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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – April 25, 2022

Ukraine asks Western diplomats for help establishing humanitarian corridor out of Mariupol. New York judge finds Trump in contempt of court for ignoring subpoenas. California big city mayors ask state for billions in guaranteed homeless program funding.  Supreme Court hears religious rights arguments over High School football coach’s prayers. 


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