Unwell to Begin With

“…the idea that there was some... kind of Edenic world before that we need to return to, and that, to me, is so caught up with immigration politics and the xenophobic politics. And so when you- and historians have shown this- when you are fighting xenophobia of humans, you also do that with animals and plants.” “…queer and trans people, you know, very naturally, have a lot to say about cis and het...

“Many people find these ideologies to be so risible and silly that they wonder why anyone would spend time talking about them. And… the best response I have is that the reason we should talk about these and take… precious time out of our day to understand them, is precisely because there are billions and billions of dollars backing this movement.” In this episode, host Mollie Holmberg (she/her) ta...

“When people think about evolutionary biology, they think of ‘survival of the fittest.’ It is the first thing that comes to people's minds, and it is a gross misconception of evolution, and it's consistently been weaponized against people, and that's specifically Black people, people of color, Indigenous folks and disabled people specifically… It was coined by a eugenicist. I will not say their na...

"These shared resonances which are often infantilized and dismissed as 'special interests' or 'infodumping' are actually intensities of knowledge and knowledge creation that we can sort of... refract off each other in ways that I think promote really interesting formations of knowledge." Welcome to Unwell to Begin With, a podcast about the eugenics problem in biology and the environmental movement...