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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/97922957 Beatrice and Abby are joined by Melissa Gira Grant to evaluate the Biden administration’s recent announcements for its plans on reproductive healthcare and why Biden’s campaign promise to “restore the protections of Roe v. Wade” leaves significant room for interpretation. Find our episode with Melissa from last year on mifepristone and the Comstock act, "Statutes of Limitation," here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/statutes-of-w-04-81971897 Read Melissa’s piece in the New Republic, “Joe Biden Is Running on Roe. It’s Not Enough” here: https://newrepublic.com/article/178382/joe-biden-running-roe-its-not-enough Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Runtime 1:16:13, 5 February 2024 🧬

Beatrice speaks with Alice Wong about Alice's campaign to reinstate a mask mandate at UCSF, a hospital system home to a number of physicians who have played an outsized, deleterious, role in advocating for a premature end to covid protections. Transcript: https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/alice-wong-ucsf Find Alice's call to action here: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/25/n95s4ucsf-call-to-action/ Find our template letter from Abby here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTyI4yLBuOJQR_IgnYVc17GxCbBT2G32QiENnFLq0kZCDmoLy-c23o8eLX_ISNlCMCA6xARBAUkWfqQ/pub Find Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s template here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JxT8VQbV7ju-xUrKCG6NDeW2scOROyis10wjNg4YnTY/edit Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny (out this week!) here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Further reading: Alice Wong’s most recent column for Teen Vogue: COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Up Could Save My Life. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-isnt-going-anywhere-masking-up-could-save-my-life Alice Wong, August 2022 (Disability Visibility Project): My ICU Summer: A Photo Essay https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2022/08/07/my-icu-summer-a-photo-essay/ Alice Wong, 2020 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Oracles and the Coronavirus https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus/ Alice Wong, March 2023 (Teen Vogue): The “Unwinding” of Medicaid Coverage Will Be Difficult for Disabled Americans, Leave More People Uninsured https://www.teenvogue.com/story/medicaid-coverage-covid Alice Wong’s 2023 interview with KQED: Alice Wong: I Still Have a Voice https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601142614/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice Alice Wong, January 2024 (Disability Visibility Project): Disabled Outrage and #PodSaveJon https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/disabled-outrage-and-podsavejon/

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/97441318 Beatrice, Abby, and Jules discuss the symbolic aspects of masking as a public health intervention and demonstration of solidarity, through critiques of a recent New York Times piece by Pamela Paul, "When Public Health Loses the Public," and a new book by Sandro Galea, "Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time." Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Runtime 2:07:35, 29 January 2024 🧬

This podcast delves into the impact of settler colonial attacks on Palestinians' health, resilience against genocidal narratives, challenges of public health degradation in Gaza, difficulties of health surveillance in conflict zones, collective mourning post-bombings in Gaza, reflections on loss and memory, navigating COVID-19 in Palestine, and a call to action for solidarity and resistance.

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96989016 Beatrice speaks with Maryam Jamshidi about how US law has been shaped in recent decades to specifically guard against Palestinian self-determination, and the direct role that Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, and other Israeli officials had in crafting contemporary state definitions of what constitutes “terrorism.” Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:18:26, 22 January 2024 🧬

The hosts discuss the Biden administration's track record of ending pandemic welfare programs, the consequences of ending these programs, the messaging surrounding COVID-19, the analysis of Biden's actions and the Build Back Better package, the relief packages implemented during the pandemic, controversy over funding for direct welfare supports, and the hosts express gratitude and promote their books.

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96560443/ Bea, Artie, and Phil offer their critique of "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care", a recent book from two economists—and blurbed by the likes of Emily Oster and Matt Yglesias—that promises a bold new vision for US health policy: what if we did universal healthcare, but we intentionally made it really bad? Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:22:26, 15 January 2024 🧬

Analyzing the pathologization of Palestinian resistance and advocating for transnational disability solidarity with Palestine. Topics include the intersection of disability, settler colonialism, and resistance, the application of eugenic logics against Palestinians, the pathologization of resistance movements, and the construction of terrorism and psychiatry's intervention.

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96110966 Beatrice speaks with Silky Shah about the negotiations between the Biden administration and Congress that would establish harmful new asylum and immigration policy, alongside billions in additional funding towards the ongoing genocide of Palestine. For more on Title 42, see our episode on the policy—also with Silky—from 2022 here: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/title-42-w-silky-shah-unlocked Silky is the executive director of Detention Watch Network. Find more on Detention Watch Network and the resources they have available here: https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/ Preorder Silky's forthcoming book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unbuild-walls Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:26:44, 8 January 2024 🧬

As we send off 2023, we’re releasing a series of some of our favorite episodes of the year—including some newly unlocked episodes that have previously only been available to patrons. This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 7th, 2023, 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. Original description: Bea, Artie, Abby, and Phil discuss the media's collective shrug over rising covid hospitalizations and Ashish Jha's recent op-ed “With a few basic steps, most of us can finally ignore COVID.” Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Pre-order Jules' new book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733966/a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny-by-jules-gill-peterson/ Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod