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Beatrice and Jules discuss “managed care,” a seemingly innocuous term for a guiding principle in contemporary US healthcare that structures and incentivizes medical rationing and austerity. We also discuss how the use of managed care in state Medicaid programs leads to widespread denials for trans care. Transcript forthcoming. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 21st, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109988706 Beatrice speaks with Kareem Rabie about how capitalist visions for “the day after” ceasefire often rely on economic development projects that act as an extension of settler colonialism, Rabie’s research on housing development projects in the West Bank in 2005-2009, and his 2021 book, Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny 12 August 2024

Beatrice speaks with Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu about attempts to dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation as mental illness, and why settler colonialism relies so heavily on drawing lines between madness and “reason.” Note: intro from Artie ends at 0:03:30 Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/aaron-bushnell This episode was originally released on February 29th, 2024 and we're re-releasing it today to mark nearly six months since Bushnell's action against the still ongoing genocide. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod More on Project LETS here: projectlets.org/ More info on 2024 Socialism Conference here: https://socialismconference.org/2024-schedule Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109524186 Beatrice speaks with William Boyd about how “risk assessment” became a central focus of health safety and environmental law since the 1970s, and how the political and economic factors that structure how those risks are assessed have resulted in law and policy far less likely to protect against environmental and health hazards. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:22:10, 5 August 2024

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on July 8th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she calls “injured landscapes;” how one community in Arizona organized against longstanding environmental pollution from arms manufacturing; and her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Find Sunaura’s book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520393066/disabled-ecologies Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/sunaura-taylor Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109069424 Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the sudden ascendance of Kamala Harris as the new Democratic Party nominee and take a close look at her record and early stances on Palestine, policing, and her (not quite) Medicare for All platform from 2020. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:32:24, 29 July 2024

Beatrice and Jules mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a discussion of just how limited the law is compared with how it's portrayed, how to understand the ADA as part of the broader story of welfare state retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s, and the broader story of how it got this way. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/the-ada-as-welfare-reform This episode was originally released on August 3rd, 2023 to mark the 33rd anniversary of the passage of the ADA, and we're re-releasing it today to mark the 34th anniversary. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/the-ada-as-welfare-reform Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108630596 Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss Biden’s decision to step down, break down last week’s Republican National Convention, and how fitting it is that the last straw in Biden’s reelection campaign was a covid infection. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny 22 July 2024

Bea, Artie and Jules discuss pundit speculation about Biden’s age and cognitive ability and the history of the relationship between bodily capacity and definitions of the “body politic.” This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on February 26th, 2024. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Transcript forthcoming. Find this week's patron episode that continues this conversation in the context of the debate and the Trump assassination attempt (mentioned in Artie's message at the top of the show) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108202947 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108202947 Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the Trump assassination attempt before diving into the weeks-long discourse on whether Biden should step down and the many assumptions and conjectures being made about Biden’s health and capacity. Find the earlier episode referenced at the top of the show here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99264802 Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:21:24, 15 July 2024

We tell the story of Section 504, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation for disabled people in the US. In Part One, we look at the politics leading up to the 504 sit-in and how the implementation of Section 504 very nearly didn't happen because of concerns that it would be "too expensive." In Part Two, our story continues with a look at the sit-in action itself—the longest occupation of a federal government building in US history—and the key role played by the Oakland Black Panthers and other groups in assuring the occupation's success. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/504 Timecodes: Part One: 0:01:43 Part Two: 1:15:00 Note: This episode was originally released as a two-part series, with Part Two as a bonus episode for Death Panel patrons (as mentioned near the end of Part One and beginning of Part Two). This release brings these two episodes together for the first time, along with a new full transcript combining both parts. Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/107751168 Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she calls “injured landscapes;” how one community in Arizona organized against longstanding environmental pollution from arms manufacturing; and her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Find Sunaura’s book here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520393066/disabled-ecologies Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:32:58, 8 July 2024

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 23rd, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Brian Nam-Sonenstein about two recent briefs he wrote for Prison Policy Initiative focused on a few key intersections of housing, disability, incarceration, and the administrative state. Transcript forthcoming. Find the briefs here: "High stakes mistakes: How courts respond to 'failure to appear'" https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/08/15/fta/ "Seeking shelter from mass incarceration: Fighting criminalization with Housing First" https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/09/11/housing-first/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/107278315 Beatrice and Jules are joined by Charlie Markbreiter to discuss how liberals dismiss protest as merely “performative”—youthful, “inauthentic,” or “virtue signaling”—and how allegations of performativity turn the act of politics into a problem of optics and manners. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:16:47, 1 July 2024

