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4/Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too (with Crimethinc)
In this episode, I spoke with one of the authors of the Crimethinc piece of the same name about the 'logic of the guillotine' on how it is used in online left-wing meme culture, why it is problematic and why we need to have a better logic than that of the guillotine if we truly believe in liberatory politics.
"On April 6, 1871, armed participants in the revolutionary Paris Commune seized the guillotine that was stored near the prison in Paris...
3/Venezuela and the Right to Narrate (with Laura Vidal)
What does it mean to have, to demand, the right to narrate? Usually associated with Edward Said and the Palestinian experience, this concept ultimately speaks to a widespread feeling among those who are racialized, those who are gendered, those who are displaced. It reflects a more generalised need to reclaim something that feels stolen.
In this episode, I sat down with Laura Vidal, a Paris-based Venezuelan writer and researcher...
2/Lebanon's Kafala System is 'Civilized' Slavery (with Sami and Ali)
This is part one of a two-parts series on the Kafala system in Lebanon.
Under Lebanon's Kafala (or sponsorship) system, the legal status of migrant domestic workers is in the hands of their employers, making workers vulnerable to abuse. If the employer terminates their contract, the sponsorship gets automatically cancelled, turning these workers into illegal aliens and putting them at risk of arrest and/or deportation...
1/Hong Kong's Existential Crisis (with JP, Lausan)
This is a conversation with JP, a Hong Kong activist with Lausan, a left-wing and decolonial group based out of Hong Kong and its diaspora which proposes numerous fascinating analyses of Hong Kong’s ongoing situation.
In our conversation, JP and I spoke about the meaning behind the ongoing protests in Hong Kong...