Kansas and the History of State Identification as Administrative Violence w/ Cassius Adair (Unlocked)

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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This episode was originally released March 3rd for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Cassius Adair about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight as an expression of administrative violence, and about the long history of state identification documents being used as a tool to enforce norms and surveil and punish populations. MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch Show links: We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179 Find Tracy's book Abolish Rent here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9798888902523 Find Jules' latest book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781804291603 Outro by Time Wharp: timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta

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1:03.9	at Death Panel underscore. I'm Beatrice Adler Bolton, and my guest today is Cassius Adair.
1:09.4	Cassius is a scholar and media producer.
1:11.6	He's published in places like American Quarterly, Differences, feminist media histories,
1:15.8	and communication, culture, and critique, and is one of the authors of the experimental
1:19.7	scholarly book, Technop precarious. Cass, welcome to the Death Panel. I'm so glad you could join me today.
1:25.2	Hey, how's the going? I'm really excited and also frustrated to be talking to you about what's been happening
1:32.3	in Kansas today.
1:34.3	And I just want to sort of start us off here by grounding us in the very immediate moment
1:38.3	that's bringing this conversation into focus, which while it is related to recent events,
1:43.3	this conversation is also unfortunately
1:45.2	a very evergreen one. But last week in Kansas, the state abruptly began enforcing a new
1:51.8	law called SB 244 that effectively invalidates trans people's driver's licenses by requiring
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