by efc8d-admin | Dec 1, 2025 | Feminism, Human Rights, Iran, Journalism
Today I am deeply honored to speak with journalist Fatemeh Jamalpour about her book, For the Sun After Long Nights, which she wrote with fellow journalist Nilo Tabrizy. In September 2022, the world learned of the murder of a young Kurdish woman in Iran, Mahsa Jina...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 28, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Empire and Colonialism, Environment and Biosphere, Labor, Politics and Culture, Technologies, Transnational Solidarities
Today I am both excited and frightened to talk with Tamara Kneese and Xiaowei Wang, two individuals whose research, writing, and activism has for years insisted on the materiality of the technologies that have brought us things like artificial intelligence, the Cloud,...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 14, 2025 | Art and Cultural Resistance, Empire and Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Palestine, Poetry, Politics and Culture, Transnational Solidarities
Today I am deeply honored to spend time with poet, activist, and scholar Jamaica Osorio. Shortly after October 7, 2023, she began to write a series of astonishing poems about the war in Gaza and the genocide. Osorio graces us with readings of some of those poems, and...
by efc8d-admin | Nov 6, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Organizing, Politics and Culture
Today I have the pleasure of talking with Dean Spade about his new book, Love in a Fucked-up World: how to build relationships, hook up, and raise hell together. This book builds on all of Dean’s previous books, and shares their commitment to finding ways to build...
by efc8d-admin | Oct 26, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Africa, Capitalism, Sudan, Transnational Solidarities
Today I talk with Professor Nisrin Elamin about the situation in Sudan, where we find both a war between rival factions and these same factions continuing counter-revolutionary campaign against pro-democracy forces. We discuss how regional actors such as the United...
