Party Girls

Greetings, party ghouls! For Halloween this year, Jamie brought in her brother in darkness Jake Flores to discuss the original Hellraiser (1987) as well as a couple of spooky short stories from Clive Barker's 'Books Of Blood' anthology series: "The Body Politic" and "In The Hills, The Cities." How was Barker, a gay man, intervening in media narratives around HIV/AIDS with his i...

On October 10 and 11 in NYC, Party Girls hosted a couple of events for the launch of the December 4th Legal Committee's book, 'Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution,' out now on Ill Will Editions. We recorded our October 10 event at Queens' Ridgewood Commons so that you can listen and feel like you were there. Sam kicked things off with a rousing speec...

Jamie and Sam speak with Nico and Pepe, two comrades in Italy, about the protests and riots that are currently spreading across Europe. What is the context for these protests in Italy and what has the youth feeling so disaffected? How state repression has only served to fan the flames. The connections between what's happening in France, Italy, Albania, and elsewhere. The political content of riots...

Happy October, everyone! The PG crew is back to discuss the news and have a little fun. Bill Harris, one of the self-described "revolutionaries" who kidnapped Patty Hearst, dead at 81. Trump wants Iran to nuke the cities in California. NPSM-7 defendants form a defendants' union, seek to spread the word about the Trump administration's paranoid repression. Plus, we read and mock an articl...

Surveillance tech enables the Trump administration's ICE and Border Patrol agents to target, harass, kidnap and kill innocent human beings, Jamie and Sam speak to two organizers trying to do something about it. In Vermont from Oct 4-10 there will be a week of bold, creative action to end ICE surveillance, targeting, and separation. The week of action comes as ICE/CBP shot another person, this time...

The Party Girls crew tackles major news of the day, including: Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and the sea change happening re: support for a free Palestine in American pop culture. The Houthis seize strategic Red Sea islands as analysts warn of impending oil crunch. What to make of the impending AI apocalypse. Federal appeals court says clean drinking water is not a constitutional right. Texas police depa...

We’re in some real end times shit, man. In this week's episode, Sam steers the ship by himself in his first solo news episode. He analyzes the accelerating timeline of state repression and the evolving terrain of grassroots resistance. First, we look at the sudden shutdown of Noblogs and the Autistici/Inventati collective following a swift U.S. terrorism designation that dismantled 25 years of dig...

As Sam tries to get back in the swing of things as a podcaster again, the Party Girls team explores some of their favorite topics. Luigi Mangione acted alone, what does that say about our society? Is Medicare for All worth fighting for? As some liberals like to insist, does he actually have anything in common with the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin? Why do leftists project their politics onto the p...

Sam is back from his three-month-long trip through Asia and Europe just in time to discuss Luigi Mangione's guilty plea. Sam and Jamie provide their analysis of what they think happened and unpack their thoughts. What has this trial revealed about the mindset of Americans, and what needs to happen next in order to honor Luigi's sacrifice and deliver on the right to health that we all know we have?...

Friend of the pod and veteran of the posting wars Sophie Weiner joins us to discuss the latest round of wokeness discourse touched off by AOC in her recent interview with ABC in which, in grand ableist fashion, she declared Woke 1 to have been "crazy." Mass protests against racist police violence, silly tweets, and other things people stupidly conflate when they talk about Woke 1. What i...

Jamie speaks with Tom Sexton and Tarence Ray, of the Trillbilly Workers Party podcast, on a variety of subjects, including AI pastors, JOI vids, wildfire prediction markets, Sam Altman's beliefs on the future of work, the Singularity, and the Israeli prison that had to scrap its plans for a crocodile moat over animal welfare concerns. Also: Tarence tells us about fatherhood, and the trio muse over...

Sam has been AWOL for the summer and he offers us a peek into why. He has been traveling around Asia solo, visiting Japan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand. Hear about his escapades as he visits Buddhist temples, tropical Islands and the densest urban neighborhood on planet earth. Deep in the jungle of Southern Thailand, what are the karaoke bars like? Did Sam end up visiting the Great Wall...

Jamie gets some of the LA gang (Jake Flores, Lena NW) back together to talk about writer/director Curry Barker's runaway hit 'Obsession,' in which an incel dude makes a wish that violates his female friend's consent. What's going on with young people today such that this movie is speaking to them so deeply? Is it something new, or the same old horror? And what does any of this have to do with Luig...

