Conversations about the Criminal Justice System, the War on Drugs, Prohibition, Sex Worker rights, the Prison Industrial Complex and Restorative Justice.

The Criminal Justice System and the War on Drugs

Politics

Conversations with, between and about feminism(s).

Feminism

Conversations about sex work, sex writing, sex worker rights and sex related activism

Conversations around trans, genderqueer and non binary experiences and issues

Conversations that feature or focus on discussions of LDBTQIA issues and rights.

LGBTQIA Issues and Rights

In GBA 123 we get better acquainted with Daniel Simpson. He talks about his experience trying to bring Ibiza to the Balkans in a story that involves being a journalist for the New York Times, drug smuggling, the Serbian mafia, Sonic Youth, and the conflict between idealism and egotism. 

We also get into both the wider politics that frame this story (the media, the Balkans, The War on Terror, The War on Drugs, Western Foreign Policy) and what he learnt personally about himself from his terrible experiences.

At PBH's Free Fringe (part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival):

Getting Better Acquainted

- 1.40pm, 12th August, Banshee Labyrinth w/ Gods of Comedy: http://www.facebook.com/events/489862131092073/

- 1.40pm, 13th August, Banshee Labyrinth w/ Peter Buckley Hill: http://www.facebook.com/events/197046307128430/

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

6.30pm, 3rd - 14th August, Fiddler's Elbow (downstairs): http://www.facebook.com/events/597921693564454/

Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/

12.15pm, 8th August, Fiddler's Elbow (Downstairs): http://www.facebook.com/events/120455901458002

Daniel Plugs:

Rough Guide to the Darkside: http://www.roughguidedarkside.com/

Spark London in August:

12th August @ Hackney Attic:  https://www.facebook.com/events/431964896916829/

19th August Upstairs @ The Ritzy: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/153907941477134/

We mention:

George Orwell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
Echo: http://www.echofestival.com/croatia/
Sonic Youth: http://www.sonicyouth.com/
Hunter S Thompson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson
Glenn Greenwald: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/glenn-greenwald
Derrick May: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_May_(musician)
Ram Dass: http://www.ramdass.org/
Gary Web - dark alliance - consortium news: http://consortiumnews.com/2011/12/09/the-warning-in-gary-webbs-death/
The Truth is Out There: http://www.truth-is-out-there.com/
Chillpack Hollywood Hour: http://www.chillpakhollywood.com/
Phil Leirness: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-60-phil-leirness/
Chris Roberts: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-41-chris

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GBA 123 Daniel Simpson

In this special GBA Live recorded at the Banshee Labyrinth as part of the PBH Free Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival. I get better acquainted with Bec Hill and Brydie Lee-Kennedy from the Gods of Comedy podcast.

We talk comedy, religion, belief and more.


We plug:

Gods of Comedy: http://godsofcomedypodcast.com/

Sugar & Vice: All the Men We've Never Slept With
Venue: Gilded Balloon Teviot ​ 
Date:13-26 August
Time: 21:00

https://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/cabaret/sugar-vice-all-the-men-we-ve-never-slept-with

Bec Hill: Bec by Popular Demand 
Venue: Gilded Balloon Teviot ​ 
Date: 13-25 August
Time: 16:00

https://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/bec-hill-bec-by-popular-demand

Pun Run
Venue: The Canons' Gait ​ 
Date: 14 August
Time: 18:05

https://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/pun-run

Stand Up Tragedy (Fiddler's Elbow Downstairs, Venue 71) 3rd - 14th August at 6.30pm: http://www.facebook.com/events/597921693564454/?fref=ts

And my next live GBA shows

13th August w/ Peter Buckley Hill: 1.40pm Banshee Labyrinth Banquetting Hall: http://www.facebook.com/events/197046307128430/?fref=ts

And we all plug:

A Maze of Breaths - pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/album/…fringe

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GBA Live 7 Gods Of Comedy

In GBA 132 we get better acquainted with Nina. She talks bullying, complicated childhoods, feminism(s), mental health, France, twitter and more. 

The first GBA conversation with someone who had made a spider diagram of their life for me to follow during the conversation. And the first time Nina and I had met in person. Until then our friendship had been via email and twitter. Nina first reached out to me as a listener to the show. Some of our initial correspondence was featured in the 100th episode.

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba100-1

Nina plugs:

North East Feminist Gathering: http://www.nefeministgathering.com/

Blog and writing:  
http://fifty2stories.tumblr.com/

http://www.quailpipe.co.uk/

Twitter handle:

https://twitter.com/gourenina

Her podcast: https://soundcloud.com/nina-gray-1

Her radio play:
https://soundcloud.com/epilepsyaction/play-diagnose-it-yourself-nina-gray-ilkley-players

Epilepsy Action: https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/

We mention:

Martin's episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-67-martin-the-sound-man

Ally Fogg:

https://twitter.com/AllyFogg

http://freethoughtblogs.com/hetpat

The Push: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ThePush&src=hash

Artwiculate: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23artwiculate&src=hash

1 Million and Rising: http://www.onebillionrising.org/

Ira Glass - taste / ability: http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2010/09/how-beginners-get-better-ira-glass-explains/

Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/

Audre Lourde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde

Laurie Penny: 

https://twitter.com/PennyRed

http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny




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GBA 132 Nina

In GBA 172  we get better acquainted with Sophia Walker. She talks about going round the world in 8 mistakes, drawing on her experiences of working in the care industry to create a new piece of spoken word theatre, experiencing 9/11 through the wider social context of her international school classmates, filming documentaries in warzones, the etymology of the words and so much more.

Sophia plugs:

Can't Care, Won't Care 2-24th August 1.40pm at the Banshee Labyrinth: http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/420338-cant-care-wont-care/

Around the World in Eight Mistakes 9-24th August at the Pilgrim 5.30pm:
http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/420579-around-the-world-in-eight-mistakes/

Both shows are part of The Free Fringe.

