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In the 1920s Americans consumed 75% of the world's rubber, but only 1% of it grew under the US flag

Empire of Rubber tells a sweeping story of capitalism, racial exploitation, environmental devastation, and resistance as the Firestone tire and Rubber company

transformed Liberia into America's Rubber Empire

Historian and filmmaker Greg Mittmann unearths a history of promises unfulfilled

revealing a history of racial segregation and medical experimentation

As Firestone reaped fortunes

Wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few elites

Fostering widespread inequalities that fed unrest and eventually civil war

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Welcome to the dig a podcast from Jackman magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island

What are the politics of sex? Should there be a politics of sex or is desire an inevitably private matter that cannot be

sensibly subjected to the sort of scrutiny of power relations that we apply to the power systems that govern our economy and

society as a whole. Should we interrogate the ways in which gendered racialized and classed forms of power shape who and what we want?

Or is that very proposition a recipe for an authoritarian and carceral moralism?

Inner-new essay collection the right to sex feminism in the 21st century

Philosopher Amia Srinivasan attempts to answer these questions and more and concludes

Sometimes that there are no easy answers at all

Amia's book takes on the politics of porn in cells in campus sex by engaging the raging debates of second wave feminism

Drawing thinkers new and old into conversation about sexuality today

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