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May 11, 2026 • 17min

Teaser - ACAP 02: Community Liberation Programs (05/11/26)

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157981124 Beatrice speaks with Raju, Silvia and Marguerite of Community Liberation Programs about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. This is the first episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working across a variety of tactics, locations, and organizational structures, who are each stepping in, in different ways, to provide care where it is needed. Runtime 1:47:05 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523
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May 7, 2026 • 2h 38min

The Past and Future of the NHS w/ Red Medicine

This episode was originally released November 10th, 2025 for Death Panel patrons. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod National Health Service (NHS) evolved under the neoliberal turn and what the recently released NHS 10 year plan tells us about the future of health struggle not just in Britain but internationally, promising as it does to make the NHS “the most AI enabled care system in the world” and to transform it “into an engine for economic growth, rather than a beneficiary of it.” Find Red Medicine here: https://linktr.ee/redmedicine.xyz We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603
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May 4, 2026 • 20min

Teaser - ACAP 01: A Kensington-based harm reduction group (05/04/26)

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/157359074 Beatrice speaks with the members of a Kensington-based harm reduction group (name redacted to preserve anonymity) about their experiences engaging in mutual aid and survival work. This is the first episode in a new series called All Care for All People (ACAP), as Artie describes in an introduction at the top of this episode. Over the coming weeks we will be speaking to people engaged in mutual aid survival programs, working across a variety of tactics, locations, and organizational structures, who are each stepping in, in different ways, to provide care where it is needed. Runtime 1:59:17 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523
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Apr 30, 2026 • 57min

"The Wheelchair-to-Warfare Pipeline" w/ Liz Jackson and Rua Williams

This episode was originally released April 11, 2024 and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod 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-warfare Read their article in the New Republic, “How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War,” here: https://newrepublic.com/article/179391/wheelchair-warfare-pipeline-disability-technology We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603
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Apr 27, 2026 • 22min

Teaser - Disabled Ecologies w/ Sunaura Taylor

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/156680243 Beatrice 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 longstanding environmental pollution from arms manufacturing; and her new book, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert. Runtime 1:31:27 Find Sunaura's book here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9780520424692 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523
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Apr 23, 2026 • 2h 13min

Late Fascism w/ Alberto Toscano (Unlocked)

This episode was originally released February 16th for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Alberto Toscano about what characteristics second Trump term fascism shares—and doesn’t share—with prior historic formations of fascism, the driving concepts behind Make America Healthy Again that we at Death Panel have been calling “health fascism,” and Alberto’s 2023 book, Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. Find Alberto's book, Late Fascism, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839760204 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta
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Apr 21, 2026 • 18min

Teaser - Body Politics w/ Jasbir Puar

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/156085527/ Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about the violent global effects of settler colonialism and how they shape our understanding of what we mean by “disability” and “debility.” We discuss how events like the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the bombings in 2014 are often described through the number of dead, when they also entail mass disablement and mass debilitation, and how colonial occupation and imperial violence can be understood through a frame of debility. Runtime 2:19:29 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523
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Apr 16, 2026 • 1h 35min

Another Way Out w/ William C. Anderson

This episode was originally released June 23rd, 2025 for Death Panel patrons and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with William C. Anderson about the liberal tendency to limit political action to voting while simultaneously blaming victims of the electoral system for their own oppression (e.g. dismissal of the south as somehow “deserving” Republican control). We also discuss how this tendency towards indirect democracy vs direct democracy can spur despair and resignation, and how to resist it. Read William's piece, Another way out: Fighting back against inaction here: https://prismreports.org/2025/06/03/inaction-voting-revolutionary-change/ Find William's book The Nation on No Map: Black Anarchism and Aboliton here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781849354349 and his book, co-authored with Zoé Samudzi, As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781849353168 We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: https://bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta
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Apr 12, 2026 • 22min

Teaser - Lifemaking in the Margins of Urban Space w/ Kate Brown (04/13/26)

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/155540630/ Beatrice speaks with Kate Brown about the history of mutual aid agriculture projects in the US and Europe after the enclosure of the commons, how autonomous community agriculture has historically been met with expulsion or co-optation by the state, and her book Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City. Find Kate Brown's book Tiny Gardens Everywhere here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781324105831 Runtime 1:20:10 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523
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Apr 9, 2026 • 1h 1min

Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Re-Air)

This episode was originally released January 22nd and is being re-aired today. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha about their work organizing Crips for eSims for Gaza, a mutual aid project which has facilitated keeping countless people connected in Gaza over the past years of genocide and heightened blockade, and about lessons and legacies from Alice Wong, who cofounded the project with them. Note: In recent months, donations to Crips for eSims have slowed. You can support this project here: bit.ly/eSimsRUs Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/crips4esims Support Crips for eSims for Gaza here: https://chuffed.org/project/crips-for-esims-for-gaza And more on Crips for eSims here: https://cripsforesimsforgaza.org/ https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/crips-for-esims-for-gaza/ After many, many requests we're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

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