Beatrice speaks with Maryam Jamshidi about a number of new laws, and amendments to existing laws enacted at the onset of the war on terror, that Congress is currently drafting in order to crack down on actions in support of Palestinian liberation. We talk through what these laws do, how they target actions like the solidarity encampments seen at Universities this spring, and how they reveal the true intentions behind what gets called “national security.” Transcript forthcoming. Read Maryam's piece for LPE Blog, "Securitizing the University," here: https://lpeproject.org/blog/universities-securitization-palestine/ Find Maryam's last appearance on the show (mentioned in this episode), from January, here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96989016 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/106825394 Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss a recent piece by Freddie deBoer in New York Magazine that attempts to present a "left" case for supporting involuntary commitment policies and the expansion of the carceral state—claiming that “the disability activist community and their enablers in the media have done everything in their power to obscure the truth.” Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:42:23, 24 June 2024

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/106371913 Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss the recent resurgence of debates over social distancing guidance in 2020 and 2021 brought on by former NIH Director Anthony Fauci’s comment to Congress that six feet of social distancing “sort of just appeared” and “wasn’t based on data.” We talk through why these recent statements aren’t quite the gotcha they’ve been made out to be and how the arguments that have followed have omitted significant context around the debates over social distancing earlier in the pandemic, instead portraying covid protections as a mistake that came at “enormous cost.” Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:07:13, 17 June 2024

Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss New York Democrats’ plan to ban masks on the subway and beyond, and take a close look at the latest updates on North Carolina’s anti-mask bill HB237, “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals,” which state lawmakers managed to make significantly worse since we last talked about it on the show at the end of May. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/rise-of-mask-bans Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 22nd. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod 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: dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9662/8007 Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/micah-khater Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105955239 Beatrice and Jules are joined by Sophie Lewis to discuss how last month NYU disciplined students involved in Palestine solidarity encampments by compelling them to write confessional “reflection papers” and complete so-called “Integrity Modules,” a series of exercises designed by “behavioral intervention management” company Symplicity. We look at how the documents form a perfect storm of pop psych, management consulting speak, and hegemonic repression, and attempt to complete one of the modules ourselves. You can pre-order Sophie's next book, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation, here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2489-enemy-feminisms Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:39:08, 10 June 2024

Beatrice, Abby and Phil discuss a recent article by The Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood that went viral for its assertion that, in the context of the genocide in Palestine, “it is possible to kill children legally.” We take a close look at the piece and how the rest of the surrounding argument uses a veneer of data “objectivity” to mask its underlying idea: that Palestinian death statistics cannot be trusted simply because they are collected by Palestinians themselves. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/atlantic-gaza-statistics Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105522184 Beatrice and Phil speak with Melissa Gira Grant about how it came to be that abortion politics are spoken of as the hinge point of the 2024 election—with some pundits confidently predicting the outcome will come down to Biden’s promise to “restore Roe”—and yet at the same time the Democratic Party continues to speak about abortion in only the most hollow and abstract of ways, completely ignoring the reality that for most people the status quo of abortion access was already unacceptable prior to Dobbs. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:09:59, 3 June 2024

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on March 18th 2024, and quickly became one of our most widely requested unlocks. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again,” which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider abandoning them. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/npr-covid Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105055097 Beatrice and Abby discuss last night’s horrific assault on Rafah, liberal handwringing that the bombings may have been somehow “justified”—or that, in the words of one Atlantic writer, in these circumstances “it is possible to kill children legally”—and how events like this have lasting effects that reverberate outward into forms of violence that, to quote our listener G, “might not be as spectacular or obvious as a bomb.” Read Afnan's letter, which Beatrice reads in the episode, "A Palestinian Healthcare Worker on the Water Crisis in Gaza | عاملة صحية فلسطينية تتحدث عن أزمة المياه في غزة" here: https://blindarchive.substack.com/p/a-palestinian-healthcare-worker-on Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:10:00, 27 May 2024

Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the recent push by state and local governments to criminalize masking in public space, in some cases introducing new legislation to make existing anti-mask laws more severe, and take a close look at HB237, “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals,” a bill currently being debated in North Carolina that perfectly illustrates the links between covid activism, abolition, and the fight for Palestinian liberation. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/anti-mask-laws Find audio files of the North Carolina Senate Judiciary and Rules committee meetings from last week here: https://bit.ly/3K9ypsO Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Every Monday we release an extra full episode just for patrons; this week we've chosen to make today's patron episode public in hopes that it encourages people to donate to Gaza Muni (link below). Death Panel is entirely listener supported, so to support our work and get a second episode every week and our entire back catalogue, go to https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Abby discuss how the ongoing water crisis in Palestine is a tool of genocide, how to understand the centrality of water and sanitation systems to all of the infrastructure needed to support life, and what Death Panel listeners and contacts in Gaza tell us we can do to help. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/water-gaza Support Gaza Municipality here: https://bit.ly/MuniWater Support Afnan’s fundraiser here: https://bit.ly/HelpAfnan More spotlight campaigns on the Gaza Funds website here: https://gazafunds.com

