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Fucking Cancelled is a socialist podcast from Montreal for people who dream of a left grounded in solidarity, freedom, and responsibility rather than identity, coercion, and dysfunction. www.fuckingcancelled.com

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Monster Time with Comité Panaris
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Yesterday at 4:23 PM

Jay is joined by Judith Lefebvre and Louise Nachet from Comité Panaris. We talk about the dismal charade of Québec politics, the hollowing out of the Left by liberal identitarians, Gramsci’s ideas about the ‘organic intellectual’, and where to go from here. Also: fuck/marry/kill, Queb edition.

Show Notes

Comité Panaris on Twitch / IG / YouTube

The 2026 Québec general election

Éric Duhaime, Conservative Party of Quebec

Paul St-Pierre Plamandon (‘PSPP’), Parti Québécois

Christine Fréchette, CAQ

Charles Milliard (‘Charlie Billions’), Liberal Party of Quebe...


Poly Crisis with Dedeker Winston
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09/11/2026

Dedeker Winston, co-host of the Multiamory podcast, professional polyamorist, and author of the Smart Girl’s Guide to Polyamory, joins Jay for some hot takes about cancel culture and The Lifestyle, a deep dive into the legal situation for the differently-partnered, and a materialist defense of the poly acceptance movement.

Show Notes

Dedeker’s website

Dedeker’s book The Smart Girl’s Guide to Polyamory

OPEN

Desire, Familiarity, and Engagement in Polyamory: Results From a National Sample of Single Adults in the United States

Links

Instagra...


The Anti-Defamation League with Emmaia Gelman
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09/01/2026

Jay is joined by Emmaia Gelman, author of The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State. We discuss the pivotal role of the ADL not only in running cover for Israeli war crimes and aligning mainstream American Zionism with outright fascism, but also — and maybe more importantly — in the weaving of complex, changing narratives around race, rights, and Jewishness in America and beyond.

Show Notes

The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State by Emmaia Gelman

The ‘Unpacking Zionism’ podcast

The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism

Emmaia’s website

White...


Technofeudal Enshittification with Cory Doctorow
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08/15/2026

Jay is joined by Cory Doctorow, a veteran activist for internet freedom and the best-selling author of Enshittification and The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI (among many other titles). We discuss the inexorable decline in the quality of tech platforms, the total capture of regulatory bodies by predatory corporations, the rise of monopoly capitalism, and what can be done about any of this.

Show Notes

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It

The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI:How to Think About Artificial In...


Conflagration
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08/09/2026

Jay is joined by senior wildfire correspondents Roger and Erica to discuss the forest fires raging across North America. We talk about out of control fires on the edge of the Arctic Circle, the use of prison labour in fighting wildfires, and what kind of mitigation, if any, is possible. We also talk about the psychotic responses of American politicians to the crisis and capitalism’s One Weird Trick to deal with this problem (cutting down every tree while they still can). Also, Jay does a very bad Donald Trump impression.

Erica Thomas is a labour organizer, pr...


100 Episodes With No Accountability
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07/29/2026

A deep, deep dive into the Lore for our 100 episode anniversary. Also, a sneak peak at the new intro music.

Show Notes

The Revolution Will Not be Sober by Zoë Dodd and Alexander McClelland

The Wonder Years - When the Blue Finally Came

Clementine on Blocked and Reported

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Numb with Mark Abley
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07/01/2026

Numbness now seems to be the emotional default for so many of us — the result of living in a deranged reverse panopticon, where everything bad happening everywhere in the world (plus the fever dreams of robots) is beamed directly into your eyeballs all day long by our pitiless overlords. Jay joins poet, journalist and author Mark Abley to talk about confronting and escaping the brain-mushing machine (and Mark’s new book, Numb: The Politics of Overwhelm).

Show Notes

Order Numb from Baraka Books

Mark’s other books

About Mark Abley

The...


Endgame
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06/20/2026

The boom in AI datacentres is part of an anti-everything endgame strategy for capitalists who want to permanently win capital’s war against labour and complete, once and for all, the enclosure of the commons and the privatization of all stores of value, down to the last bytes of information. Roger and Erica join Jay to discuss the widespread, grassroots, and bipartisan surge in opposition to these enormous datacentre infrastructure projects. We also talk about the Pope’s encyclical, the psychospiritual ramifications of AI, and the Protestant work ethic versus Catholic social teaching versus whatever the fuck is going on w...


