#speakingoutofplace — Public Fediverse posts

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #FadyJoudah, Palestinian-American physician, poet and translator, to talk about his book #ExhibitG: #Poems, #Essays, and #Photographs of #Gaza.

"Along with powerful and demanding texts, Exhibit G features a collection of photographs of Gaza presented in collaboration with Hani Almadhoun and the Gaza Soup Kitchen."

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19545870-exhibit-g-viewing-palestinian-interiority-a-conversation-with-fady-joudah

#Palestine #oPt #poetry #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #FadyJoudah, Palestinian-American physician, poet and translator, to talk about his book #ExhibitG: #Poems, #Essays, and #Photographs of #Gaza.

"Along with powerful and demanding texts, Exhibit G features a collection of photographs of Gaza presented in collaboration with Hani Almadhoun and the Gaza Soup Kitchen."

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19545870-exhibit-g-viewing-palestinian-interiority-a-conversation-with-fady-joudah

#Palestine #oPt #poetry #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #IdaSusser to discuss her book #TheYellowVestsAndTheBattleForDemocracy:
Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19545890-ida-susser-on-creating-a-new-historical-bloc-reimagining-the-commons-and-the-yellow-vests-in-france

the book is available for free download here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003534518/yellow-vests-battle-democracy-ida-susser

#YellowVestMovement #FrenchPolitics #GiletsJaunes #MouvementDesGiletsJaunes #NuitDebout #socialMovements #mouvementsSociaux #polFr #Macronie #books #livres @bookstodon @MusiqueNow

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #IdaSusser to discuss her book #TheYellowVestsAndTheBattleForDemocracy:
Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19545890-ida-susser-on-creating-a-new-historical-bloc-reimagining-the-commons-and-the-yellow-vests-in-france

the book is available for free download here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003534518/yellow-vests-battle-democracy-ida-susser

#YellowVestMovement #FrenchPolitics #GiletsJaunes #MouvementDesGiletsJaunes #NuitDebout #socialMovements #mouvementsSociaux #polFr #Macronie #books #livres @bookstodon @MusiqueNow

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #RobinAndersen, author of #TheComplicitLens

"We discuss in depth the ways that the New York Times, CNN, and other #legacyMedia outlets became little more than Israeli propaganda organs, uncritically feeding IDF narratives, images, and self-declared expertise while not only discrediting Palestinian voices, but also becoming complicit with #Israel’s policy of censorship by murder"

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19421753-the-journalistic-malpractice-that-fueled-a-genocide-robin-andersen-on-complicit-lens
#Gaza #Palestine #mediaCriticism #media #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #RobinAndersen, author of #TheComplicitLens

"We discuss in depth the ways that the New York Times, CNN, and other #legacyMedia outlets became little more than Israeli propaganda organs, uncritically feeding IDF narratives, images, and self-declared expertise while not only discrediting Palestinian voices, but also becoming complicit with #Israel’s policy of censorship by murder"

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19421753-the-journalistic-malpractice-that-fueled-a-genocide-robin-andersen-on-complicit-lens
#Gaza #Palestine #mediaCriticism #media #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19188391-muskism-its-roots-nature-and-how-to-fight-it-a-conversation-with-quinn-slobodian-and-ben-tarnoff

#Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian & #BenTarnoff to talk about their book #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.

'We see a mind that is profoundly troubled by any contagion spreading into seemingly closed systems—it can take the form of racial others, transpeople, “woke” populations, or most generally and dismissively, “Non-Player-Characters.” '

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19188391-muskism-its-roots-nature-and-how-to-fight-it-a-conversation-with-quinn-slobodian-and-ben-tarnoff

#Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techFutures #techCriticism #techOligarchs #books @bookstodon

"We have come to this cultural agreement that convenience is so important that it trumps everything else, forgetting that anything that matters in life is inconvenient [...] I think we should re-value difficulty, overcoming difficulty, and take pleasure in gaining mastery, because it is a form of empowerment"

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #CarissaVéliz, author of #Prophecy

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18709720-bullshit-and-infinity-why-ai-cannot-predict-anything-a-conversation-with-carissa-veliz

#AI #tech #artificialIntelligence #techCriticism #techFutures #BigTech #books @bookstodon

"We have come to this cultural agreement that convenience is so important that it trumps everything else, forgetting that anything that matters in life is inconvenient [...] I think we should re-value difficulty, overcoming difficulty, and take pleasure in gaining mastery, because it is a form of empowerment"

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #CarissaVéliz, author of #Prophecy

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18709720-bullshit-and-infinity-why-ai-cannot-predict-anything-a-conversation-with-carissa-veliz

#AI #tech #artificialIntelligence #techCriticism #techFutures #BigTech #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #AdamJohnson to discuss his book #HowToSellAGenocide (all royalties from which go to Middle East Children's Alliance)

"We talk about how the #media whitewashed Israeli lies, erased Palestinian voices, and contrived a way to make a political settlement seem impossible, and war crimes not only acceptable, but also inevitable."

