Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

CZM Rewind: Part Two: Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret continues talking to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care

Original Air Date: 10.22.2025

Sources:

https://translifeline.org/about/history/
https://translifeline.org/response-to-988-cuts/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/27/359434925/bernard-mayes-nprs-first-chairman-founder-of-suicide-hotline-dies
https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Bernard-Mayes-to-be-honored-as-lifeline-to-3516576.php
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11447250/Bernard-Mayes-priest-obituary.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20141026134947/http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/24/bernard-mayes-kqed-fms-first-general-manager-dies-at-85
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds
https://www.sfsuicide.org/about/
https://translifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Problem-With-988-Report-November-2024-Text.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11733462/
https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6978712/

https://www.psychiatry.org/News-room/APA-Blogs/Marking-Two-Years-of-988-The-Suicide-and-Crisis-Li

https://behavioralhealthlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/988-History-Journal-Article_JohnDraper.pdf

https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/blog/suicide-mental-health-crisis-resources-not-police

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/her-death-sparked-transgender-day-remembrance-22-years-later-still-n1233809

https://www.them.us/story/rita-hester-trans-remembrance-visibility-memorial

https://translifeline.org/why-no-non-consensual-intervention/

https://www.them.us/story/trans-lifeline-report-988-police-interventions

https://madattheinternet.substack.com/p/online-censorships-institutional

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121226

https://glaad.org/tdor/

https://web.archive.org/web/20250107195548/https://cohost.org/lizthegrey/post/1520523-some-philanthropy-th

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CZM Rewind: Part One: Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care

Original Air Date: 10.20.2025

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CZM Book Club: What We Want, What We Believe by Alex Smith, Part One

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Prince Shakur reads Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August

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Part Two: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret finishes her talk with Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan

Sources:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill
https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/
https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d
The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield
https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill
https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948
https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass
https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/
https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm
https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm
https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/

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Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:41:30 +0000

Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan.

Source:

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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Four of Four)

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret finishes up reading you a story about punks, growing up, and refusing to lose your edge

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Part Two: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret continuing talking to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was.

Sources:

https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html
https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/
https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak
https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889
https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html
https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/
https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/
https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode
https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero
https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood

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Part One: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret talks to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was

Sources:

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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Three of Four)

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret continues the story of the last punk show played at Locust House

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Part Two: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret finished telling you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt

Sources:

https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/

https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm

https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm

https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-kingdoms.html

https://vintage.tn/why-is-there-a-city-named-thebes-in-greece-and-a/

https://spokenpast.com/articles/egyptian-dream-book/

https://ancientegypt.fandom.com/wiki/Papyrus_Chester_Beatty_3

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/egyptian-dream-book-001621

https://www.touregypt.net/kingtomb.htm

https://blogs.nature.com/houseofwisdom/2013/01/voluntary-slavery-ancient-egyptians-paid-a-monthly-fee-to-become-temple-slaves.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt

https://www.thecollector.com/hatshepsut-egyptian-queen-king/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitocris

https://historicaleve.com/how-many-cleopatras-were-there-in-egypt/

https://www.thecollector.com/interview-queen-cleopatra-with-prof-paul-cartledge-oxford/

https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/

https://www.thecollector.com/how-ancient-egyptians-lived-and-worked-in-the-valley-of-kings/

https://www.google.be/books/edition/Brotherhood_of_Kings/JTvRCwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=chiefs+of+punt&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover

https://www.wonderfulmuseums.com/museum/why-does-the-british-museum-not-return-artifacts/

https://www.history.com/articles/what-is-the-rosetta-stone

Oral correspondence

https://www.history.com/articles/mummy-unwrapping-parties-egyptomania

https://editions.covecollective.org/content/egypt-and-orientalism

https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/orientalism-through-time-and-place-a-virtual-exhibit/

https://ninercommons.charlotte.edu/record/2825?v=pdf

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/

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Part One: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret talks to you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt.

