Fucking Cancelled is a podcast with three aims. First, we analyze and critique a phenomenon on the left that we call the nexus: a synthesis of identitarianism, social media, and cancel culture. Second, we offer emotional, spiritual, and ethical insights into the process of rejecting and exiting the nexus. Third, we move toward a different vision for the left grounded in solidarity, freedom, and responsibility. We are leftists who have spent many years inside the nexus. We have been too afrai ...
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Writing About Incest With Kelsey Zazanis
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1:31:23When survivors of incest act in the ways any sexually abused child would act, they are psychiatrized and medicated, and often returned to their abusers. When they grow up and search for resources on what happened to them, what they are most likely to find is terabytes of pornography. When they write about their experiences, they are siloed into the…
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Housing Sucks Because Everyone in the Government is a Landlord with Isaac Peltz
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1:09:47If you’ve ever wondered why the government can’t seem to do anything about the cost of housing, it’s because it would go directly against their interests: most of them are landlords and the rest are landowners, and journalist Isaac Peltz can prove it. Our guest today has been pissing off government lawyers across the land with their pesky Access To…
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The Closest You Can Get to Punching Jeff Bezos in the Face with Felix Trudeau and Louisa Worrell
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45:09Get in babe we're boycotting Amazon! These criminal American parasites retaliated against workers for unionizing their warehouse outside Montreal by firing their entire Quebec workforce and closing all their facilities in the province. This scorched-earth union-busting strategy is both illegal under Quebec law and an insult to all members of the wo…
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The Theology of Exile with Juno Zavitz
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1:25:31If God’s law is to love one another radically, then the various forms of exile and dehumanization practised by human beings through the ages may constitute a kind of ‘cultural sin’, a deviation we keep coming back to over and over as a species because it feels good. Not only might this practice lead us further from love, and not only might it not e…
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Digging Up the Sun with Roger Peet
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1:14:23Artisanal miners prospect for toxic rare-earth metals on the edges of huge corporate pit mines, alongside alien-looking metallophyte plants found nowhere else in the world. Cloak and dagger CIA manoeuvring from the Cold War reverberates into the present. Workers separated by oceans, empires and supply chains struggle to find ways to support each ot…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com In Episode 73 we discuss Clementine’s underworld journey and the future of Fucking Cancelled before moving on to Luigi, class war, and whether the word ‘health’ should be followed by the word ‘insurance’ or the word ‘care’. This is a paywalled episode — to listen…
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The Quest for the Offline Left with Cecilia Guerrero: Organizing the South
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1:28:51In Episode 72, we’re joined by Cecilia Guerrero, an organizer in Nashville, Tennessee, helping to innovate a new generation of socialist movement-building deep in the American South. We discuss what it’s like organizing in Tennessee, the fantastic gains being made by the new network of organizations springing up there — including an unprecendented …
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Talking Shit with Elizabeth Oldfield: On Becoming Fully Alive
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1:11:04In Episode 71, we are joined by Elizabeth Oldfield, a writer, thinker, bridge builder, and Christian working out of the UK. We discuss her new book Fully Alive, and the rich worldview which underlies it. Elizabeth challenges us to live our principles in our daily lives, and to extend grace and curiosity across difference. Part of the Talking Shit s…
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The Quest for the Offline Left with Dru Oja Jay: SEIZE's Report on Housing
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49:50In Episode 70 we’re joined by Dru Oja Jay, research coordinator for SEIZE as well as executive director of CUTV and publisher of The Breach. We discuss SEIZE’s recent report on housing, titled From Crisis to Consensus, in which SEIZE surveyed housing organizations from across the country in order to determine what needs to be done about the housing…
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Quest for the Offline Left with Wayne Hsiung: All Suffering Matters
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1:19:26In Episode 69 we are joined by animal rights activist, animal rescuer, and lawyer, Wayne Hsiung. We discuss Wayne’s experiencing rescuing animals from laboratories and factory farms, the connections between factory farms and jails, the spectrum of objectification, and why all suffering matters. This is part of the Quest for the Offline Left series.…
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Nobody's Getting Cancelled: Everything is Violence Except Literal Violence Which is Fine
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10:55This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com In Episode 68, we spill the tea on Clementine getting her zines soaked in coffee at the local anarchist book fair by a masked assailant who communicated nothing about their motives. This paywalled episode is a mask off discussion of contemporary anarchist ideas a…
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Talking Shit with David Chambers: Toward a Happy Healthy Masculinity
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1:48:39In Episode 67 we are joined by David Chambers, a relationship expert, thinker in the field of men and masculinities, and podcaster from the UK. We chat with David about the concept of ‘toxic masculinity’, the gendered patterns in attachment styles, and the appeal of reactionary masculinism among the youth. We also discuss the promise of an emerging…
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Nobody's Getting Cancelled: Loving (and Leaving) Your Cancelled Boyfriend
