How best to understand the violence and discrimination directed against queer and trans people of color? Eric A. Stanley considers these phenomena through multiple lens. He brings up chattel slavery, commodification, biocapital, pharmaceutical industry practices, LGBT activism, and what he calls cellular labor to elucidate the nature and consequences of racialized anti-trans/queer violence. Eric Stanley, Atmospheres of … Continued


Guest: Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist, author and Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.  Her new book, KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art  won the 2021 PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize for history; awarded Book of the Year by Current Archaeology; selected as one of 2021’s 100 Notable Books by … Continued


0:09 – Yesterday’s French presidential elections brought a renewed victory for incumbent Emmanuel Macron, but the vote showed significant growth in the support of extreme right candidate Marine Le Pen. John Feffer (@johnfeffer), Director of Foreign Policy in Focus, discusses the election and also explores the latest in Ukraine. 0:33 – Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor … Continued