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Crystal Clear

Crystal Diane Stevens

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Screenwriter/Producer Crystal Diane Stevens covers various topics related to working in the film industry, clashing w/radical culture, and the USA. In her one-hour weekly show on WWPR 1490AM, various guests will bring unique insights that will spark relevant debates.
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Fucking Cancelled is a podcast with three aims. First, we analyze and critique a phenomenon on the left that we call the nexus: a synthesis of identitarianism, social media, and cancel culture. Second, we offer emotional, spiritual, and ethical insights into the process of rejecting and exiting the nexus. Third, we move toward a different vision for the left grounded in solidarity, freedom, and responsibility. We are leftists who have spent many years inside the nexus. We have been too afrai ...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com In Episode 65, Jay and Clementine discuss We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown. We discuss the context this book enters into, the courage it took to write it, the response the book received, and how this work significantly differs from our own thinking o…
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In Episode 64, we are joined by writer, organizer, and Chapo Trap House co-host, Amber A’Lee Frost to discuss her new book, Dirtbag. We talk about socialist memoirs, Occupy, the Bernie Sanders campaigns, the necessity of organized labour, and how to deal with wreckers. This is part of the Talking Shit series. Show Notes Amber’s new book, Dirtbag Ch…
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In Episode 63, we get together with DJ Fraser and Tara McGowan-Ross for the second episode of Book Club. This month’s book was The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, a brutal (and hopeful) near-future 'climate-fiction’ novel published in 2020. We’ll announce the next Book Club book shortly! This is part of the Book Club series. Show N…
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In Episode 62, we are joined by London, Uk based writer, Katherine Angel, author of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again. We discuss the affirmative consent model, the expectation that women should “know what they want”, and how this framework holds desire hostage to violence and misunderstands the emergent nature of desire. We discuss heterosexuality, …
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In Episode 61 we’re joined by friend of the pod Joey Santore of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t podcast. We talk about how being in tune with the ecosystems you live in can be a deeply rewarding experience for the poor alienated souls of late capitalism and how to get started if you want to learn about basic botany. We also talk about the similar…
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In Episode 60, we return to our principles and discuss freedom. What is it? Why do we care about it so much? And what does it mean for socialists to have freedom as a spiritual principle? Part of the Principles Before Personalities series. Show Notes New stickers! The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Rosa Luxemburg on freedom Follow …
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In Episode 59, we get together with DJ Fraser and Tara McGowan-Ross for the first episode of our new segment, Book Club. This month’s book is ‘After Black Lives Matter’ by Cedric G. Johnson. We were privileged to interview Cedric Johnson a few episodes back, but we wanted to delve even deeper into this masterful and important piece of political tho…
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In Episode 58, we are joined by writer, musician, political commentator, and punk historian, Jason Myles. Jason is co-host of the popular This is Revolution podcast. We discuss the impact of BLM on the Sanders campaign and the rise of Ibram X. Kendi’s brand of anti-racism. We consider the impact of capitalist realism on hardcore, and what happens w…
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In Episode 57, we are joined by Dr. Cedric G. Johnson, Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to discuss his book After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle. We discuss the origins of modern policing, the classed reality of Black life in the US, and how neoliberalism dooms us …
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In Episode 56, we announce that Fucking Cancelled has moved to substack! Please follow us fuckingcancelled.substack.com if you haven’t already, and consider becoming a supporter of the pod for $5 Canadian a month. You’ll get a bunch of bonus content and help keep the podcast alive! After this announcement we discuss Clementine’s attunement model of…
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In Episode 55 we have a conversation with Sam Cat of Shrimp Teeth about the intersections of cancel culture and polyamory. Sam Cat is a sexuality, polyamory, and relationship educator out of the United States who has long taken a stance against cancel culture. She discusses the impact cancel culture is having on her clients as they navigate polyamo…
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In Episode 54, we are joined by author and bisexual icon, Zachary Zane, of the book Boyslut. We talk about bisexual men, biphobia, and bisexual audibility. We discuss sexual shame, sexual risk, and the complexities of consent. An unabashedly pro-sex, pro-desire writer, Zachary shines light on what men-who-fuck-men communities can teach the rest of …
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In Episode 53, we are joined by spoken word poet and gay-famous wisdom holder, Andrea Gibson. We discuss living and dying, loving the lives we have, gratitude, and presence. Andrea shares about their experience with cancer, their life as a poet, and what they've learned through it all. We talk about the impact of cancel culture on human beings and …
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In Episode 52, we welcome back friend of the pod Freddie deBoer to discuss his upcoming book How the Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement and why we should take social justice politics seriously. We talk about identity politics and identiarianism, condescending deference, cancel culture, and the right wing reaction to all of this. We find out tha…
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In Episode 51, we discuss Black American English, also known as AAVE, as a way to consider some of the differences between identitarian and identity politics approaches. Black American English is minority dialect in the United States of America. The identitarian approach to protecting Black American English typically involves appropriation discours…
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In Episode 50, we sit down with Bebe Montoya, an artist, writer and socialist from Portland, Oregon, USA. We talk about being a working artist, the sanitization of art, and the imperative for artists to act like brands or celebrities. We discuss identitarianism, racial essentialism, and the trials and tribulations of trying to be a socialist in Por…
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In Episode 49, we discuss historical materialism, a foundational concept within Marxist theory, and look at how it offers a much better way of understanding the world we find ourselves in than identitarianism does. Also, Clementine discovers that she may be a Marxist-Leninist. Part of the Identity Crisis series. Show Notes Racecraft by Fields and F…
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In Episode 48, we are joined by English punkrocker and friend of the pod, Jonny "Itch" Fox of the King Blues! We discuss the connection between working class consciousness and punk, addiction recovery, why it's important to keep a positive attitude, and the impact of cancel culture on music and politics. We also get to hear Itch's story from a youn…
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Welcome back to Missing the Joke. In this episode we return from our, eh... *checks calendar* nearly 1 year hiatus to celebrate the last five years of the podcast. And also some other nerd stuff going on around the interwebs. Featuring recurring guest, you know him from his brief cameo in Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back Season 3 Episode 8…
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In Episode 47, we finally make it to Step 3. We talk letting go and letting God, what it means to be right-sized, and why you can't be the actor and the director at the same time. Part of the Half Measures Availed Us Nothing series. Show Notes Follow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram. Find merch in our shop. ClementineMorrigan.com JayLesoleil.com Them…
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In Episode 46, we discuss the Fucking Cancelled 2023 American tour, followed by a deep dive into our controversial argument that murder is wrong in all circumstances. Attempting to take up the arguments of certain pro-murder anarchists in good faith, we nonetheless maintain that murdering people you don't like is bad. Part of the Nobody’s Getting C…
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