant practices that you can implement at your salon company. And so much more. Get in touch with Emily Holiday on Instagram: @emilyholidaybeauty.QUEER EDUCATION AND CULTURE RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY EMILY AND BLAKEJanet Mock, a trans author and activistThe Human Rights Campaign, a leading organization in the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights in the USThe Audre Lorde Project, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the NYC areaTime Out Youth, a queer youth center in Charlotte, NCEquality Florida, a statewide LGBTQ civil rights organizationJonathan Van Ness, a non-binary hair stylist, influencer, writer, podcaster, comedian, and entertainerFollow Summit Salon Business Center on Instagram @SummitSalon, and on TikTok at SummitSalon. Find Blake Reed Evans on Instagram @BlakeReedEvans and on TikTok at blakereedevans. You can email Blake at bevans@summitsalon.com. Visit us at SummitSalon.com  to connect with others in the industry.  Get in touch with Summit and let us know what you think of the podcast or what topics you'd like us to cover next. Thanks for listening! 

A Kids Book About: The Podcast
Courtney and Lee Talk About Pronouns

A Kids Book About: The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2023 16:00


Dr. Courtney Wells and Lee Wells, authors of A Kids Book About Pronouns, talk about encouraging kids AND grownups to get uncomfortable, learn new things, make mistakes, and choose to keep growing.A Kids Book About Pronouns (view book)Full Book Description:Pronouns are a meaningful part of identifying who we are. We can't know someone's preferred pronouns just by looking at them or knowing their name, so it's important to ask! This book encourages kids AND grownups to get uncomfortable, learn new things, make mistakes, and choose to keep growing. It's not about always getting it right—it's about being loving and continuous in our effort.About the Author:Dr. Courtney Wells (they/them) and Lee Wells (she/her) are queer, married Chicagoans committed to justice and inclusivity for their and all kids. Courtney is an award-winning trauma psychologist with a super cool TEDx talk on dismantling the gender binary. Lee is a therapist working with LGBTQ+ kids and families and co-founder of Mind Chicago.*If you want to be on a future episode of A Kids Book About: The Podcast or if you have a question you'd like us to consider, have a grownup email us at listen@akidsco.com and we'll send you the details. 

Minion Death Cult
Sorry, did you want to get immersed in our world? Well, guess what. FUCKING PRONOUNS!!! (UNLOCKED)

Minion Death Cult

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2023 51:38


We're still on vacation so we're unlocking a fun Patreon ep from last week. Check out the new shirt and poster here: http://miniondeathcult.com ALSO: MORE GENDER. A Mexican gender reveal party leaves a pilot dead, and conservative readers settle on blaming millennials and teachers(?)  We cap the episode off with some good news in the form of opinion polling showing that a sizeable majority of US adults don't think teachers are groomers or should spend classes fighting woke ideology. Sign up at patreon.com/miniondeathcult to get 2 bonus episodes a week

Talking To Teens
Ep 259: What's Your Pronoun?

Talking To Teens

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2023 23:11


Dennis Baron, author of What's Your Pronoun?, takes us on a journey through the evolution of pronouns. Younger generations are boldly claiming their linguistic identities—how do we better understand them?If you've enjoyed Talking to Teens, we'd love if you could leave us a five-star rating, and if you have time, a review!  Follow us on Social Media! We're @talkingtoteens on Instagram and TikTok

ChillChat
(Beginner) Chinese Pronouns: You, I, And, My

ChillChat

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2023 8:37


Private Chinese lessons with Karen:https://www.italki.com/teacher/5420420What will you learn?In this course, you will learn practical sentences you can use in daily life, and how to construct basic sentences on your own.Who is this course for?This course is perfect for beginner learners, equivalent to HSK1 and HSK2.What does this course have?The course has 22 video lessons, 22 PDF study notes, and 3 short story review lessons. You can watch the lessons on your phone, tablets, or laptops. All lessons can be downloaded, so that you can study them at your own pace.Where can I find the course?Free sample: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5wfi0ljo2rysopd/AAAMERz2YxjwqlD74imSAHyaa?dl=0To access the entire course, click here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/chillingchinese/e/44627Support the showYou can ACCESS the【study material+transcript】at

Rushdown Radio - Video Game and Entertainment Podcast

Welcome to The Rush Hour podcast on Rushdown Radio, where we've got a packed episode in stored. We'll be tackling the recent PlayStation Plus price hike and its impact, delving into the closure of Volition after their latest Saints Row release, and discussing Square Enix's staggering $2 billion loss in value since the release of Final Fantasy XVI. We'll also explore Google's testing of a Stadia-like feature, reflect on Peter Molyneux's regrets about over-promising his games, review the latest Nintendo Direct and Sony's State of Play showcase, and break down the Unity developer fee debacle. Join us for an exciting gaming journey and insightful discussions on the hottest topics in the industry! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Q Review LGBTQ Music Podcast
S4/E91 - Radio Replay August 31

Q Review LGBTQ Music Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2023 56:05


So long summer. But hello to amazing new music!   This episode is a tour de force of hot new music from:   Autumn Nicholas, BLACKPUNK, Brooke Alexx, Courtney Wolfe, Haben Godefa, The Irrepressibles, Liam Benayon, Mars Aspen, Matt Vee, Matthew and The Keys, Matthew Davies, Peter Ngqibs and KISOS, PRONOUN, Sasquin, Suit Up Soldier, and more! ⚡️CONNECT WITH THE Q⚡️ Website: https://www.curatedbyq.com ⚡️FB/Instagram/Twitter @theqreviews ⚡️YouTube.com/@QCreativeNetwork⚡️Apparel Shop https://qreview.threadless.com ⚡️Theme Music provided and performed by UK DJ and producer Hectic @hectictracks on Instagram⚡️

Rebel News +
DAILY Roundup | Trudeau preps for UN assembly, Ontario's new COVID plan, Sask. pronoun debate

Rebel News +

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2023 72:11


Today, we're looking at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's preparation for the United Nations' general assembly, coming on the heels of his recent (and embarrassing) trip to India as part of the G20 summit. Plus, Ontario is set to unveil a new COVID-19 plan, as Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kieran Moore is scheduled for an announcement this week. And finally, Saskatchewan is considering the use of the notwithstanding clause to safeguard Premier Scott Moe's legislation requiring students to have parental permission to change names or genders at school.

Doctor John Patrick
Navigating Pronouns & Identity

Doctor John Patrick

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2023 6:46


Dr. John Patrick delves into a timely topic: the evolving landscape of gender pronouns and identity. John Patrick offers a balanced perspective, emphasizing the importance of communication, understanding, and grace. He also sheds light on the deeper societal issues manifesting in the form of gender debates and the rising anxiety levels among today's youth. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion that seeks to bridge understanding in a rapidly changing world.   // LINKS //  Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/ Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/ Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/ LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen
Starfield's PRONOUN Push | 9/12/23

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2023 9:37


Head to neurohacker.com/LAUREN for up to 50% off Qualia Senolytic and use code LAUREN for an extra 15% your first purchase! The highly anticipated Starfield was recently released, albeit with some controversy, as the game requires pronouns be chosen to create a character. Any criticism of the inclusion of pronouns has been met with gaslighting from the Left. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Locker Room Talk
Snickerdoodle (Feat Robbie Goodwin)

Locker Room Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 66:54


You wanted it, you got it! Joe and Matt are back at it again. Bobby has left the Locker Room, so welcome to "The Real Ass Joe Gorman Experience" with assistant Matt Maran and their guest from the "What About Rob Podcast," Robbie Goodwin. They discuss secret menus, Jimmy Fallon, and Obama's gay crackhead lover. Robbie is a mean Basketball fan, Joe loves Ketamine, and Matt has a new crush. Financial advice, Pronouns, Musclefest, this episode has it all!Follow Robbie on Instagram and Twitter: @robbiegoodwin Support us on Patreon for bonus content:https://www.patreon.com/JustSomeLockerRoomTalk?fan_landing=trueTwitter:@L0ckerRoomTa1kInstagram:@justsomelockerroomtalkSpotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/38on5DGj89NZiyhinsPdrK?si=Xze0Edt5S_SrBYsR9BKUwA&nd=1iTunes:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/locker-room-talk/id1611681173Joe GormanTwitter and Instagram: @JoeWGormanMatt MaranTwitter and Instagram: @REALMattMaran

The Black Mind Garden: ReMap Your Mind! Create a Life You Design
Episode 165: Pronoun Mislabeling and Bringing a Space of Grace w/ Dalia Kinsey

The Black Mind Garden: ReMap Your Mind! Create a Life You Design

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2023 41:36


SHOW NOTES In this week's Mind ReMapping Moment, Dalia Kinsey, a fellow black and an expert dietician, joins me. We are discussing Pronoun Mislabeling and Bringing a Space of Grace. Dalia and I had an amazing behind-the-scenes conversation during her last visit, and the feedback we received was overwhelmingly positive. So, we decided to bring her back for another engaging discussion. Dalia's work centers around BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals, acknowledging the immense impact of chronic stress on their health and well-being. She emphasizes the importance of self-care and stress management, especially for those who face marginalization and discrimination in society. Her work aims to help people enjoy life despite the challenges they may encounter. Today, our focus is on the complex topic of pronouns and gender identity. Dalia shares her personal journey, including a period when she didn't use any pronouns. We explore the discomfort and challenges that come with mislabeling pronouns and names, highlighting the significance of setting boundaries and learning to respect one another. We dive deep into the fear of making mistakes, the trauma associated with mislabeling, and the need for grace and understanding when errors occur. We also discuss the broader societal context, where visibility for transgender individuals is often met with resistance. Despite these challenges, we emphasize that inclusivity and acceptance are essential and inevitable. We reflect on how similar dynamics of erasure and resistance play out in other marginalized communities, such as immigrants. Join us as we navigate the complex terrain of pronouns, gender identity, and the broader quest for inclusivity and understanding. About Dalia Kinsey Dalia Kinsey is a Registered Dietitian, host of the Body Liberation for All podcast, and author of Decolonizing Wellness: A LGBQTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation. Dalia speaks, leads workshops, and provides tailored group and individual coaching. Dalia owns Kinsey Wellness and Communications, which teaches body-led eating as a mindfulness tool and joy in the way of eating. Her passion is to help people understand that if you feel like your body is not the way you want it to be or feel out of control around food, you have not failed. Connect with Dalia Kinsey via the following: Website: https://www.daliakinsey.com/ Email: hello@daliakinsey.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daliakinsey Follow Dr. Maiysha on social media www.facebook.com/DrMaiysha www.instagram.com/DrMaiysha www.twitter.com/DrMaiysha www.YouTube.com/DrMaiysha Hosted by: Dr. Maiysha Clairborne Check out my TEDxtalk https://youtu.be/iOboT5uRhXU Ready for the next level in your life? Join the Movement! Become a part of the Mind ReMapping Nation, an exclusive community that empowers your growth & accountability. Go to www.MindReMappingNation.com Interested to learn Mind ReMapping? Have you thought about becoming a coach? You can! Attend our next Mind ReMapping LIVE Training in Atlanta, and learn the tools to remap your mind in this transformational NLP/Hypnosis and Coach Certification training. Visit www.mindremappingacademy.com or schedule an interest call at www.remapmymind.today --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/remapyourmind/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/remapyourmind/support

