Heidi talks to Alonso Gurmendi, Lecturer in International Relations at King’s College London, to break down South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. They cover South Africa’s legal action as a form of Global South resistance, how to think about the role of international law in global politics, and how to find humanity together in these very dark days.  

Alonso Gurmendi, Lecturer in International Relations at King’s College London – 

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/alonso-gurmendi-dunkelberg 

Alonso’s state reaction to South Africa’s ICJ application tracker – https://x.com/Alonso_GD/status/1740807788719157697?s=20 

Alonso on Twitter/X – @Alonso_GD  

You can find legal documents relating the proceedings, including South Africa’s Application Instituting Proceedings, transcripts and press releases, on the website of the International Court of Justice, here: https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192  

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HMOD Episode 12 - Hague Wars: The Global South Strikes Back

On this episode Heidi talks to Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In the interview, Professor Tushnet talks about the role of critical legal studies in political activism and the need for those seeking progressive goals to develop a double consciousness as part of their practice.
In the second half Heidi talks to producer and New American Husband David Slavick about the recent Elsa (from Frozen) arrest controversy. We ask the question “Can cops ever be funny?” and break down the deep dark underbelly of Elsa fantasies.

**Show Notes**
*Part 1*
Professor Mark Tushnet Faculty Page – Harvard Law School
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10906/Tushnet
Mark Tushnet, The Critique of Rights, 47 SMU L. Rev. 23 (1994)
https://scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol47/iss1/6

*Part 2*
Elsa from "Frozen" arrested - Album on Imgur, original photoshoot, February 2015.
http://bit.ly/2URDier
Illinois police department shares photos of Frozen's Elsa "under arrest" for bringing polar vortex, CBS News, Sophie Lewis, January 29 2019
https://cbsn.ws/2GxHj3Q
McLean Police Department - Home | Facebook
 http://bit.ly/2I1zqWC
Police officers in the US were charged with more than 400 rapes over a 9-year period - CNN https://cnn.it/2DpCJS2
What makes YouTube’s surreal kids’ videos so creepy? - The Verge 
http://bit.ly/2HVocTo

HMOD Episode 1 - DOUBLE THOT

In Part I of this episode Heidi talks to Brooklyn Law professor Alice Ristroph about intellectual history, mass incarceration, sexual assault, and Kamala Harris. In Part II, Osgoode super student Heather Donkers lays out how the law school tuition crisis facing Ontario law students is emblematic of a much wider cross-jurisdictional crisis in access to justice.

Show Notes:
Part I: 
Alice Ristroph faculty page: 
https://www.brooklaw.edu/faculty/directory/facultymember/biography?id=alice.ristroph

Part II:
Heather on Twitter: 
https://twitter.com/HeatherDonkers

Heather Donkers in PrecedentJD Magazine, Cover Story: The on-campus interview process is broken.
https://precedentjd.com/news/cover-story-the-ocis-are-broken/

Law Students' Society of Ontario (LSSO) Just or Bust? Results of the 2018 Survey of Ontario Law Students’ Tuition, Debt, & Student Financial Aid Experience
http://bit.ly/2TMiKUm

Participate in the LSSO Lawyers’ Survey: 
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LSSOsurvey

HMOD Episode 2 - THE GOOD OLD DAYS

If we’re serious about emancipatory projects, we need to think trans. In this episode, Heidi speaks with two queer activists and writers about how to start down this road. Florence Ashley is a transfeminine activist and scholar based at the Faculty of Law at McGill University in Montreal. Her work focuses on bioethics and transgender healthcare. Florence is on the Advisory Board of the Trans Legal Clinic and is a member of the Comité trans of the Conseil Québécois LGBT. They are the recipient of the 2019 Canadian Bar Association’s LGBTT Hero Award, and next year, they will begin work as the first openly trans law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Daniel Karasik is an artist and activist based in Toronto. They are the author of five books including a poetry collection, three volumes of plays, and most recently a compilation of short stories titled Faithful and Other Stories with Guernica. Daniel has won the CBC Short Story Prize, as well as the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. They are active in the Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign, as well as in the prison abolition movement.
Part I: Florence Ashley
Florence Ashley’s website: 
https://www.florenceashley.com/
Florence Ashley on Twitter: 
https://twitter.com/butnotthecity
Maryse Chouinard, “En-“gendering” change”, CBA/ABC National, Feb. 5, 2019. 
TBP
Florence Ashley on Medium:
https://medium.com/@florence.ashley
Part II: Daniel Karasik
Daniel Karasik’s webpage:
https://danielkarasik.com/
Daniel Karasik on Twitter: 
https://twitter.com/fondfaun
Mexie on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/mexieYT 
Mexie’s Website:
www.veganvanguardpodcast.com

HMOD Episode 3 - THE FUTURE IS QUEER

Sex exceptionalism is the tendency to elevate the sexual component of difficult questions and controversies as inherently worthy of specialized attention. This episode addresses the risks of ‘sexceptionalism’ in the context of coercion and the competing duties of university professors.

