Odium Symposium

Helen and Sarah talk about /r/fuckingfascists, a fascist domination  roleplay subreddit intended for good liberals, which instead ended up  getting eaten alive by nazis.

Helen and Sarah look at Things That Matter, the racist and  pseudointellectual best-of collection from Pulitzer prize winning op-ed  columnist Charles Krauthammer.

Helen leads Sarah through the life and activism of notorious homophobe and orange juice queen, Anita Bryant. The two talk about how anti-gay activism both has and hasn't changed over the last 50 years, and try to learn some lessons from the gay activists of the past. You can listen to "Squeeze a fruit for Anita" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at-rLX5DwsU You can watch Anita Bryant get hit i...

Sarah and Helen sit down with Danielle Procope Bell, an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to discuss her recent paper “‘Pick-Me’ Black women: tactical patriarchal femininity in the Black manosphere” ( https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2262163 ). You can join our discord by clicking here . Check out our Patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposi...

Sarah and Helen reviewer Little Boy, a disastrous film from the makers of the QAnon flavored hit Sound of Freedom. Along the way, they meet with a failed Mexican presidential candidate, as well as Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. You can join our discord by clicking here . Check out our Patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium and our website at https://www.odiumsymposium.com .

Sarah and Helen are joined by reporter on the far right Michael Edison Hayden to discuss his new book Strange People on the Hill, about what happened when far right propaganda outlet VDARE bought a castle overlooking a small West Virginia town. You can join our discord by clicking here . Check out our Patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium and our website at https://www.odiumsymposium.com ....

Helen and Sarah discuss The Camp of the Saints, a racist novel that has quietly become fundamental to how the right wing talks about immigration. PS: Our RSS publisher bugged out. Sorry to be getting this episode to you twelve hours late! You can join our discord by clicking here . Check out our Patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium and our website at https://www.odiumsymposium.com . Episo...

Sarah and Helen take a look at some research papers from viXra, the scientific publishing site for cranks and pseudoscientists, and end up learning about the sensual curves which underlie reality itself. We made a new discord! You can join that here: https://discord.gg/yyNrWJphPv  Check out our Patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium and our website at https://www.odiumsymposium.com . E...

In this twist on the "theory and practice" format, Helen introduces Sarah to Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini's Gender Without Identity , a contemporary work of queer psychoanalytic theory. Then, the two dive in to a case study concerning a young child and his parents who want a therapist to "straighten out" his effeminacy. We made a new discord! You can join that by clicking here . Check out...

In this "theory and practice" episode, Sarah and Helen read Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism," then see how it applies to Frank Miller's 1986 Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns. Check out our Patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium and our website at https://www.odiumsymposium.com . Episode art by @canis_kunst on Instagram .

Sarah and Helen invite a guest to the symposium to talk about a foundational work of transphobia: Janice Raymond's Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male , and discover that despite its pretensions to feminism, it is steeped in some pretty classic misogyny. Our guest, Julia Cameron, is an educator and writer based in Boston. Check out our patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium. Epis...

In this tribute to Knowledge Fight, Sarah and Helen go through an episode of notorious neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes's show, and find out he's locked in a Freudian cycle of abuse and disgust with his own fans. Check out our patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium. Episode art by @canis_kunst on Instagram .

Helen introduces Sarah to French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and in particular his writing on the proper education of women. Check out our patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium. Episode art by @canis_kunst on Instagram .

Sarah introduces Helen to Joseph Swetnam, the man the word "misogyny" was coined to describe, who turns out to have gotten his ass beaten on four separate occasions by the authors of Elizabethan England. Check out our patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium. Episode art by @canis_kunst on Instagram .

Helen introduces Sarah to the work of Louis Althusser. The book Helen references several times, which is a great place to learn more if you're interested is Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men by Francis Dupuis-Déri . Check out our patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium . Episode art by @canis_kunst on Instagram .

Sarah and Helen are forced to confront their penis envy as they dive into the writings of the psychoanalyst from hell. Check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/odiumsymposium

Helen tricks Sarah into watching Sean Hannity's straight-to-Rumble Christmas comedy Jingle Smells Check out our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/odiumsymposium

Helen and Sarah join Ayn Rand's war on haters... on the side of the haters. Check out our patreon at https://patreon.com/OdiumSymposium.

In this "theory and practice" episode, Sarah and Helen read a text about bigotry, then apply it to some actual bigotry. The philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre turns out to have a lot to say about 4chan, the notorious Nazi news site the Daily Stormer, and the affect of the modern right as a whole.

Helen introduces Sarah to a classic British racist, and the two of them learn that time is a flat circle.

Sarah gives Helen a lesson in Ancient Roman history and the two of them learn that some ideas, like "women be shopping" and "women be a foreign invasion that must be subjugated at all costs" have surprisingly deep roots.

Helen walks Sarah through the works of frontier doctor and dispenser of folksy wisdom, Joseph H. Peck, MD, whose writing is best described as "Mark Twain if he sucked." 

Our first episode! Just in time for Charlie Kirk remembrance day eve! Sarah introduces Helen to obscure Canadian luminary Stephen Leacock, and we learn all about how and why women aren't funny. At some point we mention using the famous "triggered feminist" reaction image for our episode art, but we decided against it. If you didn't recognize it from our description, it's this one: https://knowyour...