Theology on Air
White Pill Radio 2: Activists Arrested, "Backwards" Catholics, Trans Pronouns, and More

Theology on Air

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2023 71:51


White Pill Radio will become a regular feature of Theology on Air. Four TOTers will come together with hot-off-the-press stories and offer a Christian lens to them. What is a White Pill? Well, the blue pill means you are content to live in the matrix. The red pill means you are awake to reaity, the good, bad and ugly. The black pill means you are awake to reality and have no hope. The white pill means you have hope in spite of the way things look at the minute. If you like this format, let us know! If you don't...well, I guess let us know that, too. While there is no explicit content in this episode, as in dirty words, the topics are really only for adults. We talk about current events and hot-button cultural issues. So perhaps the younger homeschoolers aren't quite ready for this episode.

Fridays at 5, The Podcast with TnT
Season 6 Ep. 12 - Bugged Phone, Pronoun Confusion and Eggplant Emoji's

Fridays at 5, The Podcast with TnT

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2023 48:19


Sometimes there are just episodes that cover a wide variety of topics. But we do have a follow up for those following the Party Patch Test! Season Six Special Guest is still with us! @tntfridays on Instragram @chababy14 Friday's at 5, The Podcast on Facebook Thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fridaysat5/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fridaysat5/support

The Gary DeMar Podcast
Expressive Individualism: Me, Myself, and I

The Gary DeMar Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2023 23:28


Gary interacts with Carl Trueman's newest books about "expressive individualism" and the modern "truth" of the interior self. This is one of the primary philosophies driving political and social policy and it is nothing more than sin masquerading as reality. However, the fact that will not be tolerated is that there is one revealed objective Truth. Read Carl Trueman's article here: https://www.crossway.org/articles/what-does-it-mean-to-be-your-true-self/

Minion Death Cult
Sorry, did you want to get immersed in our world? Well, guess what. FUCKING PRONOUNS!!! (preview)

Minion Death Cult

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2023 3:27


TODAY: A Starfield streamer absolutely loses his mind over the presence of pronouns in the immersive role playing game. His compatriots conclude that this is the most powerful video of a man taking a stand since Rich Men North of Richmond ALSO: MORE GENDER. A Mexican gender reveal party leaves a pilot dead, and conservative readers settle on blaming millennials and teachers(?)  We cap the episode off with some good news in the form of opinion polling showing that a sizeable majority of US adults don't think teachers are groomers or should spend classes fighting woke ideology. NY (9/10) TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/minion-death-cult-live-tickets-691958234707 PHILLY (9/12) TICKETS: https://www.axs.com/events/496996/well-there-s-your-problem-tickets Sign up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult and get 2 bonus episodes every week

The Drunken Peasants Podcast
PRONOUNS in Starfield? - KingCobraJFS: MASTER Vintner - Jared Sees a GHOST | 1238

The Drunken Peasants Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2023 218:46


Join Ben, Billy, & Ghastly DP 1238! Tonight,  we'll take a look at the outrage over pronouns in the new game, Starfield, KingCobra's homemade wine, AND MORE! Last Night's Pre Show: https://the-drunken-peasants-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes Rent CLASSIC EPISODES from DP ON DEMAND for ONLY $2.99 each! Follow this link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/drunkenpeasantsondemand Support our audio feed to get EXTRA content:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drunken-peasants-podcast/id1013248653https://open.spotify.com/show/6eulbMV0APnJ5yNR8Jc3IMhttps://bit.ly/SticherDrunkenPeasants New PC Fundraiser: https://drunkenpeasants.betterworld.org/campaigns/help-drunken-peasants-get-new-co Streamlabs Link: https://streamlabs.com/drunkenpeasants/tip *Google Calendar* https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=sund2qrenq20a2d5802cpp9i6k%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FLos_Angeles*iCal* https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/sund2qrenq20a2d5802cpp9i6k%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.icsIntegrate into your Calendar: http://bit.ly/DPTAPCalendar SUPPORT US:  https://patreon.com/DPhttps://bit.ly/BraveAppDPhttps://bit.ly/BenBillyMerchhttps://streamlabs.com/drunkenpeasantshttps://youtube.com/DrunkenPeasants/joinhttps://subscribestar.com/DrunkenPeasantsPODSURVEY: https://podsurvey.com/peasants SOCIAL MEDIA:https://discord.gg/2fnWTbEhttps://fb.com/DrunkenPeasantshttps://twitch.tv/DrunkenPeasantshttps://twitter.com/DrunkenPeasantshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-drunken-peasants-podcast/id1013248653https://open.spotify.com/show/6eulbMV0APnJ5yNR8Jc3IMhttps://bit.ly/SticherDrunkenPeasantshttps://bit.ly/DPUndergroundhttp://bit.ly/DPTAPCalendar BEN:  https://bit.ly/BenpaiYT BILLY THE FRIDGE:  https://youtube.com/Overweighthttps://twitter.com/BillyTheFridgehttps://instagram.com/BillyTheFridge PO BOX:The Drunken Peasants1100 Bellevue Way NESte 8A # 422Bellevue, WA 98004Be sure to put the name on the package you send as "The Drunken Peasants". If you would like to send something to a certain peasant, include a note inside the package with what goes to who. SPECIAL THANKS:https://twitter.com/GFIX_https://twitter.com/SYNJE_Grafxhttps://twitter.com/MarshalMansonhttps://berserkyd.bandcamp.comhttps://youtube.com/channel/UC9BV1g_9Iq67_yCyj5AX_4Q DISCLAIMER:The views and opinions expressed on our show by hosts, guests, or viewers, are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Drunken Peasants.

Raised to Deliver Podcast
Should Christians Use Preferred Pronouns?

Raised to Deliver Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2023 25:33


Should Christians Use Preferred Pronouns?For more information, visit pastorvlad.org

Those Guys Over There
Episode 185 - Pronouns, Masculinity, and Marriage

Those Guys Over There

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2023 68:28


In the 3 man weave this week, Jeff, DeGraft and Tim discuss the perception in our generation. Are divorces higher, are there less marriages? Why or why not? What does marriage mean to us. All of these questions and more are discussed.But to start of we have some levity with definitions of pronouns (like the real ones) and who gets to decide what's masculine?AND BUY CLAP CLEATS! Use the following link: https://clapcleats.com/?ref=6hk2pcck or promo code 'TGOT' at checkout for 10% off your next order.Twitter - www.twitter.com/TGOTpodcast Facebook - www.facebook.com/TGOTpodcast Instagram - www.instagram.com/TGOTpodcast Podchaser - www.podchaser.com/TGOTpodcast Theme music can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/flyboicamp/entertain-prod-tony-heat

Unraveling The Words of Yahweh
Rapture Doctrine Part 51 Matthew 24 Verse 37 Days of Noah

Unraveling The Words of Yahweh

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2023 73:29


In this continuing study I take a look at the Rapture Doctrine. Is this a Pre-Trib, as taught in most mainstream Churches are do Christians go through the Tribulation Period? I compare Thessalonians to Matthew 24 along with Revelation. In this Part 51 I continue our study in this Matthew 24 verse 37. In today's study we discuss the words of Yahshua Messiah as He warns us of the Days of Noah.So we must ask ourselves what is Yahshua Messiah talking about the Days of Noah?37           As the days of Noe were =In Noah's day there was plenty of warning, but utter unpreparedness. Most people are either indifferent about the second coming or have imaginary schemes or programs about it. Few are really eager and expectant and leave to Yahweh the time and the plans.so shall also the coming of the son of man be = to take vengeance on the Jews or we can say on that 2 part beast system which John writes about in Revelation Chapter 13, that one world government and religious institute which Lucifer has control of.38   Marrying and giving in marriage = What in the world is Yahshua Messiah referring to? Who did the people of Noah's time marry? According to Genesis 6 and the Book of Enoch, they were marrying those fallen angels who left their first estate according to Jude verse 6. (Side note keep in mind that the Book of Jude is technically the first book to be written of our New Testament). Now we have to ask ourselves, why would these fallen angels want to marry with flesh women? To pollute that future bloodline that would bring into the world the King of Kings and Lord of Lords! This event goes all the way back to the first prophecy in Scripture, which can be found in Genesis 3:15 (read). Satan had to try to destroy that bloodline so that prophecy would never come to pass. Read Genesis 6, Job 1, 2 and Jude verses 6-7.“giving themselves over to fornication" = does "themselves" refer to the cities Sodom and Gomorrah, or does it refer to the angels? If it goes back to the angels he is linking their sin to a sexual sin, and that is Genesis 6. Grammar tells us that it is the angels, due to gender and number agreement. Pronouns need to agree with gender number and case with their antecedent. The word "them" is from the Greek toutois, which is masculine plural, and "angels" is masculine plural, but "cities" is feminine and does not agree grammatically. So it is saying that these angels indulged in gross immorality.Enoch Chapter 61              And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.2              And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.'Josephus, Antiq. Book 1 Chapter 3 says; For many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians call giants.Pseudo-Clementine Literature Chap. XV. - The Giants.“But from their unhallowed intercourse spurious men sprang, ranch greater in stature than ordinary men, whom they afterwards called giants; not those dragon-footed giants who waged war against God, as those blasphemous myths of the Greeks do sing, but wild in manners, and greater than men in size, inasmuch as they were sprung of angels; yet less than angels, as they were born of women. Have any questions? Feel free to email me at keitner@netzero.net

Men Talking Mindfulness
POLITICS: Mindfully Living in a Democracy Together - what it takes!

