Welcome to Season 2 of Antipod. This season will focus on questions of carcerality in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the possibility of abolitionist, liberatory futures.

In this trailer, we introduce you to the themes and stories that will comprise this season's episodes, as well as to the new Antipod Sound Collective (Asha, Carrie, Deondre and Theo).

Episodes 1 and 2 of Season 2 will be coming soon, but until then, we hope you enjoy this trailer--welcome back to Antipod.

Make sure to follow us on Twitter! @ThisIsAntipod

Want to find out more about Antipod: A Radical Geography Podcast and Sound Collective? Visit our website at: thisisantipod.org

Many thanks to The Antipode Foundation for their generous support.

This trailer, and Antipod as a series is hosted by Asha Best, Carrie Freshour, Deondre Smiles and Theo Hilton.

The episode was mixed and edited by AK Al Moumen.

Season 2 Trailer

In the first part of this episode, we explore the uneven effects of state-supported and state-prescribed COVID responses, focusing on the experiences of someone who was arrested and incarcerated beginning in the summer of 2020. His narrative reflects those of the many people inside and outside prison walls who bear the impacts of COVID’s precarity. In the second part, we ask anti-carceral organizer Io Brooks about how the forced movement of people within and among spaces of incarceration has shaped-and been shaped by–the pandemic.

Music: dex digi (Dexter Thomas)
Intro: Piano Ruff Stilt Lodrum a
Transition Music: Africa Again Lodrum a
Interlude: Lofi Ting a
Outro: dream seq2.mp3 a

S2: Episode 1: Lockdown in the Early Pandemic

In this episode we consider the spread of COVID in prison from a public health perspective. We’ll hear from abolitionist organizers in WA state, and speak with Dr. Aaron Mallory, assistant professor of Geography and African American Studies at FSU. We discuss a variety of public health responses and ask what this moment opens up for thinking about carcerality, responsibility and abolition. 

Music: dex digi (Dexter Thomas)
Intro: Piano Ruff Stilt Lodrum a
Interlude/Transition: Africa Again Lodrum a
Outro: Lofi Ting a

ACLU/ Prison Policy Initiative “Failing Grades”
 
APHA “Advancing Public Health Interventions to Address the Harms of the Carceral System”

APHA “Abolition is Public Health”
 
Free Them All WA
 
Prison Policy COVID spread as of June 2020

Prison Policy Initiative States of Emergency

“Surviving the Pandemic in Prison” Interview with incarcerated abolitionist, Lawrence Jenkins on COVID inside Stafford Creek CC

UCLA Law COVID Behind Bars Data Project

Dr. Aaron Mallory, African and African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Aaron received their PhD in Geography from the University of Minnesota. You can reach Dr. Mallory at @Mallory_Air on twitter, dr_former_lover on IG, and aarondmallory@gmail.com

S2: Episode 2: COVID as a Public Health Issue

Episode 2 of Antipod is the second in a two-part series dedicated to the life, work, and wisdom of Dr. Clyde Adrian Woods. This episode builds on the conversation that Akira and Brian had in the Episode 1, which engaged with a pair of panel discussions held in 2018 at the New Orleans Community Book Center and the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. The panels focused on Dr. Woods’s Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations of Post-Katrina New Orleans, edited by Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido (University of Georgia Press, 2017). In Episode 2, hosts Allison Guess and Alex Moulton dive deeper on themes presented in Episode 1, especially Woods’s notion of the Blues Epistemology. Allison and Alex trade licks with Dr. Woods, Sunni Patterson, and Dee-1, among others and craft a multi-layered understanding of the Blues Epistemology. They do so in conversation with “No One Knows the Mysteries at the Bottom of the Ocean,” which is the opening chapter of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (Between the Lines Press, 2007), a book co-edited by Dr. Woods and Dr. Katherine McKittrick (Queen’s University, Canada). As they unfold the notions of “the underside,” “the bottom of the belly,” and “Blues time,” Allison and Alex refer to and draw upon a panel organized by the Antipod Sound Collective at the 2019 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. That panel, titled “Creating a Soundscape of Radical Imagination: Podcasts as Scholarship,” involved a conversation among the Antipod Sound Collective members and Nerve V. Macaspac (Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York).