Her first book Opposite the Tour Bus coming out this year from Burning Eye Press 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SophiaWalker

Twitter: https://twitter.com/poetwalker

I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy at the Free Fringe - 7.30pm every day from 2nd-22nd August at the Banshee Labyrinth: www.facebook.com/events/316554115169995/

Sophia Walker will be performing with Stand Up Tragedy on 6th and 23rd.

Getting Better Acquainted Live at the Free Fringe 3.15pm every day from 18th-22th August at the Royal Oak: www.facebook.com/events/773670469351784/

We mention:

Free Fringe spoken word album: http://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/album/a-maze-of-breaths-spoken-word-at-pbhs-free-fringe
Lucy Ayrton: http://www.lucyayrton.co.uk/
Dogstar: http://dogstarbrixton.com/
Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/
Andrea Gibson: http://www.andreagibson.org/
Arts Council: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
Kevin Cadwallender: http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/kevin-cadwallender
Ted Talks: http://www.ted.com/
BBCQT Watchalong: https://twitter.com/BBCQTWatchalong
Moscow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow
Washington: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Soviet Union: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
UPI: http://www.upi.com/
National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
The Mountain People: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mountain-People-Colin-M-Turnbull/dp/0671640984
David Pluth - Green Peace: http://www.ugpulse.com/heritage/1-on-1-with-national-geographic-photographer-david-pluth/530/ug.aspx
IkLand: the worst people in the world http://iklandmovie.com/index.php  
Boston International Film Festival: http://www.bifilmfestival.com/biffhome.html
Hanoi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi
George Bush: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
Haringey: http://www.haringey.gov.uk/
Baby P: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Baby_P
Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/
Ross Sutherland: http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/
Jordan - spoken word: http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/11/16/jordan-s-female-slam-poetry-scene.html
Upworthy: http://www.upworthy.com/
Shane Koyczan -  To This Day  : http://www.tothisdayproject.com/the_poem.html
Talha Ahsan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Talha_Ahsan 
Stonewall: http://www.stonewall.org.uk/
Keith Jarrett  - Gay Poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81EKU1lXbw
Sophia Walker - Faggots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8muDiSOjOQY
Chumbawamba - Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbXvfVlXt4s
300 to 1: https://www.facebook.com/events/607036452716549/
Monkey Poet: http://www.monkeypoet.co.uk/

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GBA 172 Sophia Walker

A live recording of a GBA recorded at #edfringe 2014 at the Royal Oak as part of the PBH Free Fringe.

This recording is unedited and posted in a no frills way due to the intensive workload of the festival, and for that reason these shows will also not have shownotes attached to them.

20th August: 20th August: Fay Roberts: http://www.fayroberts.co.uk/

Fay Roberts is a performance poet and peripatetic percussionist. By day she pokes projects and by night she projects across a microphone. She runs the Cambridge chapter of Hammer & Tongue, along with her own arts label/ brand/ movement/ “nebulous poetry concept” Allographic Press. And she is the director of Spoken Word at PBH's Free Fringe and runs Other Voices Caberet.

GBA Live 12 - Fay Roberts

In GBA 185 we get better acquainted with Mike Jackson. I met Mike at theFocus E15 Mothers Occupation earlier this year and he is one of the real people who are fictionalised in the film Pride. We talk about the personal and the political, going through class experience and class struggle, LGBT rights, solidarity between differently oppressed groups, consciousness raising, activist and trade union history and so much more.

Mike plugs: 

The reformed LGSM who can be found here: http://www.twitter.com/LGSMpride

And in the future they'll be on facebook too here: LGSM 2014 

We mention:

GBA 179 Focus E15 Mothers (feat Mike Jackson): https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-179-focus-e15-mothers

Focus e15 Mothers:

https://twitter.com/FocusE15

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Focus-E15-Mothers/602860129757343

http://focuse15.org/

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

Pride: http://www.pridemovie.co.uk/

Billy Elliot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Elliot
Brassed Off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassed_Off
The Full Monty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Full_Monty
Stephen Beresford: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Beresford
Marc Ashton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ashton
Joe Gilgun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gilgun
This Is England: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_England
The Miner's Strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%80%9385)
Margaret Thatcher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
Pricewaterhouse Coopers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PricewaterhouseCoopers
Neoliberal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
Neoconservative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
Von Hayek:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Milton Friedman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman
Tony Benn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything: http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Climate/dp/1451697384
Freddie Fox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Fox_(actor)
Pink Triangle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle
Print Workers Strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_dispute
Still the Enemy Within: http://the-enemy-within.org.uk/
Women Against Pit Closures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Against_Pit_Closures
Clement Attlee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee
Accrington: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accrington
1967 Sexual Offences Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967
Johnathan Harvey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Harvey_(playwright)
Beautiful Thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Thing_(play)
Canary: http://www.amazon.co.uk/22Canary-22-Modern-Plays-Jonathan-Harvey/dp/1408131048
"Equal" Marriage Bill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_(Same_Sex_Couples)_Act_2013
Mark Ashton's Fund: https://www.facebook.com/markashtontrust
Soma Mining Disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_mine_disaster




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GBA 185 Mike Jackson

In GBA 189 we get better acquainted with Heather. She talks about how faith and theatre has influenced her passion for working with young people and in getting involved with LGBT rights, her methodist upbringing and personal relationship with God, the experience of being pregnant and how she first knew me as "Pajama Boy".

Heather Plugs: Speaking up for other people's rights.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

We mention:

Tim: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-188-tim
Mencap: https://www.mencap.org.uk/
PGCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgraduate_Certificate_in_Education
I Have 2 Mummys books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Has_Two_Mommies
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Some-people-have-Mums-SomeFamilies-net/dp/1484097122
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Two-Mommies-Vanita-Oelschlager/dp/0982636679
Central Park Penguins book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three
Heteronormativity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity
Methodism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism
Rowan Williams (The Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of recording): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Williams




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In GBA 197 we get better acquainted with Toni. She talks about being a sex worker and sex worker rights activist, decriminalisation, the problems with the Swedish Model, the language and stigma around sex work, harm reduction, how various systems of oppression intersect around the lives of sex workers and more. 