Men Talking Mindfulness

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2023 62:20


Dive into a crucial conversation on the "Men Talking Mindfulness" podcast! In this episode, we confront the current state of our nation and the deep divisions we're experiencing. The digital age has locked us in echo chambers, pushing us further apart. But there's hope – mindfulness and responsiveness can guide us toward a more unified future. This episode tackles the frustration and emotional reactivity that come with the current political climate. Discover how mindfulness fosters meaningful connections within ourselves and our communities. Learn how to transcend judgments and embrace our shared humanity. Uncover the power of compromise, active listening, and respectful dialogue as we navigate the challenges of a democracy. Join us in this episode as we explore the essence of mindful voting and compassionate understanding. It's time to move beyond division and embrace our roles as informed citizens in shaping the future of this great nation. Tune in now and be part of the transformative conversation! Leave us a voice memo with your questions, text "MTM" to 33777 Check out our merch store: mentalkingmindfulness.com/shop Time stamps: Sure, here's the list with the timestamps in parentheses: (00:02:46) The power of meaningful and honest connection. (00:07:37) Mindfulness in politics. (00:09:50) Differences as strengths in democracy. (00:12:11) Having crucial conversations. (00:16:54) Us versus them mentality. (00:19:13) Civility in news conversations. (00:23:14) Politics and loving our differences. (00:26:23) Being a better neighbor. (00:29:55) Pronouns and freedom of speech. (00:34:09) Active listening techniques. (00:37:50) Helping others despite political differences. (00:42:10) Defining an immature adult. (00:44:00) Mature adult qualities. (00:49:03) Developing a third party. (00:51:28) Voting with our dollars. (00:55:38) Our greatest threat lies within. (00:58:11) Time and effort for success. (01:02:11) New episodes being published.

If These Ovaries Could Talk
Queer Love, Transition and Family Building

If These Ovaries Could Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2023 49:33


The Queer Family Podcast | S13 EP9 | Trigger Warning: Miscarriage is mentioned in this episode. Sam and Brook, a married couple from Canada, share their unique journey of love, family, and fertility. They met through a mutual friend and reconnected after the friend's passing. Brook, who is transgender, and Sam, who identifies as AFAB pansexual, navigated their relationship while raising Sam's three children from previous relationships. They decided to expand their family through RIVF, going through the challenges of fertility treatments and the emotional rollercoaster of a miscarriage. Despite the obstacles, they remain hopeful and determined to have a child together. Their story highlights the complexities and joys of blended families and the resilience of love. "I'm still coming out all the time. And it's hard because there's some sort of level of shame that you have, that the new generation just doesn't have, they're just like, “This is who I am. And this is me, take it or leave it.” But, our generation… there's still some shame behind it, so it's hard." - Brook If you like the episode, make sure to leave us a review and support The Queer Family Podcast on Patreon for as low as $2/month! Thanks to Our Shelves (code QUEERFAM)  and our Patreon supporters!  Watch Video Episodes right now on YouTube! thequeerfamilypodcast.com / thequeerfamilypodcast@gmail.com IG/Twitter/FB/TikTok/YouTube: @thequeerfamilypodcast Order the #ITOCT book based on this podcast on Amazon, IndieBound, Audible. Edited by Jerson Barajas. Theme song: Tiffany Topol Logo art: Daneen Stevenato. We want to hear from you! Email us at thequeerfamilypodcast@gmail.com Buy our merch here. Interested in advertising? Check out our packages here.

Holmberg's Morning Sickness
BEST OF HMS PODCASTS - LABOR DAY MONDAY - 09-04-23 - Patient Paperwork Asked For Pronouns So He Chose She/They To See If They Pay Attention - New Term Skoliosexual For Those Attracted To Trans Or Non Binary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2023 42:15


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Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution
Latin Grammar Mini-Series | Lesson 11 - Pronouns

Latin in Layman’s - A Rhetoric Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2023 41:10


“Personal” in grammar means “relating to person,” that is, first, second, or third person. In English, those persons are represented by pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we, ya'll, they. These MUST look familiar as they are forms we've already studied in relation to verbs. Now we'll look at them independently as pronouns. So, how does Latin treat these forms, not as verb endings but as nouns? There is a caveat: they decline through cases as nouns do in Latin, so you have more to memorize.  Remember how we studied that “boy” in Latin goes puer, nominative singular (subject); pueri, genitive singular, “of the boy;” puero, dative singular, “to/for the boy.” Of course you remember that!  Now we're going to study the Latin equivalent of the pronoun “I” and its comrades do the same ─ in other words, the way Latin says: nominative “I,” genitive “of me,” dative “to me,” and so on; and its second-person counterpart: “you,” “of you,” “to you;” and the third person: “he,” “she,” “it,” “his,” “hers,” “its,” and so on, along with their plural counterparts.  But why would Latin have a nominative singular for “I” and “you” at all. Aren't those pronouns embedded in the verb? Why would you need to say ego, when amo and video by their very nature indicate first person singular?  These pronoun forms like ego and tu are emphatic. In other words, they're used to emphasize the subject, not explain what the subject is the way nominative personal pronouns function in English.  In English we have to say “we” if we want to indicate that “we” is the subject, right? But that same information is embedded in every Latin finite verb, that why, in a sentence, if there is no clear Nominative subject, we look to the verb to supply our subject (i.e. “I”, “you”, etc.). So the Romans didn't use their nominative personal pronouns to explain what the subject is; rather, they used them to emphasize it. For instance, if we said in Latin tune amas? “Are you in love?” In this case, the Latin speaker would be emphasizing the subject, “you,” by including the Latin nominative personal pronoun tu. I can't leave ego and tu without talking a little linguistics. If linguistics bores you, stick your fingers in your ears for the next two minutes. Because personal pronouns are commonly used forms in Indo-European languages, they reveal some interesting features of the evolution of those daughter languages which developed out of the mother tongue that Latin and English share: Proto-Indo-European. Originally, the Latin word ego and the English word “I” were the same word. Both evolved from a form that looked like ego ─ so Latin actually changed the form of this pronoun very little ─ but in English the inherited -g- transformed at some point into a /kh/ sound. This ended up as a form that sounded like /ik/ which is still the Dutch word for “I,” cf. German ich. English eventually dropped the -k-, lengthened the i-, and we ended up with our first-person singular personal pronoun. The same interchange between -c- and -g- can be seen in our word “cold” and the Latin word gelidus, both from an Indo-European base that means “frozen.” Also, English “kin” and Latin gens come from a single Indo-European word that meant “family.” A comparable pattern of change explains tu in Latin and “thou,” the archaic English form of “you.” Indo-European t- remained as t- in Latin, but in English it evolved into th- ─ thus, tu and “thou.” They were once the same word. You can see the same pattern in the word for “mother:” Latin has mater, English has “mother.” Likewise, the word for “tooth,” where Latin has dentes, English has “teeth.”  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liam-connerly/support

Transparently Speaking
Parents, Pronouns, and Peers

Transparently Speaking

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2023 29:12


In episode 56, Diana discusses how she is handling helping Dinah's classmates misgender him less. She discusses her theories of why this is happening two years after he started at the school where he has always identified as a boy. Diana and Joy discuss how people's words may reflect various perspectives and not always what we imagine. If you're taking something away from our podcast, we'd appreciate it if you'd take a moment to provide us with a review; the more listeners and reviews, the more people we can reach and support. As always, feel free to reach out to us at transparentlyspeakingpodcast@gmail.com.

Day 6 from CBC Radio
This non-binary high schooler thinks parental consent policies for name and pronoun changes can be dangerous | Episode 666

Day 6 from CBC Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2023 54:15


A gender non-binary high school student thinks politicians need to listen to students first or risk putting them in danger when it comes to policies mandating parental consent in order for the use of a student's chosen name and pronouns; we explore how teachers facing subject bans can take lessons from classic hip-hop culture; getting rid of the 'smoke taint' in wine is actually really complicated; the Slinky is 80 and we look at the woman behind its success; Tony King, the legendary music promoter, describes working closely with John Lennon, Freddie Mercury and other rock royalty; and more.

10/3: Canada Covered
The debate over pronouns in Canadian schools

10/3: Canada Covered

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2023 17:54


Two Canadian provinces have sparked controversy with policies that would impact students who want to adopt a new name or pronouns at school. Saskatchewan and New Brunswick have indicated that parents students under 16 have to be notified if their child wants to socially transition at school. National Post reporter Tristin Hopper joins the show to discuss why they want to implement these policies, why groups are opposed to the move, and how Canadians feel about the issue. Background reading: Canadian politicians stampeding away from policy of concealing gender transitions from parents Saskatchewan LGBTQ group files legal action over government pronoun rules Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CANADALAND
(Short Cuts) Parents, Peterson and the Pronoun Panic

CANADALAND

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2023 38:11


With more provinces jumping aboard the prejudiced pronoun panic, Jesse and Karyn pick apart the misleading narratives that are helping fuel it.They also shine light on a legal battle the Toronto Star has quietly been waging to protect a confidential source.Host: Jesse BrownCredits: Aviva Lessard (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)Guest: Karyn Pugliese Further reading: Gender identity, pronouns and schools: Poilievre and others say leave it to parents. Parents say they want to know. Here's what experts say - Toronto StarSask. Opposition says pronoun and naming policy motivated by politics, transphobia - CBC NewsThe US Is Exporting Anti-LGBTQ Hate Online - WIRED UK Canada's Far-Right is Planning a Convoy to Toronto to ‘Save the Children'. It's Already Spinning Out of Control. - Press ProgressOversight misfiring - Winnipeg Free PressHe was a celebrity pastor at one of Canada's biggest megachurches. Inside the sexual abuse allegations that brought down Bruxy Cavey - Toronto StarHer allegations brought down megachurch pastor Bruxy Cavey. Then the anonymous trolls came for her - Toronto Star Sponsors: Athletic Greens, Peloton If you value this podcast, Support us! You'll get premium access to all our shows ad free, including early releases and bonus content. You'll also get our exclusive newsletter, discounts on merch at our store, tickets to our live and virtual events, and more than anything, you'll be a part of the solution to Canada's journalism crisis, you'll be keeping our work free and accessible to everybody. You can listen ad-free on Amazon Music—included with Prime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

