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@medicinered.bsky.social
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Red Medicine is a podcast about politics, health, medicine, the body, illness, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, social reproduction, disability, prison, policing, abolition, gender, sexuality, pharmaceuticals, and much more. linktr.ee/redmedicine.xyz

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
How did Weimar-era communist movements approach addiction? This conversation traces the history of communist drug treatment services, linking addiction care to social medicine, mental health, and radical politics. With Evan Sedgwick-Jell on @medicinered.bsky.social
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Cocaine and Communism [Political Pathologies ep. 1] w/ Evan Sedgwick-Jell | Red Medicine
A talk by Evan Sedgwick-Jell on the history of communist drug treatment services in Weimar Germany, given at the Political Pathologies conference in Glasgow. Evan Sedgwick-Jell is a researcher,…
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Liora Halperin @lioracle.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Thanks to Ordinary Unhappiness pod (on psychoanalysis) @unhappinesspod.bsky.social for giving a shoutout to Red Medicine pod @medicinered.bsky.social which now I’m super enjoying listening to.
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Joshua Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🚨NEW EPISODE UP ON THE FEED🚨 Amber Husain returns to to discuss the experience of being diagnosed with anorexia, treatment, and her reengagement with questions of food, community, and hunger that came as a result podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
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Food, Diagnosis, and Anorexia w/ Amber Hussain
Podcast Episode · Red Medicine · 10 March · 1h 4m
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I will simply reiterate what I have said for years, namely that whatever their utility when it comes to individual psychopathology, the ideas of repetition compulsions and the death drive are super clarifying when it comes to the libidinal economies of settler colonial imperial violence
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🚨NEW EPISODE NOW LIVE🚨 Max Fox and M.E. O'Brien (@genderhorizon.com) join the anti-self-helpline to talk about accountability in movement spaces and respond to your submissions to the helpline...! @pinko.online
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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 19/02/2026
It was a pleasure to talk about the limits of “what is to be done” as the political question, mao and newton’s parsing of contradictions among the people, and Pinko’s book After Accountability with @maxfox.bsky.social
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🚨NEW EPISODE NOW LIVE🚨 Max Fox and M.E. O'Brien (@genderhorizon.com) join the anti-self-helpline to talk about accountability in movement spaces and respond to your submissions to the helpline...! @pinko.online
an episode graphic for the anti-self-helpline. the name of the series is in red, overlayed onto a scan of the book 'After Accountability: A Critical Genealogy of a Concept'
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
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hannah proctor @hhnnccnnll.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
new Radical Philosophy features a dossier of pieces on Frantz Fanon and Francesc Tosquelles - including wonderful articles by Lucie K Mercier and Elena Vogman, a new translation of a piece by Tosquelles on Fanon and an interview with Fanon collaborator Alice Cherki
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Really brilliant reporting here from Glamour Magazine (?!). Particularly liked the description of leadership offered in this section
““A lot of leadership looks like logistics, hospitality, and emotional labor, and it’s been incredibly powerful to watch the entire community turn those skills into real, material support for the community,” says Lee. “I hope that folks recognize that bravery comes in many forms, and that caring deeply can be an act of protest. Communities that choose solidarity—not isolation—are stronger, especially in times of crisis.””
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨 NEW EPISODE NOW LIVE 🚨 Lydia and Conor (from the publication Notes from Below) join to talk about social care in Britain. We about their experiences of working in care, how social care is (dis)organized in Britain, and the recent upswing in worker militancy across the sector. link in bio !
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨 NEW EPISODE NOW LIVE 🚨 Lydia and Conor (from the publication Notes from Below) join to talk about social care in Britain. We about their experiences of working in care, how social care is (dis)organized in Britain, and the recent upswing in worker militancy across the sector. link in bio !
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Oxfam charity bookshop providing me with reading materials for the Amerikan century of humiliation
A photograph of two books. On the left is The Unknown War: North China 1937-1945. On the right War Against Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Can anyone recommend some good resources on the life and politics of Alan Milburn?