Toni is a member of the Sex Worker Open University: http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/

Content Note: Some reference to violence against sex workers and to rape and sexual assault, although none of these references are graphic or personal accounts.

Toni plugs:

@SexWorkerOU: https://twitter.com/SexWorkerOU
CONFIDE: Helpline: http://confideinfo.com/about/

I plug:

Tragic Winter @ Hackney Attic: 28th February: 
http://www.facebook.com/events/1516191711967276/

We mention:

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers: http://www.december17.org/
Carol Leigh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh
Tres Cosas Campaign: https://3cosascampaign.wordpress.com/about/
Decriminalisation: http://prostitutescollective.net/2010/09/28/decriminalisation-of-prostitution-v-legalisation-2/
Swedish/Nordic Model: http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/blog/swou-statement-on-poverty-sex-work-and-the-swedish-model-poverty-is-objectifying-demeaning-and-coercive1
Amnesty International - the backlash: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/agm-decisions-to-date
http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2013/06/amnesty-human-rights-and-criminalisation-sex-work
Friends: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends
Petite Jasmine: 
http://titsandsass.com/the-bloody-state-gave-him-the-power-a-swedish-sex-workers-murder/
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/alex-bryce/petite-jasmine-sex-workers_b_4439049.html
Arrested Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_%28TV_series%29
Tina Fay: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Fey
Morecambe Bay Cockle Picking Disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Morecambe_Bay_cockling_disaster
ECP:  http://www.nswp.org/members/europe/english-collective-prostitutes
http://prostitutescollective.net/
x: talk: http://www.xtalkproject.net/
NSWP: http://www.nswp.org/
Ipswich Serial murders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswich_serial_murders
Associated Press: http://www.ap.org/



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GBA 197 Toni

In GBA 10 we get better acquainted with Richard. He talks about being an employment lawyer, coming to terms with his sexuality, and his dual passions for law and politics. He also mounts a valiant defence of the coalition government.

Richard plugs:

Voting yes for AV and voting for the Liberal Democrats: http://www.libdems.org.uk/



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GBA 10 Richard

In GBA 209 we get better acquainted with Juliet Jacques. She talks about football, comment and opinion journalism, the differences and tensions between writing non fiction and writing fiction, marginal art and voices, the material reality of being a writer and so much more.

Juliet plugs:

Her memoir Trans will be out on 22nd September: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1975-trans

At Home She's A Tourist: http://julietjacques.blogspot.co.uk/

I plug:

Tragic Summer: www.facebook.com/events/1374545949536475/

And Tragic Spring on the Stand Up Tragedy podcast: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy

We mention:

Hattie Jacques: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Jacques
Steve Cross: https://twitter.com/steve_x
Dawn Foster: https://twitter.com/dawnhfoster
https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-206-dawn-foster
Alice Bell: https://twitter.com/alicebell
https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-115-alice-bell
David Peace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Peace
Belle and Sebastian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_and_Sebastian
The Smiths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiths
The Guardian: A Transgender Journey http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/transgender-journey
Hillsborough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster
Luton / Millwall Riot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Kenilworth_Road_riot
Review of Anna Krien's Night Games : http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/01/journey-dark-heart-sport-anna-kriens-night-games
Hollis Frampton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_Frampton
Goodbye to the NHS: a personal story of a public service: http://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2014/09/goodbye-nhs-personal-story-public-service
On the “dispute” between radical feminism and trans people: http://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2014/08/dispute-between-radical-feminism-and-trans-people
Writers of Colour: http://mediadiversified.org/
Manifesto for Confessional Journalism: http://thenewinquiry.com/features/manifesto-for-confessional-journalism/
Brixton East Art Gallery: http://www.brixtoneast.co.uk/
White Review - Lars Iyer manfesto: http://www.thewhitereview.org/features/nude-in-your-hot-tub-facing-the-abyss-a-literary-manifesto-after-the-end-of-literature-and-manifestos/
200th Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba200
Huw Lemmey: https://twitter.com/spitzenprodukte
Reasons why your landlord is awesome: http://www.buzzfeed.com/dclg/is-your-landlord-actually-incredible-mu2w
My comment is free piece:  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/01/tough-choice-cut-job-enfield-children-centres-austerity
Reflections on Villaplane: http://www.berfrois.com/2014/09/reflections-on-villaplane-juliet-jacques/
Skunk Anansie: Yes it's fucking political: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcaUer4fuU8
Liz Jones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Jones
A Week of Goodbyes: http://davepickeringblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/a-week-of-goodbyes.html
Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQhEBCWMe44
"Masculinity": http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/26/transgender-juliet-jacques-masculinity-football
Travels of a transsexual football fan: http://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2013/11/travels-transsexual-football-fan
Verso Books: http://www.versobooks.com/
Gang of Four: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_%28band%29


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GBA 209 Juliet Jacques

In GBA 215 we get better acquainted with Cameryn Moore.  She talks about her shows Phone Whore, Smut Slam Caberet and Slut (R)evolution, the ethics around making art about difficult subjects; responsibility, accountability and authenticity, balancing doing phone sex work and being a touring artist, fat acceptance, authentic sexuality, "bigot comedy bingo" and more. 

