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ART AND LABOR PRESENTS: ON MOE (preview)

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ART AND LABOR PRESENTS: ON MOE (preview)

00:00 / 16:44

We’re joined by distinguished panelists Beatrix Urkowitz and O Horvath, Kirby pornographer and Furry toy maker respectively, for a discussion we’re calling “On Moe.” Within anime fandom—what is appropriate and why? In this clip our guests bring great insights from the radical feminist writer Joanna Russ and an accidental Deleuzean analysis of Kirby. The rest of this packed 2 hour episode has been paywalled due to the sensitive issues we cover. Please support us on Patreon so we can keep paying brilliant artists to speak with us about both difficult and fun topics like this!

**Though this clip is fairly tame, we want to put a big content warning on the full episode for discussions of child abuse, sexual exploitation, and bodily violence**

Support Bea’s Infinizine: https://ko-fi.com/bmfu

To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Write_Like_a_Woman

Someone else already figured out Kirby’s Body Without Organs: https://kennethnovis.wordpress.com/2020/01/31/kirbys-body-without-organs/

Bea’s writing on Girls Last Tour: https://www.tcj.com/reviews/girls-last-tour/

On Moe-Moe essay: https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3723

167 – Who Archives the Internet Archive w/ O Horvath

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167 - Who Archives the Internet Archive w/ O Horvath

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Artist, librarian, and furry historian O Horvath (aka Popple) is BACK! We discuss a YouTube video with over 270k views that believes the Renaissance was either made by computers or a mystical power—ancient alien cranks also racist against Italians. Public education is clearly failing, and even though libraries and archives will not save us, we must protect them!

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Use and support the internet archive and way back machine

historical furry ep coming soon: https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Robert_Hill

the readymade and the tube of paint: https://www.artforum.com/print/198605/the-readymade-and-the-tube-of-paint-35050

ALA president: https://twitter.com/edrabinski

MD Library ebook lawsuit: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/88550-court-blocks-maryland-s-library-e-book-law.html

PDF of Sam Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: https://t.co/vT36nSCfC2

Piracy library theory book: https://litwinbooks.com/books/piracy/

166 – Euphoria Highschool Student Union (Part 1)

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166 - Euphoria Highschool Student Union (Part 1)

00:00 / 1:01:21

Get ready to be triggered ’cause watched HBO’s Euphoria to join what feels like a mass movement to re-live highschool as self harm. An exploitative show about exploitation, all shot on film for an extra 20k per episode. Gilded age 2 baby, get on the combination MetroNorth/LIRR and lfg!!! We do a quiz in part 2 and discuss some dicey subjects too edgelord for main post Abe assassination: PART 2 HERE.

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165 – A Generous Grift w/ Sam Lefebvre

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165 - A Generous Grift w/ Sam Lefebvre

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Fan favorite Sam Lefebvre’s newest work, the three-part series “A Generous Grift” for San Francisco-based community art space The Lab, is finally all here! We here at A+L felt the spacetime ripple from the upload and bolted awake in a cold sweat. Taking a magnifying glass to some particularly local, incredibly bold, and somehow publicly available fuckery from Oakland to Houston, Sam’s work expands past the typical conversation we have around how the art world perpetuates wealth for the wealthy, into direct examples of how museums uphold the real estate industry that causes our displacement and upholds the carceral state. All roads lead to tenant organizing, and any road after that you’re gonna have to figure out with your neighbors, in person. Shhhhhhhh🤫

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for a free copy of the print publication write: thelabsf@thelab.org

The Autonomous Tenants Union Network: https://atun-rsia.org/

Another Art World, Part 3: Policing and Symbolic Order Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/113/360192/another-art-world-part-3-policing-and-symbolic-order/

Propublica’s Nonprofit Explorer: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/

164 – TCAF Dispatch w/ Graham

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164 - TCAF Dispatch w/ Graham

00:00 / 1:22:43

We brought in writer and certified Canadian Graham (@GrahamSig) to discuss the bittersweet bummer that is the current state of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. He shares over 10 years of TCAF memories with us, which is extremely helpful to the analysis we’ve been trying to pull out of our asses about the YA-ification of comics. Lefty artists are losing the battle of gentrification, is it possible to change the material landscape and maintain a creative community’s integrity under capitalism? Or are we building the bones for the next Vegandale? We also go on several tangents about a new atheist k-8th.

