With my eyes I travel across the nocturnal sky,
No boundaries, just an expression of immensity 
What I see makes me realize how life should be
Like a shooting star, shining without a reason why

Hear my words, see beyond the surface
realise that life is not a ruthless race,
imagine it as a splendid collective dance,
 catch the rhythm and enjoy this experience

Everybody is a unique creation of nature,
even if separated by space we are one .
When connected with another creature,
our souls shine like the summer sun 

We were all born to love and not to hate,
not to destroy but to create,
to follow our passionate inner fire,
Fulfil our heart’s most ardent desire

Background music: Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche

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If I Speak

11: Help! My partner's too posh

10: Do I have to be nice to my friend's partner?

13: I'm the problem, it's me

12: How to be a good friend

The difference between sex and gender is fundamental to how we talk about trans people.

But what if it actually obscures the richness of life outside of gender norms?

There is so much more to gender non-conforming people than this academic, middle-class, distinction. So says Jules Gill-Peterson, author of A Short History of Trans Misogyny.

A historian at Johns Hopkins University, she reaches back into the past to explain what it means to be a Queen, how the ways we talk about them accidentally erases them, why trans women do sex work, and to reignite the celebration of femininity as a cornerstone of feminist politics.

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Novara FM: The Dolls Hold All The Receipts w/ Jules Gill-Peterson

What exactly is cool? Well, if it was that easy to describe, it wouldn't be cool at all. In this Trip, Keir, Jem and Nadia wonder if cool comes from within, if cool can ever be politically useful, and what happens when cool is used as a disciplining force.

With ideas from Pierre Bourdieu, Norman Mailer and Paul Gilroy, and music from OutKast, Gwen Stefani and Miles Davis, the gang adopt a blank expression to explore the mysterious rules of this singular modern concept.

Books:  Dick Pountain & David Robins - Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude / Pierre Bourdieu - Distinction: A Sociology of the Judgement of Taste / Sarah Thornton - Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital / Norman Mailer - The White Negro / Georg Simmel - The Metropolis and Mental Life / Paul Gilroy - The Black Atlantic / The New Spirit of Capitalism / Thomas Frank - The Conquest of Cool / Jean Genet - Prisoner of Love

Music:  Gwen Stefani - Cool / Dua Lipa - Cool / OutKast - Take Off Your Cool / The Stooges - Real Cool Time / Miles Davis - Jeru / Ricardo Villalobos - Hireklon / New Order - Blue Monday

Produced and edited by Matt Huxley and Chal Ravens. PRS licence number: LE-0016481

ACFM Trip 43: Cool

The right have ditched climate denial and found something worse.

They're doubling down on the exhaustion of people and planet alike, making us run ever-faster just to stay in place.

Can we turn our collective exhaustion into a climate politics of rest and recuperation?

That's the urgent question Ajay Singh Chaudhary asks in The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World.

On Novara FM, he told Richard Hames about the strange new alliances forged by climate change, what we can learn from global peasant struggles, and the possibilities buried in a world coming apart at the seams.

Novara FM: The Right Is Getting Real On Climate. Can We? w/ Ajay Singh Chaudhary

What exactly is cool? Well, if it was that easy to describe, it obviously wouldn't be cool. In this Trip, Keir, Jem and Nadia wonder if cool can ever be politically useful, and what happens when cool is used as a disciplining force.

With ideas from Pierre Bourdieu, Norman Mailer and Paul Gilroy, and music from OutKast, Gwen Stefani and Miles Davis, the gang adopt a blank expression to explore the mysterious rules of this singular modern concept.

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ACFM Microdose: Notes on Camp

Novara Media's football podcast returns for another crack at the silverware! Every Wednesday until the Euro 2024 final, Juliet Jacques and Tom Williams provide political and tactical analysis of the tournament in an episode of two halves.

This week: the strange spectacle of politicians pretending to like football, the changing status of women and LGBT+ players and fans, what Starmer will do for the game, and England's prospects after a flat showing against Iceland.

Music by Matt Huxley. Design by Pietro Garrone. Produced by Chal Ravens.

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What's it like to be left-wing in an aspiring ethnostate?

Israel has swung hard to the right in the last few decades, with self-described fascists now in government. But a left remains, calling not just for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza, but for the end to the apartheid regime as a whole. What power do they have?

Comedian and activist Noam Shuster-Eliassi and +972 Magazine journalist Haggai Matar talk to Rivkah Brown about the terrifying consequences of resistance to the Israeli state, how Jewish ethnic minorities are treated within Israel, and how to survive in a society that treats 'leftist' as a slur.

Novara FM now has its own inbox. Email us with comments, criticisms and suggestions: fm@novaramedia.com

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