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

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2018

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

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

Support our show and get bonus content at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Art: Molly Crabapple

Outro music: Conflict -- They Said That

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Antipata where unrest is best. I'm Jamie Peck.
0:11.6	Hi I'm Sean Katie and I'm AP Andy. Hi I'm Shabee.
0:13.0	I'm A. P. Handy.
0:14.0	And we are here with a very excellent guest today.
0:18.0	Artist, writer, journalist with a point of view.
0:21.0	Unofficial portraitist of the New York left and beyond, Molly Grabapple.
0:26.7	Hey, thanks for having me.
0:28.2	Thank you for being here. Oh, and Molly also has a new book out called Brothers of the Gun.
0:34.7	It's on the long list for the National Book Awards.
0:37.4	Hell yeah.
0:38.4	Pretty cool.
0:39.4	You want to just give us a little blurb about your book, Molly?
0:43.4	Sure. So me and one of my dearest friends and probably the bravest human I know,
0:49.7	Syrian journalist named Marwan Hicham, we spent the last three years and
0:55.0	we spent the last three years writing his memoir of life during the revolution and also what life was like after ISIS took over his hometown.
1:01.0	Did 82 illustrations like Goya's disasters of war, and it's a pretty
1:10.1	deadly honest account of what it's like to live through a civil war revolution and what it's like when
1:16.8	everyone from America to Russia to your own government starts bombing your city.
1:20.8	Wow that's that's intense uh, that sounds intense, but it also sounds really, really important for folks who
1:27.5	uh, can't really get a grasp on what's going on over there.
1:29.8	Sometimes those first person accounts are the best way of sort of understanding what tons of people are facing
1:34.3	in situations like that.
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