Cameryn plugs:

Phone Whore and Slut (r)evolution at the Buxton Fringe: http://www.buxtonfringe.org.uk/descriptions2015.html
Phone Whore at the Manchester Fringe: http://www.greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/
Dundee - Phone Whore: http://www.camerynmoore.com/current-tour/
Phone Wore, Slut (R)evolution and  Smut Slam Caberet at the Edinburgh Fringe: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/phone-whore-a-one-act-play-with-frequent-interruptions
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/slut-r-evolution-no-one-gets-there-overnight
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/smut-slam-cabaret-where-sexy-and-storytelling-collide

Website:  http://www.camerynmoore.com/

I plug:

GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: http://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/
http://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/
http://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/

We mention:

Adrian: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-162-adrian
Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/
Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/
Natural Born Storytellers: http://www.naturalbornstorytellers.com/
Smut Stand: http://www.camerynmoore.com/sidewalk-smut/
Heather McAllister: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_MacAllister_(activist)

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GBA 215 Cameryn Moore

In GBA 218 we get better acquainted with Shaun Atwood. He talks about being "the Walter White of the Ecstasy market in Arizona", struggling to survive in maximum and medium security prisons, starting a blog from the inside jail, playing chess with the Mafia, racism within criminal justice systems, teaching creative writing to prisoners, the Prison Industrial Complex, prohibition, the War on Drugs and more.

Shaun plugs:

Trilogy of memoir books: Hard Time, Party Time, Prison Time
Website: http://www.shaunattwood.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shaunattwood
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shaun-Attwood/228166633865948
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/derickatt/featured
Blog: Jon's Jail Journal: http://jonsjailjournal.blogspot.co.uk/

I plug:

My preview on 23rd July: http://www.facebook.com/events/1598769017027875/

GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: http://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/
http://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/
http://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/

We mention:

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com
HMP Thameside: http://www.hmpthameside.org/
To Kill A Mockingbird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Hard Time:
Wolf of Wall Street: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film)
Scarface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_(1983_film)
Pulp Fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction
Rambo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo_(film_series)
Breaking Bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
OJ Simpson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: http://www.leap.cc/
Schopenhauer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
Shawshank Redemption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_Scream
Johann Hari on Little Atoms: http://www.littleatoms.com/podcast/johann-hari-chasing-scream
Orange is the New Black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Is_the_New_Black
Queen Victoria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria
Freud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
Fred West: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
David Nutt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt
The Bush Family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_family
Corrections Corporation of America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America
Three Strikes Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law
California Prison Guards Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_Officers_Association
Broadcom: https://www.broadcom.com/
Chris Grayling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Grayling
Kill the Messenger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)
Gary Webb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
Nancy Reagan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Reagan
Just Say No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Say_No
Ronald Reagan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
George Bush Sr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
Bill Clinton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton
Contras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras






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GBA 218 Shaun Attwood

In GBA 224 we get better acquainted with AJ. She talks about writing and performing poetry, finding her poetry voice as a result of transitioning, responding to banter culture, transphobia and transmisogyny, kink, sex and sexuality. This was a snatched conversation during the Edinburgh Fringe 2015 where we were both did solo shows. Our shows had a lot of cross over and that's reflected in the conversation.

AJ plugs:

A Lady of a Certain Rage: http://www.lulu.com/shop/aj-mckenna/a-lady-of-a-certain-rage/paperback/product-21075072.html

The Gunshots that Kill Us Are Silenced: https://ajmckenna.bandcamp.com/album/the-gunshots-which-kill-us-are-silenced

Public Address III: http://www.applesandsnakes.org/page/108/PUBLIC+ADDRESS+THE+SOAPBOX+TOUR/1597

@AnathemaJane:  https://twitter.com/anathemajane


I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy presents.... https://www.facebook.com/events/461679520679231/

Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Autumn: http://www.facebook.com/events/1453089018350037/

#ManSurvey: http://www.mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/

We mention:

Stand Up Tragedy:  http://standuptragedy.co.uk
Cis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender
David Cameron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron
UKIP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party
Jeremy Clarkson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson
#KillAllMen: https://stavvers.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/kill-all-men/
https://medium.com/matter/the-meme-ification-of-misandry-3b0c95ad51f5
Bahar Mustafa: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/bahar-mustafa-goldsmiths-university-diversity-officer-could-lose-job-after-being-accused-by-students-10260697.html
#FuckCisPeople:  https://cisnormativity.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/disrupting-the-politics-of-etiquette/
Kate Fox: http://katefox.co.uk/
Angela Readman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Readman
Rich Mix: http://www.richmix.org.uk/
The Bathroom Thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7qfU45jhOQ
Queer'Say: http://bit.ly/1OGtG04
Daniel Bye: http://www.danielbye.co.uk/
Marina Abramović: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87
Sarah Thomasin: http://sarahthomasin.com/
Kate Tempest: http://katetempest.co.uk/
Stewart Lee: http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/
If You'd Prefer A Milder Comedian Please Ask for One: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stewart-Lee-Prefer-Milder-Comedian/dp/B003XMVGYQ
Josie Long: http://www.josielong.com/
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Home
Eggshells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUQdVTNnr_4
Stonewall:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
Mattachine Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattachine_Society
Ferguson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_unrest
Autogynephilia: http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/autogynephilia.html
DSM: http://psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm
Breuer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Breuer
Charcot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Martin_Charcot
Freud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
Hirschfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld
Paraphilia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia
Topping from the Bottom: http://houseofvoid.com/2012/04/18/topping-from-the-bottom-what-does-it-mean/
Fay Roberts: http://www.fayroberts.co.uk/
6 Sexes: http://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943
Niels Bohr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr
My Revelation Will Not Be Trivialised: https://ajmckenna.bandcamp.com/track/my-revelation-will-not-be-trivialised
Gil Scott-Heron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron
Pegging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegging_(sexual_practice)
Chella Quint: https://chellaquint.wordpress.com/
Kyriarchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy
Chelsea Poe: http://chelseapoe.com/
Kasey Platt - A Safe Girl to Love: https://alumni.columbia.edu/node/984451
Gender dysphoria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria
Transmisogyny: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Transmisogyny


GBA 224 AJ McKenna

In GBA 244 we get better acquainted with Alison Phipps. She talks about her roundabout route to becoming an academic, how her politics have changed and grown over time, researching lad culture, sexual violence and reproductive rights, the dialectics of feminism, including sex worker and trans rights within feminism, how institutions work and the way that music and singing have framed and shaped her life.

