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Award-winning author and historian Sarah Schulman joins us in Episode 84 to talk about her new book, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity . We talk about what solidarity means in the context of today’s neoliberal hellworld and how to be in solidarity across differences in power. We also talk about Sarah’s process of debrainwashing from Zionism, how she has learned to be in solidarity with Pales...

As the tech oligarchs dream of subjecting us all to their sick fantasies and their pet governments pave the road to hell with bad intentions, the sycophantic press breathlessly praises each new ‘advancement’ in dystopian tech — and each new phony scam as well. In Episode 83 we’re joined by Paris Marx, technology critic, author and host of Tech Won’t Save Us, one of the most important podcasts of t...

As the masked goons of the MAGA nanny-state continue to disappear students for holding views upsetting to hysterical Zionists and their sweaty, senile leader continues to rule by deranged imperial decree executive order, we sit down with Erica Thomas, a union organizer, professor and artist, to talk about what’s going on in our increasingly unhinged southern neighbour, the USA. We talk about the P...

Depressing but true: we’re hurtling toward human-caused climate collapse and our political-economic system, captured by capitalist elites intent on squeezing out profits until the day our civilization collapses, is effectively incapable of responding by itself. It must be forced: but how? Petitions haven’t worked. Rallies haven’t worked. Posting on Instagram hasn’t worked. And ****ing up pipelines...

Plagued from a young age by disturbing intrusive thoughts and unable to control dangerous compulsive behaviours, 3 Body Problem screenwriter and best-selling author Rose Cartwright was immensely relieved to learn that she had a disease called OCD, which was caused by a chemical imbalance in her brain and could be easily treated with a pill. She became the UK’s poster girl for recovery from OCD, an...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com In the aftermath of the American identitarians losing their minds about Vivek Chibber’s calmly articulated post-mortem of ‘social justice’ culture on his podcast Confronting Capitalism, we ask if this really is the beginning of the end for ‘social justice’, what that would mean, and most importantly, what comes...

When survivors of incest act in the ways any sexually abused child would act, they are psychiatrized and medicated, and often returned to their abusers. When they grow up and search for resources on what happened to them, what they are most likely to find is terabytes of pornography. When they write about their experiences, they are siloed into the realm of self-help and excluded from the realm of...

If you’ve ever wondered why the government can’t seem to do anything about the cost of housing, it’s because it would go directly against their interests: most of them are landlords and the rest are landowners, and journalist Isaac Peltz can prove it. Our guest today has been pissing off government lawyers across the land with their pesky Access To Information requests about the assets of politici...

Get in babe we're boycotting Amazon! These criminal American parasites retaliated against workers for unionizing their warehouse outside Montreal by firing their entire Quebec workforce and closing all their facilities in the province. This scorched-earth union-busting strategy is both illegal under Quebec law and an insult to all members of the working class. In Episode 76 we talk to Félix Trudea...

If God’s law is to love one another radically, then the various forms of exile and dehumanization practised by human beings through the ages may constitute a kind of ‘cultural sin’, a deviation we keep coming back to over and over as a species because it feels good. Not only might this practice lead us further from love, and not only might it not even work to give us justice, but it might also inf...

Artisanal miners prospect for toxic rare-earth metals on the edges of huge corporate pit mines, alongside alien-looking metallophyte plants found nowhere else in the world. Cloak and dagger CIA manoeuvring from the Cold War reverberates into the present. Workers separated by oceans, empires and supply chains struggle to find ways to support each other. In Episode 74 we’re joined by our friend, art...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com In Episode 73 we discuss Clementine’s underworld journey and the future of Fucking Cancelled before moving on to Luigi, class war, and whether the word ‘health’ should be followed by the word ‘insurance’ or the word ‘care’. This is a paywalled episode — to listen to the whole thing just subscribe at fuckingcance...