Beatrice and Jules speak with historian Jiya Pandya about how the Bhopal gas leak—often described as the worst industrial disaster in living memory—continues to be an unchecked crisis 40 years later, what it teaches us about how to respond to more recent crises, and how organizers here in the US can get in touch with Bhopal survivor activists who will be coming to the US later this fall. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/bhopal-jiya-pandya Read Jiya's piece “Crip Life Amidst Debilitation: Medicalization, Survival, and the Bhopal Gas Leak” here: https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9653/8013 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/104189586 Beatrice, Artie, Phil and Abby discuss how, as of May 1st, hospitals in the US are no longer required to report covid hospitalization data to the federal government, the enormous information gap that leaves in an already opaque covid data landscape, and the set of questions the pandemic has raised about the complicated relationship between the state and scientific knowledge production, namely: of what use is data we don’t act on? Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:13:56, 13 May 2024

Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal about the pending Supreme Court ruling that could dramatically strip the rights of unhoused people in the US, how politicians frequently invoke a rhetoric of “care” to promote expansions of the carceral system, and how the laws at the center of this Supreme Court case are the same being used to police and sweep solidarity encampments across the US. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/carewashing Read Tracy's piece, "The New Sundown Towns," here: https://newrepublic.com/article/181036/new-sundown-towns-grants-pass-v-johnson Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103758145 Beatrice and Phil speak with legal scholars Karen Tani and Katie Eyer about how the Supreme Court used cases related to disability and deinstitutionalization in the 1970s and 1980s as an opportunity to remake and expand its own powers, the role that these cases had in securing conservatives’ “New Federalism” revolution, and how disability cases continue to be a site of conservative judicial advancement today. Read Karen and Katie's article, "Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution," here: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/disability-and-the-ongoing-federalism-revolution Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:25:44, 6 May 2024

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103298391 Beatrice, Jules and Artie discuss the findings, impact, and fallout of “The Cass Review,” the recently released 388 page NHS-commissioned report that has led media figures across the political spectrum to proclaim that the evidence supporting transition for young people is flawed. But the report, and the ensuing debate, are asking all the wrong questions. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:42:06, 29 April 2024

Beatrice speaks with Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter about the proliferation of Palestine solidarity encampments, their experiences at the encampments at CUNY and at Columbia, and to share a call to action for today, May Day: strike in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Note: This episode was recorded shortly before the coordinated raid on both the CUNY and Columbia encampments on the evening of April 30th. In our view the NYPD last night proved many of the points we make in the episode. Full Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/solidarity-encampments More on the call to action here: https://bit.ly/3QpTOBm Read Nicki's piece from October 18th, mentioned at the top of the episode, "I will never be the same" here: https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/i-will-never-be-the-same/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Part Two of our discussion with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t changed since the last time Rasha spoke with us on October 13th, and why appeals to “peace” are not the same as calls for liberation. This is part two of our conversation with Rasha. You can find part one in the public feed, posted April 18th, or on our website here: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/killing-peace Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/killing-peace-2 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a…-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102847558 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: dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9662/8007 Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:31:03, 22 April 2024

Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t changed since the last time Rasha spoke with us on October 13th, and why appeals to “peace” are not the same as calls for liberation. This is part one of our conversation with Rasha. Part two will be released next week in the public feed, alongside a transcript. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/killing-peace Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Links to resources mentioned in the episode (more links will be coming with the transcript): Al Jazeera’s Video on October 7th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY Within Our Lifetime: https://wolpalestine.com “Seizing Knowledge Production in Solidarity With Palestine”: https://thepublicsource.org/knowledge-production-palestine-solidarity

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102407156 Beatrice speaks with Sasha Warren about the lessons we can take from the history of anti-psychiatry movements, and other movements aligned against earlier forms of asylums and mental hospitals, with a particular focus on two groups active in the 1960s and 1970s: Institutional Psychotherapy in France and Democratic Psychiatry in Italy. Sasha’s new book is Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt: https://www.commonnotions.org/storming-bedlam Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:40:00, 15 April 2024

