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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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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

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