Content note: This episode includes discussion of sexual assault, rape and violence.

Alison plugs:

Blog: https://genderate.wordpress.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alisonphipps
Pastachips: https://twitter.com/pastachips

I plug:

What do sex workers want?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJRBx0JjM_M
Toni Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-197-toni

What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity

http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk

Twitter: http://twitter.com/goosefat101

Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt

We mention:

(Re)theorising laddish masculinities: https://t.co/XVhIziHi5e

Elmhurst Ballet School: http://www.elmhurstdance.co.uk/
Manchester University: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/
The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age, Alison Phipps, 2014: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Politics-Body-Neoliberal-Neoconservative/dp/0745648886
Radical Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism
Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/
Intersectional Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
Dialectics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic
Sex Worker Open University: http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/
Shula Firestone - Dialectics of Sex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dialectic_of_Sex
Carceral Feminism: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/10/against-carceral-feminism/
Prison Abolition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_abolition_movement
Restorative Justice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice
Survivors Network: http://www.survivorsnetwork.org.uk/
Stoya/ James Deen: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/04/how-stoya-took-on-james-deen-and-broke-the-porn-industrys-silence
Unilad: http://www.unilad.co.uk/
Gamergate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy
Steve Dempster: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-research/about-us/people/steven-dempster
NUS Report Lad Culture: http://www.nus.org.uk/Global/Campaigns/That's%20what%20she%20said%20full%20report%20Final%20web.pdf
50 Shades is Abuse: https://twitter.com/50shadesabuse
Germaine Greer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer
Female Eunach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Eunuch
Janice Raymond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Raymond
Andrea Dworkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin
Brownmiller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Brownmiller
McKinnon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine_MacKinnon
Baudrillard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard
Focualt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
Lean In: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_In
Fawcett Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawcett_Society
Centre for Gender Studies: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/gender/
Solidarity With Sex Workers: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/31323
Kimberle Crenshaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberl%C3%A9_Williams_Crenshaw
Hamilton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_(musical)
Prince: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)
REM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.E.M.
Nirvana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band)
Pearl Jam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Jam
Stone Temple Pilots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Temple_Pilots
The other Alison Phipps: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/08/hosting-refugees-in-my-home-migration-crisis

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GBA 244 Alison Phipps

In GBA 250 we get better acquainted with Natalie. She shares some of her personal story and talks about her faith and her feminism, we compare notes on patriarchy and masculinity and discuss some areas we disagree on.

Content note: Discussion of child sexual abuse, rape, violence against women, self-harm, PTSD and domestic violence.

Natalie plugs: 

Emailing her if you want to have a conversation with her about the areas and issues discussed: natalie.collins[at]dayprogramme.org

I plug:

What Sex Worker's Want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJRBx0JjM_M

Toni: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-197-toni

Get Matt Hill on GBA by donating to the Spark RefuAid appeal: http://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/sparkrefuaid

Live GBA @ Radioman Lates: http://www.facebook.com/events/1400049843627973/

What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity
http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk

Twitter: twitter.com/goosefat101

Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt

We mention:

God Loves Women: https://twitter.com/god_loves_women
DAY Programme: http://www.dayprogramme.org/
Christian Feminist Network: https://christianfeministnetwork.com/
PTSD: http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/
Gender Reconciliation International: http://www.genderreconciliationinternational.org/
Apartheid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid
Female Genital Mutilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation
MRAs: http://www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/how-mens-rights-leader-paul-elam-turned-being-a-deadbeat-dad
Universal Basic Income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
End Demand/The Nordic Model/The Swedish Model: http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/blog/swou-statement-on-poverty-sex-work-and-the-swedish-model-poverty-is-objectifying-demeaning-and-coercive1
Radical Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism

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GBA 250 Natalie

In GBA 262 we get  better acquainted with Miranda Kane. We recorded this conversation at the Audible studios in London during the recording of her new audio sitcom Slaving Away which is a comedy about a cheerful and happy-go-lucky single girl who just happens to be a dominatrix that will be hitting your earways this August. We talk about making comedy about sex work and sex worker rights, why it took a while for her to realise she could fit into the world of stand-up comedy, not making fat people and sex workers into punchlines and lots more. 

We also talk about her show Coin Operated Girl which is back again at this year's PBH Free Fringe: https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/602895-the-coin-operated-girl/

For more about sex worker rights, decriminalization and sex worker led activism see:

Sex Worker Open University: http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/
Toni Mac: The Laws That Sex Workers Really Want: https://www.ted.com/talks/toni_mac_the_laws_that_sex_workers_really_want
GBA 197 - Toni https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-197-toni

Miranda Plugs:

Slaving Away: https://www.amazon.com/Slaving-Away-Speaking-Audible-Original/dp/B010PRLWLI

I plug:

The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast

What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity

http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk

Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt

We mention:

Audible: http://www.audible.co.uk/
Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/
Spark SW podcasts:
https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/special-sex-worker-stories
https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/more-sexworkerstories-truestoriestoldlive
Coin Operated Girl: http://www.coinoperatedgirl.co.uk/

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Getting Better Acquainted

GBA 262 Miranda Kane

In GBA 308, we get better acquainted with Meg-John and Justin. They talk about how they came to be sex and relationship educators, approaching sex, relationships and sexuality in an inclusive and non judgmental way, avoiding thinking in binaries and lots more. With references that include Terry Pratchett,  Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Professional Cycling and Homer Simpson as well as a whole range of academics, activists and theorists, it's a fun and informative conversation.

