12:00 PM Pacific Time: Mondays - Wednesdays
Acclaimed program of ideas, in-depth analysis, and commentary on a variety of matters—political, economic, social, and cultural—important to progressive and radical thinking and activism. Against the Grain is produced and hosted by Sasha Lilley.
What happens when a newborn's gender is ambiguous? Katrina Karkazis's new book traces how physicians, parents and others have approached and treated intersexuality, and describes the terrain of intersex advocacy.
John Borsos of United Healthcare West talks to guest host Ramsey Kanaan about grassroots organizing, class struggle, and the conflict between UHW and parent union SEIU.
Timothy Brennan, author of "Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right," talks about how ostensibly radical academic theory helped lay the ground work for the rise of neoliberalism with host Sasha Lilley.
A discussion on the watershed year 1968, with World Systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein, Robert King of the Angola 3, Mexican novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo II, feminist historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Balkans anarchist Andrej Grubacic.
Jeffrey Juris argues that network-based technologies have influenced the logic and values of radical social movements. And Dorothy Kidd describes the global movement to democratize communications.
In his new book "Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race," George Yancy explores the lived reality of Black bodies within the context of whiteness. He also describes difficulties whites face as they try to undo their own racism.
In "Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century," Stephen Shalom suggests a system of political decision-making appropriate for a good society, and Cynthia Peters forwards a vision of enlightened kinship relationships and activities.
Daniel Wolfe explains how and why drug users are often criminalized rather than protected by HIV/AIDS policies. Mark Townsend belongs to a group that operates North America’s only legal supervised injection facility, called Insite.