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19023388-how-to-sell-a-genocide-and-sustain-it-a-conversation-with-adam-johnson

#Gaza #GazaCoverage #Palestine #Israel #PalestineCoverage #USmedia #mediaCriticism #MSM #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #AdamJohnson to discuss his book #HowToSellAGenocide (all royalties from which go to Middle East Children's Alliance)

"We talk about how the #media whitewashed Israeli lies, erased Palestinian voices, and contrived a way to make a political settlement seem impossible, and war crimes not only acceptable, but also inevitable."

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/19023388-how-to-sell-a-genocide-and-sustain-it-a-conversation-with-adam-johnson

#Gaza #GazaCoverage #Palestine #Israel #PalestineCoverage #USmedia #mediaCriticism #MSM #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #VictoriaLaw, author of "#CorridorsOfContagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of #Incarceration."

Law describes in harrowing detail how state neglect and #carceralAbuse amplified the ravages of #Covid19 in the US prison system

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18960148-amplifying-the-violence-of-incarceration-victoria-law-on-prisons-during-pandemic

#USprisons #USpol #prisons #prisonIndustrialComplex #socialMurder #Covid19USA #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #VictoriaLaw, author of "#CorridorsOfContagion: How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of #Incarceration."

Law describes in harrowing detail how state neglect and #carceralAbuse amplified the ravages of #Covid19 in the US prison system

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18960148-amplifying-the-violence-of-incarceration-victoria-law-on-prisons-during-pandemic

#USprisons #USpol #prisons #prisonIndustrialComplex #socialMurder #Covid19USA #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #AndrewRoss, author of #TheWeatherReport

'[W]e follow up Andrew’s claim that in #Palestine we find a “grisly future arriving there sooner than elsewhere.” The book focusses on the idea of population and scarcity, and argues that much of the policies that are based on the presumption of scarce resources are actually predicated on what Ross calls “bogus scarcity"...'

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18536376-a-conversation-with-andrew-ross-the-weather-report-a-journey-through-unsettled-climates
#ecocide #WestBank #climate #climateJustice #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #AndrewRoss, author of #TheWeatherReport

'[W]e follow up Andrew’s claim that in #Palestine we find a “grisly future arriving there sooner than elsewhere.” The book focusses on the idea of population and scarcity, and argues that much of the policies that are based on the presumption of scarce resources are actually predicated on what Ross calls “bogus scarcity"...'

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18536376-a-conversation-with-andrew-ross-the-weather-report-a-journey-through-unsettled-climates
#ecocide #WestBank #climate #climateJustice #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #Indigenous cinéaste and author #JulianBraveNoisecat to talk about his new book, #WeSurvivedTheNight

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18448008-indigenous-surviving-thriving-and-love-a-conversation-with-julian-brave-noisecat
#FirstNations #NativeAmericans #oralTraditions #coyoteStories #survivance #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #Indigenous cinéaste and author #JulianBraveNoisecat to talk about his new book, #WeSurvivedTheNight

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18448008-indigenous-surviving-thriving-and-love-a-conversation-with-julian-brave-noisecat
#FirstNations #NativeAmericans #oralTraditions #coyoteStories #survivance #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #FatemehJamalpour, co-author w/ #NiloTabrizy of #ForTheSunAfterLongNights, a chronicle of the #WomanLifeFreedom protests in #Iran following the murder of #MahsaJinaAmini.

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18155378-for-the-sun-after-long-nights-iranian-women-leading-fight-for-freedom

#IranProtests #IranianWomen #stateRepression #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #OmarZahzah to discuss his book #TermsOfServitude: Zionism, #SiliconValley, and Digital / #SettlerColonialism in the #PalestinianLiberation Struggle

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18173922-omar-zahzah-terms-of-servitude-zionism-silicon-valley-and-digital-settler-colonialism-in-the-palestinian-liberation-struggle

#Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #media #digitalMedia #socialMedia #mediaCriticism #tech #BigTech #censorship #digitalCensorship #cyberharassment #digitalRights #digitalActivism #Gaza #oPt #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #MaryAnneFranks, author of #FearlessSpeech: Breaking Free from the #FirstAmendment

"As the title of the book indicates, this is a fearless and iconoclastic critique of the ways that the First Amendment has been interpreted and mobilized in ways that protect and extend #racism, #misogyny, religious fundamentalism, and corporate self-interest."

