Sickos Podcast

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, they say, and maybe it's true! I had intended to back on my usual programming schedule beginning last week but then I got hit with the flu :'( I'm feeling much better but my voice is still a little froggy. SO I decided instead of recording another chapter of Planet of Exile with a weird husky voice, I'd instead record a little chatty episode about new year goals, body-grief, aging (my birthday was yesterday), and how to cope with ever-changing abilities. Paid subscribers got early access to this episode. Join here for early releases, bonus episodes, and behind the scenes updates

Hello sickos of the world! Today I'm unlocking one of our Sick Fuck exclusive episodes for EVERYONE'S enjoyment :) Over on the subscriber-only feed, we have started a new collection of Ursula K. Le Guin works. Herein lies the introduction the collection and the prologue to the first story, Rocannon's World. If you like what you hear, and what to join our journey to new worlds, become a Sick Fuck!________________________________________________________Introduction & Rocannon's World pt. 1Today we begin an entirely new journey with Ursula Le Guin! Opening the pages of Library of America's anthology of her Hainish Novels & Stories, I read you her 2016 introduction to the collection and begin the first novel within it, Rocannon's World. Enjoy :)Songs featured:Planet Queen by T. RexTime Trap by Built to SpillEntire Sick Fucks playlist:https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/sick-fucks/pl.u-XkD00WksgGPEmm

Returning from an unintentional break, I talk about the struggle of creating work while sick, give some life and world updates, and nerd out about, patron Saint of the show, Ursula Le Guin.

I read you The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas and The Day Before The Revolution by Ursula Le Guin!Join Sick Fucks: https://www.patreon.com/c/SickosPodcast/home?redirect=true

Where did MAHA come from? What am I doing to prepare for the worst? Plus some media recommendations and chitchat :)https://open.substack.com/pub/thegauntlet/p/rfk-jrs-maha-movement-doesnt-want?r=7ta9f&utm_medium=ioshttps://lux-magazine.com/article/dean-spade/

I reflect on the 5 year anniversary of my very first COVID infection.

A recording of a workshop I gave in December 2024 on the basics of Covid, from what it is, how it spreads, to how to prevent and treat it! Throughout the episode I mention several people I wanna shout out here: -The Finders Collective, who hosted the workshop. Follow them @finders.c0llective on IG-Lola Germs, science communicator and extraordinaire. Follow @lola.germs on IG and YouTube -Xtian who runs Western Mass Mask Bloc and spoke to us about it. Follow them @westernmassmaskbloc on IG-mask chain and jewelry maker @frog.chains on IG

I’m back with my two most recent Your Sick Friend columns, originally published in The Montague Reporter. The first, from September, goes into the worrying prevalence of Long Covid in children. The second, written on the 381st day of the Zionist entity’s genocide of Palestinians, is about the importance of bearing witness to the horrors unfolding so that we may actually fight to stop them. Child liberation now! Free Palestine!

You sickos asked for it! I delivered 😎 herein lies my sordid wellness crunchy granola goopy bullshit past!This podcast is supported by a grant from the Montague Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Mass Cultural Councils, a state agency.

June/July update: long Covid drug trial trials and tribulations; nyc dyke march reality check; Freaks, mask bans, and Ugly Laws

Summer Covid surge is here and I’m feeling…bad

We welcome our very first GUEST on the podcast!! Alyssa of the very wonderful Twitch account Bed Sores :) with special appearances by iconic cat Earl! Join Alyssa’s stream at https://twitch.tv/bedsores

On Gaza, student encampments, Covid safety, sicko activism, and a reading of my newest Your Sick Friend Column.

Covid infection #8, an intervention for our non-sick friends, and words from Jehad in Rafah—donate to his survival fund here: https://givebutter.com/AbuRouk

I shoot the shit, shout out local Covid activism, and read an old piece of mine written when I first accepted I might not ever get “better”. Support Walla and his family flee Gaza here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-wallas-family-escape-gaza-to-safetye-er-fb

Back from Covid/surgery/covid! Reintroducing myself and the show: who am I, why am I, and what am I doing? We get into it :) thanks for being here! CW: brief discussion of suicidality

New Year, New podcast news? Reading Your Sick Friend, shooting the shit about pain, screaming fuuuuuuck, listening to Fugazi 🤘🏻 made it to episode 10 babyyyy

A welcome letter to the newly disabled!

Breaking from usual form, this week I read Carlos Fuentes’ introduction to The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Portrait

Connecting the dots between Covid safety, the situation in Gaza, the IWW and the ethic of cross-issue solidarity. I read Your Sick Friend Vol. 5 and a piece from +972 Magazine called ”‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza”

National Day of Mourning, Palestine, pandemic, winter is coming…Casey is really fucking tired

In which I discuss the Israeli government’s project to debilitate Palestinians through violence, fast and slow.

On grief and grieving.

Reading directly from Protean Magazine’s “Letters from Gaza” https://proteanmag.com/2023/10/15/letters-from-gaza/ Check out Crip News v. 104 for more disability related resources on Palestine https://open.substack.com/pub/cripnews/p/crip-news-v104?r=7ta9f&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Reflecting on the genocide in Palestine, reading the second installment of Your Sick Friend, and what life in America has been like since the mask mandates lifted in March 2021. Plug into Palestine solidarity actions here: https://act.uscpr.org/h_QAH-PB50iKnnrCPRJUpg2 and listen to Death Panel discussing Palestinian liberation here: http://www.patreon.com/rss/deathpanelpod?auth=CH8ElYYDSPeSaAfDRcQbVhNmBxdfSR3q

An introduction to Sickos Podcast and a reading of the first installment of my column, Your Sick Friend, originally written in February 2022 and published in The Montague Reporter.