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
hard to express how angry this makes me. ICE intimidating people who dare to speak honestly about what it is they're doing. endless love and solidarity to Bea, Artie, their lovely child, and everyone standing up against bullies in uniform
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Abby and Patrick are going to be joining for the February edition of the Anti-Self-Helpline! Write in if you’d like to have them respond to your questions and reflections!
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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Friends! We're delighted to joining @medicinered.bsky.social's "Anti-Self-Helpline" next week! Write in questions, comments, and reflections on your experiences of political struggle so we can discuss them and take seriously their psychic and emotional content! bit.ly/4qH9mB3
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
thinking about the words of Klee Benally (“be well, and stay dangerous”) and June Jordan today (“we must become a menace to our enemies”) today. keep each other safe and give them hell
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/01/2026
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
All power to the Twin Cities soviet!
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Artie Vierkant @avierkant.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
What all the crowd shots won’t show you is this energy extends to the rest of the metro. There are additional huge gatherings of people all around the cities, ICE watch is visible on so many street corners, walk a few blocks and you’ll pass people clearly in the middle of distro
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.
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“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK
Within trans youth healthcare two fundamentally different models of care persist, with a significant difference between affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare services. To date there has been l...
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"[U.S.] Fascism...feels so secure that the leaders allow us the luxury of a faint protest. Take protest too far, however, and doors will be kicked down in the night and machine-gun fire and buckshot become the medium of exchange...We must rip away its mask." - George Jackson, 1971
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onion person @junlper.beer · 07/01/2026
abolishing the domestic terror group ICE is the moderate position at this point
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Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Today confirms @stschrader1.bsky.social's assessment that Trump has brought to its culmination the restructuring of US foreign policy on the model of the brutal lawlessness of American policing. A sneering, thuggish hemispheric (aspirationally global) cop. www.thedriftmag.com/our-diminish...
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I'm seeing out the year by speaking with the warm and erudite @erikmbaker.bsky.social for the second episode of the ANTI-SELF-HELPLINE, where we talk through listeners questions and reflections on their experiences of political struggle... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Finished the year answering listener questions with Sam at Red Medicine for the Anti-Self-Helpline red-medicine.simplecast.com/episodes/ant...
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I'm seeing out the year by speaking with the warm and erudite @erikmbaker.bsky.social for the second episode of the ANTI-SELF-HELPLINE, where we talk through listeners questions and reflections on their experiences of political struggle... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Listening right now to @medicinered.bsky.social’s episode on the Filton 24, the hunger strikers, and prisons as the site of struggle in britain podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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FREE THE FILTON 24 w/ Charlie Thomas
Podcast Episode · Red Medicine · 12/23/2025 · 1h 21m
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Linuxrebel @linuxrebel.org · 25/12/2025
A public database of ice, ice agents, DHS, etc. Has now been built and it's entirely outside of the US and US government reach.
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We Built a Public Record of ICE Because They Refuse to Keep One
Tracking Immigration Enforcement as It Accelerates Under Authoritarian Rule
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
my appearance on Death Panel is now out from behind the paywall! we talk about the long arc of neoliberalisation and imperialism in British society, the struggles over austerity, and what Labour has in store for British healthcare... go and have a listen!
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
my appearance on Death Panel is now out from behind the paywall! we talk about the long arc of neoliberalisation and imperialism in British society, the struggles over austerity, and what Labour has in store for British healthcare... go and have a listen!
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Who is Wes Streeting, and why is he like that? I joined Sam Kelly and Jonas Martin on the @medicinered.bsky.social podcast to discuss the Health Secretary's political background, and what this might mean for health policy in the UK.
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Red Medicine - Who Is Wes Streeting and Why Is He Like That? w/ Ruth Pearce and Jonas Marvin
Listen to Red Medicine - Who Is Wes Streeting and Why Is He Like That? w/ Ruth Pearce and Jonas Marvin by Red Medicine on Podcast Addict. We talk about Wes Streeting. Who is he, what are his politics,...