Jamie is joined by honorary party girl Maxelle Talena, of the Dysphoria podcast, to talk of many things. Women over 40 are having more babies than teenagers for the first time in US history, for both good and bad reasons. The cyclospora outbreak is ruining summer for salad people. Heroes are tracking and disabling Flock surveillance cameras in cities across the country. Haha, Lindsey Graham died a...

Friend of the show Jake Flores joins the program to discuss the news of the day, including: erotic asphyxiation and other wholesome 4th of July activities. The discourse around Maine Senate candidate and noted piece of shit Graham Platner. Is Mitch McConnell dead, and is his wife a Chinese spy? Stephen Miller cries about birthright citizenship being upheld. Donald Trump almost dies of heat stroke...

Jarrod Shanahan joins us to discuss his latest book, " Every Fire Needs A Little Bit Of Help: A Decade Of Rebellion, Reaction, And Morbid Symptoms ," out now on PM Press. After some fond reminiscing, Jarrod discusses his writing practice and how he incorporates criticism of cultural products like Hellraiser , Mad Max , and The Walking Dead into his work and life. We also get Jarrod's tak...

Aaron Thorpe of the Trillbilly Workers Party podcast joins Jamie to discuss the news of the day, including: Prairieland defendants sentenced to decades in prison each for protesting a concentration camp. DSA electoral did some stuff. Some thoughts on the Montreal shooting. Why a drone warfare guy went on the GOOP-cast; Gwynocide Paltrow and the rise of "quirky fascism." Plus: Jamie wiped...

Jamie is joined by Jensen, an activist who was on the ground for the most intense portion of the anti-ICE actions at the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, NJ. They discuss the history of the privately-run GEO group facility and how it developed to this point of crisis. What tactics were used by prisoners inside the facility and protesters outside, and what limits did they come up against?...

Jamie is joined by Terry, an anonymous fellow traveler, to discuss the news, including: the latest billionaire space rocket explosion and why we need to keep our attention on Earth. The anti-ICE protests both inside and outside of the privately run Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ, which, as of publication, show no signs of letting up. Between the flaming barricades, a sitting Senator g...

Friend of the show Sophie Weiner joins Jamie for a hybrid Cultural Marxism/news ep. Up top: the new musical "Cats: the Jellicle Ball" (it's good), the latest attempt to assassinate Trump (if we can even call it that) and the battle to free the Park Slope Food Coop from Zionist control (the anti-Zionists won!). In the second half we discuss Boots Riley's new film "I Love Boosters,&qu...

It's Sam's last episode for three whole months! To see him off on his backpacking trip through Asia and Europe, the PG crew covers some good news, like the Luigi Mangione legal fund hitting $1.5 million [Jamie already talked about this with Tony, but she forgot], Idris Robinson getting his job back, and Green Scare victim Marius Mason's release from prison. In other backpack-related news, some of...

Sam is joined by Eric King, an anarchist writer, antifascist organizer, and former federal prisoner whose new memoir, A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon, offers a firsthand account of incarceration inside some of the most restrictive prisons in the United States, including ADX Florence, Alcatraz of the rockies, the federal supermax sometimes described as the mo...

Jamie and guest cohost Tony Boswell look back on the life of Ben Morea, a towering yet humble figure on the anarchist left. From his days of causing trouble with Black Mask and Up Against The Wall Motherfucker in the late 1960s, to decades spent living underground in the American southwest, to his return to New York in the post-2000 era, his contributions will not soon be forgotten. The second hal...

The Iranian regime has mobilized the language of “anti-imperialism” in an effort to crush leftist movements, as well as worker and student struggles for decades now. Dr. Arya Zahedi joins the PG team to discuss Iranian-leftist history, the revolution, idealism, and what is to be done. In this episode we talk about a text called The Anti-Imperialist Imperialism Club: On Left Internationalism and Ir...

The PG crew revisits two evergreen themes: art under capitalism, and the evils of Big Tech. Specifically: Is Boots Riley a SELLOUT for using CAPITALIST MONEY to make COMMUNIST ART? We discuss. (We almost talked about the Strokes' political art at Coachella too, but we ran out of time.) And in the tech arena, we've got Facebook/Meta banning the word "antifa" because it considers it "...