London Real

Watch the Full Episode for FREE: Dr Miriam Grossman - No Child is Born in the Wrong Body - Lost in Trans Nation: The Truth About Gender - London Real

London Real
Dr Miriam Grossman - No Child is Born in the Wrong Body - Lost in Trans Nation: The Truth About Gendern - No Child is Born in the Wrong Body - Lost in Trans Nation: The Truth About Gender

London Real

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2023 86:16


Watch the Full Episode for FREE: Dr Miriam Grossman - No Child is Born in the Wrong Body - Lost in Trans Nation: The Truth About Gender - London Real

Cloth Talk Podcast
It All Matters W/ Myko Glaze

Cloth Talk Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2023 124:26


The renaissance man himself Myko Glaze gets candid sharing his story growing up as a gay black man, attempting suicide and dealing with the loss of close friends. Myko also discusses how he got into his many forms artistry from singing to writing and entrepreneurship & much more! Follow Myko Here https://www.instagram.com/kingmyko83/ Follow Pod https://www.instagram.com/cloth_talk_podcast/  

Pushback with Dr. Jonny
The Bigot Spigot

Pushback with Dr. Jonny

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2023 24:17


People use angry and inflammatory language in an attempt to silence and disempower those in opposition. When something isn't rational, reasonable or true, it is OK to voice your concern without being bigoted, intolerant or phobic. Dr. Jonny explains that disagreement doesn't mean hate and we need to be careful to not slowly slip into the narrative of an immoral mindset.

A Wonderful Chaos
Ep. 233 | Using gender pronouns with Jack Ori

A Wonderful Chaos

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2023 61:58


Jack Ori returns to the show to discuss the use of gender pronouns in today's society. We discuss how they came about and why they are so important for people today. #genderpronouns #learningtoforgive #breakthrough #emotionalintelligence #fulfilment #empowerment #authenticity #freedom #lifelessons #courage #consciousness #wisdom #selfawareness #trustyourself #growthmindset #habits #transformation #personaldevelopment #talkshow

The Great America Show with Lou Dobbs
IS XI BIDEN'S PRONOUN?

The Great America Show with Lou Dobbs

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 38:49


Gordon Chang says China has had at least 3 listening posts in Cuba for most of this century. They're now thinking about establishing a training facility which is really going to be a military base where they'll base intermediate and short range missiles. This is a threat of the highest order to the United States. Tony Shaffer doesn't believe the Intelligence community or Deep State fully briefed President Trump on this issue in Cuba. Had he known, he would not have stood for it. Tony says you have to clean house, get rid of Senior Intel leadership like Clapper and Brennan who are all cut from the same cloth. They are more committed to a political direction than their oath of office. Gordon says the Chinese lab discovered in California had a thousand mice genetically engineered to spread Covid. There were at least 20 pathogens on site in a facility completely off the books. Chinese saboteurs are crossing our southern border daily. President Biden is determined not to defend us and that makes this the scariest moment in American history.GUEST: NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERTS GORDON CHANG & TONY SHAFFERSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Relationship Insights with Carrie Abbott
Transgender Pronoun Usage Needs to Stop

Relationship Insights with Carrie Abbott

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2023 56:04


Transgender pronoun use for many is being polite, caring and respectful. Rosaria Butterfield and Megan Kelly, two prominent voices who for years believed this and acted on their beliefs, are now saying they are done promoting a lie. One from a biblical perspective and the other from a practical and moral perspective. Both women -strong in their resolve. We find out what changed. A practical show with powerful truth!

Messianic Apologetics
Preferred Pronouns and Inclusive Language – McKee Moment Shorts

Messianic Apologetics

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2023 4:41


Nightside With Dan Rea
New Pronouns Rule - 9 p.m.

Nightside With Dan Rea

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2023 41:14


A new policy at Worcester Catholic schools outlines that students must use pronouns that coincide with their biological sex. The policy also stated that bullying, harassment, or threats of violence will not be tolerated, and students must conduct themselves in a manner consistent with their biological sex. Dan asked the listeners their thoughts!

