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In this episode, Podmas installment #15, I talk about the holiday season, some of the struggles people are having, and the need for empathy and support. --- Readings & Resources National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, Podmas installment #13, I talk about diversity in film and tv, how it frequently devolves into tokenism, and where it still falls short. --- Readings & Resources "And Just Like That on HBO: the Sex and the City revival turns Miranda into a white liberal nightmare" https://slate.com/culture/2021/12/sex-and-the-city-and-just-like-that-miranda.html "Netflix Productions Are More Diverse Than Studio Films" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/business/media/netflix-diversity-movies-original-series.html --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www

In this episode, Podmas installment #12, I talk about debt and the tremendous burden it places on my generation and many more in the future. --- Readings & Resources "President Biden hasn't yet kept his student loan forgiveness promise" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/07/1062070001/student-loan-forgiveness-debt-president-biden-campaign-promise "Americans' Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Know" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/upshot/medical-debt-americans-medicaid.html ‘What I Learned About the Cost of Giving Birth’ https://www.thecut.com/2021/04/what-5-women-learned-about-the-cost-of-giving-birth.html --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: it

In this episode, Podmas installment #11, I talk about my fascination with the longstanding "Tradwife" trend in popular media and the limits of "choice." --- Readings & Resources The Housewives of White Supremacy https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opinion/sunday/tradwives-women-alt-right.html Fundie Fridays: "Checking In with Girl Defined" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIbM0VTttBo "The Duggars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUVTHCKejYA&t=2464s Tara Mooknee - "Classically Abby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP8wuQnZF6U --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcas

In this Podmas installment #11 and #ReadingRevolution episode, I read and discuss Tressie McMillan Cottom's essay "A Few Notes on Gaslighting." --- Readings & Resources Tressie McMillan Cottom - "A Few Notes on Gaslighting" https://tressiemc.com/essays-2/a-few-notes-on-gaslighting/ Tressie McMillan Cottom - Thick https://thenewpress.com/books/thick --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, Podmas installment #10, I talk about the limits of academia when it comes to political expression and the pitfalls of professionalization. --- Readings & Resources Talk from Joy James at Brown University - "The Architects of Abolitionism: George Jackson, Angela Davis, and the Deradicalization of Prison Struggles" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rvRsWKDx0 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, Podmas installment #9 and a LeftPOC of the Week edition, I finish my discussion on Black Brazilian communist, performer, thinker, and activist Thereza Santos. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this Podmas installment #8 and #ReadingRevolution episode, I read Amiri Baraka's 1962 essay "'Black' Is a Country" --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this Podmas installment #7 and Comrade Mommy episode, I discuss frustrations about covid callousness. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, Podmas installment #6 and LeftPOC of the Week edition, I discuss the early life of Black Brazilian communist, performer, thinker, and activist Thereza Santos. This is Part I. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, Podmas installment #5, I discuss job applications (inspired by one of my recent tweets) and why they should disclose salaries upfront. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, Podmas installment #4, I discuss the dangers of tokenism on all sides of the political spectrum and the double bind for leftists of color. --- Readings & Resources Interview w/ Thurgood Marshall https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-29-mn-1178-story.html Michael C. Dawson - Blacks in and Out of the Left https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674057685 --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, Podmas installment #3, I discuss healthcare, its financial strain on U.S.ians, and alternative healthcare realities abroad. --- Readings & Resources The U.S. Health Insurance System is Broken / I Can't Afford Health Insurance and I'm Not Alone https://youtu.be/a75qe8VdFLQ Medicare for All https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/medicare-for-all --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this Comrade Mommy episode, Podmas installment #2, I discuss paperwork, its added burden in the already overwhelming lives of mothers, and excessive bureaucracy as an outgrowth of capitalism. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, I go into a new plan for the month. Here goes! --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, I ...take a deep breath out. --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: twitter.com/LeftPOC Facebook: facebook.com/leftpoc Media Revolt: mediarevolt.org/leftpoc Reddit: reddit.com/user/leftpoc/ Subscribe: Soundcloud: soundcloud [dot] com/leftpoc Spreaker: spreaker.com/user/leftpoc Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/13trBKujjjBnmWHeDZcC5Z or search "LeftPOC" iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leftp…d1329313097?mt=2 or search "LeftPOC" in podcasts Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT60v3qYO7Bj0R1XbUZct5Q Support: patreon.com/leftpoc