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17:22This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com In Episode 66, Jay and Clementine discuss the impact of cancel culture on the partners of men cancelled for abusive behaviours. We consider how the increased isolation of being cancelled along with your partner increases the risk of domestic violence. We note tha…
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Book Club: We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown
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17:17This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com In Episode 65, Jay and Clementine discuss We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown. We discuss the context this book enters into, the courage it took to write it, the response the book received, and how this work significantly differs from our own thinking o…
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Talking Shit with Amber A'Lee Frost: The Bourgeoisie Have All the Carrots and Potatoes
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1:05:15In Episode 64, we are joined by writer, organizer, and Chapo Trap House co-host, Amber A’Lee Frost to discuss her new book, Dirtbag. We talk about socialist memoirs, Occupy, the Bernie Sanders campaigns, the necessity of organized labour, and how to deal with wreckers. This is part of the Talking Shit series. Show Notes Amber’s new book, Dirtbag Ch…
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Book Club with Tara and DJ: 'The Ministry for the Future' by Kim Stanley Robinson
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1:33:30In Episode 63, we get together with DJ Fraser and Tara McGowan-Ross for the second episode of Book Club. This month’s book was The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, a brutal (and hopeful) near-future 'climate-fiction’ novel published in 2020. We’ll announce the next Book Club book shortly! This is part of the Book Club series. Show N…
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Talking Shit with Katherine Angel: Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
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1:26:52In Episode 62, we are joined by London, Uk based writer, Katherine Angel, author of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again. We discuss the affirmative consent model, the expectation that women should “know what they want”, and how this framework holds desire hostage to violence and misunderstands the emergent nature of desire. We discuss heterosexuality, …
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Talking Shit with Joey Santore: Kill Your Fuckin Lawn
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1:03:25In Episode 61 we’re joined by friend of the pod Joey Santore of the Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t podcast. We talk about how being in tune with the ecosystems you live in can be a deeply rewarding experience for the poor alienated souls of late capitalism and how to get started if you want to learn about basic botany. We also talk about the similar…
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Principles Before Personalities: On Freedom
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1:24:53In Episode 60, we return to our principles and discuss freedom. What is it? Why do we care about it so much? And what does it mean for socialists to have freedom as a spiritual principle? Part of the Principles Before Personalities series. Show Notes New stickers! The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Rosa Luxemburg on freedom Follow …
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Book Club with Tara and DJ: 'After Black Lives Matter' by Cedric G. Johnson
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1:41:07In Episode 59, we get together with DJ Fraser and Tara McGowan-Ross for the first episode of our new segment, Book Club. This month’s book is ‘After Black Lives Matter’ by Cedric G. Johnson. We were privileged to interview Cedric Johnson a few episodes back, but we wanted to delve even deeper into this masterful and important piece of political tho…
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Talking Shit with Jason Myles: This is a Rock Show, It's Supposed to be Fun
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1:45:39In Episode 58, we are joined by writer, musician, political commentator, and punk historian, Jason Myles. Jason is co-host of the popular This is Revolution podcast. We discuss the impact of BLM on the Sanders campaign and the rise of Ibram X. Kendi’s brand of anti-racism. We consider the impact of capitalist realism on hardcore, and what happens w…
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Talking Shit with Cedric Johnson: After Black Lives Matter
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1:23:54In Episode 57, we are joined by Dr. Cedric G. Johnson, Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to discuss his book After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle. We discuss the origins of modern policing, the classed reality of Black life in the US, and how neoliberalism dooms us …
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Fucking Feelings: The Attunement Model of Consent
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1:28:00In Episode 56, we announce that Fucking Cancelled has moved to substack! Please follow us fuckingcancelled.substack.com if you haven’t already, and consider becoming a supporter of the pod for $5 Canadian a month. You’ll get a bunch of bonus content and help keep the podcast alive! After this announcement we discuss Clementine’s attunement model of…
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Cancel Club with Sam Cat: Polyamory and Cancel Culture
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1:29:29In Episode 55 we have a conversation with Sam Cat of Shrimp Teeth about the intersections of cancel culture and polyamory. Sam Cat is a sexuality, polyamory, and relationship educator out of the United States who has long taken a stance against cancel culture. She discusses the impact cancel culture is having on her clients as they navigate polyamo…
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Talking Shit with Zachary Zane: Sex is a Huge Part of My Sexuality
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1:14:16In Episode 54, we are joined by author and bisexual icon, Zachary Zane, of the book Boyslut. We talk about bisexual men, biphobia, and bisexual audibility. We discuss sexual shame, sexual risk, and the complexities of consent. An unabashedly pro-sex, pro-desire writer, Zachary shines light on what men-who-fuck-men communities can teach the rest of …
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