“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time” – Angela Davis

In this episode we get high on alien drugs in a totally sexy way with Mallory Culbert. Mallory is a tech wiz, artist, drug policy activist and the author of Joyeux #1 & 2. She imagines other possible futures, Afro-futures and how harm reduction weaves into not just what we are but could be. Joyeux #1 is an aesthetic masterpiece, and explores drug afrofutures, by reorienting how we see the past.

Find out what the new drugs of the future will be, and remember, “Another World is Possible”

Edited by Marcel Rambo

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CN: Discussion of sexual assault, gendered violence of the drug war, colonialism, inequality, rape culture

[1] Joyeux #1 – Mallory Cullbert

[2] Silencing the Past – Michel Rolph Trouillot (psst there’s an audiobook version)

[3] Johnson & Johnson Vaccine & Colonialism (vid goes through the history, but stops at actually working through the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMY4UOA7E_w&ab_channel=JohnnyHarris

[4] Medical testing in Africa (and why it’s colonial): https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/4/8/medical-colonialism-in-africa-is-not-new 

[4] “Rabbit Test”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_test

[5] “science fiction to science fact” see Donna Haraway’s – Staying with the Trouble

[6] JOYEUX #2 (thanks Mallory for making it available): https://drive.google.com/file/d/14ZKdzjjFv9SsXkSmAmBaLB0eEJ2rBnkJ/view?usp=sharing