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Bea speaks with Liat Ben-Moshe about lessons we can draw from linking disability justice with abolition, the threat posed by moves like California's CARE courts and Eric Adams's involuntary hospitalization policies, and revisit her 2020 book Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition. Find Liat's book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/decarcerating-disability Episode Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/disability-and-abolition-w-liat-ben-moshe As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/77637289 Bea speaks with Dan Berger about his new book Stayed On Freedom, the importance of resisting overly streamlined histories of political movements, and the ongoingness and intergenerational nature of political struggle. Dan's book, Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey, is out this week from Basic Books: https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/dan-berger/stayed-on-freedom/9781541675360/ Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:10:56, 23 January 2023 🧬

XBB.1.5, aka “Kraken,” may be the latest variant causing a spike in cases, but it isn’t the only one driving spread, nor the only one to watch out for. Bea speaks with evolutionary biologist T Ryan Gregory about how to make sense of the increasingly large pool of new covid variants, what we can do to stop them, and why he and his colleagues suggested the name “Kraken” in the first place. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/77335507 Bea, Artie, and Abby discuss what it will mean for the Biden administration to end the official public health emergency declaration, alongside comments by Ashish Jha that attempt to deflect blame on hospital capacity. Then we take a look at Leana Wen's bold assertion this week that we are "overcounting" covid deaths. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:13:39, 16 January 2023 🧬

Bea, Jules, and Abby discuss the complicated history of DIY healthcare and DIY transition as a story of class struggle, and how this history can complicate how we talk about physician expertise, abortion, single payer, and more. Read Jules piece on this in the Baffler, "Doctors Who?" here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/doctors-who-gill-peterson As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/77016924 Bea, Artie, and Phil discuss how China's zero-covid policy has been used as a political foil over the course of the pandemic and how, after years of dismissal, the moment China abandoned it those very same people began pointing to transmission in China as the impending source of a deadly new variant. Get Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:12:29, 9 January 2023 🧬

We discuss a recent piece in the New Yorker called "The Case for Masking Forever" which presents itself as a profile of the group The People's CDC but instead, we argue, is a veritable hit piece on the idea of covid advocacy itself. As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/76685724 Bea, Artie, and Jules discuss Eric Adams' new initiative to broadly expanded involuntary hospitalization law and policy in New York, and the dark history of psychiatric institutionalization the plan appears to want to bring back. Health Communism is still 40% off for one more day (Monday January 2nd): www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:39:45, 2 January 2023 🧬

This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you enjoy this episode, consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Beatrice and Jules speak with Jasbir Puar about biopolitics, competing theorizations of disability, the difference between debility and disability, and her pathbreaking 2017 book The Right to Maim. Jasbir Puar is the author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007). Health Communism is finally back in stock and currently 40% for Verso's holiday sale. Get it here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/76391071 Bea speaks with Doron Dorfman about how social and political narratives of disabled people as "fakers" cheating the welfare system ultimately come to influence how disability is defined in law and policy. For more on some of the topics discussed in this episode, we recommend our episodes on the history of the 504 occupation, on the court case this year on gender dysphoria as a qualifying impairment under the ADA, and our recent discussion with Jasbir Puar. Health Communism is finally back in stock in the US and Canada, and currently 40% off: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Runtime 1:09:49, 26 December 2022 🧬