Sources:

https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/

https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm

https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm

https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-kingdoms.html

https://vintage.tn/why-is-there-a-city-named-thebes-in-greece-and-a/

https://spokenpast.com/articles/egyptian-dream-book/

https://ancientegypt.fandom.com/wiki/Papyrus_Chester_Beatty_3

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/egyptian-dream-book-001621

https://www.touregypt.net/kingtomb.htm

https://blogs.nature.com/houseofwisdom/2013/01/voluntary-slavery-ancient-egyptians-paid-a-monthly-fee-to-become-temple-slaves.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt

https://www.thecollector.com/hatshepsut-egyptian-queen-king/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitocris

https://historicaleve.com/how-many-cleopatras-were-there-in-egypt/

https://www.thecollector.com/interview-queen-cleopatra-with-prof-paul-cartledge-oxford/

https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/

https://www.thecollector.com/how-ancient-egyptians-lived-and-worked-in-the-valley-of-kings/

https://www.google.be/books/edition/Brotherhood_of_Kings/JTvRCwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=chiefs+of+punt&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover

https://www.wonderfulmuseums.com/museum/why-does-the-british-museum-not-return-artifacts/

https://www.history.com/articles/what-is-the-rosetta-stone

Oral correspondence

https://www.history.com/articles/mummy-unwrapping-parties-egyptomania

https://editions.covecollective.org/content/egypt-and-orientalism

https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/orientalism-through-time-and-place-a-virtual-exhibit/

https://ninercommons.charlotte.edu/record/2825?v=pdf

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/

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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Two of Four)

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret continues reading to you from a novella about a punk house in 2002 San Diego

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Part Two: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret continues her talk with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art.

Sources:

https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/
https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/
Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
Andy Cohen, personal correspondence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYoTc7Aw0A

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Part One: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art

Sources:

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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part One of Four)

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:05:00 +0000

For our longer summer read, Margaret reads you a novella about punk houses and identity and growing up written by a master of the medium

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Part Two: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret continues her talk with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison

Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bring-judgment-day/63271E8000571D588BF52B0F7CA2121E (BJD26 for 20% off)

Sources:

Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard

https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/

https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys

https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly

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Part One: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret talks with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison.

Sources:

Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard

https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/

https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys

https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly

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CZM Book Club: Two Stories from Gaza Writes Back, edited by Refaat Alareer

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret reads you two stories and a poem from an anthology of young, Palestinian authors

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Part Two: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret continues talking with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403
https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/
https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/
https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6074556/
https://yoksis.bilkent.edu.tr/pdf/files/10.1177-0363199013519126.pdf
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164086
https://www.juancole.com/2025/12/literature-societies-homoerotic.html

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Part One: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret talks with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era.

Sources:

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CZM Rewind: CZM Book Club: CZM Book Club Presents: The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution

Original Air Date: 6.1.2025

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Part Two: The Movement Against the Corporal Punishment of Children

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Margaret continues talking with Andrew Ti about the worldwide movement, backed by science, that is changing how we treat children.

Sources:

https://africapublicity.com/of-ancestors-and-amendments-rethinking-child-discipline-across-african-realms/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world
https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/usa/
https://www.right-to-education.org/sites/right-to-education.org/files/resource-attachments/CRC_1989.pdf
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog?offset=1437445500607
https://www.puyallupwa.gov/535/Domestic-Violence-Statistics
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7390231/
https://issop.org/2018/11/19/e-bulletin-35-2-3-changing-the-law-on-corporal-punishment-in-scotland/
https://news.utexas.edu/2021/06/29/evidence-against-physically-punishing-kids-is-clear-researchers-say/
http://www.jillianvanturnhout.ie/jvt1111/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26938757?seq=6
https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2506708.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383296874_Corporal_Punishment_From_Ancient_History_to_Global_Progress
https://medium.com/@rabittashahbaz/heres-how-ancient-indian-parenting-values-and-approaches-changed-over-time-4d861b489388
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/180595/20090210ATT48998EN.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-first_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland
https://brilliantmaps.com/corporal-punishment/
https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/usa/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29261462
https://agefinder.org/world-age-culture/marriage-age-under-18-countries/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._ratification_of_the_Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child
https://www.africanexponent.com/how-colonialism-deceived-africans-to-believe-hitting-children-is-african-tradition-it-is-not/
https://www.unh.edu/ccrc/sites/default/files/media/2022-02/corporal-punishment-current-rates-from-a-national-survey.pdf

