The Child and Its Enemies

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!

An episode on Madeline Lane-McKinley and their work. We get into how it intersects with youth autonomy and liberation efforts. Heck we even talk about what childhood even means and where it comes from. Is children's literature even possible? This and more on a long one, double interlude, let's go!

Fuck theory, do shit.To change everything, start anywhere.Don't ever be deceived into thinking that you and a small group of your friends can't change the world. Stay wild. Stay young. Stay free. 

Lola Bloom on being trans online: "I think the space I aim to create would pave the way for trans kids to do similar work in an environment that isn't so hostile or alienating. I also think that giving people a space to exist and to be authentically themselves while they share skills and grow is integral to helping our community heal. It's incredibly difficult to transition and providing people the encouragement and resources they need is always my biggest success."Lola's Discord: https://discord.gg/aDMWFZMtz2

Vicky Osterweil's book, as she puts it, seeks to answer two questions: "why are all superhero movies the same?" and "why did Disney lobby the Biden administration to stop them sharing the COVID vaccine with the third world in 2021?" THE EXTENDED UNIVERSE, her upcoming book, is all about the role of Disney in the nuclear family, ageism, and the state. On this podcast, we talk about media, trans health, and (yas) our childhoods projecting transness onto various Disney characters.

No, Jennie Bastian did not invent communication as a concept. But she DID start a really cool punk venue by that name! Interested in riot grrl, political art, and social justice since her teen years, Jennie makes art about disability liberation, creates all-ages art spaces, and is a youth-liberationist parent of a five-year-old. In this episode, mk and Jennie chat about age inclusion in the punk scene, the role of art in social movements, and so much more.

"We were organizing and enacting mutual aid without having the words to call it that. Again, I credit my parents. They were hella organizers. Their tentacles reached way beyond our backwoods area. Without the internet. So I actually did know at an early age that resistance was not only possible but necessary. When the school told us asinine things like girls can't wear pants or salute the flag or there are different rules for poor and less poor; for different colors, when we figured out that our local volunteer fire dept. was the KKK, I knew what to do. Organize and fight back. Burn the flag, walk out of school, stand up on a desk and yell, sing, take to the woodswith your comrades. The possibilities are more numerous today, with digital media to amplify us, and youth so savvy and informed and using it to organize."

Temperance Blyck organizes to defend old-growth forests by locking down to construction equipment. Temperance Blyck got radicalized as a kid in an alternative school. Temperance Blyck sometimes does community organizing with their friend's three-year-old. Temperance Blyck is really, really cool. And in this podcast, mk zariel chats with them about eco-defense, youth liberation, and tranarchy.