Live Like the World is Dying
S1E84 - Michael Novick on Antifascist Struggle

Live Like the World is Dying

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2023 67:50


Episode Summary This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn is joined by author and activist, Michael Novick. They talk about just how horrible fascism really is. Thankfully, there's a simple solution, antifascism. Michael talks about their work with Anti-Racist Action Network, the Turning The Tide newspaper, and his newest book with Oso Blanco, The Blue Agave Revolution. Host Info Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery. Guest Info Michael (he/they) and The Blue Agave Revolution can be found at www.antiracist.org If you want to take over the Turning The Tide newspaper, find Michael at antiracistaction_ la@yahoo.com Publisher Info This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Transcript Live Like the World is Dying: Michael Novick on Antifascism Inmn 00:15 Hello, and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the end times. I'm your host Inmn Neruin and I use they/them pronouns. This week we are talking about something that is very scary and, in terms of things we think about being prepared for, something that is far more likely to impact our lives than say, a zombie apocalypse. Or I mean, we're already being impacted by this. It is actively killing us. But, if I had to choose between preparing for this and preparing for living in a bunker for 10 years, I would choose this. Oh, golly, I really hope preparing for this doesn't involve living in a bunker for 10 years, though. But the monster of this week is fascism. However, there's a really great solution to fascism...antifascism. And we have a guest today who has spent a lot of their life thinking about and participating in antifascism. But first, we are a proud member of the Channel Zero Network of anarchist podcasts. And so here's a jingle from another show on that network. Doo doo doo doo doo. [Singing the words like a cheesy melody] Inmn 02:00 And we're back. And I have with me today writer and organizer Michael Novick, co founder of the John Brown Anti Klan Committee, People Against Racist Terror, Anti-racist Action Network, the TORCH Antifa network and White People For Black Lives. Michael, would you like to introduce yourself with your name, pronouns and kind of...I guess like your history in anti-racist, antifascist struggles and a little bit about what you want to tell us about today? Michael 02:34 Sure. Thanks, Inmn. So yeah, Michael Novick. Pronouns he or they. I've been doing anti-racist and antifascist organizing and educating and work for many many decades at this point. I'm in my 70s. I got involved in political activism in kind of anti-war, civil rights, student rights work in the 60s. I was an SDS at Brooklyn College. And I've been doing that work from an anti white supremacist, anticapitalist, anti-imperialist perspective. And I think that particularly trying to understand fascism in the US context, you have to look at questions of settler colonialism. And, you know, people sometimes use the term racial capitalism. I think that land theft, genocide, enslavement of people of African descent, especially is central to understanding the social formation of this country. I was struck by the name of the podcast in terms of "live like the world is ending," because for a long time, I had an analysis that said that the fear of the end of the world had to do with the projection of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie feels that its rule is coming to an end and therefore thinks the world is coming to an end, but the world will get on fire without the bourgeoisie and the rulers and the imperialists. Except that because of the lease on life that this empire has gotten repeatedly by the setbacks caused by white and male supremacy and the way it undermines people's movements, the bourgeoisie is actually in a position to bring the world to an end. I think that's what we're facing is a global crisis of the Earth's system based on imperialism, based on settler colonialism, and exploitation of the Earth itself. And so I think it's not just preparing for individual survival in those circumstances. We have to think about really how we can put an end to a system that's destroying the basis for life on the planet. And so I think that those are critical understandings. And the turn towards fascism that we're seeing across the...you know, Anti-Racist Action's analysis has always been that fascism is built from above and below and that there are forces within society. I think particularly because settler colonialism is a mass base for fascism in this country, as well as an elite preference for it under the kind of circumstances that we're looking at, in which, you know, as I said the basis for life itself has been damaged by imperialism, capitalism, and its manifestations. And so the need for extreme repressive measures, and for genocidal approaches, and exterminationist approaches are at hand. So, I think that, again, I think that the question of preparation is preparation for those kinds of circumstances. I think we're living in a kind of low intensity civil war situation already, in which you see the use of violence by the State, obviously, but also by non state forces that people have to deal with. So I think that that's the overall approach that I think we need to think about. And that comes out of, as I said, decades of doing work. I think that there are a few key things that we have to understand about this system, which is that it's not just issues that we face, but there is an enemy, there is a system that is trying to propagate and sustain itself that is inimical to life and inimical to freedom. And that if we want to protect our lives and the lives of other species and if we want to protect people's freedom going forward, we have to recognize that there's an irreconcilable contradiction between those things and between the system that we live in. So that's kind of a sobering perspective. But, I think it's an important one. Inmn 06:20 Yeah, yeah, no, it is. And it's funny, something that you said, kind of made a gear turn in my head. So, you know, normally, yeah, we do talk about in preparing to live like the world is dying, we do usually come at it from this context of that being a bad thing that we need to prepare for bad things to happen. But, the way you were talking about like fascism and empire and stuff, I suddenly thought, "Wait, maybe we should live like that world is dying and like there is something better ahead." Because, you know, we do like to approach the show from...I feel like we like to talk about the bad things that are happening and could happen but also the hopefulness and like the brighter futures that we can imagine. Michael 07:15 I think that's right. And I think it's really important to have both of those understandings. I think that, you know, people do not actually get well organized out of despair. I think they do, you know, you want to have...You know, there used to be a group called Love and Rage. And you have to have both those aspects. You have to have the rage against the machine and the rage against the system that's destroying people, but you have to have the love, you have to have that sense of solidarity and the idea of a culture of not just resistance but a culture of liberation and a culture of solidarity. And I think that, you know, there's a dialectic between the power of the State and the power of these oppressive forces and the power of the people and to the extent that the people can exert their power and to the extent that we can free ourselves from the, you know, the chains of mental slavery is...[Sings a sort of tune] you hear in reggae, you know, that actually weakens the power of the State and the power of the corporations. And they [the State] understand that sometimes better than we do. So there is, you know, there's some lessons I feel like I've learned and one of them is that every time there is a liberatory movement based out of people's experiences and the contradictions that are experienced in their lives, whether it's the gay liberation movement, women's liberation movement, or Black liberation and freedom struggle, there's always an attempt by the rulers to take that over and to reintegrate it into, you know, bourgeois ways of thinking. And, you know, people talk about hegemony and the idea that ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class, and I think that, you know, I've seen it happen over and over again with different movements. And so, you know, I was involved with the Bay Area gay liberation in the 80s and, you know, one of the things that happened there is that you saw very quickly a different language coming up and different issues coming up. And so suddenly the question of gays in the military was put forward, or we have to be concerned about the fact that gay people have to hide when they're in the military, and the question of normalizing gay relationships in the contract form of marriage came forward. And those were basically efforts to circumscribe and contain the struggle for gay liberation and to break down gender binaries and stuff within the confines of bourgeois conceptions of rights and bourgeois integration into militarism and contractual economic relationships. And you saw that over and over again in terms of the Women's Liberation Movement, and then all of a sudden you've got bourgeois feminism and white white feminism. And I think that that's really important to understand because it means that there's a struggle inside every movement to grasp the contradiction that...and to maintain a kind of self determined analysis and strategy for how that movement is going to carry itself forward in opposition to what the rulers of this society--who rely heavily on, as I say, white supremacy, male supremacy, settler colonialism, and its manifestations--to try to contain and suppress insurrectionary...And you see the same thing within the preparedness movement. There's the dominant politics of the preparedness movement I think that I've seen over many years are actually white supremacist. They're maintaining the homestead of settler colonial land theft. So you have to understand that that's a contradiction in that movement that has to be faced and overcome and struggled with. I think having an understanding is critical to really trying to chart a path forward that will kind of break...create wedge issues on our side of the of the ledger, so to speak, and begin to break people away from identification with the Empire, identification with whiteness, identification with privilege. And, you know, one of the issues I've had over a long time, for example, what I struggle for is people's understanding about the question of privilege. You know, I come out of the...as I said, there were struggles in the 60s and early 70s about what we called white skin privilege. And I think that it's critical to understand that privilege functions throughout the system all the time. It's not a burden of guilt, it's a mechanism of social control. And anything you have as privilege can be taken away. Privilege is a mechanism of actually obtaining consent and adherence to...You know, parents use privileges with their kids to try to get their kids to do what they want. Teachers use privilege with students to get the students to do what they want, Prison guards use privileges with prisoners to get the prisoners to follow the rules and stay incarcerated. And so, you know, that's a mechanism of Imperial domination, of settler colonialism, and certainly within that context. So, it's not an illness or a...It's not something to be guilty about. It's something to contend with and deal with and understand that if there are things you have as privileges that you think are used by right or by merit, you're deluding yourself and you can't actually function facing reality. So when you understand that they are privileges, you understand that they're there to obtain your consent and your adherence, and your compliance, your complicity, your complacency, and then you have to actually resist those privileges or turn those privileges into weapons that you can use to actually weaken the powers that be. And I think that that approach is important to understand that, you know...I used to do a lot of work with people in the Philippines struggle, and they talked about the fact that, you know, on some of the...outside the US Army bases that were imposed in the Philippines, there was a rank order of privilege, like where people could dig in the garbage dumps of the US military to get better quality stuff that was being thrown out by the military. And so that kind of hierarchy and sense of organizing people by by hierarchy, by privilege, is how the system functions at every level. In the workplace they find different privileges that people have to try to divide workers from each other and get people to struggle for privilege as opposed to actually struggle for solidarity and resistance and a different world. And I think that having that understanding begins to free people. Steven Biko was the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa that really helped propel it moving forward. One of the things he said is that, "The greatest weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the minds of the oppressed." And, you know, I think to the extent that we can start to free our minds of these structures, we can actually begin to weaken the oppressor and strengthen the struggling and creative powers and energies of people to really build a different world. Inmn 14:00 Yeah, yeah. Sorry, this is gonna seem like a silly question because it feels very basic. But, I love to kind of break things down into their base levels. But, what is fascism? Michael 14:11 Yeah, good question. I think that an important analysis of fascism that I came across is from Cesare Amè. And what he said is that, "Fascism is the application in the metropole (of the colonizing power) of the methods of rule that have been used in the colonies." I think that that has a critical understanding because, as I said, the US is a separate colonial system, so elements of fascism have always been present within the political, economic, and social structure of the United States because they're internally colonized people and stolen land. So, if you're looking at elements of fascism, there's hyper masculinity, there's hyper nationalism, there's obviously slave labor, there's incorporation of a mass base into kind of a visceral identification with a leader. And all of those things really have manifest themselves in US history before we used the term, "fascism." And so, the US is based on land theft, on genocide, on exterminationist policies towards the indigenous people, the enslavement of African people, and also on the incorporation of a mass base based on settler colonialism and the offering of privileges to a sector of the population to say, "Okay, you know, we're going to participate along with the rulers in this system." And so I think that it's important to get that understanding because people often think that fascism is an aberration or it's a particularly extreme form of dictatorial rule or something like that. But I think that it's really a way of trying to reorganize people's personalities around their role within an empire and within, you know, it's trying to control the way people think, and control the way people see themselves in relation to other people. And so, you know, that's why I think that idea that fascism is built from above and below is important because we do see fascist elements that have some contradictions with the state. And we've seen, for example, in January 6th. You know, the government has gone after certain of these elements because they have moved too quickly. Or, the same way that there were premature antifascists during the World War II period and they went after the people in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Sometimes there are sort of premature proto-fascist in this society that have contradictions with the State, and they're operating somewhat independently. So, you know, I think that it's important to understand that and that there are elements in the State and within the different sections of the State that have their own operative plan. So, you know, when you look at the question of police abuse and police brutality, there's one approach to it that certain elements in the State take, which is about command and control. They want to make sure that they control the police forces and that individual officers are not acting independently but are carrying out cohesive state strategies. At the same time, there are elements within law enforcement that are trying to organize individual cops for organized white supremacy. And, it's the same thing in the military. And so there are contradictions there that we have to be aware of, but at the same time, they're operating within a framework of settler colonialism, of organized white supremacy, So, one of the things that's come up recently, for example, is this idea that there...how can there be non-white white supremacists? And, you know, I think it has to do with the fact that it's not just your identity, or your racial identity that's there but who do you...What's your identification? Are you identifying with the Empire? Are you identifying with the bourgeois? Are you identifying with the settler colonial project that has shaped, really, the whole globe over the course of half a millennium? Or, are you identifying with the indigenous? Are you identifying with the struggling people? And it's less a...It's not a question of your particular skin color but which side of the line are you on? Inmn 18:12 How does attempts by the State or by society to kind of like assimilate various oppressed people into the Empire? Like, how does that kind of factor factor into this? Michael 18:24 Well, if you look at the history of, let's say, Central America is one case in point, that there were fascist forces in Central America and their base was not really within their own society. Their base was within the Empire. And so, you had death squads operating, you had mercenaries operating, you had contras [counter revolutionaries] operating in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, carrying out genocidal policies, in many cases, against indigenous people and people of African descent within their own societies. And so, you know, that's not exactly fascism in the same way, but it certainly is aspects of police state and death squad activity that has to be resisted. So I think that, you know, when you see Enrique Tarrio and some of these people that are, quote unquote, "Hispanic," operating as proto-fascists with the Proud Boys or these other formations in the United States that's a manifestation of the same thing, that there are people who have identified themselves with a system of white supremacy and a system of domination, a system of exploitation, and they're trying to make their own individual piece with it and they have collective mechanisms that reinforce that. And they see...So, you know, I think that the fascism has presented itself at times as a decolonizing element in Latin America and Asia and other places where...For example, when