As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 7th, 2023, and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod.

Original description: Bea, Artie, Abby, and Phil discuss the media's collective shrug over rising covid hospitalizations and Ashish Jha's recent op-ed “With a few basic steps, most of us can finally ignore COVID.”

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Beatrice speaks with Mon Mohapatra, Tracy Rosenthal and Victoria Law about how the rhetorics of “care,” support, and empathy are often deployed to expand and reinforce carcerality—to make carcerality appear innocuous, or even an expansion of social welfare and public health.

Transcript forthcoming.

This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September, under the session title "Carewashing: Carcerality Disguised as Social Welfare." We collaborated with conference organizers to host five discussions there over labor day weekend. Recordings and transcripts of those sessions will be released over the coming weeks.

Note: As speakers were not introduced individually before their opening statements, those statements are in the order listed in the title (Mon, Tracy, then Victoria).

Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2024 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel Carewashing w/ Mon Mohapatra, Tracy Rosenthal & Victoria Law (DP x S24) (09/26/24)

Carewashing w/ Mon Mohapatra, Tracy Rosenthal & Victoria Law (DP x S24) (10/03/24)

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Today, Death Panel are joining the calls of organizers around the world to strike for Palestine. As such, today's Death Panel is an episode in two parts:

Part One — One Year (0:00:00 - 0:20:45)

A statement on one year of genocide from us at Death Panel through parts of three texts from the past year.

Part Two — Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar (originally released November 21st, 2022)

Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about the violent global effects of settler colonialism and how they shape our understanding of what we mean by “disability” and “debility.” We discuss how events like the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the bombings in 2014 are often described through the number of dead, when they also entail mass disablement and mass debilitation, and how colonial occupation itself can be understood through a theory of debility.

Find the Jasbir Puar interview (and transcript) here:
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/jasbir-puar-body-politics

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 2:40:11, 7 October 2024

Death Panel Teaser - One Year / Body Politics (10/07/24)

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Teaser - One Year / Body Politics (10/07/24)

Liat Ben-Moshe, Sasha Warren, and Leah Harris discuss the political economy of psychiatric incarceration and strategies for resisting surveillance and carcerality that center liberatory care and international solidarities.

Transcript forthcoming.

This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September, under the session title "Care Not Courts: Resisting Carceral Psychiatry and the Pathologization of Dissent." This panel was the rare exception where a DP member was not able to chair the session, so our thanks to Eman Abdelhadi who graciously stepped in as moderator.

Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2024 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Care Not Courts w/ Liat Ben-Moshe, Sasha Warren and Leah Harris (DP x S24) (10/10/24)

Jules speaks about her book A Short History of Trans Misogyny, the need to integrate material analysis into trans politics, and how it is that such a (relatively) small population of people have become the subject of such a high degree of political ire.

Transcript forthcoming.

This episode was recorded live at the 2024 Socialism Conference in Chicago in early September. We collaborated with conference organizers to host five discussions there over labor day weekend. Today's episode is the final recording to be released from those sessions.

Thanks to Han Olliver for our Death Panel x Socialism Conference 2024 poster image, which is being used as the cover image for this episode on platforms that support it. Find and support Han's work at hanolliver.com

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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A Short History Of Trans Misogyny (DP x S24) (10/17/24)

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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent article called “Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?” that earned enormous backlash from the disability community for arguing that young people are faking or exaggerating disabilities in order to secure preferential treatment and “financial compensation.”

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Runtime 1:27:27, 14 October 2024

Death Panel 545 Teaser - “Forensic Skepticism” (10/14/24)

Teaser - “Forensic Skepticism” (10/14/24)

Beatrice speaks to Nour and Sarah, two members of Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), about the role the New York Times has played in portraying the genocide in Palestine as just and reasonable, the campaign to get NYT readers to unsubscribe from the paper and for writers to boycott them, and the counter-propaganda project “New York War Crimes.”

More on the call to boycott the Times here:
https://www.writersagainstthewarongaza.com/boycott-nyt

Read The New York War Crimes here:
https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/

Transcript forthcoming.

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel 546 New York War Crimes w/ Members of WAWOG (10/17/24)

New York War Crimes w/ Members of WAWOG (10/24/24)

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Beatrice speaks with Sarah Jaffe about the politics of grief and grieving: who is allowed to grieve and how, what we are allowed to grieve and aren’t, and how taking the time to experience grief and loss are anathema to capitalism.

Sarah’s new book is From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire.
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/from-the-ashes/9781541703490/?lens=bold-type-books

Find Sarah’s new podcast here:
https://www.patreon.com/HeartReacts

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 1:43:22, 21 October 2024

Death Panel 457 Teaser - Grief w/ Sarah Jaffe (10/21/24)

Teaser - Grief w/ Sarah Jaffe (10/21/24)

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 21st. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Beatrice speaks with Sarah Jaffe about the politics of grief and grieving: who is allowed to grieve and how, what we are allowed to grieve and aren’t, and how taking the time to experience grief and loss are anathema to capitalism.

Sarah’s new book is From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire.
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sarah-jaffe/from-the-ashes/9781541703490/?lens=bold-type-books

Find Sarah’s new podcast here:
www.patreon.com/HeartReacts

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here:
https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Grief w/ Sarah Jaffe (Unlocked)

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Beatrice, Artie, Phil and Jules discuss the outcome of the 2024 election and how Palestine, the pandemic response, and the swift removal of pandemic welfare supports played a part.

Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

Runtime 1:06:32

Teaser - The Long Trump Era (11/11/24)

Beatrice and Tracy Rosenthal speak with Annie Powers about how our organizing can meet the moment, with lessons from homeless, landless, and poor people’s movements from the 1930s, 1980s, and today.

Annie Powers is an organizer with Union de Vecinos, the Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union, and a scholar of landless people’s political movements in the United States. She studies the history of housing and homelessness, and poor people’s urban land struggle, in the US and the world.

This episode is part of a series in collaboration with Tracy Rosenthal centered around the growing tenants’ movement and their book, co-authored with Leonardo Vilchis, Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.

Transcript forthcoming.

Find Tracy's book, Abolish Rent, here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent

Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny

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Death Panel Seizing the Means of Reproduction w/ Annie Powers & Tracy Rosenthal (11/14/24)

Seizing the Means of Reproduction w/ Annie Powers & Tracy Rosenthal (11/14/24)

Politics, culture, and public policy from the left. Stay alive another week.

w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco and Jules Gill-Peterson. 

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