MJ and Justin plug:

Enjoy Sex (How, when and if you want to): a practical and inclusive guide: https://www.waterstones.com/book/enjoy-sex-how-when-and-if-you-want-to/meg-john-barker/justin-hancock/9781785780806
Their podcast and other collaborations: http://megjohnandjustin.com/
https://twitter.com/megjohnjustin
https://www.facebook.com/megjohnjustin

Bish UK: http://www.bishuk.com/
Rewriting the rules . com: http://rewriting-the-rules.com/
How to Understand Your Gender: http://www.jkp.com/uk/how-to-understand-your-gender-2.html

I plug:

Smut Slam: Sex Education on Wednesday Sept 13th: https://www.facebook.com/events/827737554066972/

What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity

http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/

The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/

We mention:

Petra Boynton: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/dr-petra-boynton/
Carluccios: https://www.carluccios.com/
Open Barbers: http://openbarbers.co.uk/
Barber Streisand: https://barberstreisand.com/
Roz Gill: https://www.city.ac.uk/people/academics/rosalind-gill
Laura Harvey: http://brighton.academia.edu/LauraHarvey
Open University: http://www.open.ac.uk/
Simone de Beauvoir: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir
PUA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_community
Neil Strauss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Strauss
bell hooks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks
Toxic Masculinity: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Toxic_masculinity
Young Masculinities: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Young-Masculinities-Understanding-Contemporary-Society/dp/0333779231
Hegemonic masculinities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemonic_masculinity
Homer Simpson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_Simpson
Charles Bukowski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski
This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-we-cant-have-nice-things
Revenge of the Nerds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Nerds
Intersectionality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
Kimberle Crenshaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberle_Crenshaw
Patricia Hill Collins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Hill_Collins
Rewriting The Rules:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rewriting-Rules-Meg-Barker/dp/041551763X
Terry Pratchett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett
Relationship Anarchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_anarchy
Dan Savage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage
Joss Whedon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon
Joss Whedon Is a ‘Hypocrite Preaching Feminist Ideals,’ Ex-Wife Kai Cole Says (Guest Blog) http://www.thewrap.com/joss-whedon-feminist-hypocrite-infidelity-affairs-ex-wife-kai-cole-says/
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer
Gaslighting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
Complex PTSD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_post-traumatic_stress_disorder
Petar Sagan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sagan
Superstar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstar_(Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer)
Jonathan Levinson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Levinson
Laverne Cox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laverne_Cox
The Eels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eels_(band)

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Getting Better Acquainted 

GBA 308 Meg-John And Justin

In GBA 310 we get better acquainted with CJ and Arlie from The Boy Who Hasn't Lived podcast. The podcast they make is about "one friend forcing the other to read the entire Harry Potter book series for the first time" and after they tell me why they make the show I get into my issues with the Harry Potter books. From there the conversation covers problematic faves, navigating the world, calling out and calling in, dealing with individuals and with systems, looking at the intersections around gender, race and power and how everything is COMPLICATED and that's okay! 

CJ and Arlie plug:

The Boy Who Hasn't Lived: http://www.theboywhohasntlived.com/
Sparrow: http://www.sprrw.co.uk/
Paying CJ to talk to you about gender and race

I plug:

What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity

http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/

Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360

The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/

We mention:

Meg John and Justin: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-308-meg-john-and-justin
Podcasters' Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/571436979623574/
Helen Zaltzman: http://helenzaltzman.com/
British Podcast Awards: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/
"Ultimate Fighting Podcast" - actually called Fight Disciples: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/fight-disciples-podcast-boxing-and-ufc/id1082188856?mt=2
Harry Potter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter
Buffy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer
Worst Witch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Witch
Charlie Bone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Red_King
Lord of the Rings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings
JK Rowling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._K._Rowling
Rowling - Isreal/Palestine: http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/13925856.Palestinian_Harry_Potter_fan_has_called_out_JK_Rowling_for_the_SECOND_time/
The Good Immigrant: https://unbound.com/books/the-good-immigrant
Riz Ahmed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riz_Ahmed
Faves are problematic: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/mvnkpv/brief-look-back-at-your-fave-is-problematic
JRR Tolkien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien
Shia LaBeouf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia_LaBeouf
Joss Whedon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon
Current Issues with Joss: Joss Whedon Is a ‘Hypocrite Preaching Feminist Ideals,’ Ex-Wife Kai Cole Says (Guest Blog) http://www.thewrap.com/joss-whedon-feminist-hypocrite-infidelity-affairs-ex-wife-kai-cole-says/
Longest Shortest Time: https://longestshortesttime.com/
Justin Bieber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Bieber
Dan Savage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage
Calling Out/Calling In: https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/03/calling-in-and-calling-out/
Jon Ronson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Ronson
So You've Been Publicly Shamed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_You%27ve_Been_Publicly_Shamed
Genderqueer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer
Intent isn't magic: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2013/06/intent-is-not-magic-but-it-still-matters/
Boi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boi_(slang)
Cisgender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender
Non Binary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/eb39cad3-6170-4141-8b28-757b3579f076
Gender Dysphoria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria
Intersectional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
TERF: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Trans-exclusionary_radical_feminism
Kimberley Crenshaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberle_Crenshaw
Song By Song: http://www.songbysongpodcast.com/

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GBA 310 CJ And Arlie

In GBA 41 we get better acquainted with Chris. He was my one of my lecturers at university. He talks about academia, journalism, media, the Iraq War and the cuts being imposed by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition Government. It was recorded on a university campus so it was a trip down memory lane where I faced my past lessons and past prejudices. 

It's a conversation about ideas but also about people. Chris tells us of his journey from plumber to van driver to academic and critic. And he makes the argument for how, in a world so influenced and controlled by the media, media studies is far from being an irrelevant subject.

This is the first time someone with the same name as a previous guest has been aired. It won't be the last. Hope it doesn't get too confusing!


Chris plugs: 

His Blog: http://chr1sr0berts.wordpress.com/

Any work he does for http://www.newleftproject.org/ and http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network

And of course his book when it is published. His full name is Chris Roberts so look out for this in the future.

