Mostly Anarchists, as It Turns Out
June 17, 2022 4:19 PM Subscribe
Margaret Killjoy after a rousing appearance on Behind the Bastards (previously) has begun her own podcast: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.
Featuring many people familiar from Behind the Bastards, including the producer Sophie Lichterman, this podcast follows the BtB format (ie. 2x ~75 minute episodes on a single topic/week) but turning it inside out to celebrate the efforts of people who tried to make their world better. Featuring the usual BtB mix of information, history, and laughs (but a lot more giggling), so far CPWDCS episodes have featured (links to first episode):
The Haymarket Affair
The Jane Collective
Southern Resistance to the Confederacy
The Paris Commune
Gay Resistance to the Nazis
The Russian Nihilists
Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War
Episodes also available on all the usual podcast apps.
Margaret Killjoy also writes horror and science fiction, some short stories previously.
Featuring many people familiar from Behind the Bastards, including the producer Sophie Lichterman, this podcast follows the BtB format (ie. 2x ~75 minute episodes on a single topic/week) but turning it inside out to celebrate the efforts of people who tried to make their world better. Featuring the usual BtB mix of information, history, and laughs (but a lot more giggling), so far CPWDCS episodes have featured (links to first episode):
The Haymarket Affair
The Jane Collective
Southern Resistance to the Confederacy
The Paris Commune
Gay Resistance to the Nazis
The Russian Nihilists
Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War
Episodes also available on all the usual podcast apps.
Margaret Killjoy also writes horror and science fiction, some short stories previously.
Her novellas, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion and The Barrow Will Send What It May are really great. I’m sad she hasn’t gotten another one out in the last couple of years.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:45 PM on June 17, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:45 PM on June 17, 2022 [4 favorites]
After listening to the Gay Resistance to the Nazis episodes a few days ago, I'm hooked. She's great.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:11 PM on June 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 5:11 PM on June 17, 2022 [3 favorites]
Oh cool, I didn't know she was so prolific. She's also behind the podcast Live Like the World is Dying, where she "interviews with people who think about how to prepare for and survive crises."
posted by coolname at 6:31 PM on June 17, 2022 [6 favorites]
posted by coolname at 6:31 PM on June 17, 2022 [6 favorites]
Thank you. Subscribed.
posted by dangerousdan at 6:38 PM on June 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by dangerousdan at 6:38 PM on June 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
Mod note: Fixed a couple of links per OP request
posted by taz (staff) at 12:26 AM on June 18, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by taz (staff) at 12:26 AM on June 18, 2022 [1 favorite]
She's also among those on the left who advocate for leftist gun ownership so ya win some, ya lose some
posted by erattacorrige at 3:13 AM on June 18, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by erattacorrige at 3:13 AM on June 18, 2022 [1 favorite]
I discovered BtB and Coolzone Media around the start of the pandemic, and I now follow all of their projects religiously. They just never miss.
posted by saysthis at 5:56 AM on June 18, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by saysthis at 5:56 AM on June 18, 2022 [3 favorites]
more than half of the stories covered so far would have gone better for the leftists in question if they had had better access to weapons
If milkshake duck is referring to anyone/thing that has a "problematic component" then it's a term that applies to virtually everyone and everything in the modern world. For example, gun control laws in the US. We don't pass them to save kids lives in a lot of cases. We pass them for the same reason we pass a lot of our other laws(hint: racism).
Which is a theme of a lot of Margaret Killjoy* and the other coolzone media content: our system is broken, so don't assume a law you think will be helpful is going to work out how you'd expect. They point out how much POC (and sometimes leftists) are usually the ones who get laws used against them. So even when I disagree with a particular stance from the hosts and guests on the show, I come away with an understanding of how a reasonable mind could disagree.
Also, Margaret Killjoy read her short story (or excerpt, memory is fuzzy) "Nazis don't go to Valhalla" on It Could Happen Here and it was quite enjoyable.
*I haven't caught up on her own podcast yet, but it's a common theme when she's a guest on other shows. Although oddly I've been listening to a podcast that just had a episode on the nilhists, so maybe it's time for a marathon.
posted by ghost phoneme at 7:19 AM on June 19, 2022 [3 favorites]
If milkshake duck is referring to anyone/thing that has a "problematic component" then it's a term that applies to virtually everyone and everything in the modern world. For example, gun control laws in the US. We don't pass them to save kids lives in a lot of cases. We pass them for the same reason we pass a lot of our other laws(hint: racism).
Which is a theme of a lot of Margaret Killjoy* and the other coolzone media content: our system is broken, so don't assume a law you think will be helpful is going to work out how you'd expect. They point out how much POC (and sometimes leftists) are usually the ones who get laws used against them. So even when I disagree with a particular stance from the hosts and guests on the show, I come away with an understanding of how a reasonable mind could disagree.
Also, Margaret Killjoy read her short story (or excerpt, memory is fuzzy) "Nazis don't go to Valhalla" on It Could Happen Here and it was quite enjoyable.
*I haven't caught up on her own podcast yet, but it's a common theme when she's a guest on other shows. Although oddly I've been listening to a podcast that just had a episode on the nilhists, so maybe it's time for a marathon.
posted by ghost phoneme at 7:19 AM on June 19, 2022 [3 favorites]
Mod note: "Milkshake duck" confusion / derail deleted. erattacorrige has noted the gun ownership thing, which is discussable, but brief jokey internet shorthand isn't the best for conveying more than very simplified ideas.
posted by taz (staff) at 10:18 PM on June 19, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by taz (staff) at 10:18 PM on June 19, 2022 [1 favorite]
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Anyway, this seems to be just what I need in this day and age.
posted by ursus_comiter at 4:30 PM on June 17, 2022 [2 favorites]