Psychic Militancy

In this episode, I sit down with ‪@MakdisiStreet‬  podcast hosts and brothers, Karim, Ussama and Saree Makdisi to discuss the current situation in Lebanon. We get into a lot, as you can imagine, including the US and Zionist interventionism in Lebanon, their attempt to foment sectarian hate and violence, internalized Arabophobia (and other potential explanations) and, importantly, how we believe they have not succeeded in whittling away solidarity or resistance.
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In this session I was joined by my comrades Arama Rata, Sina Brown-Davis and Bianca Ranson to talk about the longstanding and ongoing struggle for Māori sovereignty under settler colonial conditions, the struggle against Zionism in Aotearoa, and how they remain focused in the face of settler violence--and so much more.
Arama Rata (Taranaki, Ngāruahine, Ngāti Maniapoto) is a Māori researcher, writer, and organiser whose work centres on Indigenous resistance, solidarities, and betrayals. She is a steering group member of foreign policy group Te Kuaka, and a co-founder of community self-defence group Kaiāwhina Aotearoa.
Sina Brown-Davis is of Te Roroa, Te Uri-o-Hau, Fale Ula and Vava'u descent. Sina is a long-time activist and commentator on Indigenous rights at local, regional and international forums. She has a lifelong commitment to fighting for the rights of Indigenous peoples , anti Imperialism and building South South solidarity. Sina is currently a gym freak working at the grassroots  with community and building bridges and unity between working class and "underclass"  communities.
Bianca Ranson (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa) is an activist and campaigner based on Waiheke Island who has been active in fighting for climate justice and indigenous rights. She is a founder of Kaiāwhina and organiser with AW; A (Anti-War Aotearoa).
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Back by popular demand, two of my favorite comrades, Geo Maher and Alex Aviña, jointed me to talk about Mexico and Cuba in the teeth of empire. We discussed the US empire's continued strangulation of Cuba, the so-called war and drugs and its connection with the so-called war on terror, and the ways that people on the ground continue to resist, despite the nonstop violence against them.
Geo Maher is Coordinator of the WEB Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction and author of 5 books, including We Created Chávez and Building the Commune. Alex Aviña is an Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is a historian of Mexico and Latin America.
Check out Geo's newest piece here: https://spectrejournal.com/the-us-kidnapping-of-nicolas-maduro/
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You can listen to Alex talk more about imperialism, Mexico and resistance movements here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/return-to-bandung/id1772756503?i=1000750310062
And see him with our comrade Nick Estes and Oswaldo Zavala talking "Drug cartels do not exist" here: https://www.youtube.com/live/uajXFlDGTfg?si=3ejpexyUFuhUSHTI
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In this episode I was joined by psychoanalytic colleagues, Avgi Saktepoulou and Iris Hefets to discuss boycott & divestment from the state now known as Israel and Zionism more broadly--a call that answers the Palestine Global Mental Health Networks call for all psychoanalysts of conscience to resign from the International Psychoanalytic Asociation. This feels like an even more timely conversation considering the currently underway US-Zionist aggression on Iran, the ongoing genocide in Palestine, and the no-existent ceasefire in Lebanon. In addition to BDS in psychoanalysis, we will discuss the institutional demands that we must make as well as interrogate the limits of this approach and all the ways we need to remain engaged in praxis "outside the clinic" so to speak.
Originally from Cyprus and from Greece, Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou is a practicing psychoanalyst in NYC on faculty at NYU's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia and co-author, with Ann Pellegrini, of Gender Without Identity. Avgi is the founder of the Cypriot and of the Greek chapters of the Palestine Mental Health Network and a vocally persistent critic of psychoanalysis' silence on the Palestinian genocide.
Iris Hefets, works as a Psychoanalyst in Berlin, mainly with PoC-patients that suffer from (transgenerational) traumata in English, German and Hebrew. She was born in Israel and left during the 2nd Intifada for political reasons. She is a member of JVP-Germany. She resigned from the German Psychoanalytic Society/IPA in late 2023, together with another Jewish-Israeli, Palestinian and Turkish colleague due to the racist approach of the German Society they all experienced over the years and especially since the beginning of the Israeli Genocide in Palestine.
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In this episode, I sit down with the one and only Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian to talk about the textures of life making that abound in Palestine, produced and created by Palestinians, for the preservation and continuation of all of Palestine. We discuss the centrality of al-Quds (Jerusalem) in her thinking and in her scholarship, and unpack the ways in which her focus has always been to provide counter-readings that trouble hegemonic knowledge production that positions Palestinians as always-already victims or "disposable". As always, the conversation with Nadera draws on feminist practices of being, despite pressures of erasure, displacement, and dispossession.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian is a leading scholar in the fields of violence against women and the impacts of political violence on childhood, focusing primarily on the experience of Palestinians subject to settler colonial technologies of violence. She received the Women's Rights Prize from the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation for her research, which has been supported by more than a dozen foundations. Nadera is currently a visiting professor of gender and sexuality studies at Princeton. She is the Chair of Global Law at the Queen Mary University of London School of Law and is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law-Emeritus at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
 Check out a selection of Nadera's work here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/incarcerated-childhood-and-the-politics-of-unchilding/36A4B3C853F77EF66E16C6FD70F7F1D9
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/security-theology-surveillance-and-the-politics-of-fear/1278E8298C3722A3B85EFC426C859DB5
https://statecrime.org/2024/02/28/state-crime-journal-special-issue-on-abolitionism-settler-colonialism-and-state-crime/
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