The Final Girlboss with Bebe Montoya
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06/11/2026

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In Episode 97 Clementine and Jay kick it with Bebe Montoya, Portland’s best and most cancelled socialist zinester. We talk about Bebe’s new zines, gender politics with normal characteristics, and the final (girl)boss of neoliberal identitarianism. This is a paywalled episode; to listen to the whole thing, become a paid subscriber at fuckingcancelled.com.


Misery and Depravity with Joey Santore
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05/18/2026

Joey Santore from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t joins Jay to rant at length about the spiritual depravity of the wilting non-native hedges lining the empty parking lots copy-pasted across North America.

Show Notes

Spiritually Depraved and Misery-Inducing Landscapes of North America

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - Main Website

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - the podcast

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t - the YouTube channel

Frederick Law Olmsted

Mesquite trees

Links

Instagram

Merch

fuc...


Big Dipper: Jay Goes to the NDP Convention
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05/07/2026

A few weeks ago the NDP held their party convention in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where they elected a new party leader and a new executive slate. Intrepid reporter Jay went to Winnipeg to check things out so you didn’t have to. Everything you never wanted to know about party politics, and more!

Show Notes

The NDP

The CLC

The CCF

Avi Lewis’s platform

Morris Lewis

By the way: friend of the pod Molly' Crabapple’s book on the Jewish Labour Bund is now available for sa...


Escaping the Manomatrix
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04/15/2026

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Roger and Erica join Jay to commiserate about the excruciating experience of watching Louis Theroux’s new documentary ‘Inside the Manosphere’. Is the Red Pill more of a reactionary social movement or a Patreon-based pyramid scheme? Is the Manosphere the new face of neo-Nazi propaganda or The Secret for Zoomer men? Can you escape the Matrix by becoming a…


Fighting Back Against Austerity with Alliance Ouvrière
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04/09/2026

In the midst of historic cuts to public services in Quebec, workers are fighting back. Jay sits down with Kiersten and Adam from Alliance Ouvrière (Workers Alliance; the organization that successfully unionized the Amazon warehouse outside Montreal) to talk about their Nos jobs, nos services campaign, which seeks to react to austerity by radicalizing workers, mobilizing fighting unions, and revitalizing the political strike as a weapon of the working class.

Show Notes

Alliance Ouvrière

AO on Instagram and Facebook

Contact AO

Nurses’ sit-in at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital


Psycho Killer with Juno Aventurine
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03/31/2026

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A classic cancel culture episode. Clementine and Jay are joined by conflict mediator and zinester Juno Aventurine to talk about the relationship between trauma and cancel culture, the shadowiest of shadow parts, and the moral ambiguity of the human animal. We also talk about the stubborn spectre of identitarianism and the trials and tribulations of exit…


Constitutionally Incapable with Christopher Curtis
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03/12/2026

The governing party in Quebec, the CAQ, continues its death spasms with yet another project no one asked for and everybody hates: a new constitution for Quebec, decided on with no mandate and written without any popular consultation. In Episode 91 Jay sits down with Christopher Curtis, founder of independent journalism outlet The Rover, to unravel the insane tangle of arrogance, corruption and stupidity that is the Quebec political class. Plus: Chris reveals the secret behind Montreal’s comically (some might say criminally) bad roads.

Show Notes

Christopher Curtis on Instagram

The Rover

...


The Bund, the Zionists and the Socialism of Fools with Molly Crabapple
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03/03/2026

In the dying days of the Russian Empire, tens of thousands of working-class Yiddish-speaking Jews, radicalized by the triple oppression of capitalism, Tsarism and antisemitism, formed an anti-Zionist socialist party called the Jewish Labour Bund. Hugely influential on the worldwide socialist movement and at its height the largest socialist organization in Russia, the Bund remains for many anti-Zionist Jews (and other socialists) an inspiring example of bravery and committed internationalism in the face of impossible odds. In Episode 90, author and artist Molly Crabapple joins Jay to talk about her new book on the Bund, Here Where We Live is...