Beatrice speaks with Liz Jackson and Rua Williams about the history and ongoing practice of design objects ostensibly created for accessibility being repurposed into tools of war. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/wheelchair-to-warfare Read their article in the New Republic, “How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War,” here: https://newrepublic.com/article/179391/wheelchair-warfare-pipeline-disability-technology Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101959148 Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss the recent book “Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time,” which presents itself as chronicling public health’s many missteps since the beginning of the covid pandemic, but in practice wants to draw our attention to all of the wrong conclusions. The book we discuss in this episode was also the subject of the NYT column we talked about in the episode "Masks and Symbols" in January, here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/masks-and-01-29-97441318 Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:27:27, 8 April 2024 🧬

This episode was originally released on January 25th. We are re-releasing it today as we approach the sixth month of the ongoing genocidal campaign on Palestine, with a new introduction and a brief update at the end. Beatrice shares messages from Death Panel listeners in Gaza and speaks with Danya Qato about how the totalizing nature of the genocide of Palestine can't be captured in death and injury statistics alone. This episode is for Z, J, R, A, M, G and S. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/letters-from-gaza Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101515457 Beatrice, Artie and Phil reflect on the impact of the ongoing Medicaid “unwinding”, which began one year ago today and has already seen 20 million people kicked off of the social safety net insurance program, and the Biden administration’s latest attempts to pretend they’re doing anything about it. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:12:37, 1 April 2024 🧬

Beatrice and Abby speak with Melissa Gira Grant about this week’s oral arguments in a Supreme Court case that could dramatically limit the availability of medication abortion in the US, and the Comstock Act, the 19th century obscenity law looming over the case. Transcript forthcoming. Find Melissa’s article in the New Republic, “Two Supreme Court Justices Favor Zombie Law From 1873 to Ban Abortion” here: https://newrepublic.com/article/180153/alito-thomas-comstock-act-abortion More info on ComstockCon here: https://www.comstockcon.com/ Find our episode on the Comstock Act, “Statutes of Limitation” from last year, here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/statutes-of-w-04-81971897 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101050023 As we prepare for this week’s Supreme Court hearing on mifepristone, Beatrice and Abby discuss the controversy surrounding a recent paper that claims that pregnancy-associated deaths are dramatically overcounted in the US, and that as a result the crisis of perinatal mortality is overstated. We also discuss what the problems with their approach tell us about similar attempts to separate deaths “with covid” from those “from covid,” and the social construction of science as a whole. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:20:05, 25 March 2024 🧬

Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the events we’re encouraged to forget, repress, and reinterpret in order to abet genocide, carcerality, or abandonment to a pandemic, and the power of refusing to forget. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/vicky-forget Read Vicky's essay, "Remembering As an Act of Revolt," here: https://all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.io/a-list-of-things-we-have-been-told-to-forget/ And find her book, In Defense of Looting, here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vicky-osterweil/in-defense-of-looting/9781645036678/?lens=bold-type-books Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/100622256 Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again,” which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people should let go of lest their loved ones consider abandoning them. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:29:17, 18 March 2024 🧬

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/100189248 Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss Biden’s State of the Union address—from the “illegals” moment to Biden’s attempt to co-opt “ceasefire”—as well as the many media reactions to the speech, and what it all tells us about how the Biden administration are trying (and failing) to pretend they can’t hear their critics. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:04:57, 11 March 2024 🧬

Beatrice speaks with Jane Thomason of National Nurses United (NNU) about the CDC’s recent abrupt decision to drop its 5-day covid isolation guidance and the latest developments in the campaign to stop the CDC from dramatically weakening infection control practices in healthcare settings. Sign on to NNU’s latest campaign here: nationalnursesunited.org/cdc Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/nnu-hicpac-3 Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on September 4th 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice, Phil, and Jules speak with Claire Dunning about the complex history of how nonprofit organizations became so pervasive in US political life and the issues with how the non-profit system promises to address big, structural problems while at the same time structurally constraining what these groups are and aren't allowed to do. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/nonprofit-neighborhoods Find Claire’s book, “Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State” here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo159872695.html Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99724675 Beatrice speaks with Shira Hassan about reclaiming harm reduction from public health, reclaiming formations of "peer work" from the nonprofit world, and building the politics and practice of surviving together. Find Shira's book, Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1938-saving-our-own-lives Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:34:39 🧬

Beatrice speaks with Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu about attempts to dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation as mental illness, and why settler colonialism relies so heavily on drawing lines between madness and “reason.” Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/aaron-bushnell More on Project LETS here: https://projectlets.org/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/99264802 Bea, Artie and Jules discuss the last few weeks of pundit speculation about Biden’s age and cognitive ability and the history of the relationship between bodily capacity and definitions of the “body politic.” Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Runtime 1:19:39, 26 February 2024 🧬