Artie Vierkant

host/producer @DeathPanel_ | wrote HEALTH COMMUNISM (Verso 2022) w/ @realLandsEnd | forthcoming ALL CARE FOR ALL PEOPLE (Haymarket 2027/8)

[Death Panel @DeathPanel_]

Death Panel Presents: Health Fascism and the Anti-State State. A close analysis of the first year of Trump and RFK’s pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” the damage it’s caused, and how to stop it

https://t.co/tbnC2O5V4E

[lelu @lelulolololol]

Biden also told cities to give their COVID relief funds (ARPA) to cops, the largest infusion of federal funds in almost 40 years, over half of which went to cops/jails—downplaying the (ongoing) pandemic and expanding the police state further in the same move.

[Nate Holdren @n_hold]

Moment of silence for our fallen bee comrades.

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

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[Death Panel @DeathPanel_]

In our latest, we speak with @n_hold about Engels’ term “social murder” and how we can use it to understand how state abandonment during the pandemic has become so normalized. Now unlocked:

https://t.co/6dll8M59Lt

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

Join @deanspade and @realLandsEnd at the Verso Book Club Reading Group to discuss mutual aid, health communism, and building solidarity.

https://t.co/hMfEG9TJiZ

[Death Panel @DeathPanel_]

In our latest, Dean Spade @deanspade returns to discuss the necessity and radical possibility of mutual aid in this moment and the new second edition of Dean’s 2020 book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

https://t.co/i2ONt4PBcP

[Death Panel @DeathPanel_]

First 25min here

https://t.co/SYE6Xh1OB7

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Now unlocked: Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie join us to discuss how we should understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police

https://t.co/zl0rxmOOJE

[Nate Holdren @n_hold]

this 'old people are the problem' shit from middle class people drives me up the fucking wall. a lot of the old people in my family are dead because working class life is pretty lethal, and the surviving ones are absolutely not the problem! condescending savior bullshit.

[Artie Vierkant @avierkant]

“… that mobilizes pharmaceutical intervention, that mobilizes cultural shame, that mobilizes economic pressure, to produce a standardized body. One that is productive, that is compliant, that is legible; and with the intent to unveil this sort of spectacle that is fascism.”

[Artie Vierkant @avierkant]

.@DaShaunLH: “Body fascism is about the deepening of capitalist discipline through the governance of the body—and, more accurately, through the governance of the flesh, when referring to Black fat folks. It’s a system that mobilizes medical authority …

[ebonically intelligent papi 🌻 @julianakilrose]

Take your (correct) takes about ICE at the airports and apply it to the police being at 95% of the things they be at for no reason but fear and control

[Death Panel @DeathPanel_]

Teaser here:

https://t.co/EodO7pwWkB

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In our latest, we speak with Mohini Mookim and Veryl Pow about practicing what they call “prefigurative lawyering” to support movements and protect mutual aid work, and how to work towards what they call “hospicing the law.”

https://t.co/ATNhWwcD61

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Now unlocked: we speak with Cassius Adair about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight, and the long history of state identification documents being used as tools of administrative violence

https://t.co/TRW3jCLJt3

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

Daily reminder that the American petrocrescent in the Gulf South is home to numerous Black and poor communities that suffer the horrific cost of feeding the world’s energy demands. Endless wars, esp in the Arabian Gulf, only raises the stakes for them.
https://t.co/mXzjfYab77

[da’shaun | they/them @DaShaunLH]

it’s always a great time chatting with my friends over at Death Panel. tap in!

[Artie Vierkant @avierkant]

“… that mobilizes pharmaceutical intervention, that mobilizes cultural shame, that mobilizes economic pressure, to produce a standardized body. One that is productive, that is compliant, that is legible; and with the intent to unveil this sort of spectacle that is fascism.”

[Artie Vierkant @avierkant]

.@DaShaunLH: “Body fascism is about the deepening of capitalist discipline through the governance of the body—and, more accurately, through the governance of the flesh, when referring to Black fat folks. It’s a system that mobilizes medical authority …

[Death Panel @DeathPanel_]

In our latest, we speak with @DaShaunLH about how the body itself is being mobilized as a nationalist symbol under MAHA and the second Trump administration and what it will take to fight back

https://t.co/5OGXHYZgcR

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Read Da’Shaun’s piece Let Us Explan: Body Fascism in @scalawagmag here:

https://t.co/zGaFp9cAfv