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/17974202-breaking-free-from-the-first-amendment-to-make-fearless-speech-and-counterpublics-a-conversation-with-mary-anne-franks

#USpol #USpolitics #justice #hateSpeech #harassment #lawfare #wokebashing #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes Canadian law professor and former UNRWA legal expert Ardi Imseis, and former chief UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness. They discuss the #GazaGenocide and what #InternationalHumanitarianLaw demands of #Israel and 3rd states, as well on the ongoing #colonialViolence in the #WestBank.

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/17868710-the-genocide-in-gaza-what-international-humanitarian-law-demands-of-israel-and-third-states-a-discussion-with-ardi-imseis-and-chris-gunness
#Palestine #Gaza #WarOnGaza #internationalLaw #tpo #oPt

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #KarenHao, author of #EmpireOfAI: Dreams and Nightmares in #SamAltman’s #OpenAI

'Karen explains that she chose the word “empire” precisely to indicate the colonial nature of #AI’s domination: the tremendous damage this enterprise does to the poor, to racial and ethnic minorities, and to the Global South in general in terms of minds, bodies, the environment, natural resources, and any notion of democracy.'

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/17803919-talking-with-karen-hao-about-empire-of-ai-and-the-colonizing-logic-behind-ai

#tech #BigTech #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #QuinnSlobodian to discuss his book #HayeksBastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the #Capitalism of the Far Right.

"We take a deep dive into the genesis of a weird and powerful merging of two seemingly different groups - the #FarRight and #neoliberals"

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2025/08/21/neoliberals-meet-maga-a-conversation-with-quinn-slobodian-on-hayeks-bastards-race-gold-iq-and-the-capitalism-of-the-far-right/

#neoliberalism #MontPelerinSociety #NewRight #racialistRight #USpol #USpolitics #UShistory #MAGA #inequality #SiliconValleyRight #politicalTheory #books @histodons @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes journalist Yousef Aljamal, one of the editors of the collection #DisplacedInGaza: Stories from the #GazaGenocide, which brings together 27 testimonials from #Palestinians in #Gaza

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2025/08/18/displaced-in-gaza-stories-from-the-gaza-genocide-a-conversation-with-yousef-aljamal/

#Palestine #WarOnGaza #GazaTestimonials #IDPs #colonialViolence #books @palestine @israel @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes former UN Special Rapporteurs on the #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories John Dugard, Richard Falk, and Michael Lynk to talk about what US sanctions against the current Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, signify.

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2025/08/14/on-the-significance-of-us-sanctions-on-the-un-special-rapporteur-on-the-occupied-palestinian-territories-francesca-albanese-three-former-un-special-rapporteurs-weigh-in/

#oPt #Palestine #UnitedNations #UN #USpol #USforeignPolicy #USMiddleEastPolicy #HumanRights #FrancescaAlbanese #Gaza #WarOnGaza @palestine @israel

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes back #internationalLaw experts Lara Elborno, Richard Falk, and Penny Green of the #GazaTribunal to talk about the #GazaGenocide.

"They present a grim picture of what they call the final phase of genocide and note both the overwhelming global support for #Palestine and the concurrent repression against advocacy and protest."

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2025/07/31/the-final-phases-of-genocide-what-global-civil-society-must-do-a-conversation-with-international-jurists-lara-elborno-penny-green-richard-falk/

#Gaza #oPt #PalestineSolidarity @palestine @israel

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes journalist Mel Buer to talk about #ICE's & other federal agencies' "photo-op" attack on #LA's MacArthur Park.

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2025/07/14/ices-photo-op-military-attack-on-macarthur-park-and-community-pushback-talking-with-journalist-mel-buer/
#ICEraids #LosAngeles #LosAngelesICEraids #stateRepression #USpol #USpolitics #militarizedPolicing #deportations #LAresists

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes scholars and activists Persis Karim and Manijeh Moradian to discuss the US/Israeli war against #Iran, and the connection with the #GazaGenocide and #Israel's other wars in the #MiddleEast region.

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2025/07/11/bombs-will-never-liberate-iran-persis-karim-and-manijeh-moradian-in-conversation/

#USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #USMiddleEastPolicy #Gaza #geopolitics #régimeChangeWars @iran @israel @palestine @geopolitics

Hunger Striking for #Palestine: Three Organizers Share Stories and Strategies

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #PalestineSolidarity activists from U. of Oregon, CUNY Graduate Center & Stanford to talk about the last year's hunger strike campaigns on their campuses

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/17355253-hunger-striking-for-palestine-three-organizers-share-stories-and-strategies

#GazaSolidarity #activism #BDS #studentProtests #campusActivism #USpol #USpolitics #Gaza #GazaFundraising @palestine

#SpeakingOutOfPlace | The #GazaTribunal: Creating an Archive Against Genocide

"We talk with Lara Elborno, Richard Falk, and Penny Green, three members of the #Gaza Tribunal, which is set to convene in Sarajevo in a few days."