In Episode 72, we’re joined by Cecilia Guerrero, an organizer in Nashville, Tennessee, helping to innovate a new generation of socialist movement-building deep in the American South. We discuss what it’s like organizing in Tennessee, the fantastic gains being made by the new network of organizations springing up there — including an unprecendented wildcat union of Uber and Lyft drivers — and the m...

In Episode 71, we are joined by Elizabeth Oldfield, a writer, thinker, bridge builder, and Christian working out of the UK. We discuss her new book Fully Alive, and the rich worldview which underlies it. Elizabeth challenges us to live our principles in our daily lives, and to extend grace and curiosity across difference. Part of the Talking Shit series. Show Notes The Sacred The Sacred — Intervie...

In Episode 70 we’re joined by Dru Oja Jay, research coordinator for SEIZE as well as executive director of CUTV and publisher of The Breach. We discuss SEIZE’s recent report on housing, titled From Crisis to Consensus, in which SEIZE surveyed housing organizations from across the country in order to determine what needs to be done about the housing crisis plaguing the working class. This is part o...

In Episode 69 we are joined by animal rights activist, animal rescuer, and lawyer, Wayne Hsiung. We discuss Wayne’s experiencing rescuing animals from laboratories and factory farms, the connections between factory farms and jails, the spectrum of objectification, and why all suffering matters. This is part of the Quest for the Offline Left series. Show Notes Simple Heart Wayne’s instagram Follow...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com In Episode 68, we spill the tea on Clementine getting her zines soaked in coffee at the local anarchist book fair by a masked assailant who communicated nothing about their motives. This paywalled episode is a mask off discussion of contemporary anarchist ideas about the legitimate uses of violence, poking light...

In Episode 67 we are joined by David Chambers, a relationship expert, thinker in the field of men and masculinities, and podcaster from the UK. We chat with David about the concept of ‘toxic masculinity’, the gendered patterns in attachment styles, and the appeal of reactionary masculinism among the youth. We also discuss the promise of an emerging happier, healthier masculinity, rooted neither in...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com In Episode 66, Jay and Clementine discuss the impact of cancel culture on the partners of men cancelled for abusive behaviours. We consider how the increased isolation of being cancelled along with your partner increases the risk of domestic violence. We note that the ptsd of cancellation can lead to it being ev...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com In Episode 65, Jay and Clementine discuss We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown. We discuss the context this book enters into, the courage it took to write it, the response the book received, and how this work significantly differs from our own thinking on cancel culture and identitarianism. This is part...

In Episode 64, we are joined by writer, organizer, and Chapo Trap House co-host, Amber A’Lee Frost to discuss her new book, Dirtbag. We talk about socialist memoirs, Occupy, the Bernie Sanders campaigns, the necessity of organized labour, and how to deal with wreckers. This is part of the Talking Shit series. Show Notes Amber’s new book, Dirtbag Chapo Trap House The Romance of American Communism b...

In Episode 63, we get together with DJ Fraser and Tara McGowan-Ross for the second episode of Book Club. This month’s book was The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, a brutal (and hopeful) near-future 'climate-fiction’ novel published in 2020. We’ll announce the next Book Club book shortly! This is part of the Book Club series. Show Notes The Ministry for the Future Follow Fucking Ca...

In Episode 62, we are joined by London, Uk based writer, Katherine Angel, author of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again . We discuss the affirmative consent model, the expectation that women should “know what they want”, and how this framework holds desire hostage to violence and misunderstands the emergent nature of desire. We discuss heterosexuality, gender roles, context based desire, and the loomi...

In Episode 61 we’re joined by friend of the pod Joey Santore of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t podcast. We talk about how being in tune with the ecosystems you live in can be a deeply rewarding experience for the poor alienated souls of late capitalism and how to get started if you want to learn about basic botany. We also talk about the similarities between botany and history — and how much we...

In Episode 60, we return to our principles and discuss freedom. What is it? Why do we care about it so much? And what does it mean for socialists to have freedom as a spiritual principle? Part of the Principles Before Personalities series. Show Notes New stickers! The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Rosa Luxemburg on freedom Follow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram . Find merch in our...