This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 15th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodBeatrice speaks with Sasha Warren about the lessons we can take from the history of anti-psychiatry movements, and other movements aligned against earlier form…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110969806Beatrice speaks with Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché about how the fight to abolish prisons touches other movements, what abolitionist movement wins tell us about taking the long view in organizing work, and their new book How to Abo…

Beatrice speaks with Betsy Ladyzhets of The Sick Times about what wastewater surveillance does—and doesn’t—tell us about the level of covid spread and how the rise of covid wastewater monitoring fits inside the larger picture of the privatization of both covid risk and covid data.Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/promises-and-perils-of-was…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110836544Beatrice speaks with Silky Shah about the harsh immigration and border detention rhetoric on display at both the DNC and RNC this summer, the historical and material links between the rise of the immigration detention system and mass…

Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the mask ban passed in Nassau County last week, the latest in a dramatic rise in legislation criminalizing face masks and targeting the Palestine solidarity movement. We look at what happened in the overtly hostile public hearing over the ban, the history of the New York statute that ban proponents want back, and h…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/110415159Beatrice speaks with October Krausch about how the cultural imaginary of covid and covid risk has shifted from some of the earliest interpretations of the pandemic, how social pressure amongst liberals to place trust in institutions …

Beatrice and Jules discuss “managed care,” a seemingly innocuous term for a guiding principle in contemporary US healthcare that structures and incentivizes medical rationing and austerity. We also discuss how the use of managed care in state Medicaid programs leads to widespread denials for trans care.Transcript forthcoming.This episode was origin…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109988706Beatrice speaks with Kareem Rabie about how capitalist visions for “the day after” ceasefire often rely on economic development projects that act as an extension of settler colonialism, Rabie’s research on housing development project…

Beatrice speaks with Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu about attempts to dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation as mental illness, and why settler colonialism relies so heavily on drawing lines between madness and “reason.”Note: intro from Artie ends at 0:03:30Transcript:www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/aaron-bushnellThis episode was originally relea…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109524186Beatrice speaks with William Boyd about how “risk assessment” became a central focus of health safety and environmental law since the 1970s, and how the political and economic factors that structure how those risks are assessed have …

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on July 8th. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodBeatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she ca…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109069424Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the sudden ascendance of Kamala Harris as the new Democratic Party nominee and take a close look at her record and early stances on Palestine, policing, and her (not quite) Medicare for All platform …

Beatrice and Jules mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with a discussion of just how limited the law is compared with how it's portrayed, how to understand the ADA as part of the broader story of welfare state retrenchment in the 1980s and 1990s, and the broader story of how it got this way.Transcript:https://www.death…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108630596Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss Biden’s decision to step down, break down last week’s Republican National Convention, and how fitting it is that the last straw in Biden’s reelection campaign was a covid infection.Get Health Communis…

Bea, Artie and Jules discuss pundit speculation about Biden’s age and cognitive ability and the history of the relationship between bodily capacity and definitions of the “body politic.”This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on February 26th, 2024. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a pat…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108202947Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the Trump assassination attempt before diving into the weeks-long discourse on whether Biden should step down and the many assumptions and conjectures being made about Biden’s health and capacity.Fin…

We tell the story of Section 504, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation for disabled people in the US. In Part One, we look at the politics leading up to the 504 sit-in and how the implementation of Section 504 very nearly didn't happen because of concerns that it would be "too expensive." In Part Two, our story continues with a look at the …

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/107751168Beatrice speaks with Sunaura Taylor about how industrial pollution and systemic abandonment produce networks of disability among people, animals, and what she calls “injured landscapes;” how one community in Arizona organized against…

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 23rd, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodBeatrice speaks with Brian Nam-Sonenstein about two recent briefs he wrote for Prison Policy Initiative focused on a few key intersections of housing, …

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/107278315Beatrice and Jules are joined by Charlie Markbreiter to discuss how liberals dismiss protest as merely “performative”—youthful, “inauthentic,” or “virtue signaling”—and how allegations of performativity turn the act of politics into …

Beatrice speaks with Maryam Jamshidi about a number of new laws, and amendments to existing laws enacted at the onset of the war on terror, that Congress is currently drafting in order to crack down on actions in support of Palestinian liberation. We talk through what these laws do, how they target actions like the solidarity encampments seen at Un…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/106825394Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss a recent piece by Freddie deBoer in New York Magazine that attempts to present a "left" case for supporting involuntary commitment policies and the expansion of the carceral state—claiming that “the d…

Beatrice, Artie and Phil discuss New York Democrats’ plan to ban masks on the subway and beyond, and take a close look at the latest updates on North Carolina’s anti-mask bill HB237, “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals,” which state lawmakers managed to make significantly worse since we last talked about it on the show at the end of May.Transcript: www.d…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/106371913Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss the recent resurgence of debates over social distancing guidance in 2020 and 2021 brought on by former NIH Director Anthony Fauci’s comment to Congress that six feet of social distancing “sort of just…

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on April 22nd. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodBeatrice speaks with Micah Khater about the intersection of race, disability, and incarceration in the southern US in the early 20th century, and her work docu…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105955239Beatrice and Jules are joined by Sophie Lewis to discuss how last month NYU disciplined students involved in Palestine solidarity encampments by compelling them to write confessional “reflection papers” and complete so-called “Integr…

