Unruly Subjects is back in the building and back in your feed! After a long, hot summer hiatus we’re returning with a very special episode recorded live at the Socialism Conference in Chicago, featuring a conversation with the legendary scholars and thinkers Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.

Chenjerai, Femi, and Ruth dig into these big questions: How do we reckon with this moment? And where do we go from here? (A huge thank you to our comrades at Haymarket Books for organizing the conference and for their ongoing support of independent media.)

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Additional Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Grizzly Beatz

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Further reading & sources from this episode:

By Ruth Wilson Gilmore:

• Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
• Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

By Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò:

• Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And What We Can Do About It)
• Reconsidering Reparations

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