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Beatrice speaks with Micah Khater about her award winning article on the intersection of race, disability, and incarceration in the southern US in the early 20th century, and her work documenting the history of how Black women experienced and theorized disability from within Alabama prisons.

Read Micah’s full article, “No Use to the State: Phrasing Escape and a Black Radical Epistolary of Disability in Early Twentieth-Century Alabama Prisons” (winner of the 2024 Toni Cade Bambara Article Prize from the Black Women's Studies Association) here: https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9662/8007

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Teaser - "No Use to the State" w/ Micah Khater

Note: We are back from parental leave! This episode was originally released August 22nd, 2024. We are re-airing it today in light of New York Governor Kathy Hochul's ongoing push to force a mask ban through New York state budget negotiations, as Artie explains in a brief intro at the top of the episode. Please note that the county-level mask ban discussed in this episode was implemented last year; as we discussed in our episode Covid Year Five, within a week of implementation the law was used to arrest an individual for masking in circumstances that sound like a revival of New York's racist stop and frisk initiative.

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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the mask ban passed in Nassau County last week, the latest in a dramatic rise in legislation criminalizing face masks and targeting the Palestine solidarity movement. We look at what happened in the overtly hostile public hearing over the ban, the history of the New York statute that ban proponents want back, and how the threat of mask bans goes far beyond public health: mask bans embolden racist policing; they’re anti-trans; and they target the whole of the left.

Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/mask-bans-are-everyones-fight

Watch the full Nassau County mask ban hearing here:
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Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism

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Mask Bans Are Everyone’s Fight (Re-Air)

Note: We are back from parental leave! This episode was originally released January 27th for Death Panel patrons 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

Beatrice speaks with Jess Whatcott about the ideological links between incarceration and eugenics, how policies like immigration detention are a form of population control, and their new book, Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics.

Find Menace to the Future here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/menace-to-the-future

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

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Menace to the Future w/ Jess Whatcott (Unlocked)

Listen up, Listen in! We continue telling our New Afrikan Ourstory 365 as we make a pivot from our conversation about some of the negative and dehumanizing music/lyrics and images targeting our young Afrikans – due to some of the original participants of that conversation unable to join us – to an organic unfolding conversation about some of the current events of interest.
The privilege of being in conversation with and hearing from the New Afrikan Elder Political Prisoners who survived one of most horrific forms of domestic torture – decades of solitary confinement (extreme sensory deprivation) meant to break them – cannot be overstated.
They bring to us a body of knowledge, political analysis, social commentary and perspective, unique and unmatched in its scope, its depth and its simple humanness.

Kan’t stop, Won’t stop
Liberate Our Elders
All Power to the People
Free Africa! Free Palestine!

May 1, 2025

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Beatrice speaks with Mon Mohapatra of Community Justice Exchange (CJE) about their new resource “If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure,” a resource looking at the strategies deployed in anti-carceral organizing over the last few decades for strategies to strengthen future campaigns against carceral infrastructure and to strengthen future organizing against all types of cages.

Find the resource here: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/resources-all/if-they-build-it-organizing-lessons-amp-strategies-against-carceral-infrastructure

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Teaser - Against Carceral Infrastructure w/ Mon Mohapatra (06/30/25)

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Beatrice speaks with Melissa Gira Grant about “Alligator Alcatraz,” Trump’s new concentration camp in Florida. We discuss what the site means for the US under new, swelling ICE budgets, how it reflects a fascist fantasy of using the landscape as an arm of carceral enforcement, and the hope we can take from the long history of anti-colonial and anti-supremacist resistance movements on the very same land.

Read Melissa's piece, "The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp," here: https://newrepublic.com/article/197508/alligator-alcatraz-trump-concentration-camp

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Note: We're back! Thank you to everyone for all the well wishes and many kind messages during our parental leave. We have a lot coming together soon processing current events and reacting to some big developments that happened while we were away. As we ramp production back up we'll be prioritizing the patron feed first to make sure patrons get a full new episode every week.

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

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

Teaser - "Alligator Alcatraz" and the Fascist Landscape w/ Melissa Gira Grant (07/14/25)

Note: This episode was originally released June 30th for Death Panel patrons 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

Beatrice speaks with Mon Mohapatra of Community Justice Exchange (CJE) about their new resource “If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure,” a resource looking at the strategies deployed in anti-carceral organizing over the last few decades for strategies to strengthen future campaigns against carceral infrastructure and to strengthen future organizing against all types of cages.

Find the resource here: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/resources-all/if-they-build-it-organizing-lessons-amp-strategies-against-carceral-infrastructure

Health Communism is now out in paperback! Find it here or order at this link to add a donation to Sameer Project: https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-adler-bolton-beatrice-artie-vierkant-health-communism

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Against Carceral Infrastructure w/ Mon Mohapatra (Unlocked)

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Beatrice speaks with Andrea Ritchie about why it’s now more important than ever for healthcare workers to resist ICE and refuse to participate in all forms of criminalization of the people they care for. We talk through the Beyond Do No Harm Network’s 13 principles for care workers to interrupt criminalization and the many other resources the network has put together so far.

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Find all of the Beyond Do No Harm resources mentioned in this episode here: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/beyond-do-no-harm

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

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

Teaser - Beyond Do No Harm w/ Andrea Ritchie (09/15/25)

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Death Panel podcast host Beatrice Adler-Bolton speaks with Liat Ben-Moshe, Leah Harris and Vesper Moore about increasing calls to "reopen the asylums" and why the dark history and enduring legacy of psychiatric incarceration mean we should never go back. We look at recent statements by politicians Eric Adams, Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, and Vivek Ramaswamy and discuss how carceral sanism is not exclusively the domain of the right.

For more on the second Trump administration's recent attempts to seek an expansion of involuntary commitment and assisted outpatient treatment, see our recent patron episode Empty Rights and Underlying Conditions (08/04/25) - https://www.patreon.com/posts/empty-rights-and-135737340

Transcript:
https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/reopen-asylum

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On Calls to "Reopen the Asylums" w/ Liat Ben-Moshe, Leah Harris and Vesper Moore (Re-Air)

in the second episode of the dandelion, rama talks about why there was no podcast episode in august and explores the connections between colonialism and carcerality and how they show up as disposability in our communities and relationships. getting vulnerable and intimate about their recent struggles, they discuss how authentic relating is central to collective liberation. it's an adhd journey that brings personal storytelling, theory, and liberatory practice together with heart & humour 🖤


resources
trailer for Sabar Bonda/ Cactus Pears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z38Q_XT4Ow

Undisciplined: Reclaiming the Right to Imagine by Melz Owusu: https://www.melzowusu.com/books 

playlist accompaniment for rama's time at the clinic, now for you to enjoy through your crises as well: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4qKwr7wx1zTMyBMGYOnZER?si=ac74534e5e3643b0

transcript for this episode: https://open.substack.com/pub/thedandelionpod/p/the-dandelion-episode-2


on carcerality, crisis, and community (and cactus pears)

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

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

https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Prison Focus Radio and Liberate the Caged Voices are projects of California Prison Focus. We intentionally and purposefully center  New Afrikan Political Prisoners who organized the Historic California Hunger Strikes, authored the Agreement to End Hostilities, and developed Black August Memorial/Black August Resistance.

These New Afrikans survived decades of torture in solitary confinement in Pelican Bay and Corcoran state prisons—euphemistically called “security housing units” (SHUs)— meant to break their revolutionary minds.

Liberate the Caged Voices exposes the terror and genocide plaguing our People in Prisons, and unites People with the power of revolutionary love.

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