Domestic Terror
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02/03/2026

In Episode 89, Erica, Roger and Jay get together to talk about ICE as the MAGA paramilitary, the ‘don’t tread on me’ to ‘please tread on me’ pipeline, the ideological emptiness and racially diverse character of contemporary American fascism, liberal myths about reality, and what is — and is not — a general strike.

Erica Thomas is a labour organizer, professor and artist. Roger Peet is an artist, writer and head of comms for the Portland DSA.

Show Notes

Erica’s IG

Episode 82 with Erica Thomas

Roger’s IG

Episode 74 with Ro...


Hopelessness Can Turn to Hope Pretty Quick with Eric Blanc
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11/20/2025

In Episode 88 we’re joined by Eric Blanc, author of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. We talk about the importance of unions in confronting the many problems of this dystopian timeline and how the model of worker-to-worker unionism is necessary to scale up unionization and create an effective labour movement. We also discuss the recent uptick in labour organizing in North America, including high-profile union drives at Starbucks and Amazon, and what workers are doing to win these struggles. We finish off with a little discussion of Young Cardamom, AKA Zohran Ma...


Votez Pour Sergio (et Craig) with Craig Sauvé (and Sergio Da Silva)
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10/24/2025

On November 2, 2025, Montreal heads to the polls. We talk to Craig Sauvé, leader of the new left-wing party Transition Montreal, and punk rock candidate for city councillor, Sergio Da Silva. We discuss left-wing proposals for public safety, public workers for public works, what to do about housing and homelessness, and how to save nightlife in Canada’s cultural capital.

Show Notes

Transition Montreal’s website

Transition Montreal’s Instagram

Craig’s Instagram

Sergio’s Instagram

Cult MTL on the election

TVA calling Sergio’s neck tattoo contro...


Owned by the Libs with Isaac Peltz
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06/30/2025

In Episode 86 we’re joined again by journalist Isaac Peltz to catch up on some Canadian politics. The new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, wants to read your mail and access your internet data without a warrant, while Quebec wants to abolish your right to strike and Ontario wants to turn the habitats of endangered species into Special Economic Zones where corporations don’t have to follow laws.

Show Notes

The ‘Strong Borders Act’

Bill 5, the ‘Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act’

Quebec’s new law limiting strikes

Jay’s article ‘Green...


The LA Rebellion with Cecilia Guerrero
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06/18/2025

The first real, proletarian resistance to the second Trump administration kicked off last week in LA as thousands of working people flooded the streets, responding to the increasingly brutal terrorism they are being subjected to by US security forces. Returning guest Cecilia Guerrero joins us to discuss the LA rebellion, the state of organized resistance to Trump in the US, the socialist position on mass migration, and why you need to learn Spanish immediately. Cecilia is an organizer in Nashville, Tennessee, where she works with A Luta Sigue, the Tennessee Drivers’ Union, Nashville People Power and the Southern Youth So...


Thinking About Solidarity with Sarah Schulman
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05/22/2025

Award-winning author and historian Sarah Schulman joins us in Episode 84 to talk about her new book, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity. We talk about what solidarity means in the context of today’s neoliberal hellworld and how to be in solidarity across differences in power. We also talk about Sarah’s process of debrainwashing from Zionism, how she has learned to be in solidarity with Palestinians, and the importance of telling the truth no matter what.

Show Notes

Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman on Twitter

The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by S...


Tech Won't Liberate Us with Paris Marx
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05/06/2025

As the tech oligarchs dream of subjecting us all to their sick fantasies and their pet governments pave the road to hell with bad intentions, the sycophantic press breathlessly praises each new ‘advancement’ in dystopian tech — and each new phony scam as well. In Episode 83 we’re joined by Paris Marx, technology critic, author and host of Tech Won’t Save Us, one of the most important podcasts of the Canadian Left. We discuss technopessimism, fully-automated luxury space communism, whether sentient AIs will ever be a thing, and what, behind all the smoke and mirrors, the evil techlords are actually t...


A Secret Third Thing with Erica Thomas
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04/24/2025

As the masked goons of the MAGA nanny-state continue to disappear students for holding views upsetting to hysterical Zionists and their sweaty, senile leader continues to rule by deranged imperial decree executive order, we sit down with Erica Thomas, a union organizer, professor and artist, to talk about what’s going on in our increasingly unhinged southern neighbour, the USA. We talk about the Portland police force’s weird attempt to join the Oregon labour movement, the enshittification of higher education and everything else, and the state of Palestine organizing on campuses today. We also talk about union art, the...


