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Pretty Heady Stuff — 141 episodes · page 2 of 2
Sandra Battaglini takes a hard look at the business of comedy in Canada
Armond R. Towns explores the mechanics of revolutionary thought and the media of resistance
Janelle Niles is creating a legacy in comedy based on camaraderie and care
Tey Meadow believes passionately in gender diversity and supporting transgender youth
Al Val brings joy, truth and trans representation to the comedy scene
Gernot Wagner breaks down the economics of climate collapse & the cultural barriers to change
Clayton Thomas-Müller helps protect Mother Earth through art, activism and a little bit of magic
Chanelle Gallant, Elene Lam & Shiri Pasternak plant the seeds for abolitionist transformation
Jennifer Esposito & Venus Evans-Winters embolden activists & intellectuals to fight harm
Murtaza Hussain looks for a moral baseline in a world riven by power and conflict
Max Haiven unmasks the global entanglement & human sacrifice that the palm oil industry demands
Meredith Ralston unchains sexual pleasure from carceral thinking & calls for an end to slut-shaming
Rebecca Wanzo insists we reassess the way we read and condemn stereotypical representations
Dru Oja Jay breaks down the manifest necessity and moral hazards of political compromise
Uahikea Maile nurtures radical responsibility & a refusal of settler colonial capitalism
Shannon Miedema connects the climate emergency to the need for coordinated political action
Ivo Nieuwenhuis implores us to take comedy seriously and to think deeply about humour scandals
Keolu Fox, Theresa Stewart-Ambo & K. Wayne Yang dream of flourishing Indigenous futures
Yuliya Yurchenko expands the frame for understanding the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Joshua Cotter draws the reader in by rendering the indescribable complexity of consciousness
Tari Ajadi, El Jones & Julia Rodgers define democracy as trusting the public & investing in care
Gina Dent & Erica Meiners offer abolition feminism as a way to fight the prison-industrial complex
Ardath Whynacht advocates insurgent love & indicts the carceral system that colonialism built
Jeanne Sarson & Linda MacDonald refuse to abandon victims to a vicious world
Nora Loreto signals the need for social change & pushes journalists to dig deeper
Melanie Yazzie traffics in radical certainty & fights against the fallout of political atomization
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel radicalize care through deep medicine and an urgent appeal for plurality
Imre Szeman campaigns for a revolution in energy use and environmental communication
Jeff Diamanti zooms in on the terminal & reinforces the elemental otherness of the planet
Matt Bors curates a space for alternative cartooning and traces the roots of the webcomic
Neil Cohn rethinks visual literacy and underscores the unexplored dynamics of comic books
Carlyn Zwarenstein shatters our misconceptions about opioids and refuses the violence of prohibition
Francesca Ekwuyasi yearns for stories about pleasure and writes searingly about pain
Henry Adam Svec plays with norms of songwriting & storytelling, urging us to plug in & pick a team
Judith Butler dismantles the forces that unleash violence
Andreas Malm thinks through how to break the spell of climate change defeatism & fossil fascism
Nora Loreto uses humour and critical debate to confront the neoliberal politics of fauxminism
Natasha Lennard elevates oppositional movements & attacks the conditions for contemporary fascism
Daniel Lombroso documents a groundswell of racist populism and tracks the sources of violence
Caroline Monnet finds meaning in the border spaces and experiments with strategies for change
Anna Tsing mines the meanings of ferality and summons the ghosts of haunted landscapes
Holly Jean Buck takes seriously the innovation and revolutionary change needed to repair the planet.
Kathi Weeks expands on economic power, essential work and the tension between reform and revolution
Cara Daggett sparks a dialogue on dynamism and works to demystify the human relationship to energy.
Derf Backderf discusses how comics can nurture dissent, empower readers and offer new perspectives.
Alexis Shotwell outs the lie of individual purity & encourages an entangled sense of responsibility.
Max Taylor resists public apathy & throws his hat into the ring, powered by the TikTok boom.
Jesse David Fox reckons with the ways that comedy restores, challenges and reorients us.
Andy Brown on the languages of the literary graphic novel & the intuitive art of editing.
Summer Pierre captures the ways that music moves us and images come to matter.
Veronica Post draws links between borders, injustice & the power of stories to provoke thought.
Rebecca Roher outlines the exhilarating puzzle of making comics that inspire a sense of wonder.
Cassie Thornton imagines how radical collaboration and revolutionary care networks are possible.
Liza Mandelup sheds light on the meaning and making of her documentary Jawline.
Elaine Power on the politics of food provision and the necessity of a basic income guarantee.
Dave Zirin on anti-racism and nonviolence in contemporary sports and culture.
Linda MacDonald & Jeanne Sarson on feminism as a means of opposing misogyny and mass violence.
Priscilla Wald on microbial metaphors, outbreak narratives and the politics of pandemic disease.
Joe Duggan on using emotion to communicate the empirical truth of climate change
Max Haiven on the desire for vengeance and the demons of capital
Jodi Cooper on the promise and challenge of crowdfunded filmmaking.
Box Brown on the complex frivolity of comic books
Jeff Diamanti on capturing the climate emergency in a system that resists change
El Jones on the power of critical intervention as a driver of social justice