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2025/05/16/the-gaza-tribunal-creating-an-archive-against-genocide/

#Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaGenocide #oPt @palestine @israel

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes Sarah T. Roberts

topics
⦁"the hidden humans behind #ArtificialIntelligence" & #AI's dependence on hyperexploited outsourced #labour
⦁#DOGE, "an emblem of how #SiliconValley executives have embraced a brand of #tech rapture that disdains and destroys democracy and attacks the idea that people can take care of each other"

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/16761835-the-hidden-humans-behind-artificial-intelligence-and-the-sociopathology-of-elon-musk-a-conversation-with-sarah-t-roberts
#BigTech #techWorkers #Musk #cyberlibertarianism #technosolutionism #USpol #USpolitics #SiliconValleyRight #DOGEbags

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #OmarElAkkad to discuss his new book, #OneDayEveryoneWillHaveAlwaysBeenAgainstThis.

"Omar El Akkad wrote this full-throated indictment of the 'principal concern' of the modern American liberal. It is 'not what one does or believes or supports or opposes, but what one is seen to be.' "

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/16686251-one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this-the-deadly-consequences-of-the-liberal-conscience-a-conversation-with-omar-el-akkad?t=0

#Gaza #WarOnGaza #Palestine #USpol #USpolitics #USforeignPolicy #LiberalPosturing #BlueMAGA #TheEvilOfTwoLessers #books @bookstodon @palestine

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes Maha Nasser, author of #BrothersApart: #PalestinianCitizensOfIsrael and the Arab World, and Karam Dana, author of #ToStandWithPalestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/16638983-the-enduring-power-of-palestinian-transnational-identity-and-activism-a-discussion-with-maha-nasser-and-karam-dana

#Palestinians #Palestine #48Palestinians #PalestinianDiaspora #USpol #PalestineLiberation #PalestinianActivism #PalestineSolidarity #books @palestine @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #MalcomFerdinand, author of #DecolonialEcology / #UneÉcologieDécoloniale and #SAimerLaTerre, and Prof. #AzucenaCastro, author of #PoeticPostnatures

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2025/01/27/building-worlds-beyond-modernitys-double-fracture-a-discussion-with-azucena-castro-and-malcom-ferdinand/

#DecolonialEcology #SocialEcology #DecolonizingEcology #ecology #DecolonialStudies #DecolonialStruggles #DecolonialLiterature #ecocide #ColonialViolence #capitalocène #EnvironmentalJustice #books @bookstodon

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #ShouridehMolavi of #ForensicArchitecture to discuss #Israel's methods of #EnvironmentalWarfare against #Gaza. She is the author of"#EnvironmentalWarfareInGaza: #ColonialViolence and New Landscapes of Resistance."

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/16092506-environmental-warfare-in-gaza-a-conversation-with-shourideh-molavi

#ecocide #GazaEcocide #herbicides #ChemicalWarfare #oPt #Palestine #Palestinians #CounterForensics #StateViolence #StateCrime #books @palestine

Anthropologist Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins and professor of medicine Jess Ghannam join #SpeakingOutOfPlace to discuss Sophia's report, "Costs of War," which concludes that "the scale and rapidity of #Gaza’s destruction … is unprecedented, not only in Palestinian history, but in recent global history."

https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/16036925-one-year-later-the-true-cost-of-israel-s-war-on-gaza-and-the-west-bank-a-conversation-with-prof-sophia-stamatopoulou-robbins-and-dr-jess-ghannam

#Palestine #GazaGenocide #oPt #Palestinians #GazaDeathToll

@palestine

#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes three international volunteers from the #InternationalSolidarityMovement. They are defending the #MasaferYatta region in the Occupied #WestBank from #IOF, police, and settler attacks, which include home demolitions, land confiscation, theft of livestock and driving people into caves.

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2024/10/23/volunteers-to-stop-the-destruction-of-palestinian-villages-and-homes-an-interview-with-members-of-the-international-solidarity-movement/

#Palestine #oPt #ColonialViolence #PalestineSolidarity #ISM

@palestine

#UniversityOfCalifornia #Faculty Groups File Landmark Unfair Labor Practices Complaint Against #UC Over UC’s Repression of #ActivismForPalestine

Anna Markowitz, Wendy Matsumura, and Annie McClanahan join #SpeakingOutOfPlace to discuss their faculty associations' complaint

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2024/10/16/university-of-california-faculty-groups-file-landmark-unfair-labor-practices-complaint-against-uc-over-ucs-repression-of-activism-for-palestine/

#FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #FacultyProtests #CampusActivism #StateRepression #AcademicFreedom #USpol #USpolitics #Gaza #Palestine #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity

@palestine