Resisting Climate Apocalypse with Last Generation
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04/02/2025

Depressing but true: we’re hurtling toward human-caused climate collapse and our political-economic system, captured by capitalist elites intent on squeezing out profits until the day our civilization collapses, is effectively incapable of responding by itself. It must be forced: but how? Petitions haven’t worked. Rallies haven’t worked. Posting on Instagram hasn’t worked. And ****ing up pipelines, sexy though it might be, hasn’t worked. So while purists call for mass eco-insurgency and liberals circulate change.org petitions, the A22 Network has responded by organizing and mobilizing huge numbers of committed militants around the Western world, using larg...


Psychiatry, Psychedelics and the Maps We Carry with Rose Cartwright
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03/20/2025

Plagued from a young age by disturbing intrusive thoughts and unable to control dangerous compulsive behaviours, 3 Body Problem screenwriter and best-selling author Rose Cartwright was immensely relieved to learn that she had a disease called OCD, which was caused by a chemical imbalance in her brain and could be easily treated with a pill. She became the UK’s poster girl for recovery from OCD, and even wrote a book called Pure—later adapted into a TV show—about the success of the psychiatric model in treating her disorder. But years later, having sunk back into chronic suicidality, she strugg...


2020 Can't Save Us Now
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03/03/2025

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In the aftermath of the American identitarians losing their minds about Vivek Chibber’s calmly articulated post-mortem of ‘social justice’ culture on his podcast Confronting Capitalism, we ask if this really is the beginning of the end for ‘social justice’, what that would mean, and most importantly, what comes next. This is a paid episode, but half of …


Writing About Incest With Kelsey Zazanis
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02/21/2025

When survivors of incest act in the ways any sexually abused child would act, they are psychiatrized and medicated, and often returned to their abusers. When they grow up and search for resources on what happened to them, what they are most likely to find is terabytes of pornography. When they write about their experiences, they are siloed into the realm of self-help and excluded from the realm of politics. In episode 78 we talk with writer Kelsey Zazanis about the epidemic extent of incest child sexual abuse, the rights of children, and incest as a site of feminist political...


Housing Sucks Because Everyone in the Government is a Landlord with Isaac Peltz
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02/12/2025

If you’ve ever wondered why the government can’t seem to do anything about the cost of housing, it’s because it would go directly against their interests: most of them are landlords and the rest are landowners, and journalist Isaac Peltz can prove it. Our guest today has been pissing off government lawyers across the land with their pesky Access To Information requests about the assets of politicians and their uncomfortable viral videos about chronic landlordocracy. We chat about why it’s important to get this information into the hands of working class voters, gonzo journalism in the age...


The Closest You Can Get to Punching Jeff Bezos in the Face with Felix Trudeau and Louisa Worrell
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02/07/2025

Get in babe we're boycotting Amazon! These criminal American parasites retaliated against workers for unionizing their warehouse outside Montreal by firing their entire Quebec workforce and closing all their facilities in the province. This scorched-earth union-busting strategy is both illegal under Quebec law and an insult to all members of the working class. In Episode 76 we talk to Félix Trudeau, president of the Amazon Labour Union-CSN, and Louisa Worrell, spokesperson of the boycott campaign Içi, on boycotte Amazon, about what happened, what organized labour in Quebec is doing about it, and what you can do to support th...


The Theology of Exile with Juno Zavitz
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#75
01/25/2025

If God’s law is to love one another radically, then the various forms of exile and dehumanization practised by human beings through the ages may constitute a kind of ‘cultural sin’, a deviation we keep coming back to over and over as a species because it feels good. Not only might this practice lead us further from love, and not only might it not even work to give us justice, but it might also inflict a moral injury upon all of us. In Episode 75 we’re joined by Juno Zavitz, student of divinity, former social worker, and owner of Aporr...


