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Blood and Terf PodcastYOR FACKIN NICKED: BnT & friends analyse Cop Twitter (ep 21)A lighthearted and off topic epsiode recorded while E was off with covid earlier this year, where M, plus guests C and A talk about the british police, specifically why theyre so dreary, rabidly weird, and bad at posting.This episode was mainly recorded in January and is hugely late due to various totally avoidable delays caused by war, pestilence, and laziness. Also sorry this one is so long!Normal programming to resume in coming weeks.Police violence including sexual assault and extrajudicial murder is discussed in this episode2022-04-092h 03Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode 20: Miss Informed Consent? Nope, never heard of her. OH, YOU MEANT-In our last episode this year, we interview Doctor Liz Brown, an american medical practicioner, who practices gender affirming and family care in a west coast state fo the USA. The interview is intended to serve as an informed conversational comparison between UK and US healthcare systems and how that affects trans healthcare in both places, whilst also being a deeper discusiion of helath materialism as a political concept content warnings for this episode include the normal discussions of transphobic politics, but also reference to surgery, medical abuse, and various aspects of trans healthcare, and fu...2021-12-032h 07Blood and Terf PodcastEp 19- Fear and Loathing at TERFcon part 2: The Sacred Band of DweebsSorry for the wait! ... Again. Anyway, true to our word we have now got all of our material out prior to the cranks over at LGBA, so here is our second epsiode on their conference and the weird goings on in it. Our previous episode was about the policy aims of LGBA and their apparent strategy. This one looks into their collective wriggling brainworms: we attempt to figure out all the weird tangled up ways in which theyve completely lost it. Basically theyve gone into Crank Mode full time and are essentially nothing but a collection of washed up...2021-11-121h 54Blood and Terf PodcastEp 18: Fear & Loathing at TERFcon part 1: the rise of Gender UKIPOn thursday 21st of October 2021, the political organization called “the LGB alliance” held a conference of 400 plus people, from across the transphobic political movement. Much of the reporting and public commentary on the conference has focused on a few shocking or comic high points: the terrible disco, the dire reputations of certain attendees such as Andy Ngo, clips of transphobes behaving weirdly and the generally odd vibe. However the actual contents of the conference, and its nature as a political event have not been delved into in detail by most commentators: most people think the event was a bit of a...2021-10-291h 40Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode 17: Judith Butlerian JihadWorld reknowned feminist scholar Judith Butler has posted a new Hot Take, and now everyone is fighting! Its a guardian aritcle about how the "gender critical" ( transphobic) movement is a building block of modern fascism, and oh boy are people up in arms already. We thought we should join in the fun and get really red, mad, and nude with rage and excitement just like the rest of you. Our episode on the LGBA conference is in the works but this was worth a ruch job cos the article is interesting in its own rightThere are no major content...2021-10-241h 12Blood and Terf PodcastEp 16: Duffields of DestructionWe return after a 4 month hiatus, to report on the Labour and Tory party conferences, as well as various issues growing out of them, and have a general chat about clout chasers, global political growth of state-fascism, and all other sorts of cool stuff.Normal content warnings apply: discussion of transphobia etc. That said, this episode is a fairly light one. sorry about the delay everyone!2021-10-111h 38Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode 15: Misinformation, from the Syrian Civil War to MumsnetOk look this episode is really long, and its really weird, and the reason for that is that E is a big softy who allowed me to rant for like 2 hours about how the misinformation networks that evolved out of the media landscape of Syrian Civil war news reporting have to be understood if one is to understand modern fascist misinformation in general. Thats it. Thats the episode. Have fun. Im sorry ( I'm not sorry, except about the poor sound quality: we had a lot of technical problems editing this one). We will be back to slightly more normal...2021-07-061h 50Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode 14: Listener questions & general recap, featuring CultWatch!No joke title this time! In this episode we take a few listener questions, recap the last several months of transphobic activities