the Japanese Empire was trying to strengthen itself and formed an alliance with Italian fascism and German Nazism, they also presented themselves in Asia as liberators of Asia from European colonialism. And, you know, then they carried out atrocities of their own in China, Indochina, and Korea. So, I think that nobody is exempt from this. It's not a genetic factor. It is what ideology...What's the organizing principle that people are operating under to form their society and generate their power? If that's militaristic, if it's hierarchical, if it's exploitative, then regardless of what the skin tone of somebody carrying that out is, it can be fascistic in its nature. Inmn 20:44 Yeah, I like something that you said earlier, which I think is an interesting frame. So, I feel like people in the United States, you might hear people like, talk about the rise of fascism, or the like, emergence of fascism, as if it's this new thing, you know? And I like how you read it, in the formation of the United States as a nationalistic identity with this idea that fascism has always been here, fascism has always been a part of the settler colonial project of the United States. Michael 21:27 Well, I was gonna follow up that is if you look at the countries in which fascism came to power in Europe, they were mainly countries where they felt they were not adequate empires in their own right. In other words, Spain, even Portugal, France, England, you know, had empires. Germany came late to imperialism. And even to the formation of a German state, the German bourgeoisie was not able to really unify all the Germans into a single nation. Same thing with Italy. Italy was, you know, a bunch of kind of mini states and city states and came late to the formation of a national sense of Italy. And so I think that fascism presented itself as a overarching ideology that could galvanize a nation and launch it into an imperial mode where it could compete with other empires. So the US context is a little different because, as I say, from the very beginning it had that element of settler colonialism and cross-class alliance in which not only the bourgeoisie but even working people could be induced to participate in that project of land theft and genocide. There's a famous book called "How the Irish Became White" by Noel Ignatiev who talked about, you know, how white supremacy affected Irish workers. And what he didn't really look at was that there was some Irish involved right from the very beginning and trying to overturn the land relationships between settlers. They wanted, you know, there was a land theft and a land hunger that they had, and so, for example, even before the question of relation between Irish workers and Black workers came up, there were Irish in the United States that wanted to overturn the agreements that had been reached in Pennsylvania between the Quakers and the indigenous people in Pennsylvania. The Irish wanted land and they wanted to participate in taking that land from the native people. And then that had repercussions back in Ireland itself because that the US Empire and those land thefts then affected the consciousness of the Irish within Ireland itself and weaken the Irish struggle for independence from British colonialism because there was a safety valve of the US Empire. And so I think that it's critical to look at these things because it gives us a sense of what is at stake at different times and what's at issue. And I think that looking at the question of decolonization, looking at the question of solidarity and unity, is the flip sides to this. If we only look at the power of the bourgeois, if we look at the power of the fascists, it can be intimidating or overwhelming or depressing. And I think that that's the...You know, when you talk about preparedness and some of these things, you're talking about what are the generative powers of the people themselves because Imperialism and Capitalism are based on a kind of parasitical relationship. They're extracting wealth from the Earth itself and from the labor of people and turning it into a power over the Earth and over the people. And I think that understanding that actually all that wealth that the system has, all the power that the system has is actually coming out of the people who are oppressed and exploited in the land gives us a sense of what our own powers are and what our own capacity to be creative and generative are. To the extent we exercise those, it weakens them. And I think that that's a critical understanding. Inmn 25:16 Yeah. Are there ways that fascism is currently manifesting that feel different from say, I don't know, like 40 years ago? Michael 25:29 Well, I think the whole phenomenon of social media and the way in which they very effectively organized these Neofascist forces through the gaming...hypermasculine gaming stuff and, you know, I think...We talked a little bit about the..I think the reason that people approached me to do this podcast had to do with my essay in "¡No Pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis." And so that's a piece where I talked about, you know, some of this history of different struggles and how they...what lessons to extract from them. But the other book I've been working on and put out recently, is called "The Blue Agave Revolution: Poetry of the Blind Rebel." This was a book...I was approached by Oso Blanco, an indigenous political prisoner here in the United States who was involved with actually robbing banks to support the Zapatistas in Mexico, and he was getting "Turning the Tide," the newspaper I've been working on for many years that we send free to prisoners, and he approached me. He wanted to work on a book and he said he wanted me to work on the book with him. And he had..."The Poetry of the Blind Rebel" is a story arc and poetry arc of his work that is a story about the Mexican Revolution of the early 20th century, the 1910s-1920. It's kind of magical realism. But, he asked me to write some fiction. And so I wrote kind of a short story cycle of a three way fight between vampires, zombies, and humans. And the vampires are basically--I mean, it's Dracula--but, you know, there's one point where there's a woman who has been trying to grapple with this and she forms a cross with two wooden tent stakes and he kind of laughs and says, "Oh, you bought that old wive's tale. We totally integrated into the church and into the State," you know. Basically, the vampires represent the bourgeoisie because they [the bourgeoisie] are vampiric and parasitic and they have powers. The zombies in this story are a group of incels that have captured a vampire and they think that they can create a potion from vampire blood that will give them power over women and make them...you know...And instead, they turn themselves into zombies. And so then there's a sort of three way fight between the bourgeoisie on the one hand, these vampires, the fascists from below, these sort of incel zombies that have to eat brains, and then the humans who are trying to deal with both of them. And I think that that's an important understanding that, you know, there are contradictions between the vampires and zombies but they're both our enemy. And so, I think that that's an approach that we have to understand that they're....You know, it's not a simple linear equation that's going on. There's a lot of things happening. I think that the fascists from below have contradictions with the fascists above, and we can take advantage of that. And then...but, we have to understand that their, you know, it's not...I think there are weaknesses...[Trails off] Let me go back to this. You know, historically, people have talked about antifascism and anti-imperialism, and there's been an element in both of those of class collaboration. A lot of people in the anti-imperialist movement think, "Oh, well, there's a sort of a national bourgeoisie that also doesn't like the Empire and wants to exert itself. And we have to ally with them. And a lot of people in antifascist movements have thought, "Oh, well, there's, you know, bourgeois Democrats who also hate fascism," and I think that those have been weaknesses historically. And also the contradiction between people who concentrate mostly antifascism, the people who concentrate mostly on anti-imperialism has weakened people's movements. I think having a kind of overarching understanding that fascism is rooted in Empire, particularly in settler colonialism, and that there isn't a contradiction. We have to find the forces of popular resistance that will overturn both fascism and imperialism...and capitalism. And, that we have to, you know, have a self determined struggle for decolonization and recognize people's self determination in their own struggles and their own capacity to live in a different way and to begin to create, you know, the solidarity forever, we say, you know, "Build a new world from the ashes of the old." And, I think that in terms of my own work, I've tried to--although, you might think I'm aging out at this point, but I've been involved at every point that there's an upsurge in struggle. I've tried to participate in that as part of Occupy LA. And more recently, I've been involved with some of the dual power organizing that's going on. And I don't know how much your people are familiar with that, but it is a conception related to, let's say, Cooperation Jackson, in Mississippi, where they're trying to figure out ways of organizing themselves economically and also resisting the power of the State. And so I was at the Dual Power Gathering that took place in Indiana last summer and there's one on the West Coast that's coming up in the Portland area. Inmn 31:06 Yeah, could you explain what--for our listeners--what is dual power? Michael 31:11 Yeah, so dual power is the concept that we have a power and we can exercise that power, and within the framework of this contemporary society, which is so destructive, we can begin to generate and exercise that power, and that there's, as I said, a kind of dialectic between the power of the people and the power of the State, and the corporations, and the power of the fascist, and that the different prefigurative elements of the kind of society we want to live in in the future can be created now. And, that as we exercise that power, it weakens the power of the State. It weakens the power of the bourgeoisie and the power of the imperialists. I went to that Dual Power Gathering in Indiana--I mean, it's not my bio region, but I did used to live in Chicago--and I felt some affinities with it. You know, they were...To talk about the idea of, you know, what's the relationship between dual power and our three-way fight, with a different conception with what the three-way fight is, that we are having to contend with two different enemies, you know, these fascists from below and the fascist from above, the State, and corporate power, and then also right-wing elements. And I think that in terms of both of those, we have to understand what are the powers that we have to organize ourselves to, as they say, to apply the generative and regenerative powers to...So that people have a sense of what they're fighting for. It's not just anti-this and anti-that. So for example, the newspaper I've worked in for many years, "Turning the Tide," originally, we called it the "Journal of Anti-Racist Action," or "Anti-Racist Action Edcuation & Research," and then we changed the subtitle a few years ago to, "The Journal of Intercommunal Solidarity," in the sense that you have to say what you're fighting for? What are we trying to build? What are we trying to create? What are we creating? And how does that give us the capacity to continue to resist and continue to shape the future, not just react always to what they're doing but actually have a proactive, generative stance. And so, you know, people's creative cultural expressions, people's capacity to do permaculture in urban environments or many other things like that, that say, that we want to restore the biological diversity, you know. We want to restore the capacity of the soil. We want to restore the clarity of the water and the air in the process of struggling for our own liberation. And that, you know, those are things that can happen and must happen now. We can't wait for some revolution that will happen in the future in which you know, we'll create a better world. We have to start in the context and the interstices of the system in the place that people are being pulverized. And so, you know, in Los Angeles, people are involved in various kinds of mutual aid work and working with the homeless, working with people being evicted to take over homes and restore them. And I think all those manifestations, that's the question of dual power there. We're looking at the incapacity of the people ruling this society to actually meet basic human needs and we're trying to figure out how to meet them. So, I think that's where it coincides with this question of preparedness is that I think that is a sense that people have to rely on their own resources, their own energies, and understanding that there's a contradiction between the system, the way it functions, and its implications and impact on us. And it's incapacity, its powerlessness, to really protect people from the kinds of calamities it's creating, whether it's flooding, or firestorms, or, you know, all the other manifestations of this global crisis of the Earth's system that is growing out of Capitalism. We have to deal with that now. We can't wait, you know, till sometime in the future when we have, you know, "power," quote unquote, you know? We have the power to start to deal with it. Inmn 35:17 Yeah, and, I feel like there have been different ways that people have tried to do exactly that in the past. And I don't know, like, I'm thinking of a lot of the stuff that the Black Panthers were doing, like creating communities that they...like, declaring that they had power and that they had the power to build the communities that they wanted and to preserve those communities. And then they faced an incredible amount of repression, like, as much for arming themselves as for giving kids lunch and breakfast. And I'm wondering, in what ways does the State try to like...or in what ways has the State tried to destabilize dual power movements in the past? And what can we kind of expect them to do now? Or what are they doing now? Does that make sense? Michael 36:35 Yeah, I think there's always a two-pronged approach by the state. And, sometimes it's referred to as, "The carrot and the stick." You know, it's co-optation ad coercion. And so they always attempt both to control as they modify people's thinking and try to create bourgeois alternatives to liberatory thinking and liberatory organizing. And then simultaneously, they have the repressive aspects, the criminalization of those efforts. And so in relation to the Black Panther Party, for example, they were simultaneously pushing what they called Black Capitalism, and saying, "Oh, yes, you know, we'll give you, you know, we'll find the sector of Black community that can integrate into the system." And then, along with that, they were carrying out COINTELPRO, which was a war strategy of creating contradictions inside Black Liberation organizations, setting one against the other, trying to execute and/or incarcerate people who were not willing to compromise their principles. So I think we have to be aware that you're seeing the same thing go on around policing issues. You know, they constantly want to put forward different reforms and accountability measures and ways that people can participate in civilian oversight mechanisms that really don't do anything. And at the same time, they're, you know, attacking people who are doing Copwatch or groups like the Stop LAPD Spying Network, which has exposed a lot of stuff about this constantly being targeted. So, I think that those, that the two-pronged approach by the State is something we have to be very aware of. It's not only coercion and criminalization and repression, but it's also co-optation and, you know, giving people individual solutions and mechanisms that are...they call it the nonprofit industrial complex, you know, this whole mechanism of structures that are set up to get people involved in grant writing and looking to philanthropists to somehow support them in their work. And I think that trying..You know, one of the things the Black Panther Party did was it had its own self generated funding by going to the base community they were trying to organize in, talking to small shopkeepers, and talking to churches, and trying to integrate that into these Liberatory efforts. So, I think that, you know, looking at that model, when I started doing, for example, People Against Racist Terror, there were a lot of small anti-racist groups around the country and a lot of them ended up going the route of looking for grants and looking for nonprofit organizations that they could fold themselves into, and I think that that kind of denatured them. They became, you know...As opposed to being grassroots, they became board and staff organizations, and individuals would create careers out of it. And I think that that mechanism of transforming popular movements into nonprofit organizations or nongovernmental organizations that accommodate themselves to existing power structures, existing economic realities, is one of the things that we need to try to avoid happening in this current period. Inmn 40:18 That makes that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, it's, it's funny, because I feel like I'm seeing a lot of groups involved in mutual aid, who are, I think, taking that lesson of the nonprofit industrial complex but are also trying to access larger swaths of money than the communities that they're part of can provide, like this model of, it's important to involve your community base in those things and to generate those things ourselves, but there is this problem sometimes of like, you're passing the hat and the same 20 people are kicking into the bail fund. And I don't know, I think maybe this is just me being hopeful, but I'm seeing a lot of mutual aid groups kind of dip into grant writing or dip into utilizing nonprofit statuses more so than structures in order to access funding and things like that. But what I'm seeing is people coming at it from like, hopefully, what is a different perspective of taking these lessons of the past and being like, "Well, we don't want to become some horrifying, large nonprofit, but we do want the State to give us 10 grand so that we can build infrastructure. Like I guess my question is, are there ways to responsibly interact with that? Or is this a trap? Michael 41:57 I guess I'd have hear more details. I think it's imperative that it has to come from below and from the grassroots. I think that, you know, I've been involved with the opposite, for example, Pacifica Radio, and Pacifica is listener sponsored radio and is a constant struggle about how much can we accept cooperation of broadcasting funding. They cut us off some years ago and we're trying to get it back Or, there's struggles about trying to get some underwriting. It depends who you're accountable to for the money that you're getting. Are you accountable primarily to the funder? Are you accountable primarily to