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/corporal-punishment-schools-and-race-an-update/

https://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ACADEMIA/SCHOOLS/SSW/MSW%20publications/s12111-024-09646-9%20%281%29.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20160127213730/http://www.phoenixchildrens.org/sites/default/files/PDFs/principles_and_practices-of_effective_discipline.pdf

https://endcorporalpunishment.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/India.pdf

https://endcorporalpunishment.org/irelands-journey-why-didnt-we-do-this-years-ago/

https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-319-89999-2_13

https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2506708.pdf

https://habevio.com/corporal-punishment-in-ancient-greece/

https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2025-10635-001.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20110314161338/http://www.zona-pellucida.com/wilson02.html

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Part One: The Movement Against the Corporal Punishment of Children

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret talks with Andrew Ti about the worldwide movement, backed by science, that is changing how we treat children.

Sources:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/corporal-punishment-schools-and-race-an-update/

https://www.morgan.edu/Documents/ACADEMIA/SCHOOLS/SSW/MSW%20publications/s12111-024-09646-9%20%281%29.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20160127213730/http://www.phoenixchildrens.org/sites/default/files/PDFs/principles_and_practices-of_effective_discipline.pdf

https://endcorporalpunishment.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/India.pdf

https://endcorporalpunishment.org/irelands-journey-why-didnt-we-do-this-years-ago/

https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-319-89999-2_13

https://ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2506708.pdf

https://habevio.com/corporal-punishment-in-ancient-greece/

https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2025-10635-001.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20110314161338/http://www.zona-pellucida.com/wilson02.html

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CZM Book Club: Poems by Incarcerated Authors -- with In The Belly Magazine

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

This week, In The Belly is doing a take over to feature the poems of incarcerated writers in their own voices

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Part Six: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret concludes the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement

Sources:

Fighting for Space, Travis Lupick (https://firestorm.coop/products/11537-fighting-for-space.html?referral=killjoy)
https://www.addictionresource.net/heroin/types/china-white/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/poll-taxriot-anniversary-solomon-hughes-382/
https://abcbookworld.com/article/article-15099/
https://globalnews.ca/news/370804/income-by-postal-code/
https://immigrationnewscanada.ca/most-dangerous-cities-in-canada-mid-2025/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/expo-86-evictions-remembered-1.3566844
https://riseupfeministarchive.ca/poster/la-quena-presents-inti-illimani-and-holly-near
personal correspondence
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/christopher-b-r-smith-harm-reduction-as-anarchist-practice
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/zoe-dodd-alexander-mcclelland-taking-risks-is-a-path-to-survival
https://inpud.net/who-we-are/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/zoe-dodd-alexander-mcclelland-the-revolution-will-not-be-sober
https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/when-labour-organizing-and-harm-reduction-meet
https://www.drugpolicy.ca/insite-vigil-poem-by-the-late-bud-osborn/
https://www.toronto.com/news/harm-reduction-worker-remembered-at-leslieville-memorial/article_2e6eeeac-47de-57bd-88bc-aa9922ba1e5d.html
https://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/20-you-get-exactly-what-you-fight-for-and-nothingmore
https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-harm-reduction-worker-who-called-out-trudeau-on-the-opioid-crisis/
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/out-in-the-open-on-july-9-2016-addiction-1.3663909/harm-reduction-worker-by-day-fentanyl-user-at-night-one-man-s-story-of-recreational-opioid-use-1.3663917
https://www.straight.com/news/959286/vancouver-area-network-drug-users-looks-back-20-years-fighting-human-rights#
https://www.thesocialjusticecentre.org/blog/2018/1/14/fighting-for-space-travis-lupick-and-ann-livingston-on-drug-users-struggles-in-vancouver
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/13/619546120/watchful-eyes-at-peer-run-injection-sites-drug-users-help-each-other-stay-safe
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dulf-compassion-club-guilty-drug-trafficking-9.6972135
https://www.stalbertgazette.com/health/stopping-overdoses-like-bailing-a-boat-with-a-thimble-bc-court-hears-11535161