He also plugs Dan Hind's The Return of the Public:

http://thereturnofthepublic.wordpress.com/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1844675947/






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GBA 41 Chris

In GBA 312 we get better acquainted with Pandora Blake. They talk about how they became an award-winning feminist porn producer and performer, the rise and fall of their website Dreams of Spanking that was dedicated to ethically-produced BDSM erotica that prioritised gender diversity, explicit behind the scenes enthusiastic consent, and equal pay for equal work. With a wide lens they get into some of the issues around sex work law reform, censorship, obscenity law, sexual freedom and ethical/feminist porn. And in close up they talk about emerging from a few years of turmoil, change, transformation and transition, with new possibilities on the horizon and with a new understanding of their gender.

Pandora/Blake on coming out as genderqueer: http://pandorablake.com/blog/2017/10/meet-the-real-me

Pandora Blake plugs:

Supporting their activism (and helping them to write their book) by  signing up to their Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandorablake

I plug:

Smut Slam London: Spooky Sex: https://www.facebook.com/events/1924476301132034/

What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity

http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/

The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/

We mention:

Sex Worker's Opera: https://www.sexworkersopera.com/
Pandora's blog: http://pandorablake.com/blog
Cameryn Moore: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-215-cameryn-moore
Miranda Kane: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-262-miranda-kane
ATVOD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATVOD
Chilling Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
AVMS Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiovisual_Media_Services_Regulations_2014
BBFC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Board_of_Film_Classification
Obscene Publications Acts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscene_Publications_Acts
Myles Jackman Obscenity Lawyer: http://www.mylesjackman.com/
Anna Span: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Span
Spanner Case Manchester: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spanner
Digital Economy Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2017
Backlash: https://www.backlash.org.uk/
TERFs: http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Trans-exclusionary_radical_feminism
SWERFs: http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Sex_worker_exclusionary_radical_feminism
bell hooks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks
Genderqueer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer
Mx: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mx_(title)
Stoya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoya
Dreams of Spanking: http://dreamsofspanking.com/
11 Life Times: http://puttylike.com/what-are-you-going-to-do-with-your-11-lifetimes/
Tai Chi: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/fitness/Pages/taichi.aspx
Cuddle Party: http://www.cuddleparty.com/
Feminist Porn How to Find it and feel good watching it: http://pandorablake.com/blog/2017/9/feminist-porn-talk-book-club
Open Rights Group: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/

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GBA 312 Pandora Blake

In GBA 58 we get better acquainted with Radcliffe. In part 1 of this weeks 2 part special he talks about his relationship with drugs and his "formative" years. 

This includes his experiences attending and being expelled from a boarding school, his family life and his almost accidental introduction into the Edinburgh underworld.

We discuss addiction and the nature and social position of drugs. And we hear a recovered addicts views on drugs policy. 

Part 2 : http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-58-radcliffe-part-2 comes out in Friday when the conversation will continue, covering crime and punishment, homelessness and then rehabilitation and recovery. 

Seriously this conversation was amazing to have and I think it is really really worth you hearing. Radcliffe has seen some dark times, he has journeyed through the class system from the top to pretty much the bottom. He has lived in expensive houses and has been a crack addict in a Soho skip. He has dropped out of society and managed to climb back in. And he tells his story with humour, kindness and brutal honesty and whilst it is full of pain and violence, it is also, somehow a story about hope, beauty and love.


Radcliffe Plugs:

"Spoken Word is the new Rock and Roll"


Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/     

Today marks the 100 episode of the Spark London podcast. This is Radcliffe telling his story there (which is a teaser for part 2 of his conversation):http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/on-living-in-a-soho-skip-radcliffe-royds/

And this is the 100 episode of their show: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/episode-100-dorothea-stuart-alastair-smith/

You can find their podcast on iTunes and on Stitcher as well as on Mixcloud.

Their next live show is: Wednesday 6th June 2012 at 7:30pm at Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London, W2 6ND

The theme is "Life Savers" 

Box office: 020 7289 6054 or Book online: http://www.canalcafetheatre.com/

Future themes include Family Holidays, Tales from the work place, Flashbacks and Authority. If you have a story to tell then get in touch at sparklondon@gmail.com



Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

The next, and last for the moment, live Stand Up Tragedy will feature Radcliffe telling a story. This is the rest of the line up: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/show-5-4-june-2012/

Here are the details:

Monday  4th June 2012. 8.30pm till late at the Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7BX

Tickets: http://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/126520120/events

COME ALONG. BRING YOUR FRIENDS. Use the promo code TRAGIC to offset booking fee.

It also has a weekly podcast, which Radcliffe has featured on, which comes out every friday: http://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy








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In GBA 59 we get better acquainted with Sanne. Amongst other things she talks about studying and making theatre, dance and movement, acting, making art and the roles we play within our genders.

We sit in a park in the docklands area of London and compare notes, share stories and idea and get interrupted by passing families. 

Devised theatre, making the stone more stony, art as a lie, depictions of Ariel, boys wearing dresses, sex and sexuality, this conversation goes to lots of interesting places.

Sanne is my first Swedish guest (but she won't be the last!)

Sanne Plugs:

The Fish and the Denim River at Accidental Festival 2012: http://accidentalfestival.co.uk/index.php/programme/saturday-2nd-june/120-the-fish-and-the-denim-river

Here's the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/243532722403101/

And this is the rest of the Accidental Festival: http://accidentalfestival.co.uk/

She talks a lot about her course and whilst she doesn't plug it specifically here it is if you're interested: http://www.east15.ac.uk/


I talk about how I'm going to see DV8's Can We Talk About This? at the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=68379

Here is the 3 part review I wrote of it:

http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/dv8-review-1-cost-of-theatre.html

http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/dv8-2-personal-is-political.html

http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/dv8-3-promising.html



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GBA 59 Sanne

In GBA 76 we get better acquainted with Liam. He talks industrial tuna fishing, what Marxism means in the modern world, hope, perception, environmentalism and smoking, while sitting in my back garden on a sunny day last year.

This episode is closer to a debating style than most episodes as we get into the what divides and what unites the red and the black, divisions in left-leaning activism and the roads that led us both to our current personal and political ideas about the world. It’s also one where I talk too much. So it goes!

