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🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Here's the first half of our recording of Monday's Gaslit Nation Salon with Dr. Lisa Corrigan, author of Prison Power: How Prison Politics Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation, and Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties. Dr. Corrigan is the Director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Arkansas, and Affiliate Faculty in both African & African American Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies. The full discussion was over two hours, with Dr. Corrigan staying on to answer listeners' questions. Patreon supporters can find the full two-hour video recording of our discussion at Patreon.com/Gaslit. See you at Monday's salon at 4pm ET with Rise and Resist!

If you need to channel your rage and grief, especially after this recording, be sure to read Gaslit Nation's book of the month, From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp, which has inspired revolts around the world. Consider contributing in any way you can to crucial state races like Josh Weil's campaign in Florida and Judge Susan Crawford for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Every act of love and solidarity for our families and communities—whether it’s showing up to protests, making calls, or donating what you can—makes a real difference.

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EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:

March 31 4pm ET – Gaslit Nation Book Club: From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, which informed revolts in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, Hong Kong, and beyond
NEW! April 7 4pm ET – Security Committee Presents at the Gaslit Nation Salon. Don’t miss it!
Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available on Patreon.
Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available on Patreon.
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Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community

Show Notes:

Meet Dr. Lisa Corrigan https://gender-studies.uark.edu/directory.php?uid=lcorriga

Prison Power How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/B/Black-Feelings

Black Feelings Race and Affect in the Long Sixties https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/B/Black-Feelings

Trump and Musk pluck $80M in funding authorized by Congress from NYC’s bank account: The federal government took funds from the city's bank account and called it a “clawback” of taxpayer money. A lot of other people would call it stealing. https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-elon-musk-new-york-city-fema-funds-rcna192255

From Dictatorship to Democracy: https://archive.org/details/from_dictatorship_to_democracy_1306_librivox

Josh Weil for Congress https://joshweil.us/

Judge Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court https://www.crawfordforwi.com/

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0:00.0	All right, everyone, welcome to this special live taping of Gaslit Nation's salon. We are joined
0:10.6	today by Dr. Lisa Corrigan, author of Prison Power, How Prison Politics Influence the Movement
0:17.7	for Black Liberation, and Black Feelings, race and effect in the long 60s.
0:24.1	Dr. Corrigan is the director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Arkansas
0:28.7	and a professor in communications and an affiliate faculty in both African and African American
0:34.5	Studies and Latin American and Latino studies. Thank you so much,
0:39.5	Dr. Corrigan, for joining us. It's great to be here. Thanks for the invitation.
0:44.7	So before this conversation, I have been living in 1956, Romania. My father-in-law is in the historical record in Romania for leading a student uprising in
0:59.1	Bucharest as a 20-year-old medical student and spending six years in prison, which filled with
1:05.7	other students.
1:07.1	And they continued their efforts of resistance inside the prison camp.
1:11.3	And I've been reading a lot of research and so much more is coming out about his story
1:17.3	and other stories of the nameless that were made to disappear.
1:21.1	And I now turn to your work because what black people, what non-white people have experienced for generations
1:30.6	on the soil that is now called America is so similar to what Stalinist regimes, even
1:37.3	long after Stalin was dead in the 50s and 60s, what they went through, students trying to exercise their right to meet each other,
1:49.1	to share books, to produce artwork, to create movements for liberation.
1:55.8	And right now in America, we are obviously under this fascist threat.
2:00.9	And people keep saying, oh, Trump is like Hitler.
2:03.8	And I keep thinking, okay, well, let's look at that.
2:06.8	Because this is just me working some things out that I need to.
2:10.4	You know, this is like interview slash therapy session.
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