UNLOCK 33.1 Antifascist Body Culture: A Brief History
I wanted to trace the century-old roots of Maren Forsberg's antifascist self-defense work, so I dug into three overlapping histories. First: the German Bund's use of Körperbildung — body education thr...
7 Jun 22min
34. From the Street to City Hall w/ Diana Chan McNally
Diana Chan McNally has been unhoused, a teen mother, a museum curator, a college instructor, a harm reduction worker, a frontline homelessness advocate, and a DJ. Now she's running for Toronto City Co...
3 Jun 53min
33. Antifascist Self Defence and Rewriting the Body's Response to Violence w/ Maren Forsberg
Norwegian kickboxer Maren Forsberg works as a self-defense trainer focused on building antifascist courage and resilience for women, queer, and trans people. I spoke with her about her path from child...
27 Mai 59min
UNLOCKED 31.1 Kensington Market Palimpsest
In this coda to my conversation with Serena Purdy, I track the layered history of Kensington Market through the metaphor of the palimpsest, the medieval manuscript practice of writing over earlier tex...
24 Mai 28min
32. Smith and Carney May Destroy Socialized Medicine w/ Nikolas Barry-Shaw
I sit down with Nikolas Barry-Shaw, researcher and trade and privatization campaigner for the Council of Canadians, to break down how Alberta's Bill 11 is dismantling Canada's public healthcare system...
20 Mai 1h 13min
UNLOCK 30.1 The Left Didn't Betray Anyone: Material Conditions and the Limits of Rockhill
A coda to my conversation with Richard Gilman-Opalsky around Gabriel Rockhill's new book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism. It's a reflection on what Rockhill's viral success tells us about how ...
17 Mai 33min
31. Voices of Kensington will Ring in Ottawa w/Serena Purdy
Serena Purdy is a comparative health policy researcher at the University of Toronto and socialist candidate who ran in the recent 2025 University-Rosedale federal byelection. We talk about what the up...
13 Mai 45min