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Our theme music is "It’s Not Jazz" by Tronx.

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Our interstitial music in this episode is: “I Am Who I Am” by Dee-1 featuring Shamarr Allen (Produced by Shamarr Allen); “When the Levee Breaks,” by Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie; and “Attention” by Dee-1 featuring Sunni Patterson (Produced by Mystro). 

https://archive.org/details/Kansas_Joe_Memphis_Minnie-When_Levee_Breaks
https://archive.org/details/Dee-1_-_The_Focus_Tape

Our outro music for this episode is from a live performance of the New Orleans-based New Breed Brass Band, recorded on January 18, 2019 at the Crystal Bay Club in Crystal Bay, Nevada.

https://archive.org/details/NewBreedBrassBand-TheRedRoomCrystalBayClubCrystalBayNV18-JAN-2019

Music from all of these artists is available on archive.org and licensed under Creative Commons 3.0.

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Make sure to follow us on Twitter! @ThisIsAntipod and Instagram @antipod2019 and subscribe to our podcast. Follow Allison on Twitter @AllisonGuess1. 

Many thanks to The Antipode Foundation for their generous support.
Episode 2 is written/hosted by Allison Guess and Alex Moulton.
The episode was mixed and edited by Darren Patrick/dp.
This episode was produced by all members of the Antipod Sound Collective.

Please cite as: Antipod Sound Collective. "Episode 2: The Blues Epistemology, Lick Trading in Blues Time from the Bottom of the Belly." Written/hosted by Allison Guess and Alex Moulton, edited by Darren Patrick/dp. October 30, 2019. https://thisisantipod.org/2019/10/30/episode-2

Bibliography 

Woods, Clyde. 2017. Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in The Mississippi Delta. 2nd Edition. London: Verso. 

–––. 2017. Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Edited by Jordan T. Camp, and Laura Pulido. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. 

Woods, Clyde and Katherine McKittrick. “No One Knows the Mysteries at the Bottom of the Ocean.” In Black Geographies and the Politics of Place, edited by Clyde Woods and Katherine McKittrick. Toronto: Between the Lines Press.

–––, eds. 2007. Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Toronto: Between the Lines Press.

Season 1: Black Geographies

Episode 2: The Blues Epistemology, Trading Licks in Blues Time from the Bottom of the Belly

Episode 2: The Blues Epistemology, Lick Trading in Blues Time from the Bottom of the Belly

In Episode 48,  we get to hear from warrior woman Christi Belcourt who has been on the ground in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory supporting those engaged in Wet'suwet'en solidarity actions, as an observer, friend and support.

Christi is well-known across Turtle Island as an incredible Metis artist, community based artist, environmentalist and advocate for the lands, waters and Indigenous peoples. She shares with us what was happening on the ground at Tyendinaga before and during the arrests.

For those keeping up with the chronology of events, we recorded this podcast on Tuesday, Feb.25, 2020.

Christi's website can be found here:
http://christibelcourt.com/

Here is the link to Real Peoples' Media that Christi mentioned during the interview:
https://realpeoples.media/

Gitdimt'en Yintah Access website:
www.yintahaccess.com/

Unist'ot'en Camp supporter toolkit for those who want to offer support, including the official link for donations:
unistoten.camp/supportertoolkit/

Support for Tyendinaga Mohawks:
tyendinagadonations@gmail,com

If you would like to help me keep my content independent, please consider supporting my work at Patreon:
www.patreon.com/join/2144345

Note: The information contained in this podcast is not legal, financial or medical advice, nor should it be relied on as such.

If you would like more information about these issues, you can check out my website at www.pampalmater.com

Thank you all for your ongoing support!

Photo credit: Christi Belcourt (from her website)

Christi Belcourt on Tyendinaga Mohawk Solidarity Actions

We’re joined by Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at CUNY, for a conversation on the current crises of Covid-19 and state violence, touching on the desire for learning as a means of activism, the political geography of mobilisation and double consciousness.
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Transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-ruth-wilson-gilmore

This conversation was recorded on 7th June 2020

Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Director of the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre // Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at CUNY Graduate Center
Producer and Editor: Kaissa Karhu

www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts

SPRC In conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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