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RabblesKay Gabriel, Jules Gleeson, and Elle O'Rourke on trans liberationIn this episode, Ira T., Jules Gleeson, Elle O'Rourke, and Kay Gabriel reflect on the meaning of trans liberation. They cover questions surrounding gender abolition, bodily autonomy, theory and praxis, and the communist horizon.
You can find Kay on Twitter @unit01barbie (https://bit.ly/3bRvXWT), Jules @socialrepro (https://bit.ly/3fLEZ9b), and Elle @eileanorr (https://bit.ly/3foQy76).
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7:23 — The relation between trans liberation and communist revolution
36:20 — Gender versus gendered oppression
52:19 — Feminization
1:15:04 — What is gender abolition?
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Transgender Marxism (Jules Gleeson and Elle O'Rourke, eds.): htt...2021-05-261h 32RabblesPiro Subrat (Parte 2). Invertidxs y Rompepatrias. Marxismo, Anarquismo y lo queerEn este vÃdeo, Piro nos cuenta la relación dialéctica entre las disidencias sexuales y de genero y las distintas tradiciones polÃticas de izquierda radical en el estado español. Hacemos un recorrido por su inmensa obra historiográfica Invertidos y Rompepatrias. Marxismo y Anarquismo en el Estado Español (1868-1982).
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4:43 — La izquierda "revive", la homosexualidad se prohÃbe: Franquismo
11:17 — Poder gay, la resistencia marica y el marxismo de los años 60
19:00 — Los orÃgenes del movimiento LGBT al final del Franquismo
26:50 — Más allá de las identidades
34:30 — La...2021-04-1351 minRabblesPiro Subrat (Parte 1). Invertidxs y Rompepatrias. Marxismo, Anarquismo y lo queerEn este vÃdeo, Piro nos cuenta la relación dialéctica entre las disidencias sexuales y de genero y las distintas tradiciones polÃticas de izquierda radical en el estado español. Hacemos un recorrido por su inmensa obra historiográfica Invertidos y Rompepatrias. Marxismo y Anarquismo en el Estado Español (1868-1982).
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1:25 — Una introducción a las condiciones que produjeron su obra
6:25 — Eugenesia, Socialismo y homosexualidad
16:56 — Primo de Rivera, el contexto revolucionario y la Reforma sexual
25:03 — Homosexualidad y Segunda Republica
29:06 — Maricas con clase o clase y maricas: El mito del barrio Chino...2021-04-1349 minRabblesME O'Brien on family abolition in the longue duréeIn this video, ME O'Brien charts the history of projects to abolish the family from Marx and Engels in the mid-19th century till today. We discuss transformations of the family under capitalist development, anti-racist critiques of family abolition, working-class solidarity, and the contradictions of prefigurative politics.
You can find all of her work at www.michelleestherobrien.com.
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1:14 — A brief history of the working-class family
10:46 — The Black family as a source of resistance to oppression
16:55 — Family aspiration as fracturing working-class solidarity
23:28 — Queer communes and prefigurative politics
29:50 — Against functionalism
🦋 FURTHER...2021-03-2938 minRabblesEmma Heaney on cis ideology and the trans feminine allegoryIn this video, Emma Heaney talks to us about how sexology made sex cis. We cover the trans feminine allegory, the colonial roots of cisness, the dangers of mystification, and the politics of academic knowledge production.
You can find Emma on Twitter @riislover667 (https://bit.ly/3cL0Coy).
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3:50 — How sexology made sex cis
25:00 — The trans feminine allegory in popular culture
37:30 — The trans feminine allegory in international studies
45:50 — Mystification versus abstraction
56:13 — Materialism Trans Feminism
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The New Woman (Emma Heaney): https://bit.ly/30Wfs6h
Histories of the...2021-03-181h 09RabblesHuw Lemmey on homosexuality, espionage & classIn this episode, Huw Lemmey takes us on a tour through London to explore the twentieth-century world of spies and sex, crime and cruising. He discusses the class composition of British homosexuality, collusion between queers and the state's security apparatus, moral panics around sexuality, anti-communism, and more. Felix and I then have a conversation with him about this mind-bending history.
You can find Huw on Twitter @huwlemmey (https://bit.ly/2YaKzJW), subscribe to his amazing newsletter at https://huw.substack.com/, or listen to his podcast BadGays at https://badgayspod.com/.
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2:30 — Huw's talk...2021-02-151h 44RabblesSophie Lewis on Shulamith FirestoneIn this episode, we talk to Sophie Lewis about Shulamith Firestone. How can her work inspire our present thinking around family abolition, the relationship between feminism and queer politics, femme- and somatophobia, and reproductive technology?
You can find Sophie on Twitter @reproutopia (https://bit.ly/3tleYUh), read more of her work at https://lasophielle.org/essay-archive, and support her on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/reproutopia.
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1:40 — An introduction to Shulamith Firestone
17:10 — How to read radical feminist texts today
30:30 — Family abolition in the context of the sixties
41:28 — Family abolition in our contemp...2021-02-151h 34RabblesMax Fox on sexual liberation and its legaciesIn this episode, Max Fox reflects on the sexual liberation movement of the late-sixties and early seventies. We discussed the politicization of homosexuality during the sexual liberation era, the inheritances and departures from the movement's ideology, and the possibilities of sexual politics today.
You can find Max on Twitter @mxwfx (https://bit.ly/2MUazHa) or at https://www.maxfox.site.
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1:20 — The new-found interest in the sexual liberation movement in recent years
7:45 — A ‘return to sex’ within queer writing?
29:40 — Historicizing sexual liberation
37:35 — Structural similarities between the '70s and 2010s
48:45 — Stonew...2021-02-151h 33
RabblesYasmin Nair on queer politics since the '90sIn this episode, Yasmin Nair talks to us about developments within queer politics since the AIDS epidemic. We cover Pete Buttigieg, the non-profit industrial complex, the politics of Against Equality, far-right gays, how to think about sex politically, anti-trans violence, and the neoliberal university.
You can find Yasmin on Twitter @NairYasmin (https://bit.ly/3pMofCs) and read more of her work at https://yasminnair.com.
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1:18 — The evolution of queer politics since the '90s
12:52 — Pete Buttigieg
17:24 — The demands of Against Equality
23:40 — What's next for the prison-industrial complex?
29:42 — Th...2021-02-151h 20