the people who are using that money and the people who are self organizing for community power and community sustainability, and, you know, some of the things we're talking about of self determined strategies. And, you know, I do think that what happened to a lot of the 60s movements is that there was an ebb in the mass movement. And then people made their separate peace. People were like flotsam and jetsam as the tide of people's power movements were negatively impacted because of white supremacy, male supremacy, COINTELPRO, and an inadequate response to deal with it. Then, you know, people ended up in labor unions where they were doing some good work, but basically they became part of a labor bureaucracy where they ended up in government social services/ They were doing some good work, but they became part of that mechanism. So, I think the critical thing is trying to keep control of what's going on in the hands of the people who are actually organizing themselves and their communities. Inmn 43:55 Yeah. No, that makes sense. What are strategies that we should be embracing for countering this current current escalation in fascist tendencies? Michael 44:10 Well, you know, I've done a lot of work over the years, and as I say, "Turning the Tide" is a newspaper, we send a couple of thousand copies almost every issue into the prisons and we're in touch with a lot of stuff that's going on in the prisons. And I think that that's a critical place to look for some understanding about how to deal with this because we do see under what are essentially very naked fascist conditions of domination inside the prisons, which are very hierarchical. There's a lot of negative activity within the prisons themselves. There's the power of the guards and the wardens in the system and yet you find struggles going on against racism, against sexism, for solidarity against the solitary confinement of people who have been victims of torture are organizing themselves. And I think that understanding of that capacity and looking at that, those are some of the leading struggles in the United States. There have been hunger strikes, there have been labor strikes, the Alabama Prisoners Movement [Free Alabama Movement] here in California and elsewhere. And I think that sense that people under the most severe repression are actually capable of making human connections among themselves and beginning to actually, in a self critical way, look at how they incorporated toxic masculinity and racism into their own approach to reality, and by beginning to purge themselves of those things, they can begin to create multiracial solidarity among all prisoners to actually resist the conditions of incarceration and resist enslavement. So I think that that's very important to look at. I think that here in Los Angeles, there are, as they say, organizations like LACAN, that are working among homeless people and with homeless people to organize themselves to have street watches. They have a community garden on the roof of a building. They have cultural expression. They have theatrical groups...coral...You know, it's like all those things connect people's love and rage, as I say, people's ability to generate creative cultural expression and to use that to strengthen their solidarity and their unity and their ability to resist the coercive power of the State or the police sweeps or to expose what's going on and begin to put out a challenge to the way that society is organized. So I think that those are some critical things. I think that having the capacity to defend ourselves, both physically and also legally is very very important. I think that if you look at stuff like the Stop Cop City struggle that the escalation of repression and the use of charges of terrorism on people that are obviously not terrorists is indicates that the State sees this as a very, very serious threat and is trying to eradicate it and is trying to intimidate people. And I think to the extent that we can turn that around and use it to say to people, you know, "Is this the kind of State you want to live in? Is this the kind of society you want to have?" is a way to begin to change minds and hearts of people who have been going along with the system. I lived through a whole period where we freed many many political prisoners. We freed Bobby. We freed Huey. We freed Angela. And, you know, even the Panther 21 in New York, you know, it's like the jury met for about 30 minutes and acquitted them all because the power of those organized forces affected the consciousness of the jurors. And I think that understanding that we actually have the power to begin to shape not just own consciousness, to ways that struggle with people, to, "Which side are you on?" and to give people a sense that there is a side that they can identify with and become part of, and transform their own lives, and transform society in the process of doing that. So, I think, you know, for example, the stuff around preparedness is vital that, you know, we're living in a world in which there are incredibly destructive wildfires, floods, tornadoes, and it's very clear that the state is incapable of even dealing with it after the fact, let alone preventing it. And so I think that gives us an opening to talk to very wide sectors of the population in cities and in rural areas as well. I think that, you know, for example, Anti-Racist Action Network in its heyday had hundreds of chapters around the country in small towns because young people were, in their own high schools and music scenes, were suddenly faced with this threat of fascism and said, "Hey, we have to get organized." And so I think that, you know, we need to see these things as opportunities to really very massively begin to engage with people and begin to offer an alternative way of thinking about the world that gives some hope and some prospect of dealing not just with the crises and the repression but a way forward for people. Inmn 49:48 Yeah, yeah. And that kind of ties into--I love that you use this phrase. We've had this phrase come up lot with Cindy Milstein, who we've interviewed on the podcast before and who we've published their newest book last year, "Try Anarchism For Life," and they talk a lot about prefigurative organizing and prefigurative spaces. And I think this kind of ties into what you're talking about, but I was wondering if you could kind of give us your take on the importance of building prefigurative spaces? Michael 50:31 Yeah, I think that we have to find ways to bring people together and to give people a sense, as I say, of our own power and our own creative and generative capacity. So I think that that says that whether it's free schools, or it's breakfast for children, or any of the things that the Black Panther Party did and that many other people of color movements did in a certain period are here at our disposal. I know that, for example, there's a crisis in childcare and child rearing that's going on and so organizing people into childcare collectives and people jointly taking responsibility for each other's children and creating trust relationships that make people feel comfortable with that would be one example of that. In food deserts, organizing people to break up some sidewalks and grow some food and I think they're...One of the things that I've come to understand from doing this work for a long time is we live in a kind of fractal or holographic world in which the same contradictions are shot all the way through the system. It's at any level of magnification in fractals. If you look at the coast of Norway, something in the fjords, you know, it's the same pattern is reproduced at every level. And, you know, in a holographic image, any piece of the hologram has the whole hologram in it. So, I think that any area that people want to choose to struggle in, I think as long as they understand that they're struggling against the entirety of the system in that area and that there's an enmity built into that relationship between the system and we see what they're trying to do, I think that's the critical understanding. So if people are engaged in, you know, community gardens, as long as they understand that that's a piece of a larger struggle to create a world in which nature has, has space to reassert itself, and that people can eat different food and better food. And any area that you know, whether it's the struggle over transgender, nonbinary, or anything else, once people see that it's the same system throughout that they're struggling with, it lays a basis for solidarity, for unity, and for a struggle on many fronts simultaneously that says, you know, sort of the "War of the Flea," [A book on guerrilla warfare] the system is vulnerable in a million places because the system is in all those places simultaneously and, you know, they have a lot of money, a lot of power to deal with that, and they're organized in these systems of command and control and artificial intelligence and all the rest of it to keep track of everything, but we're in all those places simultaneously as well because we're everywhere. And trying to coordinate those things, I think, is very important. Inmn 53:51 This is a little bit of a backup that I remembered that I wanted to ask you about it. So, like, we're currently seeing like a pretty horrific and intense wave of legislation against against trans people and against queer people, and nonbinary people. And, yeah, I'm wondering what your take on that is as a kind of indicator, if we have to imagine like fascism as a spectrum of where we could be going, like what is that kind of legislation and repression an indicator of? Michael 54:38 Yeah, you know, I think that obviously fascism always tries to target the people they think are the most vulnerable. And also, as I say, I think they want to create what they see as wedge issues that they can use to divide people and segment people off. And so I think, to the extent that we can reverse that and we can try to unite people around a different conception. You know, one of the things that struck me is that you saw that they sort of had this victory with controlling the courts and overturning Roe v. Wade, for example. And, what that revealed was actually how narrow that really was, the forces that were pushing for that. Because then, you know, Nebraska and Kansas and these various states suddenly had electoral reinforcement of abortion rights happening. And I think the same thing can happen here. I think that there's so many families that they're concerned about their own kids or...and the parental rights. It reveals that these fault lines go through the whole system. That's what I'm trying to say is all of their power is based on repression and exploitation, and to the extent that people begin to see that and how it impacts on them, it opens up the vistas of possibility to say, you know, if you're concerned about your child's right to get the medical assistance they need, why is the State coming in to prevent you from doing that? And what are the interests that are trying to pick this as a threat to the stability of society? Inmn 56:46 And, yeah. Michael 56:48 So, you know, I think that since every crisis is an opportunity, I think the other thing I did want to talk about a little bit was the whole Covid pandemic, you know, going back to the prepper thing. I think you saw, again, you know, a lot of right-wing exploitation of that issue. And I think that the extent that we can get out ahead of that and look at...Okay, for example, in a society like Cuba, which had a completely different relationship to this because they're organized in a different way and, you know, they actually have a public health system and they actually created their own vaccines, not the ones from big pharma here in this country, and begin to get people to think about that and why Cuba is stigmatized by this society? Why are they embargoing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, all these countries? You know, the connection to a global sense of what are the possibilities in the world? What are the prefigurative formations that are happening inside imperialism by countries that are actually resisting it? And so, if you look at, you know, the medical care system in Cuba, for example, you know, they have...Every neighborhood has a doctor that lives in the neighborhood--and nursing staff and other people--and [the doctor] works door to door with the people in that neighborhood to be concerned about their health and their well being not just, you know, responding to a particular medical crisis, and they have that systematized and they...So in that context, they were able to vaccinate people, not through coercive measures but through trusted people that were part of their community that could reassure them about the fact that they developed the vaccines themselves and that the Cuban pharmaceutical industry came out of their effort to deal with chemical and biological warfare by the United States. The US was like putting in swine fever as a way to destroy pigs that every family in Cuba had their own little pig to raise and, you know, supplement their food. And so they developed animal vaccines first to protect those animals and then they work their way up from there. So I think that that sense of, you know...I had a good friend recently who passed away from complications of diabetes and the Cubans have developed treatments for diabetes and to prevent amputation of limbs and other stuff. And all of that is unavailable to us because of the US imperialist embargo on Cuba and blockade. And giving people a sense that, you know, there actually are people living in the world in much better conditions. The United States is number one in incarceration, number one in many social ills, number one in overdose deaths, and, you know, on and on and on...number one in evictions. And we can begin to, you know, really give a sense to people that this system has nothing to offer them but destruction and that we have the capacity to create something different. Inmn 1:00:13 Yeah. Thanks. I have only to say that...yes. Yes to all of that. We are nearing the end...of the recording, not of the world. [Said as a dry joke] And, yeah, is there any any kind of last things that you want to say before--I'll ask you to plug anything that you want to plug at the end--I mean, that was such a beautiful wrap up, I feel like. But, if there's anything else you want to talk about, that we haven't talked about? Michael 1:00:45 Well, you know, years ago, I was part of a group in Berkeley that took over the California College of Arts and Crafts to create an anti-war poster making facility during the Vietnam War. And out of that group, there was a singing group called the Red Star Singers, and they had a song called "The Power of the People's the Force of Life." And I think we really have to have that sense. It's, you know, it is a dialectic. That's what I think the main thing I want to try to convey is that, you know, to the extent that we can build the people's power, it actually weakens that system. And, you know, just that sense that all the power that they have is actually derived from their exploitation and oppression of people. And that's our power, you know, manifest that against us. And if we take our power back, it actually does weaken them and increases our possibilities of struggling to for a different world. So, I will do the plugs. I, for 35 years, I've been working and I actually wanted to sort of break the story here. I'm looking for a collective that will take over "Turning the Tide." I've been putting it out for a long, long time. Volume 35 # 2 is just about to come out. It's up on antiracist.org. You can reach me at antiracistaction_ la@yahoo.com. But, you know, like I say, I'm 76. I'm currently the interim general manager of KPFK radio in Los Angeles and it's a huge time commitment. And I want I want to see the paper, you know, become, in some way or shape, institutionalized, to continue to meet, you know, send out the 1700-1800 copies to prisoners. And so, if anybody's interested in taking over that project and fulfilling that commitment, I'd love to hear from them. And then, as I say, I have a chapter in "¡No Pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis" edited by Shane Burley from AK Press. And I contributed a lot of material archival stuff and was interviewed extensively for "We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action" from PM press. Two really, really important books and well worth reading. And then I did, self published and co-authored "The Blue Agave Revolution: The Poetry of the Blind Rebel" with Oso Blanco, Byron Shane Chubbuck. And you can get that again from Anti-Racist Action. So it's PO Box 1055, Culver City, California 90232. And online, just Antiracist.org. Inmn 1:03:27 Wonderful, in "The Blue Agave Revolution," is that Is that where we can find your short story about the three-way fight between vampires, zombies and humans? Michael 1:03:37 It's a kind of a novella. There's about seven chapters of a longer thing. And there's also a shorter one about a group of teenage mutants called Black Bloc, that they have these kind of minor powers. One of them can, you know, it's Jackpot and Crackpot. Crackpot can kind of break out of anything and Jackpot can just affect the odds slightly in their favor and a bunch of other young people, nonbinary and so on. But they're also some different essays of mine in there and a lot of poetry and, yeah...Just the mathematics of the enormity of social economic inequality. People don't understand exactly what it is, but essentially, about 45% of the US population has the equivalent of 50 cents in assets. You know, people don't understand exactly what the class divide and the contradictions inside the society are, you know. We're we're duped into thinking that this is the richest country on the face of the Earth and the most powerful, you know. There's an enormous, hidden social cost and pain behind that and we have to figure out how to galvanize that into the power that actually those people possess and the creativity that they have. Inmn 1:05:03 Yeah. Great. Well, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Yeah, of course. And I'll we'll drop links to all the things that you mentioned in the show notes for people to find. And yeah, thank you. Michael 1:05:23 Okay. Take care. Have a great day. Inmn 1:05:25 You too. Inmn 1:05:26 Thank you so much for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, then go out and live like the Empire is dying. And then tell us about it. And if you'd like to support this podcast, you can do so by telling people about it. 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And we would like to give a very special shout out to a few of our Patreon subscribers, Princess Miranda, BenBen, Anonymous, Funder, Jans, Oxalis, Janice & O'dell, Paigek Aly, paparouna, Milica, Boise Mutual Aid, theo, Hunter, Shawn, SJ, Paige, Mikki, Nicole, David, Dana, Chelsea, Cat J., Staro, Jenipher, Eleanor, Kirk, Sam, Chris, Michaiah, and the infamous Hoss the Dog. Thank you so much. We could not do this without you. And I hope that everyone out there is doing as well as they can right now with everything that's going on. And we'll see you soon. Find out more at https://live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co

