The Child and Its Enemies

This time we talk to author and gonzo anthropologist Brenton Clutterbuck about his book Chasing Eris, Discordianism, and the interactions between the religion and youth liberation and anarchy. Stay Safe, Stay Dangerous! Music is Glamour Girl by Um Jennifer

mk: Hello and welcome to The Child and Its Enemies, a podcast about queer and neurodivergent kids living out anarchy and youth liberation here at the Child and its enemies. We believe that youth autonomy is not only crucial to queer and trans liberation, but to anarchy itself. Governance is inherently based on projecting linear narratives of time and development and gender onto our necessarily asynchronous and atemporal.Queer lives and youth and teams are at the center of this form of oppression. Our goal with the podcast is to create a space by and for youth that challenges all forms of control and inspires us to create feared, feral, ageless networks of care. I'm your host MK Zariel. I'm 16 years old and I'm a French masculine poet theater artist and insurrectionary anarchist in the Great Lakes region.With me today is anarchist visual artist and mutual aid organizer shining oak.Oak: Hey, mk, it's great to be here. Thank you for welcoming onto your show. It's so important to have representation and networks for queer youth. I wish I knew of these kinds of resources when I was your age. I feel really honored to be here.I'm a 22-year-old multimedia artist and aspiring ecologist and educator. I've lived and worked in Atlanta or Muskogee Creek territory most of my life. But I'm currently based in Ireland. I dabble in different media, but my favorite is Relief Print. I center queer liberation in my art, and I also do environmental and food justice work in my personal life.

With me today is Tsela Barr, an organizer with the Madison, Wisconsin chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace.Tsela: Thanks for having me on your podcast. I guess I’ll start with my, my background and how I came to my activism.I’ve been a Palestine solidarity activist since the mid eighties, so since roughly my early twenties I was raised in a pretty typical Jewish household in the DC area. And I went to services regularly at a synagogue. And my parents put me and my siblings in a Hebrew school...

"I could not even pretend to be neurotypical if I tried. So the neurodivergent community is very important to me. My fellow neurodivergents are my kin and my comrades, and we live anarchy day in and day out, even if we don't realize it. I think most of us would have a harder time trying to shove ourselves into capitalistic, neurotypical boxes than to let ourselves be free, if we all thought about it and did the work necessary to liberate ourselves and each other."

Join us for an exploration of what Satanism has been and is today. David from Queer Satanic has been through the ringer being sued by The Satanic Temple numerous times. His group has successfully resisted litigation and exposed this so called church for the harmful and abusive institution it is. Let's hear what he has to say about Satanism and the Anarchist movement. Music today is I Survived American Christianity by New Here. You will find a transcript on our website at thechildanditsenemies.noblogs.org. Enjoy!

From PDX Jail Support organizer Clover joins us for a discussion about the implications for youth that this strategy of organizing holds. Music from Elliot Smith this time. Enjoy!

An anarchist educator talks GEDs, queer youth organizing in schools, how to navigate academia as an anarchist, free schools, homeschooling, unschooling, and other queer insurrection <3

Join us and Tom from Its Going Down, one of the more successful anarchist news organizations in recent years, to talk about what got them into this work, how its going now, and thoughts about what people should be doing in this moment. Music is "Wrecking Ball" by Mother Mother. Enjoy!