in the UK and US. We also discuss the importance of the Kill the Bill protests in the UK, and some of the current dynamics of progressive movements allied to trans liberatory politics, as well as examining the prospects of more mainstream political forces getting entangled in the transphobic reaction. We also catch up with Cult Watch, which has been neglected for so long that it was sort of overflowing...As we arent discussing anything...2021-05-181h 36Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode 13: Team America- Terf PoliceOur premise for this episode is pretty simple: Rapidly proliferating transphobia in the USA is about to explode. All the reactionaries, from the cable news talking heads down to Qanon diehards, are searching for new horrid fascist narratives, and its pretty clear that one of the big ones is Trans Panic. Theyre trying to adapt in the post-trump era, and find profitable new battles to fight and we think that people need to act fast to counter this.This recent shift hasnt gone unnoticed: a fair few leftist, LGBT or antifascist commentators have already remarked upon it. However, as...2021-03-101h 17Blood and Terf PodcastEp12: A Magdalen Berns Night Supper- Transphobia in ScotlandIn this episode, we’ve invited a guest on, in order to explain the weird and wild landscape of Scottish politics, and how it is bound up in a wave of transphobia. Dalm who is an organiser with the IWW , and is based in Scotland, has kindly agreed to come on the show. with her help we have a general look at how Scottish politics has been shaped in a surprisingly reactionary mold, despite the country's progressive political reputation. A note from M: This episode touches on a wide range of topics, including the rise of t...2021-03-012h 02Blood and Terf PodcastEp 11: Umberto Eco & the Jokerification of Alfredo "freddy banana" BonannoAfter a lengthy interlude, the podcast returns with a theory episode: We've invited a guest, in form of mysterious insurrectionary, "A" who will be helping us dig through Umberto Eco's classic work " Ur-Fascism", as we compare it to a range of antifascist critiques and viewpoints. A is very kindly using her academic knowledge to help us construct a more coherent theory schema so that we can properly lay everything out to avoid being too inscrutable for listeners. General content warnings for discussions of transphobia and fascism. One passage written in the 60s, quoted in this ep...2021-02-212h 24Blood and Terf PodcastEp 10: Darth Plague-Episode the WiseTo close out 2020, the podcast is taking a look at the mysterious ways in which plague and disease related reactionary anxieties have swept across the far right spectrum, catching transphobes in their wake. Britain has a long history of transphobia, but the political role of antivaccination is also a longstanding political tradition in British culture. Combine this with 2020 being Plague Year, and with a whole host of bizarre reactionary patterns of thought penetrating the general societal consciousness, and you get the perfect melting pot of hatred and pseudoscience. Content warnings for this episode include: mentions o...2020-12-301h 41Blood and Terf PodcastEp 9- Institutions Part 2: Von Clausewitz was Trans, ActuallyIn this 2 part episode we have a closer look at how the transphobic political wave has used access to and influence over major political and cultural institutions. Obviously, all political movements attempt to influence society, but this episode will be an analysis of who they target and how they succeed. Basically, we are going to do a rather broad assessment and forecast of “terf strategy”- if indeed there is such a thing. Here we are with part 2! We conclude our study of general terf institutional methods with a look at the world of Academia, and fr...2020-11-1253 minBlood and Terf PodcastEp 8- Institutions (Part 1: Heritage today, Graun Tomorrow)In this 2 part episode we have a closer look at how the transphobic political wave has used access to and influence over major political and cultural institutions. Obviously, all political movements attempt to influence society, but this episode will be an analysis of who they target and how they succeed. Basically, we are going to do a rather broad assessment and forecast of “terf strategy”- if indeed there is such a thing. In this first half we look at the UK media and columnist scene in broad terms, and also examin how this interacts with t...2020-11-101h 12Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode 7: What About Fat Queer Dicks?Early 21st century intellectual powerhouse, Spigot once asked " what about fat queer dicks?". Continuing from our last episode, we ask the same question. If the Fascist political penis can have all of these supposedly positive martial attributes, what happens when something