All tagged Margaret Killjoy

The Ambiguous Utopia: Fiction, History, & Hope In A Dying World / Margaret Killjoy

The Ambiguous Utopia: Fiction, History, & Hope In A Dying World / Margaret Killjoy

Patrick Farnsworth
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Anarchist writer, musician, and podcaster Margaret Killjoy returns to the podcast to discuss the political act of writing fiction and imagining the “ambiguous utopia.” I ask Margaret to define what hope is or can be, and how her work communicating the stories of radical individuals and movements during pivotal moments throughout history on her podcast, Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff, can help us (re-)frame contemporary struggles for liberation, justice, and peace in the world today.

300 / Part Six: Hungry Ghosts, Unraveling Colonial Bodies

300 / Part Six: Hungry Ghosts, Unraveling Colonial Bodies

Patrick Farnsworth
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Colonization, rupturous, severs the body from its relations, from ancestors and earth. It flattens the diversity of human experience, relying on the multifaceted dynamics of intergenerational trauma to replicate itself, in perpetuity. Like ghosts, these traumas haunt us, hijack us. The line between the abuser and the abused is blurred, trauma compounds, cutting in all directions.