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Next post is up from the series I am writing about Phil Neel's Hellworld redmedicine.substack.com/p/the-year-o...
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The Year of the Pig
Reading Phil Neel's Hellworld (part 2, page 1-36)
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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Had a good talk with Sam on the @medicinered.bsky.social podcast about Zionism as an Antisemitism, paranoia and false projection, the burgeoning fascist world order, and more. listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5OHa...
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Catching up on posting about episodes from October and November! All the links are in the bio, with forthcoming episodes in December before a small break over the holidays.
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I've started a series on my Substack where I'll be reading Phil A. Neel's new book 'Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory' and writing posts about each chapter as I go The book is an attempt to map the configuration of the capitalist mode of production at a planetary scale...
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Traversing the Inferno
Reading Phil Neel's Hellworld (part 1)
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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In our latest, we discuss the fate of the NHS since the neoliberal turn and the Labour party’s dismal 10 year plan to turn the NHS into “an engine for economic growth” and “the most AI enabled care system the world” with special guest @medicinered.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/143208...
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The Past and Future of the NHS w/ Red Medicine (11/10/25) | The Death Panel
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jack @jackdscott.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Great little dessert island political organising literature @medicinered.bsky.social Funny how Corbyn era 1.0 was "JC, no surrender, 4 day week and a 3 day bender " and now it's "JC, no surrender, stop enabling a literal genocide". Not that the stakes weren't high before but...
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Pre-Drinks
6 Articles to Read in Preparation for the New Left Party
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Joshua Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Great episode on the Dialectics of Liberation conference held in London in 1967; a chaotic happening held at the height of sixties counterculture and featuring some of its figureheads, including Allen Ginsburg, Herbert Marcuse, & Stokely Carmichael.
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Micha Frazer-Carroll and Sasha Warren return to the podcast to discuss one of the strangest and most frustrating events in the history of the British counter-culture EPISODE 82: THE DIALECTICS OF LIBERATION CONGRESS w/ Micha Frazer-Carroll and Sasha Warren podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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An image of red and green digitally rendered pills is at the top, below reads text saying "The Dialectics of Liberation Congress w/ Micha Frazer-Carroll and Sasha Warren" then below that is an interface to play the podcast and a timestamp that sats '01.52.18'
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Emily Lim Rogers and Rouzbeh Shadpey join the podcast to discuss the history of chronic fatigue under capitalism. EPISODE 81: CHRONIC FATIGUE AND THE POLITICS OF DIAGNOSIS w/ Emily Lim Rogers and Rouzbeh Shadpey Link in bio! @elimrogers.bsky.social @rouzbei.bsky.social
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
ANNOUNCING THE ANTI-SELF-HELPLINE! A new episode format from Red Medicine that provides a place to share and make sense of our experiences of political struggle. Callum Cant returns to the podcast to help me explain how it will all work... Link in bio!
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Saw @medicinered.bsky.social on the bill and dived for it – lots and lots of good speakers: revsoc21.uk/festival2025/
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Festival of the Oppressed 2025
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This was (as always) a fantastic and timely episode. Made me think deeply about the injustices of labour in healthcare and the artificial and unhelpful capital-driven divide between those who give and receive care. Highly recommended for anyone interested in health justice.
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Hannah Zeavin and Helen Charman return to the podcast to discuss the history of technology, media and mothering throughout the 20th century. EPISODE 79: TELL ME ABOUT YOUR MOTHER... w/ Hannah Zeavin and Helen Charman @hzeavin.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
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Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Hannah Zeavin and Helen Charman return to the podcast to discuss the history of technology, media and mothering throughout the 20th century. EPISODE 79: TELL ME ABOUT YOUR MOTHER... w/ Hannah Zeavin and Helen Charman @hzeavin.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social
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