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Check out Graham on No Cartridge’s Homicide Life on the Street watch through: https://www.patreon.com/NoCartridge

and on MyKreal’s streams on Fridays: https://twitter.com/MyKreal/status/1537977919082967044

163 – Groomer Pride w/ Joey De Jesus

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163 - Groomer Pride w/ Joey De Jesus

00:00 / 1:33:50

OK catches up with fan favorite fourth mic Joey De Jesus (@DeJesusSaves) to talk Pride month, gossip about NYC local elections/budget woes, and the trap of Puerto Rican statehood. Would you join the Queer liberation army? There’s gonna be sparkly maces involved! Also we’re leaning into groomer, it’s gonna be a whole problem. The establishment dems are ruining the parades and forging their ballot signatures, gotta hate being stuck in this garbage party! Putting another big trigger warning for serious gun violence during the last part of this episode.

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Missed our podcast? OK was interviewed on WNYC for yelling at the mayor: https://gothamist.com/news/queens-pride-parade-returns-to-jackson-heights-after-pandemic-pause

162 – Gun Cube Enclosure

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162 - Gun Cube Enclosure

00:00 / 1:16:52

I’m just asking questions- what if it all turned out to be lead the whole time? Generation theory: just lead? 20% chance of causing runaway climate collapse in this century, and people really want to get on our ass because of an insatiable desire (well, technically very satiable) to eat a Blake straight from the humidity-controlled archival reading room underneath the Seagram building? This week on Art and Labor: unspeakable tragedy, how artists fool themselves into thinking existing power structures give grants to people who’d threaten them. Rethink your entire practice, hon! Long live the hot dog fart zine scene!

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tcaf drama recap: https://www.comicsbeat.com/tcaf-disinvites-nft-minter-pink-cat-from-show-amid-criticism/

https://festivalworkers.com/

Authorities investigating if retired federal agent knew of Buffalo mass shooting plans in advance: https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/authorities-investigating-if-retired-federal-agent-knew-of-buffalo-mass-shooting-plans-in-advance/article_bd408f18-dd39-11ec-be53-df8fdd095d6f.html

http://www.gunsculpture.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Bromley

murder /k/ult snipets: eleven on Twitter: “sandman on the /k/ weapons board discussing his affiliation with the murderkube “religion” (2/3) https://t.co/ogxyMFEffc” / Twitter

(1) 0xngmi is grazing on Twitter: “megathread on milady and their founders: – miya’s writings – Grooming – Gaslighting – Systemspace and suicide of 17yo teen – Remilia implication proof of everything will be at the end of the thread” / Twitter

the internet is a bad place, but love is real, I love you

161 – The Wretched of the Multiverse

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161 - The Wretched of the Multiverse

00:00 / 1:24:24

OK gives Sarah a full Toronto report: new Kids in the Hall p good, Canada does not understand iced coffee or hanami, “New York” mode is real and you can harness it to mixed success, and alt comix lanlord art appears as TCAF is being shock doctrine’d?? We eventually get to our review of Everything Everywhere All at Once, which is obviously “it’s actually not insane enough.” History will reveal why Lucia has not been able to be on the podcast lately. Mostly, work sucks, everyone knows, why not enjoy some nice AU fanfic, it’s not gay to dream….I promise….

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160 – Living Our Fontosy w/ Popple

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160 - Living Our Fontosy w/ Popple

00:00 / 1:37:55

We’re back! And we brought the artist and vtuber sometimes known as POPPLE (aka swordsinverted). Get ready for your shift at the pussy eating factory, ’cause we’re on some sort of deranged queer Stalinism kick. We discuss information and cultural preservation work, living in punk houses, big tech in anime, and the escalation of the Drag Race Industrial Crisis. Enjoy this extra long episode! Promise we’ll get back to a regular schedule soon, we’ve been too busy doing stupid shit like having jobs.

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159 – Fire in the Disco

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159 - Fire in the Disco

00:00 / 1:14:37

A return to definitely a type of form, the Galleria caucus of Art and Labor (OK and Sarah) reckon with the eternal struggle of Knowing They Did A Gentrification To Bushwick. You, reader, however, are now yourself trapped in my web, unable to stop passively reading this sentence, which is that Kylie Minogue always has at least a couple songs on each album that sound like Starburst commercials, at least one absolute banger, and a bunch of shit. Aphrodite, however, is an entire album of Starburst commercials, and it’s a perfect driving album for the woman on the go with a cracked windshield and dangerously (but also sexily) corroded brake pads. We mostly, however, talk being abolitionists in the face of hateful tragedy like the Rash arson and debrief on the 7th annual Sonic 2006 party. If there was anyone in the north Brooklyn who deserved to be set aflame that night, it was probably us, sorry to all who attended. I also tell the same exact story I did last time I recorded about my sister getting hit by a Tesla, it’s a real meat and potatoes episode folks, we aim above all other things to be your comfort characters.

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