In this episode, we speak with organizer, writer, and researcher Jasson Perez about the defund movement, abolition, and organizing in Chicago against multiple forms of oppression toward its population. --- Work by Jasson Perez "Lori Lightfoot is wrong. ‘We’ didn’t fail Adam Toledo.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/20/lori-lightfoot-is-wrong-we-didnt-fail-adam-toledo/ "The quest for justice for Adam Toledo requires that Lightfoot resign" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/chicago-lightfoot-adam-toledo/ "Don't Blame Defund" https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/dont-blame-defund "Snatching Victory" https://spectrejournal.com/snatching-victory/ "The Left's 'Theoretical' Problem" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gWiFjrjddUNcCHRiz0UvgW84zcRg17o_/view?usp=sharing Additional Readings & Resources: Joy James - “The Architects of Abolitionism” (talk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rvRsWKDx0 “Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind” https://www.nytimes.com/201

In this episode, an installment of the #ComradeMommy series, I discuss domestic work, how the women who perform it are made invisible, and what should be done to secure their rights. --- Readings & Resources "Out of the Shadows" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/national-domestic-workers-alliance.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=80560529BCACC56EAF348EF466B3DF02&gwt=regi&assetType=REGIWALL "Não romantize as relações de trabalho: sua empregada não é quase da família" https://www.uol.com.br/universa/colunas/cris-guterres/2021/02/23/sua-empregada-nao-e-quase-da-familia.htm?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_content=geral&utm_campaign=universa&fbclid=IwAR0jLj1MnbWLB0R7byLhhEeVedFM9Jh2lTDQkNb62xrpoqKBB3hc2eklsSc A Feminism Where 'Lean In' Means Leaning On Others https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/a-feminism-where-leaning-in-means-leaning-on-others/ --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone --- Learn more about the Left POCket Project via: Twitter: t

In this episode, we speak with Professor Yannick Marshall about his research on colonialism in Kenya, anti-colonialism around the world, and the need to expand the political imagination. --- Work by Yannick Marshall https://www.yannickmarshall.net/ An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History https://www.aaihs.org/an-appeal-bring-the-maroon-to-the-foreground-in-black-intellectual-history/ Black liberal, your time is up https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/6/1/black-liberal-your-time-is-up There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism https://www.aaihs.org/canada-is-not-a-relatively-benign-version-of-settler-colonialism/ On Kenosha and the difficulty of recognising Nazism in the US https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/9/8/on-kenosha-and-the-difficulty-of-recognising-nazism-in-the-us After this election, we should not come together https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/11/16/after-this-election-we-should-not-come-together Additional Readings: Maroon

In this episode, we discuss current news and catch up after our break. 
--- Readings & Resources Osita Nwanevu - “The Democratic Party Has a Fatal Misunderstanding of the QAnon Phenomenon” https://newrepublic.com/article/161266/qanon-classism-marjorie-taylor-greene Ashley Reese - “The Cynical, Sexist Fantasy of AOC” https://theslot.jezebel.com/the-cynical-sexist-fantasy-of-aoc-1846189707 Jia Tolentino - “What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/what-mutual-aid-can-do-during-a-pandemic Edward Ongweso, Jr. - “Investment Firms Are the Big Winners of the GameStop Stock Revolution So Far” https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gepx/investment-firms-are-the-big-winners-of-the-gamestop-stock-revolution-so-far --- Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone 
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