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270 episodes
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Interdependent StudyExplicit
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Date created
2020/12/30
Latest episode
2026/09/30
Average duration
27 min.
Release period
8 days
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Class is in session. Interdependent Study is about the learning and unlearning work for social justice and collective liberation. Interdependent Study is hosted by Damien Franze, an angry Black man from Baltimore who wears his heart on his sleeve, and Aaron Hood, an angry white man from Florida who is always thinking. We’re two friends who work in education and share a commitment to social justice. We believe that we are always learning; always arriving. People constantly learn and unlearn by reflecting on their experiences. Interdependent Study is designed to be a community for this work.
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Zombies & Racial Othering
2026/09/30
There is a clear connection between zombies and foreign bodies—the racialized Other—in our media, pop culture, politics, and society, especially in the aftermath of the September 11th Attacks. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the pieces “Post-9/11 zombie terrorism” and “Zombies at the border” by Sherronda J. Brown in Scalawag, which highlight and analyze the history, role, and impact of the concept of the zombie racial Other in our media, pop culture, politics, and society, and what we learn and take away from these incredible pieces in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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Build Relationships, Fight Structures
2026/09/23
There’s so much to learn from the life, work, and legacy of civil rights activist, organizer, and lawyer Walter Riley. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Civil Rights and Structural Attacks: Conversations with Walter Riley, edited by Jesse Strauss (and published by AK Press), which features a conversation between Walter Riley and Jesse Strauss in which Riley shares political reflections and lessons from eight decades of his own movement work, and a discussion of the importance of relationship- and coalition-building and political action in our personal and collective organizing, activism, learning, and reflection work, and what we learn and take away from this incredible book in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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Death Penalties in Israel and USA
2026/09/16
There is a clear and chilling connection between the actions of the authoritarian regime of the United States and the authoritarian regime of Israel. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “Israel’s New Lynching Law Was Inspired by America’s Death Penalty” by Khury Petersen-Smith in Hammer & Hope, which highlights and analyzes the planning and passage of Israel’s new Death Penalty for Terrorists law, as well as the parallels and connections that exist between the authoritarian regimes of the United States and Israel, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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Banking & Broadband for the People
2026/09/09
The role and impact of public banking and broadband infrastructure and services is critically important in our lives and for our communities. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “Lessons From Fights For Public Control of Banking and Broadband Infrastructure”, featuring a conversation between Adem Sengal, Trinity Tran, and Sean Gonsalves in The Forge (in collaboration with Liberation in a Generation), which explores and analyzes the fight against corporate power in the context of the organizing and advocacy work for public banking and public broadband infrastructure and access in communities across the country, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece and conversation in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. (This is our fourth episode this year discussing The Forge’s Corporate Power series. Check out our other episodes wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.)
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Interrupting Anti-Trans Copaganda
2026/09/02
Anti-trans ideology and rhetoric has escalated over the years, and it is important for the media to be responsible with its reporting and coverage of these issues. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the resource “Don’t Be A Copagandist: Trans Criminalization Edition” by Arielle Rebekah (from Trans & Caffeinated Communications) and Lewis Raven Wallace and Andrea J. Ritchie (from Interrupting Criminalization) and published by Interrupting Criminalization, which serves as a resource for the media and journalists on how to properly cover and report the criminalization of trans, non-binary, and Two Spirit+ communities to effectively interrupt the noise of anti-trans propaganda, and what we learn and take away from this incredible resource in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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AI & the School to Prison Pipeline
2026/08/26
The role and impact of carceral AI technologies on our children in our schools and communities is extremely troublesome and only serves to push our children into the school-to-prison pipeline. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “The Algorithmic School-to-Prison Pipeline” by Nicholas E. Stewart in Inquest, which highlights and analyzes the dangerous impact of various carceral AI technologies being used across the country to surveil, flag, track, and push students into the school-to-prison pipeline and expand the reach of the carceral state and criminal punishment system, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. (This is our third episode this year discussing Inquest’s Carceral AI series. Check out our other episodes wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.)
