Weekends: Markey Beats Kennedy, Welfare Terminators, and Bernie's Five Year War

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show from September 5th, with Ariella Thornhill filling in for Ana.

The guest today is Matt Karp. Matt is a historian, Jacobin contributing editor, and author of This Vast Southern Empire. Matt's epic new essay from the print issue can be read here.

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0:00.0	The Brothers and sisters comrades and friends welcome to another edition of weekends
0:23.0	Jacobin I am your host Nando Vila
0:25.4	my regular co-host and a Experian is off today
0:28.0	but we are very very lucky to have Ariella Thornhill with us
0:32.4	Ariella is a board member of Jacobin.
0:34.4	She's also a writer.
0:35.8	She's the author of a forthcoming book
0:37.7	called Socialist Sex Education.
0:40.6	Am I correct?
0:41.8	Yeah, Socialist sex ed.
0:43.8	Socialist sex ed.
0:45.0	Wow, that sounds fun.
0:47.4	Hopefully it is.
0:49.2	The goal of the book is to kind of teach sex education
0:52.4	without naturalizing the effects of
0:54.8	capitalism and inequality. So rather than say like if you get pregnant, you know your
1:00.1	life is ruined it unpacks why we have a society and social structures
1:05.3	that create those outcomes.
1:07.1	And then it talks to kids about what it would mean
1:09.9	to fight for their rights, to sexual pleasure, to reproductive care, and to economic security.
1:18.1	And so it looks at different campaigns where people have worked on these things like the
1:21.8	California Teacher Strike,
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