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Beatrice speaks with Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter about the proliferation of Palestine solidarity encampments, their experiences at the encampments at CUNY and at Columbia, and to share a call to action for today, May Day: strike in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Note: This episode was recorded shortly before the coordinated raid on both the CUNY and Columbia encampments on the...

Part Two of our discussion with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t changed since the last time Rasha spoke with us on October 13th, and why appeals to “peace” are not the same as calls for liberation. This is part two of our conversation with Rasha. You can find part one in the public feed, posted A...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102847558 Beatrice speaks with Micah Khater about her award winning article on the intersection of race, disability, and incarceration in the southern US in the early 20th century, and her work documenting the history of how Black women experienced and theorized disability from within Alabam...

Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t changed since the last time Rasha spoke with us on October 13th, and why appeals to “peace” are not the same as calls for liberation. This is part one of our conversation with Rasha. Part two will be released next week in the public feed, along...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102407156 Beatrice speaks with Sasha Warren about the lessons we can take from the history of anti-psychiatry movements, and other movements aligned against earlier forms of asylums and mental hospitals, with a particular focus on two groups active in the 1960s and 1970s: Institutional Psych...

Beatrice speaks with Liz Jackson and Rua Williams about the history and ongoing practice of design objects ostensibly created for accessibility being repurposed into tools of war. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/wheelchair-to-warfare Read their article in the New Republic, “How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War,” here: https://newrepublic.com/article/1...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101959148 Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss the recent book “Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time,” which presents itself as chronicling public health’s many missteps since the beginning of the covid pandemic, but in practice wants to draw our attention to all of the w...

This episode was originally released on January 25th. We are re-releasing it today as we approach the sixth month of the ongoing genocidal campaign on Palestine, with a new introduction and a brief update at the end. Beatrice shares messages from Death Panel listeners in Gaza and speaks with Danya Qato about how the totalizing nature of the genocide of Palestine can't be captured in death and inju...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101515457 Beatrice, Artie and Phil reflect on the impact of the ongoing Medicaid “unwinding”, which began one year ago today and has already seen 20 million people kicked off of the social safety net insurance program, and the Biden administration’s latest attempts to pretend they’re doing a...

Beatrice and Abby speak with Melissa Gira Grant about this week’s oral arguments in a Supreme Court case that could dramatically limit the availability of medication abortion in the US, and the Comstock Act, the 19th century obscenity law looming over the case. Transcript forthcoming. Find Melissa’s article in the New Republic, “Two Supreme Court Justices Favor Zombie Law From 1873 to Ban Abortion...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101050023 As we prepare for this week’s Supreme Court hearing on mifepristone, Beatrice and Abby discuss the controversy surrounding a recent paper that claims that pregnancy-associated deaths are dramatically overcounted in the US, and that as a result the crisis of perinatal mortality is o...

Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the events we’re encouraged to forget, repress, and reinterpret in order to abet genocide, carcerality, or abandonment to a pandemic, and the power of refusing to forget. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/vicky-forget Read Vicky's essay, "Remembering As an Act of Revolt," here: https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/a-list-of-things-we-have-been...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/100622256 Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again,” which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/100189248 Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss Biden’s State of the Union address—from the “illegals” moment to Biden’s attempt to co-opt “ceasefire”—as well as the many media reactions to the speech, and what it all tells us about how the Biden administration are trying (and failing) to pretend...

Beatrice speaks with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about the CDC’s recent abrupt decision to drop its 5-day covid isolation guidance and the latest developments in the campaign to stop the CDC from dramatically weakening infection control practices in healthcare settings. Sign on to NNU’s latest campaign here: nationalnursesunited.org/cdc Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/tran...

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on September 4th 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice, Phil, and Jules speak with Claire Dunning about the complex history of how nonprofit organizations became so pervasive in US political life and the issues with how the non-profit system prom...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99724675 Beatrice speaks with Shira Hassan about reclaiming harm reduction from public health, reclaiming formations of "peer work" from the nonprofit world, and building the politics and practice of surviving together. Find Shira's book, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm R...

Beatrice speaks with Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu about attempts to dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation as mental illness, and why settler colonialism relies so heavily on drawing lines between madness and “reason.” Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/aaron-bushnell More on Project LETS here: https://projectlets.org/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/bo...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99264802 Bea, Artie and Jules discuss the last few weeks of pundit speculation about Biden’s age and cognitive ability and the history of the relationship between bodily capacity and definitions of the “body politic.” Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism...

Beatrice speaks with Dean Spade about how we respond to crises, from climate collapse to covid, and how the state’s primary response to these crises is to try to narrow the possibilities for political action around them. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/dean-spade-collapse Read Dean’s piece, “Climate Disaster Is Here—and the State Will Never Save Us” here: https://inthesetimes.co...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98784955 Bea, Artie and Phil discuss why the fact that a record 20 million people are now on ACA (Obamacare) plans is not the unequivocal good news that Democrats are portraying it as, how to understand those numbers in the context of the ongoing Medicaid unwinding, and why it’s long past ti...

Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss this week’s news that the CDC is planning to drop its covid isolation guidelines, and how the proposed change is emblematic of the Biden administration’s long running practice of undoing pandemic policies as a form of labor disciple. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/cdc-says-back-to-work Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/book...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98356495 Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss Pamela Paul's recent piece in the New York Times, "As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do." Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/30...

Beatrice and Jules discuss Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, which traces the historical roots of "trans panic" as a product of empire, colonialism, and policing. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Find Jules' book here, out now from Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Find our book Health Com...

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/97922957 Beatrice and Abby are joined by Melissa Gira Grant to evaluate the Biden administration’s recent announcements for its plans on reproductive healthcare and why Biden’s campaign promise to “restore the protections of Roe v. Wade” leaves significant room for interpretation. Find our e...