https://filtermag.org/dulf-safe-supply-compassion-club-exemption/
https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/04/15/For-One-Day-BC-Activists-Handed-Out-Clean-Heroin-Cocaine/

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Part Five: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret resumes telling you the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement

Sources:

https://filtermag.org/dulf-safe-supply-compassion-club-exemption/
https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/04/15/For-One-Day-BC-Activists-Handed-Out-Clean-Heroin-Cocaine/

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CZM Book Club: Phone Resistance, by Safear Ness -- with In The Belly Magazine

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

This week we are collaborating with In The Belly Magazine to read you a short memoir piece about organizing behind bars.

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Part Two: DULF: the Drug User Liberation Front and the Fight For a Safe Supply

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret continues her talk with Miriam about the people fighting tooth and nail to save lives right now in Vancouver, Canada

Sources:

Previous episodes of this show
Personal correspondence
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/overdose-deaths-decline-2025-rate-cdc-data/
https://govfacts.org/health-healthcare/mental-health-substance-use/the-federal-agencies-fighting-americas-opioid-crisis/
https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/understanding-the-opioid-overdose-epidemic.html
https://www.drugpolicyfacts.org/chapter/overdose_crisis
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/story/fentanyl-deadly-drug-dealers-lace-illicit-drugs-96827602
https://harmreduction.org/issues/fentanyl/
https://govfacts.org/health-healthcare/mental-health-substance-use/substance-use-disorder-treatment/safe-injection-sites-and-needle-programs-do-they-save-lives-or-enable-drug-use/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-involuntary-care-prince-george-surrey-1.7645702
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-human-rights-commissioner-drug-stigma-9.6978690
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095539592400015X
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/11/26/b-c-drug-club-co-founder-felt-invincible-arrested/
https://filtermag.org/dulf-conviction-challenge-compassion-club/
https://filtermag.org/dulf-constitutional-challenge-health-canada-official/
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-compassion-club-founders-guilty-of-drug-charges-but-sentencing-on-hold
https://www.capilanocourier.com/2026/01/01/dulf-and-the-case-for-radical-harm-reduction/
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/fatal-drug-overdoses-have-doubled-mexico-15-years-2024a1000f6b?form=fpf

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Part One: DULF: the Drug User Liberation Front and the Fight For a Safe Supply

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret talks with Miriam about the people fighting tooth and nail to save lives right now in Vancouver, Canada

Sources:

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CZM Book Club: The End, Like Sand, by Margaret Killjoy

Sun, 31 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret reads you a story about how to set up mutual aid societies in the wake of social collapse, and how to fight against cannibal nazis from the suburbs

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CZM Rewind: Part Two: Riot Dogs Are Very Good Dogs

Wed, 27 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In part two of this weeks episode, Margaret continues her conversation with producer Sophie Lichterman about the stray dogs who fight cops and guard protestors around the world.

Original Air Date: 5.24.2023

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CZM Rewind: Part One: Riot Dogs Are Very Good Dogs

Mon, 25 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret talks with producer Sophie Lichterman about the strays dogs who fight cops and guard protestors around the world.