WWUTT
WWUTT 1975 Q&A The Song Surrounded, Couples Attending Different Churches, Women Leading Worship, Pronoun Wars, Aliens

WWUTT

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2023 56:25


Responding to questions from listeners about the worship song "Surrounded" (This is how I fight my battles), can a cessationist husband attend a different church from his pentecostal wife, can women lead worship, using preferred pronouns, and aliens and demons. Visit wwutt.com for all our videos!

The Kevin Jackson Show
Ep. 23-323 - Pushing Back

The Kevin Jackson Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2023 38:41


In this episode, SCOTUS strikes a blow against LGBTQ. Vermont Christian school basketball team banned for taking a stand. Texas school district moves to shift the focus back on education.

The Annie Frey Show Podcast
Teach kids what pronouns are and not what ones they are. (Hour 2)

The Annie Frey Show Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2023 38:09


The second hour of today's show begins with Annie and Tyrus discussing the dangers of government overreach into the household. Then, the crew discusses how imminent the indoctrination of children is in the education system is throughout the country. The hour ends with Wiggins sharing what top issue he is voting on in 2024.

The Common Good Podcast
Is feeling good the same thing as feeling God?

The Common Good Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2023 39:11


After surprising new demographic statistics about Gen Z, Aubrey and Brian interview talk show host Susie Larson about her new book, Closer Than Your Next Breath: Where Is God When You Need Him Most?, which releases today--happy book birthday! Then, is language breaking down even further?, and an interview with author and musician Andre Henry on his latest EP which focuses on mental health and resilience. Follow The Common Good on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Hosted by Aubrey Sampson and Brian From Produced by Laura Finch and Keith ConradSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the Market with Janet Parshall
Hour 1: Men, Women and Pronouns in Scripture

In the Market with Janet Parshall

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2023 45:30


Join us as we discuss whether or not we have the liberty to change pronouns in the Bible to more closely conform to current cultural ideas of what it means to be a man or a woman. This conversation is designed to help us think biblically and critically about the Word and Christianity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Eagle Heights Podcast
Q/A from Little Books - Fencing the Table, Truth and Kindness, Pronouns, and Repentance

The Eagle Heights Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2023 41:36


Ave Maria Radio: Catholic Connection
Catholic Connection - August 8, 2023 - Hour 2

Ave Maria Radio: Catholic Connection

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2023 53:00


The Andrew Roman Show
159. Is it loving to affirm someone's pronouns like they/them?

The Andrew Roman Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2023 30:27


If you are a Christian…aren't you supposed to love people? Wouldn't it be unloving, even hurtful to not affirm someone's chosen self-identity? What's the big deal? Let's get into it! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theandrewromanshow/message

XO Higher Self
Ep. 196: My Stepdad Says He "Respects Himself Too Much" To Use My Correct Pronouns

XO Higher Self

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2023 21:55


Bunny answers a listener's question about navigating parental figures who refuse to support their gender fluidity Want to submit a question to Bunny or listener response to be featured on a future episode? There are 3 options for sending in your question. Option 1: Write question on this form: https://www.bunnymichael.com/xo-higherself-podcast-1 Option 2: Record a voice memo and email it to xohigherself@gmail.com.  Option 3: Leave us a voice mail at 740-481-1216. For ad-free episodes and bonus content, including bi–weekly bonus episodes subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/xohigherself or sign up as an Apple subscriber. Theme music composed by Michael Beharie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Truth with Lisa Boothe
Media Manipulation, Pronouns, and More with Outkick's Bobby Burack

The Truth with Lisa Boothe

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2023 33:02 Transcription Available


In this episode, Lisa and Outkick's Bobby Burack discuss various cultural issues, including CNN's apology for misgendering Dylan Mulvaney and the concept of excused racism in affirmative action. They also delve into media manipulation in coverage of race-related incidents. Lisa and Bobby also touch on the changing media landscape and the role of social media. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the iHeartRadio Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday and Thursday.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Rush Limbaugh Show
Media Manipulation, Pronouns, and More with Outkick's Bobby Burack

The Rush Limbaugh Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2023 33:02 Transcription Available


In this episode, Lisa and Outkick's Bobby Burack discuss various cultural issues, including CNN's apology for misgendering Dylan Mulvaney and the concept of excused racism in affirmative action. They also delve into media manipulation in coverage of race-related incidents. Lisa and Bobby also touch on the changing media landscape and the role of social media. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the iHeartRadio Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday and Thursday.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.