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Indigenous Resistance: History & Future
2026/08/19
The lessons learned from the history of Indigenous resistance are an important part of our collective liberation. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes (originally published by Verso Books and republished by Haymarket Books), which outlines and analyzes the traditions and applications of Indigenous resistance throughout history, including fights against the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, Indigenous internationalism and the campaign for Indigenous rights with the United Nations, through to present-day organizing work to fight against fossil fuel pipelines, and what we learn and take away from this incredible book in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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SCOTUS Guts the VRA Again
2026/08/12
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais has essentially reversed the profound progress that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped to usher into this country. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “The Supreme Court Blesses the Destruction of Black Electoral Power” by Vincent M. Southerland in Hammer & Hope, which analyzes the Supreme Court’s recent Louisiana v. Callais decision and its impact on the gutting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and reversal of Black electoral power in this country, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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Resisting Corporate & Monopoly Power
2026/08/05
The role and impact of corporate power and monopoly power in this country on the economy and on marginalized communities has been significant. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “How We Beat Corporate Power Before”, featuring a conversation between Adem Sengal, Ron Knox, and Candace Milner in The Forge (in collaboration with Liberation in a Generation), which explores and analyzes the history of corporate power and monopoly power and how marginalized communities have resisted and organized against corporate power and for economic and social justice in various ways, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece and conversation in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. (This is our third episode this year discussing The Forge’s Corporate Power series. Check out our “Challenging Corporate Power” and “Disastrous Housing Policy” episodes wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.)
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Mutual Aid: Solidarity Beyond Crises
2026/07/29
There is power in community-based organizing and mutual aid to care for each other and fight for the world we all need and deserve. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade (and published by Verso Books), which outlines and analyzes mutual aid as an organizing tactic and strategy for building solidarity and addressing the needs of our communities in response to the wide array of crises we are and will collectively face, and what we learn and take away from this incredible book in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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Whose Independence? Aspirations & Contradictions
2026/07/15
The language in and about the Declaration of Independence is telling of the current state of the United States today. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “Do You Understand Your Own Language?” by Robin D. G. Kelley in Hammer & Hope, which explores the language in and about the Declaration of Independence and critiques and analysis of the document by Black radicals, thinkers, and abolitionists throughout history, as well as the implications and impact of this language on the United States today, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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Anti-Blackness In This Economy
2026/07/08
There is a clear connection between anti-Blackness and racism to the state of the political economy of the United States. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “Over 160 Years After Abolition, Anti-Black Racism Still Structures US Economy” by CJ Polychroniou in Truthout, which is a conversation between CJ Polychroniou and economic scholars Michelle Holder and Jeannette Wicks-Lim about how anti-Blackness and racism have developed in the contemporary United States and their role on our political economy, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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Carceral AI & Precrime
2026/07/01
The role and impact of carceral AI technologies in our criminal punishment system and on our society is significant, outrageous, and dangerous. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “Precrime Is No Longer Science Fiction” by Sarah Fathallah in Inquest, which highlights and analyzes the dangerous impact of biometric technologies to predict the likelihood of crime and criminality and expand the reach of the carceral state and criminal punishment system, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. (This is our second episode this year discussing Inquest’s Carceral AI series. Check out our first episode “Carceral AI and the Police State” wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.)
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Dr. King & Gangs in Chicago
2026/06/24
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work with Black and Latino gang members in Chicago in the 1960s shows his commitment to engaging young people in the Black freedom struggle. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the piece “The Martin Luther King Jr. We Don’t Know” by Jeanne Theoharis in Hammer & Hope, which highlights and analyzes the history of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s lesser known work with Black and Latino gang members in Chicago in the 1960s to support their organizing work, develop their power and leadership potential, and engage them in the broader Black freedom struggle, and what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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Sportswashing & the World Cup
2026/06/17
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is here, but it is fueled by an undercurrent and history of sportswashing and corruption. Listen as Aaron and Damien discuss the book Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine by Jules Boykoff (and published by OR Books), which analyzes and critiques the history and impact of sportswashing, politics, corruption, and authoritarianism on FIFA and the global sport of soccer as the 2026 FIFA World Cup is in full swing, and what we learn and take away from this incredible book in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation.
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TerrapinDan 2024/04/09
Insightful & Thoughtful
From the first listen of this podcast, it was clear that each episode would bring an introduction to and exploration of the challenging social issues ...
kusemek18 2024/04/03
Disappointed
This podcast seemed inspirational, mature and thoughtful until the hosts started focusing on the current war in Israel, seemingly blaming everything o...
KringleCake 2021/04/01
Hit the play button! Amazing.
Great new podcast find, that covers a range of topics and entails timely conversations! The two host Damien & Aaron are personable, knowledgeable and ...
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