Kim Ferzan is Harrison Robertson Professor of Law & Joel B. Piassick Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. She researches and writes on criminal law theory. We discuss her forthcoming article in the Arizona State Law Journal, “Consent and Coercion.”

Professor Ferzan’s Faculty Bio: https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/kf8f/2457739

You can find Professor Ferzan on Twitter @KimFerzan
https://twitter.com/KimFerzan

On the Sullivan/Weinstein controversy:

In Defense of Harvard Weinstein’s Harvard Lawyer, The Atlantic, March 3, 2019.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/defense-harvey-weinsteins-lawyer-ronald-sullivan/583717/

Petition, Students for the Removal of Winthrop Dean Sullivan.
https://www.change.org/p/harvard-administration-students-for-the-removal-of-winthrop-dean-sullivan

Robby Soave, “A Harvard Law Professor Is Representing Harvey Weinstein. Students Say This Makes Them Unsafe, Demand His Resignation,” Reason, Feb. 26, 2019.
https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/26/ronald-sullivan-harvey-weinstein-harvard

HMOD Episode 4 - SEXCEPTIONALISM SELLS

We explain why you’re not wrong when you self-diagnose with impostor syndrome; I come to terms with the politics of my edgelord identity (see what I did there?); cisman David has a trans expression; Clif explains Socratic pick up culture in Ancient Athens, and why at the end of the day you don’t deserve anything you have and if you think you do you’re an asshole. 

In this episode we talk to Toronto writer and sometimes academic Clif Mark [@Clifton_Mark https://twitter.com/Clifton_Mark]. We cover Clif’s very hot new hot new piece in Aeon magazine titled “A Belief in Meritocracy is not only False: it’s bad for you,” [https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you] as well as his recent standout article on ContraPoints in The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/contrapoints-political-philosophy-natalie-wynn-youtube/579532/]. 

Also referenced are ContraPoints’ new video essay, The Darkness [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7LDYaufM], as well as the work of Harvard Law professor Janet Halley [https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10356/Halley].

Be sure to check out the Heidi Matthews On Demand Male Discourse Bot [https://bit.ly/hmodmdb]

HMOD Episode 5 - YOU DESERVE NOTHING

In this episode David and I chat with videogame enthusiast and expert, Alfie Bown. Alfie is a lecturer in media at Royal Holloway University London and author of The Playstation Dreamworld, published by Polity in 2017. 

Truthout YouTubers Play a Key Role in Far-Right Extremism of Online Forums

He writes for the Guardian and other places, and tweets at @leftist_gamer.

This is text from Alfie’s most recent piece: "To understand what is really at play here, we need to think not about whether PewDiePie himself is to blame for the massacre in New Zealand, but about what ingredients combine to produce such horrific results. We know that PewDiePie was not directly responsible for the mass shooting, just as we know that games themselves do not cause violence or school shootings (as Donald Trump claimed, along with many ’80s parents). Nevertheless, there is a connection between gaming, far-right extremism and the “mainstream” influencers with whom their jokes and arguments intersect.

In fact, this so-imagined blurred line between supposed humor and serious fascism is far from an excuse.”

Links
Truthout YouTubers Play a Key Role in Far-Right Extremism of Online Forums
https://truthout.org/articles/youtubers-play-a-key-role-in-far-right-extremism-of-online-forums/

Alfie Bown on Twitter
https://twitter.com/leftist_gamer

PlayStation Dreamworld
https://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-Dreamworld-Theory-Redux/dp/1509518037

HMOD Episode 6 - PROPAGANDA HAS L'EGGS

This is the first episode in a series on the adjudication of harassment and bullying complaints pursuant to #MeToo-inspired conference codes of conduct. Heidi talks to Simona Sharoni, the professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the center of the ‘lingerie elevator joke’ scandal that erupted at the 2018 International Studies Association conference. Prof. Sharoni gives her account of the incident, and explains why it was important for her to launch a formal harassment complaint in the wake of the alleged ‘joke.’

