About
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The Death Panel is a twice weekly podcast about the political economy of health co-hosted by Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant, Phil Rocco, and Jules Gill-Peterson.
Patreon exclusive episodes are released each Monday. The Death Panel is fully listener-supported, become a Patron to support the show and for access to all of our bonus episodes (including the back catalogue).
Main feed episodes are released each Thursday.
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Press Clippings:
Paisley Currah on sex and the state; Melissa Gira Grant, Charlotte Shane, and Abby Cartus on the end of Roe, Bookforum - June 30, 2022
Patrick Radden Keefe on his new essay collection; Jessica Valenti on “Canceled at 17”, Bookforum - June 23, 2022
Sigrid Nunez and more novelists on COVID fiction; a book launch for Ari M. Brostoff tonight, Bookforum - February 22, 2022
The 36 best books and podcasts on health and science to check out this summer, STAT News.
How Health Care Podcast ‘The Death Panel’ Became a Must-Listen for Influential Artistsby Kerry Doran, ARTnews.
How Artists Used the Discord App to Build Community During COVID-19by Rea McNamara, Hyperallergic.
In the New Digital Economy, Are Artists Creators? by Kyle Chayka, ARTnews.
Turning Illness Into a Weapon: Crip Utopia in the Age of Austerity with Death Panel Podcast, CREATIVETIME Summit X.
Artists to Watch: Meet the Emerging Talent From our Latest Issue, L’Officiel.
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Artie Vierkant is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (forthcoming from Verso Books - 18 October, 2022). He is an artist and writer, and has been published in October Journal, Art in America, The New Inquiry and ArtNews. He is also the editor and producer of The Death Panel podcast.
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton is the co-author of Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (forthcoming from Verso Books - 18 October, 2022). She is a blind/low vision and chronically ill artist, writer, and disability justice advocate who studies radical patient groups and the capitalist political economy of health as an independent researcher, and is a master's student in Disability Studies at CUNY.
Website, work & writing
Blind Archive, Substack
Press clippings, interviews & appearances
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Jules Gill-Peterson is an historian, writer, and professor. She is the author of Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota, 2018), winner of a Lambda Literary Award, and a general co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Jules has written for and been profiled in The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, Scientific American, The New Inquiry, Jewish Currents, and The Baffler. She is also the narrator of Framing Agnes (dir. Chase Joynt, 2022), the award winning documentary film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Her next book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, will be published by Verso Books.
Sad Brown Girl, Substack
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Philip Rocco is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University. His writing has been published by Jacobin, Governing, and Notes on the Crises. He is the author of Obamacare Wars: Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care Act (2016), and co-editor of American Political Development and the Trump Presidency (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).