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Toxic Life Podcast
by Feminist Media Studio
We’ve seen the word everywhere: we live in “toxic times;” feel the threat of toxic discourse; and are awash in toxic materials. Together, we want to think about the intersections of labour, place, and scale in a world structured by transnational capitalism, persistent colonialisms, occupations and war-time destruction, large-scale infrastructure and energy projects, and environmental ruin. Our conversations are minimally edited and serve to broaden the discussion around what is toxic in our world today.The Toxic Life Podcast is co-hosted by environmental media scholars Krista Lynes and Ayesha Vemuri at the Feminist Media Studio at Concordia University in Tio'tia:ke, Montreal, Production and music by Piper Curtis.
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A Dirty, Dirty World: A conversation with Françoise Vergès
In this episode of the Toxic Life podcast, co-hosts Krista Lynes and Ayesha Vemuri talk with feminist, decolonial scholar Françoise Vergès about her most recent book, "Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism" (2025). We discuss the racial and gendered dynamics of the work of cleaning, the denial of people's elemental rights to clean air and water, how an abolitionist framework is the answer to racial capitalism, and how we live with toxicity from a place of love.Show notes:Françoise Vergès, Making the World Clean (2025)
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What is Toxic Life? A conversation between co-hosts Krista Lynes & Ayesha Vemuri
In this inaugural episode of the Toxic Life Podcast, environmental media scholars Krista Lynes and Ayesha Vemuri ask, What is toxic life? Where do we locate toxicity? How is it unevenly distributed among bodies, places and scales? What is its relation to environmental justice or reparation? Show Notes:Françoise Vergès, Making the World Clean (2025)Olufemi O. Taiwo, Reconsidering Reparations (2021)Neferti Tadiar, Remaindered Life (2022)Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism (2021)
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We’ve seen the word everywhere: we live in “toxic times;” feel the threat of toxic discourse; and are awash in toxic materials. Together, we want to think about the intersections of labour, place, and scale in a world structured by transnational capitalism, persistent colonialisms, occupations and war-time destruction, large-scale infrastructure and energy projects, and environmental ruin. Our conversations are minimally edited and serve to broaden the discussion around what is toxic in our world today.The Toxic Life Podcast is co-hosted by environmental media scholars Krista Lynes and Ayesha Vemuri at the Feminist Media Studio at Concordia University in Tio'tia:ke, Montreal, Production and music by Piper Curtis.
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We’ve seen the word everywhere: we live in “toxic times;” feel the threat of toxic discourse; and are awash in toxic materials. Together, we want to think about the intersections of labour, place, and scale in a world structured by transnational capitalism, persistent colonialisms, occupations and...
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