Recent Posts - page 2
-
‘Smart’ Pills, Surveillance #Capitalism & #DisabilityJustice w/ @LollardFish — #KatieSpeakShow Ep144 8/25/2018
In brief: The best voice in the business, David Perry, is back on the show! (Maybe it’s just me? Did I listen to too much NPR/terrestrial radio before we could stream things??) We chat about Gerber’s new spokesbaby, whether or… Read More ›
-
#EqualPayDay, #CookoutCulture, & the Cult of Celebrity w/ @JennMJack — #KatieSpeakShow Ep143 8/18/2018
In brief: Academic and advocate, racial justice badass Jenn M. Jackson is back on the show! We go into several of her recent Teen Vogue columns in depth: breaking down why it’s ’nice’ Kim Kardashian helped one incarcerated person gain… Read More ›
-
For-Profit Health “Care” & #ChronicIllness w/ @MortuaryReport (PART 2 of 2) — #KatieSpeakShow Ep142 8/11/2018
In brief: My conversation with writer, poet, artist, photographer, activist, and model Ace Ratcliff continues! We left off last episode during a discussion of “orphan drugs”, one of the many hurtles people with rare diseases must clear to even hope… Read More ›
-
For-Profit Health “Care” & #ChronicIllness w/ @MortuaryReport (PART 1 of 2) — #KatieSpeakShow Ep141 8/04/2018
In brief: Direct from this — and next! — week’s guest, writer, poet, artist, photographer, activist, and model Ace Ratcliff’s website because I love her take and her cadence: “Ace currently lives and works in Oakland, CA with her fiancé,… Read More ›
-
Making Our #Democracy Democratic w/ @FairVoteCA — #KatieSpeakShow Ep140 7/21/2018
In brief: “Ranking is intuitive,” I was told when I asked if switching from the election model most Americans are familiar with to the Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) that FAIR Vote California (along with the other FAIR Vote affiliates) advocates… Read More ›
-
Is the Sky Is Falling? @dsc250 on Everything #SupremeCourt — #KatieSpeakShow Ep139 7/14/2018
In brief: David Cohen is the best at summarizing decisions and case history, offering implications to marginalized communities and social justice in general, offering choice quotes from great and awful decisions/dissents, and — usually — calming down my Chicken Little… Read More ›
-
Explaining Current Devestating #Refugee & Migrant Policy w/ @TheTinaVasquez — #KatieSpeakShow Ep138 7/07/2018
In brief: Badass immigration reporter for Rewire.News, Tina Vasquez is back on the show! (You’re welcome; she’s amazing.) She breaks down the conflation between “lost” migrant children and those being disappeared and incarcerated indefinitely at such an alarming rate. She… Read More ›