Digging Up the Sun with Roger Peet
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#74
01/03/2025

Artisanal miners prospect for toxic rare-earth metals on the edges of huge corporate pit mines, alongside alien-looking metallophyte plants found nowhere else in the world. Cloak and dagger CIA manoeuvring from the Cold War reverberates into the present. Workers separated by oceans, empires and supply chains struggle to find ways to support each other. In Episode 74 we’re joined by our friend, artist Roger Peet, to talk about his extraordinary work building solidarity with miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, his family ties to the Congolese uranium production that ultimately made American empire possible, and the possibility of us...


Class War
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#73
12/26/2024

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In Episode 73 we discuss Clementine’s underworld journey and the future of Fucking Cancelled before moving on to Luigi, class war, and whether the word ‘health’ should be followed by the word ‘insurance’ or the word ‘care’. This is a paywalled episode — to listen to the whole thing just subscribe at fuckingcancelled.com.


The Quest for the Offline Left with Cecilia Guerrero: Organizing the South
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11/03/2024

In Episode 72, we’re joined by Cecilia Guerrero, an organizer in Nashville, Tennessee, helping to innovate a new generation of socialist movement-building deep in the American South. We discuss what it’s like organizing in Tennessee, the fantastic gains being made by the new network of organizations springing up there — including an unprecendented wildcat union of Uber and Lyft drivers — and the many lessons to be learned for socialists operating in such an environment.

Part of the Quest for the Offline Left series.

Show Notes

The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman<...


Talking Shit with Elizabeth Oldfield: On Becoming Fully Alive
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09/27/2024

In Episode 71, we are joined by Elizabeth Oldfield, a writer, thinker, bridge builder, and Christian working out of the UK. We discuss her new book Fully Alive, and the rich worldview which underlies it. Elizabeth challenges us to live our principles in our daily lives, and to extend grace and curiosity across difference.

Part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

The Sacred

The Sacred — Interview with Clementine

Elizabeth’s Substack

Fully Alive — The book

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The Quest for the Offline Left with Dru Oja Jay: SEIZE's Report on Housing
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08/10/2024

In Episode 70 we’re joined by Dru Oja Jay, research coordinator for SEIZE as well as executive director of CUTV and publisher of The Breach. We discuss SEIZE’s recent report on housing, titled From Crisis to Consensus, in which SEIZE surveyed housing organizations from across the country in order to determine what needs to be done about the housing crisis plaguing the working class.

This is part of the Quest for the Offline Left series.

Show Notes

Dru’s website

The housing report

About SEIZE

The...


Quest for the Offline Left with Wayne Hsiung: All Suffering Matters
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07/23/2024

In Episode 69 we are joined by animal rights activist, animal rescuer, and lawyer, Wayne Hsiung. We discuss Wayne’s experiencing rescuing animals from laboratories and factory farms, the connections between factory farms and jails, the spectrum of objectification, and why all suffering matters.

This is part of the Quest for the Offline Left series.

Show Notes

Simple Heart

Wayne’s instagram

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Nobody's Getting Cancelled: Everything is Violence Except Literal Violence Which is Fine
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07/01/2024

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In Episode 68, we spill the tea on Clementine getting her zines soaked in coffee at the local anarchist book fair by a masked assailant who communicated nothing about their motives. This paywalled episode is a mask off discussion of contemporary anarchist ideas about the legitimate uses of violence, poking light fun at the theatrics of the cancellers wh…


Talking Shit with David Chambers: Toward a Happy Healthy Masculinity
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05/24/2024

In Episode 67 we are joined by David Chambers, a relationship expert, thinker in the field of men and masculinities, and podcaster from the UK. We chat with David about the concept of ‘toxic masculinity’, the gendered patterns in attachment styles, and the appeal of reactionary masculinism among the youth. We also discuss the promise of an emerging happier, healthier masculinity, rooted neither in shame nor domination.

Part of the Talking Shit series.

Show Notes

David’s Instagram

David’s podcast, The Authentic Man

David’s website


Nobody's Getting Cancelled: Loving (and Leaving) Your Cancelled Boyfriend
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04/21/2024

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In Episode 66, Jay and Clementine discuss the impact of cancel culture on the partners of men cancelled for abusive behaviours. We consider how the increased isolation of being cancelled along with your partner increases the risk of domestic violence. We note that the ptsd of cancellation can lead to it being even harder to receive feedback on your beha…