Original Air Date 5.22.2023

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CZM Book Club: Clashing/Complementary, by Rafi Kleiman

Sun, 24 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret reads you a story about an enchanted graffiti turf war and a flying bike chase.

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Part Four: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction

Wed, 20 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In part four of this series, Margaret tells you more about the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement

Sources:

https://filtermag.org/dulf-safe-supply-compassion-club-exemption/
https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/04/15/For-One-Day-BC-Activists-Handed-Out-Clean-Heroin-Cocaine/

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Part Three: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction

Mon, 18 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret goes deeper into the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement

Sources:

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CZM Book Club: Moonkids, by Abbey Mei Otis, Part 2

Sun, 17 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret continues with the final part of a gutting story about rejection and re-accimlation

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Part Two: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction

Wed, 13 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret continues telling you the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement

Sources:

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Part One: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction

Mon, 11 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret tells you the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement

Sources:

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CZM Book Club: Moonkids, by Abbey Mei Otis, Part 1

Sun, 10 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret reads you the first part of a story about kids who grew up on the moon

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Part Four: The Dutch Resistance: The Teens Who Seduced and Killed Nazis

Wed, 06 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret continues her talk with Caitlin Durante about Truus and Freddie Oversteegan and Hannie Schaft and their rebellion that left Nazi bodies around the Netherlands

Sources:

Three Ordinary Girls, Tim Brady
https://firestorm.coop/products/24908-three-ordinary-girls.html?referral=killjoy

https://socialisme-nu.translate.goog/truus-menger-oversteegen-1923-2016-een-strijdster-die-doorging/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/222/mandatory-registration-for-forced-labour/

https://dirkdeklein.net/2025/03/29/the-arbeidsinzet-forced-labour/

https://dirkdeklein.net/2017/05/24/ernst-cahn-the-koco-affair/

https://www.flashscore.com/news/80-years-of-freedom-the-amsterdam-boxing-school-which-formed-the-first-jewish-resistance/ncIglSYp/

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=229629

https://libcom.org/article/history-dutch-fascism-and-militant-anti-fascist-response-job-polak

https://dirkdeklein.net/2018/01/21/the-dutch-jews-who-fought-back/

https://socialisme-nu.translate.goog/75-jaar-februaristaking-wat-herdenken-we/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www-dedokwerker-nl.translate.goog/boksschool_olympia.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://sportgeschiedenis-nl.translate.goog/overige-sport/vechtsporten/het-joodse-verzet-van-1941-bestond-grotendeels-uit-amsterdamse-boksers-en-worstelaars/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.canonvannederland.nl/nl/page/206267/de-geuzen

https://elib.be/m/articles/view/FROM-THE-HISTORY-OF-THE-RESISTANCE-MOVEMENT-IN-THE-NETHERLANDS-1940-1945

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/liberation-of-holland

https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/history-of-war/armies-cant-march-in-clogs/

https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/nl/kennisbank/nederlandse-unie

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5249956/nazi-collaborators-netherlands-archive

https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-collaboration-nazis-holocaust-remembrance-archives-d7d3b0c6e2e99146c484171e03046758

https://web.archive.org/web/20230307064313/http://home.iae.nl/users/arcengel/NedIndie/introengels.htm

https://tomgoyens.substack.com/p/how-a-dutch-anarchist-defied-the

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/from-nazi-criminal-to-postwar-spy-german-intelligence-hired-klaus-barbie-as-agent-a-740393.html

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13507486.2019.1699505

https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2025/10/14/shells-dark-fuel-the-nazi-past-the-oil-giant-couldnt-bury/

https://www.hannahbyron.com/blog/the-first-resistance-the-geuzen

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Part Three: The Dutch Resistance: The Teens Who Seduced and Killed Nazis

Mon, 04 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Margaret talks with Caitlin Durante about Truus and Freddie Oversteegan and Hannie Schaft and their rebellion that left Nazi bodies around the Netherlands