Links
Professor Simona Sharoni on Twitter: @simonasharoni 
https://twitter.com/simonasharoni?lang=en

Conor Friedersdorf, “Is ‘Ladies Lingerie’ a Harmless Joke or Harassment?, The Atlantic, May 9, 2018.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/is-this-old-lingerie-joke-harmless-or-harassment/559760/

Katherine Mangan, “Dispute Over ‘Lingerie’ Comment Persists, as Society Rejects Professor’s Appeal,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 14, 2018. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Dispute-Over-Lingerie-/245094

Ruth Marcus, ‘She called his elevator joke offensive. He called her complaint ‘frivolous.’ Who’s right?,” The Washington Post, May 3, 2018.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/she-called-his-elevator-joke-offensive-he-called-her-complaint-frivolous-whos-right/2018/05/03/43ba4084-4ee1-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?utm_term=.7ef0456094ed

Code of Conduct, International Studies Association, April 8, 2018.
https://www.isanet.org/Portals/0/Documents/ISA/ISA%20Code%20of%20Conduct%200418.pdf

HMOD Episode 7 - DIRTY LINGERIE I

This is the second episode in a series on the adjudication of harassment and bullying complaints pursuant to #MeToo-inspired academic and professional association codes of conduct. Heidi talks to Richard Ned Lebow, the man at the center of the ‘lingerie elevator joke’ scandal that erupted at the 2018 International Studies Association conference. Professor Lebow, who is an expert in conflict prevent and resolution, explains why it was so important to him to fight this complaint. 

Links

Professor Lebow’s faculty page at King’s College London: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/person?id=5402e739-96f2-4936-86d6-203f197283a5

Richard Ned Lebow, “Warning: Telling a Lame Joke in an Elevator can Endanger Your Career,” Quillette, Nov. 23, 2018. 
https://quillette.com/2018/11/23/warning-telling-a-lame-joke-in-an-elevator-can-endanger-your-career/

Richard Ned Lebow, “How my lame joke saw me fall foul of the campus zealots,” The Spectator, May 14, 2018.
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/how-my-lame-joke-saw-me-fall-foul-of-the-campus-zealots/

Richard Ned Lebow, “My innocent joke about lingerie and an insidious culture of censorship: Leading academic says trouble caused by a one-liner he cracked in a lift left him reeling,” Daily Mail, May 16, 2018.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5738391/PROFESSOR-RICHARD-NED-LEBOW-innocent-joke-lingerie-insidious-culture-censorship.html

The installation on display at the ISA 2019 panel on  “Confronting Political Backlash: Creative Feminist Responses”: https://twitter.com/simonasharoni/status/1112377478465630208

Code of Conduct, International Studies Association, April 8, 2018.
https://www.isanet.org/Portals/0/Documents/ISA/ISA%20Code%20of%20Conduct%200418.pdf

HMOD Episode 8 - DIRTY LINGERIE II

This week Heidi and David chat with journalist and writer Andray Domise about race, politics, and everything. This is a tour de force – don’t miss it!

Andray Domise, The moral cowardice of Canadian media if leaving racism unchallenged, Macleans, March 28, 2019. https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-moral-cowardice-of-canadian-media-is-leaving-racism-unchallenged/.

All of Andray’s writing for Macleans: https://www.macleans.ca/author/andray-domise/

Black Tea podcast with Melayna Williams https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/black-tea/id1439694046 

Andray on Twitter: @andraydomise https://twitter.com/andraydomise

HMOD Episode 9 - BLACK FRIEND

In this episode we chat with Ben Burgis, author of Give Them an Argument – Logic for the Left (Zero Books, 2019). Ben is a lecturer in philosophy at Georgia State University Perimeter College, and is regular contributor to The Michael Brooks Show, Zero Books, and The Serfs.

Follow Ben on Twitter @BenBurgis 

Buy Ben’s book here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/give-them-an-argument

Support Ben’s work on his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis

HMOD EPISODE 10 - LOGIC AND REASON WITH BEN BURGIS

In this episode we chat with author, columnist and media personality Michael Malice. Michael is author of the brand new book, The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics, and is the host of the “Your Welcome with Michael Malice” podcast.


Find out more about Michael’s work on his website: http://michaelmalice.com/


Follow Michael on Twitter @michaelmalice

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HMOD 11 -  Malicious Intent with Michael Malice

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