Liam Plugs:

The documentaries of Adam Curtis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/

http://adamcurtisfilms.blogspot.co.uk/

on google video: https://www.google.com/search?q=adam%20curtis&source=vgc&tbm=vid



Also mentioned:

Billy Collins - The Best Cigarette: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbRifIzMth0

Procrastination: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItMFWpKofSg

The Dispossessed: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dispossessed-Ursula-Guin/dp/1857988825 

Hugh's Fish Fight: http://www.fishfight.net/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/




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GBA 76 Liam

In GBA 78 we get better acquainted with Louise. A different Louise this time! She talks mostly about dance! 

But that doesn't mean the conversation is limited. We cover the experience of dancing, following and leading, the politics of dancing, a potted history of blues music, the relationship between types of dance, the connection between social struggle and dance, the etiquette of dance, the social value and demographics of dance, and even the science of dance!


Louise plugs:

Dancing!

Social Dancing in general.

If you want to dance there are dance nights every night of the week.

Easy Dance to start: guaranteed to be dancing in 6 weeks: http://jivenation.co.uk/
If you want to learn swing dancing from the best people in the country: http://www.swingpatrol.co.uk/
Blues dancing: Google: Blues in my shoes, blues baby blues, sin city blues or check out: http://bluesrevolution.co.uk/




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GBA 78 Louise

In GBA 89 we get better acquainted with Laraby. She talks about how storytelling and class have shaped her life, of her journey from poverty in the Lower East Side of New York to relative comfort in South London. 

This journey has taken her from an unstable home in the ghetto, Children’s Homes, running away at 14 to find a new life, the music industry, an Ivy League University, writing, immigration, working with young offenders, completing the citizenship test and so much more! 



Laraby Plugs:

Penny Arcade: BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE! at The Albany 15-23rd December 2012: http://www.thealbany.org.uk/event_detail/893/Theatre/Penny-Arcade-B!D!F!W!


Laraby's Spark Story (told on the night we met): http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/tit-trauma-laraby/



Mentioned:

Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/

The Moth: http://themoth.org/




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GBA 89 Laraby

In GBA 106 we get better acquainted with Jack and George.

Whilst drinking brandy & chain-smoking Jack, George and me trade differing views of the legal system and ask whether you change significantly after childhood: what stays the same and what changes. 

This episode includes an account of being arrested for destroying a house, an account of being a witness to an assault, an account of a bus kidnapping and the curious case of the police confiscating George's Lou Reed collection.

It's an interesting ride: Part surprise therapy session, part series of complimentary and contradictory experiences of the law and part documentation of a friendship. We actually don't sound as drunk as we were!

We don't really plug anything.

These are the individual GBAs with George and Jack:

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-46-jack

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george

And this is the collected GBAs with Apples for Everyone members:

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/apples-for-everyone/

We mention Talha Assan

http://freetalha.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Talha_Ahsan

Aim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim_(musician)

Lou Reed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Reed

Prince: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)

Thundercats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderCats


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GBA 106 Jack and George

In GBA 115 we get better acquainted with Alice Bell. She talks Crystal Palace dinosaurs, working in the Science Museum, knitting, academia, blogging, science communication, teenage politics, how children's non fic communicates ideas, Captain Planet, communicating on the internet, and so much more.

Alice is a science/media blogger for The Guardian, The New Left Project and also has her own blog on science communication and politics.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alice-bell

http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/authors/tag/Alice+Bell

http://alicerosebell.wordpress.com/

Alice plugs:

The Brain Train: 
https://soundcloud.com/brain-train-podcast
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/brain-train-podcast/id567550209
http://braintrainpodcast.wordpress.com/

Her twitter: https://twitter.com/alicebell

I plug:

The Stand Up Tragedy IndieGoGo campaign: www.indiegogo.com/projects/stand-u…oes-to-edinburgh

We mention:

Crystal Palace Park: http://www.crystalpalacepark.org.uk/
GBA Road Trips: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/cities/
Helen Zaltzman: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-65-helen-and-olly
http://helenzaltzman.com/
Darwin and the Dinosaurs audio trail (Crystal Palace): http://www.audiotrails.co.uk/dinosaurs/
Richard Owen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Owen
Natural History Museum: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
The Great Exhibition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition
Victoria and Albert Museum: http://www.vam.ac.uk/
Jurassic Park: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/
Gideon Mantell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Mantell
Science Museum: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
Martin Austwick:
http://martinzaltzaustwick.wordpress.com/
https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-67-martin-the-sound-man
The Story: http://thestory.org.uk/
Captain Planet Episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwUHHw7GL3A
Doctor Who: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who
Pokemon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon
Blue Peter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peter
Tiswas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiswas
Captain Underpants: http://www.scholastic.com/captainunderpants/
Horrible Science: http://www.horrible-science.co.uk/
Infinite Monkey Cage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc
Brian Cox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)
Robin Ince: http://robinince.com/
Horrible Histories: http://horrible-histories.co.uk/
BlackAdder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder
Terry Deary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Deary
CND: http://www.cnduk.org/
Ken Livingston: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Livingstone
Militant Labour / Socialist Party: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_(England_and_Wales)
SWP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(UK)
new left project - stop the war movement debate: http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/the_stop_the_war_coalition_the_socialist_workers_party_and_iraq
Andy Warhol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
Emmerdale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmerdale
Call the Midwife: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_the_Midwife
https://soundcloud.com/brain-train-podcast/brain-train-8-vincent-plagnol

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GBA 115 Alice Bell

A weekly podcast: Join Dave Pickering on his journey to get better acquainted with the people he knows. Part interview show, part oral history project and part autobiography through conversation.

British Podcast Award 2017 winner (bronze in Best Interview category)

GBA was nominated for a 2012 Radio Production Award, aired for 3 seasons on Resonance 104.4 FM and was featured on BBC Radio 4's In Pod We Trust, BBC Radio 5 Live’s Helen and Olly's Required Listening and has been recommended by The Guardian, Time Out and the Financial Times