Hosted by David Palumbo-Liu · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 189 episodes
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Public activism on human rights, environmental and indigenous justice, and educational liberation, with an emphasis on politics, culture, and art. Website: https://speakingoutofplace.com/
David Palumbo-Liu hosts Speaking Out of Place, a news show with 189 episodes published.
It’s always a pleasure to talk with Liza Featherstone and Doug Henwood, two seasoned political observers, and activists, based in New York City. Today we discuss the results of the recent primaries in NYC, which saw a wa
Today it is my great pleasure to talk with Dr Lara Sheehi about her new book, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures . We talk about the ways that those fighting for Palestinian liberati
Today it is my immense pleasure and honor to welcome Amitav Ghosh to Speaking Out of Place to talk about his new novel, Ghost Eye . The novel is about reincarnation, but also a lot more. In our conversation we talk about
On today’s show we take a deep look into universities, and education more broadly with Tristan Ahtone, Andrew Herscher, and Robert Warrior. We focus on a critique of land grant universities, which were built on land gran
Today I am delighted to talk with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff about their new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. This is much more than a biography or popular account of Elon Musk, it is a radical analysis of
Today I am excited to talk with three members of Youth United for Community Action, an organization based in East Palo Alto that has been fighting for community empowerment since 1994, when a small group of young people
In 2021, the City of Atlanta announced that it was entering into a partnership with the Atlanta Police Foundation to destroy the South River Forest and build what became known as “Cop City,” a large facility for the trai
Today I have the immense pleasure of speaking with author Anna Badkhen about her new collection of essays, To See Beyond. Badkhen talks about how her experiences as a veteran war correspondent exposed her to War’s multip
Today I have the immense pleasure of talking with Carissa Véliz, an associate professor at the University of Oxford, about her new book, Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future—from Ancient Oracles to A
Today I am deeply honored to welcome back Iranian journalists Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy. Before, they talked about their book, For the Sun After Long Nights: the Story of Iran’s Women-led Uprising, today they te
Today I am excited to talk with journalist and media critic Adam Johnson about his new book, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza. Many of us gained an intuitive sense of just how bad
Today I am honored to speak with veteran journalist Victoria Law. She is the author of such books as Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popu
Today it’s a special honor to welcome Serhat Tutkal and Hevin Karakurt to Speaking Out of Place. These two scholars engage in a broad discussion of Kurdish history, culture, politics, literature and language, with partic
Today it gives me special pleasure to speak with Fernando Racimo, a leading scientist-activist, about his new book, Science in Resistance. This book gives a riveting account of the founding and growth of the internationa
Today I am excited and honored to be talking with Dr. Shamell Bell and Sherena Razek, two activist scholars who join us to talk about their work on the Coalition for Action in Higher Education, which will be convening it
Today, on Speaking Out of Place, I have the pleasure of talking with Say Burgin about her book, Organizing on Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit. Tracing the changing terrain of anti-racist organizing a
Today it gives me special pleasure to speak with Helen Whybrow about her book, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life. Besides being a detailed account of the day to day, season by season life on her farm, where s
Today I am deeply honored to spend time with poet, activist, and scholar Jamaica Osorio. Shortly after October 7, 2023, she began to write a series of astonishing poems about the war in Gaza and the genocide. Osorio grac
Starting in the autumn of 2025, the US began attacking small civilian boats in or near Venezuelan waters, summarily executing over 126 people. January, 2026 began with it kidnapping Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro an
Today I am deeply honored to speak with novelist, essayist, and scholar Yuri Herrera about his new novel, Season of the Swamp, which is a deeply researched and dazzlingly imagined account of Benito Juarez’s time spent in
Ben Tarnoff
writer and technologist
1 appearance on this show
Quinn Slobodian
Professor of International History at Boston University · Boston University
1 appearance on this show
Carissa Veliz
associate professor · University of Oxford
1 appearance on this show
Carissa Véliz
author of Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI · Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI
1 appearance on this show
Nilo Tabrizy
journalist
3 appearances on this show
Andrew Ross
CFP® - Veterinary Financial Planner · Library and Archives Canada
1 appearance on this show
Thea Riofrancos
Associate Professor of Political Science · Providence College
1 appearance on this show
Julian Brave NoiseCat
author of the memoir We Survived the Night · Canim Lake Band Tsq̓éscen̓/Líl̓wat Nation
1 appearance on this show
Dean Spade
Author of Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together · Mutual Aid and Love in a Fucked Up World
1 appearance on this show
Mary Anne Franks
legal scholar and cyber civil rights advocate
1 appearance on this show
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