Episode 23: Creating Space To Dream In Puerto Rico w/ Molly Crabapple

This week journalist and artist Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) drops by to talk Puerto Rico, SESTA/FOSTA, and much more.

Highlights:

Jamie and Molly's shared past as members of anarcha-feminist workers' cooperative SuicideGirls.com - haha. Another in the ongoing series 'This Week In Musk'. Sex workers as a rising voice within the political sphere.

(Big shout out to www.lysistratamccf.org, www.blacksexworkercollective.org, https://survivorsagainstsesta.org and sex workers everywhere fighting for safety and dignity!)

Deep dive into the legacy of colonialism, debt, crisis and austerity in Puerto Rico. What lessons can the mainland/international left take from Hurricane Maria and its aftermath? Will the island's future be austerity and privatization... or mutual aid and resistance?

Reports on PR by Molly: www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/04/26/the-fatal-conscience-julia-de-burgos-puerto-ricos-greatest-poet, www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/11/17/puerto-ricos-diy-disaster-relief, and www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/12/11/puerto-rico-sketchbook-anarchist-bikers-came-help/

Books by Molly: Brothers of the Gun: a Memoir of the Syrian War (www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550211/brothers-of-the-gun-by-marwan-hisham-and-molly-crabapple/9780399590627) Drawing Blood (www.harpercollins.com/9780062797223/drawing-blood)

Donate to disaster relief in PR: www.RedApoyoMutuo.org

Support IWW NYC's labor campaigns at Wobfest (www.eventbrite.com/e/wob-fest-union-fundraiser-for-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-tickets-49188287492) October 6, or donate at www.WobblyCity.org/Donate

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Art: Molly Crabapple

Outro music: Conflict -- They Said That