The Platypus Affiliated Society

Ep. 9: On trans politics, London's anti-Trump protest, and sexual emancipation

On this episode of SPS, we discuss the confusion around "trans politics" & sexual emancipation and examine the limits of anti-Trump activism. Audrey Crescenti, Pam Nogales & Berkeley member, Will Lushbough, sits down with comedian Will Franken, who lived as a trans woman for a brief time, to talk about sexuality & the state of stand-up today. Laurie Rojas talks to UK members, Rory Hannigan & Pádraig Maguire about the recent anti-Trump protests in London. And Suzy V. drops by to discuss the Chicago queer scene and the difficulty of thinking about sexual emancipation today.

Articles mentioned:
(1) "The Word 'Cisgender': An Unlikely Semantic Revolutionary"
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-wor…10913904.html
(2) "Why Scarlett Johansson — Or Any Cis Actor — Should Never Play Trans Roles"
www.them.us/story/why-scarlett-…er-play-trans-roles

From the Platypus archives on sexual liberation:
(1) platypus1917.org/2016/10/17/9-16-…teach-frankfurt/
(2) platypus1917.org/2014/06/01/sexua…rum-2014-6-1-14/
(3) platypus1917.org/2011/02/01/which…xual-liberation/

Hosted by Audrey Crescenti, Pam C. Nogales C., Laurie Rojas.

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Zero Squared interview with Chris Cutrone: Prospect for a Left Politics

From the Zero Books website (August 2, 2018):

Chris Cutrone is a member of the Platypus Affiliated Society, a professor at The School of Art Institute of Chicago, and a returning guest to the Zero Books podcast. He is the author of a controversial essay entitled “Why Not Trump.” The piece was a half-hearted endorsement of Trump as the better adversary for the left, an opinion that is not at all self-evident today under Trump. However, this week we discuss the late Moishe Postone as well as Adolph Reed in the context of the death of politics."

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Fifty years of 1968

On April 6, 2018, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel discussion, Fifty Years of 1968, as the opening plenary of its 10th International Convention, 1918–2018: A Century of Counterrevolution, held in Chicago. Speaking at the event were Abdul Alkalimat, professor of African-American studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champagne, and author of numerous books, including Malcolm X for Beginners; Joseph Estes, a member of Platypus and of the Campaign for a Socialist Party; Johnny Mercer, a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain and an artist working in Chicago; and Mitchel Cohen, pamphleteer, poet, and founder of the Red Balloon Collective at SUNY Stony Brook in 1969. What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation.

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Housing crisis or capitalist crisis? Anti-gentrification and the Left

On February 17, 2018, at the 4th Platypus European Conference, the following panel discussion was held at Goldsmiths University London, with Simon Elmer (Architects for Social Housing), Matthew Lee (Stop the Elephant Development; University College London Cut the Rent) and Austin Williams (Future Cities Project; author, China's Urban Revolution).

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Interview with Lawrence Parker on the National Left-wing Movement

An interview with Lawrence Parker, the author of Communists and Labour: The National Left-Wing Movement, 1925-1929, conducted by Efraim Carlebach of the Platypus Affiliated Society on July 21, 2018.

An edited transcript of the interview was published in the Platypus Review Issue #111.

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