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The Child and Its Enemies
Skye-Gia Garcia of OutReach LGBTQ
Hello and welcome to THE CHILD AND ITS ENEMIES, a podcast for and about queer and neurodivergent kids and teens 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 kids, teens, and everyone else affected by anti-child ageism are at the center of this form of oppression.
Our goal with the podcast is to create a space by and for kids and teens that challenges all forms of control and inspires us to create neuroqueer, feral, ageless networks of care.
I'm your host, mk zariel. My pronouns are they/them, I'm fifteen years old, and I'm the youth correspondent at the Anarchist Review of Books, author of the blog Debate Me Bruh, and organizer of some all-ages queer spaces in my city and online. With me today is our first-ever guest, Skye Gia Garcia, who is a community organizer and freedom fighter! Hello, Skye!
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40:18||Ep. 14From PDX Jail Support organizer Clover joins us for a discussion about the implications for youth that this strategy of organizing holds. Music fro Elliot Smith this time. Enjoy!13. Shannon Clay on the History of Anti-Racist Action
46:32||Ep. 13Co-Author of the new book "We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action" Shannon Clay joins us for a discussion about this youth movement phenomenon that is still going strong today. Music fro Ramshackle Glory this time. Enjoy!12. Anarchist Educator Jordan on Alternative Schooling
38:09||Ep. 12An anarchist educator talks GEDs, queer youth organizing in schools, how to navigate academia as an anarchist, free schools, homeschooling, unschooling, and other queer insurrection <311. Tom From Its Going Down
33:21||Ep. 11Join 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!10. Madeline Lane-McKinley and Childhood as a Concept
48:27||Ep. 10An 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!9. Shuli Branson and The Breakup Theory Of Anarchism
30:56||Ep. 9"We don't seek to create forever institutions or parties. We acknowledge that we need to retain the flexibility to move with conditions and to counter the tendency of power to collect and stay in certain places."8. Pearson, Host of Coffee with Comrades
59:34||Ep. 8Fuck 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.7. Lola Bloom, Transfeminine YouTube Influencer
41:41||Ep. 7Lola 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/aDMWFZMtz26. Vicky Osterweil, Author of THE EXTENDED UNIVERSE
46:00||Ep. 6Vicky 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.