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 20, 2025 | Activism and Actions, Educational Liberation, Fascism, Labor, Organizing, Recovering Radical Histories
Today I have the immense honor and privilege to speak with Ellen Schrecker, who has been referred to as “the dean of the anti-anti-Communist historians.” Well known for her classic studies of McCarthyism, today Schrecker explains how much worse Trump’s regime is than...
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 30, 2025 | Abolition, Activism and Actions, Decolonization and Anti-Racism, Law and Violence, Politics and Culture, Race
In 2017, activist-scholar Robyn Maynard published her groundbreaking study, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Today, I have the privilege of talking with her about the second edition of this study, which has just been...
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...