negative appears on the horizon? Fascism is nothing if not contradictory: the penis is also terrible and fearsome and can be an organ of corruption. But how do fascists rationalise this? We attempt to answer that exact question.Content warnings: antisemitism, racism, specific and detailed discussion of the Penis as an organ, and generalised discussion of s...2020-10-181h 18Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode 6: For Whom the Bell-end TollsThis episode is the first in a special series examining the role of masculinity in fascism, in order to make a more detailed study of how this crucial relationship of concepts is tied into the evolution of modern transphobic politics.To kick off this series-within-a-series we have the first of a 2 part special all about that most political of organs: the Penis.Content warnings for this episode include: Specific and detailed discussion of the Penis as an organ, and generalised discussion of serious sexual assault, Homophobia, and transphobiaSome helpful links relating to phallic Architecture...2020-10-151h 13Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode 5: Cults, Qanon &the GirlBaz GriftersAfter years of being largely ignored outside of certain specialist reporters, the vast conspiracy theory cult known as Qanon has finally begun to come to the attention of mainstream news. In the UK this has been reflected in the sudden appearance of Qanon linked protests, rallying around the "Save Our Children" banner. Following this, and a notable uptick in people drawing links between TERFs and Qanon, we here at Blood & TERF podcast have been hard at work for a few weeks doing background research on our primer episode on how the TERF/GC/Transphobe movement exhibits multiple alarming similarities...2020-09-211h 45Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode 4: Trans Rights in PolandOver the past couple of years the political situation in Poland has been deteriorating for many minority groups, particularly for LGBT people, and now Trans people are in the spotlight. A series of high profile protest actions by Trans activists, frequently violently repressed by the state and a large and violent right wing presence on the streets have brought the struggle for civil rights to prominence over the last year. In this episode your hosts interview Irys, a Polish trans person, about the context for these events, as well as the general situation in Poland, a...2020-09-061h 45Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode 3: Gender Gulag Show Trial- TERFs in LeftismLeftism in Britain has a TERF problem.Thankfully, your hosts, E and M, are here to help, by subjecting terf ideology to a Stalinist show trial. Obviously the TERF movement is guilty, but how? And why? In this episode we examine how the origins of the TERFism in the British radical left allowed it to gain a stranglehold on significant parts of the Labour Party, some of the more significant parts of the British Marxist scene, and how this overlaps with the roiling centrist rage at the rise of Corbynism. For these crimes, obviously, the TERFs shall be sent to t...2020-08-181h 51Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode2: Why has JK R*wling Joined ISIS????In this episode, E rants about the class struggle & the wretchedness of liberal feminism, M tries his hardest to get sued by comparing a beloved childrens author to, simultaneously, a member of ISIS, Stormfront & the Qanon cult, & we decipher how on earth JK Rowling managed to get her beliefs so screwed up that all of that sentence actually makes sense!CN: Transphobia, discussion of antisemitism, discussions of extreme right wing ideology & anti-trans rhetoric2020-07-281h 23Blood and Terf PodcastEpisode 1: The Sorrows of Young TimmyIn our 1st "proper" episode we examine how the TERF ideology neglects & fetishises children, turning the imaginary child into a sacred idol for an increasingly cultish politics, based on the nuclear family, fascist concepts of motherhood, & antisemitic canards.Can Little Timmy escape the clutches of TERF tyranny? Or does freedom beckon on the horizon? Listen on to find out...Content warnings: discussion of antisemitic tropes, misgendering, abuse and general transphobia2020-07-131h 02Blood and Terf PodcastPilot Episode- Blanchard, Lysenko, and PseudoscienceYour hosts E & M explore transphobia's connections to Fascism, Pseudoscience, Cults & reactionary ideology. We examine Ray Blanchard, whom M insists on calling "a known academic sex pervert", and his similarities to the greatest pseudoscientist ever:Trofim Lysenko. Also explored are "the cringe tumblr left" "permaculture" "prosecco stormfront" & Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism".Content warnings: medical procedures, medical abuse, cults, fascism & swearing2020-06-291h 30