Down-Ballot Fights with Jessica Cisneros, Stephen Smith, and Heidi Sloan

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2019

⏱️ 111 minutes

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We need Bernie but a lot more too. Dan does three interviews with down-ballot left insurgent candidates: Jessica Cisneros, a Justice Democrat running against incumbent conservative Democrat Henry Cuellar in Texas’s 28th congressional district; Stephen Smith, who is running a populist campaign for West Virginia governor; and Heidi Sloan, a DSA candidate in the Democratic primary for Texas’s 25th Republican-held 25th congressional district.

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our supporters at patreon.com
0:05.2	and by University of California Press,
0:08.7	which has loads of great titles perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:15.0	One that you might like is a dirty South manifesto,
0:19.5	Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South by L.H. Stallings.
0:25.0	From the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage
0:31.5	equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars.
0:39.3	Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights
0:45.0	has revealed a new and unacknowledged era of Southern Reconstruction centered on gender and sexuality.
0:55.0	In a Dirty South manifesto, L.H. Stallings celebrates the roots of radical sexual resistance
1:02.6	in the New South, a movement that is anti-racist, decolonial, and transnational.
1:09.8	For people within economically disenfranchised segments of society,
1:14.8	those in sexually marginalized communities, and the racially oppressed,
1:20.2	the South has been a sexual dystopia.
1:23.8	Throughout this book, Stallings delivers hard-hitting manifestos for the new sex wars.
1:30.3	With her focus on contemporary black southern life, Stalling's offers an invitation to anyone who has ever imagined a way of living beyond white supremacist heteropatriarchy.
1:43.3	A Dirty South Manifesto.
1:45.9	Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South
1:48.8	by L.H. Stallings.
1:51.3	Out now from University of California Press.
2:06.9	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.
2:12.6	My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
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