Beatrice, Abby and Phil discuss a recent article by The Atlantic staff writer Graeme Wood that went viral for its assertion that, in the context of the genocide in Palestine, “it is possible to kill children legally.” We take a close look at the piece and how the rest of the surrounding argument uses a veneer of data “objectivity” to mask its under…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105522184Beatrice and Phil speak with Melissa Gira Grant about how it came to be that abortion politics are spoken of as the hinge point of the 2024 election—with some pundits confidently predicting the outcome will come down to Biden’s promi…

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on March 18th 2024, and quickly became one of our most widely requested unlocks. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpodBeatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105055097Beatrice and Abby discuss last night’s horrific assault on Rafah, liberal handwringing that the bombings may have been somehow “justified”—or that, in the words of one Atlantic writer, in these circumstances “it is possible to kill c…

Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the recent push by state and local governments to criminalize masking in public space, in some cases introducing new legislation to make existing anti-mask laws more severe, and take a close look at HB237, “Unmasking Mobs and Criminals,” a bill currently being debated in North Carolina that perfectly illustrates th…

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Beatrice and Jules speak with historian Jiya Pandya about how the Bhopal gas leak—often described as the worst industrial disaster in living memory—continues to be an unchecked crisis 40 years later, what it teaches us about how to respond to more recent crises, and how organizers here in the US can get in touch with Bhopal survivor activists who w…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/104189586Beatrice, Artie, Phil and Abby discuss how, as of May 1st, hospitals in the US are no longer required to report covid hospitalization data to the federal government, the enormous information gap that leaves in an already opaque covid…

Beatrice speaks with Tracy Rosenthal about the pending Supreme Court ruling that could dramatically strip the rights of unhoused people in the US, how politicians frequently invoke a rhetoric of “care” to promote expansions of the carceral system, and how the laws at the center of this Supreme Court case are the same being used to police and sweep …

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103758145Beatrice and Phil speak with legal scholars Karen Tani and Katie Eyer about how the Supreme Court used cases related to disability and deinstitutionalization in the 1970s and 1980s as an opportunity to remake and expand its own power…

Beatrice speaks with Nicki Kattoura and Charlie Markbreiter about the proliferation of Palestine solidarity encampments, their experiences at the encampments at CUNY and at Columbia, and to share a call to action for today, May Day: strike in solidarity with the people of Palestine.Note: This episode was recorded shortly before the coordinated raid…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/103298391Beatrice, Jules and Artie discuss the findings, impact, and fallout of “The Cass Review,” the recently released 388 page NHS-commissioned report that has led media figures across the political spectrum to proclaim that the evidence s…

Part Two of our discussion with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t changed since the last time Rasha spoke with us on October 13th, and why appeals to “peace” are not the same as calls for liberation.This is part two of our conversation with Rasha. Y…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102847558Beatrice speaks with Micah Khater about the intersection of race, disability, and incarceration in the southern US in the early 20th century, and her work documenting the history of how Black women experienced and theorized disabilit…

Beatrice speaks with Rasha Abdulhadi about the last six months in the escalation of genocidal violence against the people of Palestine, what has and hasn’t changed since the last time Rasha spoke with us on October 13th, and why appeals to “peace” are not the same as calls for liberation.This is part one of our conversation with Rasha. Part two wil…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102407156Beatrice speaks with Sasha Warren about the lessons we can take from the history of anti-psychiatry movements, and other movements aligned against earlier forms of asylums and mental hospitals, with a particular focus on two groups a…

Beatrice speaks with Liz Jackson and Rua Williams about the history and ongoing practice of design objects ostensibly created for accessibility being repurposed into tools of war.Transcript:https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/wheelchair-to-warfareRead their article in the New Republic, “How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology o…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101959148Beatrice, Artie and Abby discuss the recent book “Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time,” which presents itself as chronicling public health’s many missteps since the beginning of the covid pandemic, but in pra…

This episode was originally released on January 25th. We are re-releasing it today as we approach the sixth month of the ongoing genocidal campaign on Palestine, with a new introduction and a brief update at the end.Beatrice shares messages from Death Panel listeners in Gaza and speaks with Danya Qato about how the totalizing nature of the genocide…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101515457Beatrice, Artie and Phil reflect on the impact of the ongoing Medicaid “unwinding”, which began one year ago today and has already seen 20 million people kicked off of the social safety net insurance program, and the Biden administra…

Beatrice and Abby speak with Melissa Gira Grant about this week’s oral arguments in a Supreme Court case that could dramatically limit the availability of medication abortion in the US, and the Comstock Act, the 19th century obscenity law looming over the case.Transcript forthcoming.Find Melissa’s article in the New Republic, “Two Supreme Court Jus…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101050023As we prepare for this week’s Supreme Court hearing on mifepristone, Beatrice and Abby discuss the controversy surrounding a recent paper that claims that pregnancy-associated deaths are dramatically overcounted in the US, and that a…

Beatrice speaks with Vicky Osterweil about the events we’re encouraged to forget, repress, and reinterpret in order to abet genocide, carcerality, or abandonment to a pandemic, and the power of refusing to forget.Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/vicky-forgetRead Vicky's essay, "Remembering As an Act of Revolt," here:https://all-cats-are-b…

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/100622256Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss a recent piece in NPR, “Wrestling with my husband's fear of getting COVID again,” which presents avoiding covid both as the product of unreasonable “anxiety” and as something immunocompromised people…