Pullback is a podcast that explores big ideas and asks: is this a real solution or a distraction? Through discussions with leading experts, we cover ideas that proponents say will address global problems like inequality and climate change.
Episodes
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Tuesday May 17, 2022
Kyla and Kristen join Eva and Emma of team Gender Troubles to kick off their Porn Month with a chat about whether porn can be ethical, and what ethical porn looks like in practice. Topics: Kristen and Kyla think Bridgerton is porn; Kyla eats a banana; what are the labour rights of folks in the porn industry; is big tech ruining porn with surveillance capitalism; how to support creators directly; legalizing the sex work industry; what policy makers should do next.
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Gender Troubles recommend: "Porn Work: Sex, Labor and Late Capitalism" by Heather Berg
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781469661926
They also recommend checking out their patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gender_troubles
Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Tuesday May 10, 2022
Encore! Look for pod favourite episodes being re-released outside of the regularly scheduled show.
In this episode, Kristen and Kyla are joined by food, migration, and labour historian Alexandra (Lex) Sundarsingh. Lex adds her knowledge about historical human rights abuses in sugar production — which, unfortunately, look a lot like present-day human rights abuses in sugar production. In their discussion, Lex, Kyla, and Kristen explain sugar production and why human rights practices are so fraught. They also discuss what you can do if you want to combat human rights abuses in sugar. Topics: Lex misses stationary street food; Toronto’s racist health panic (the one about food trucks, not COVID-19); Pad Thai robots!!; France’s kitchen brigade system; Canada is terrible at food diplomacy; sea lice is a thing, apparently; Lex’s new project on complaints filed by female Indian indentured labourers on British colonial sugar plantations; indentured servitude in the British empire; sugarcane versus sugar beets; sugarcane is still a human rights hellscape; there’s some baggage in the history of Canadian sugar beet production; Stevia and biopiracy; Kyla goes through sugar withdrawal; Kristen struggles to find fair trade; Lex is giving out Sweetness and Power like it’s a car and she’s Oprah.
Website: https://www.pullback.org/research/sugar
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Lex recommends the book Sweetness and Power: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/322123/sweetness-and-power-by-sidney-w-mintz/
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Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Kristen and Kyla celebrate May Day with special guest Emily Leedham, Prairie Reporter for Press Progress, and editor of Shift Work, a weekly newsletter round-up of national labour news, strikes, lockouts and new organizing across Canada.
Some of the topics covered in this episode include the current state of labour and unions in Canada, discussing how companies employ anti-union tactics (calling out Uber and Amazon specifically), how COVID has and will continue to affect labour in Canada, how the current state of journalism hurts the labour movement, and how workers can become empowered to protect themselves in a world that is becoming increasingly difficult to work in. Emily recommends the Organizing For Power Course, as well as Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age and Eric Blanc’s Red State Revolt to learn more!
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Press Progress: https://pressprogress.ca/
Shift Work: https://pressprogress.ca/shiftwork/
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Emily recommends!
https://pressprogress.ca/amazons-anti-union-tactics-around-the-world-show-what-canadian-warehouse-workers-are-up-against/
https://janemcalevey.com/speaking-engagement/organizing-for-power-the-core-fundamentals/2022-05-10/
https://janemcalevey.com/book/no-shortcuts-organizing-for-power-in-the-new-gilded-age/
https://www.versobooks.com/books/2955-red-state-revolt
Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Encore! Look for pod favourite episodes being re-released outside of the regularly scheduled show.
In this episode, Kristen and Kyla are joined by activist Robert Miller for a special May Day episode reflecting on the state of the labour movement. Topics: problems and challenges; successes and promising starts; the future of labour; and what you can do.
Website: https://www.pullback.org/research/mayday
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Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
Tuesday Apr 19, 2022
It’s Fashion Revolution Week! Kristen and Kyla are joined by special guest Erin Polowy, Partnerships and Programming Lead with Fashion Revolution; the founder and editor of My Green Closet, a YouTube channel, blog, and community for slow fashion; and the author of Quit Fast Fashion. Topics: what is Fashion Revolution; what are the problems within the fashion industry; what solutions are activists working on; how to engage with fashion activism.
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Website: https://www.pullback.org/episode-notes/episode82
My Green Closet: https://mygreencloset.com/
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Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
“Don’t get rid of all your pants. You’ve gotta wear pants.”
Welcome to our MEGA EPISODE where we re-mastered our Clothing series. In this tighter, better sounding classic, Kristen unravels some of the issues facing fast fashion. Topics: what is fast fashion; we are buying (and throwing out) so many clothes; how the fashion supply chain works; offshoring; FDR, labour hero; sweatshops; garment industry disasters; forced labour; child labour; the environmental impact of polyester, other synthetics, cotton, cellulosic fibres, wool, and bast fibres (best fibres!); pollution, water use, and emissions in the production of clothing; tools you can use to find sustainable clothing; the environmental impact of tossing clothes; escaping fast fashion; what is a conscious closet; fashion personality types; doing a wardrobe impact inventory; your clothing reuse plan; where clothing donations go; recycling clothes; clothing resale and rentals.
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Website: https://www.pullback.org/research/clothing
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Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Tuesday Apr 05, 2022
Kristen and Kyla are joined by special guest Corey Hardeman, painter, presenter, and certified Death Doula who also hosts workshops on climate grief. She holds a BSc in biology and is trained in both architectural drafting and classical drawing. Her art combines elements of traditional illustration and technical drawing, with a love of tonal painting and an eye for tension and movement.
Corey discusses what forms grief may take, how it manifests in relation to the climate crisis, and what listeners can do to help mitigate the anxiety and grief they may be feeling in our turbulent present.
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Website: https://www.pullback.org/episode-notes/episode81
Corey Hardeman: https://www.coreyhardeman.ca/
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Corey on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coreyhardemanpaint
Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Encore! Look for pod favourite episodes being re-released outside of the regularly scheduled show.
In this episode, Kristen and Kyla are joined by Robert Miller, a progressive activist and Extinction Rebellion organizer in the heart of oil country. The discussion is all about personal behaviour changes and where they fit in the global climate movement. Topics: the Wetsuweten solidarity blockades; protest and our relationship with public spaces; Robert’s climate crisis awakening; belief and the climate crisis; climate anxiety; the most important personal behaviour change for the climate; community-building as democracy; first steps to joining the climate movement.
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Website: https://www.pullback.org/research/climate-crisis
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Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Kristen and Kyla take on the world’s most iconic millennial food: the avocado! Tune in to hear a little of the history of the avocado (Kyla’s brain explodes when she realizes avocados are berries), as well as some of the modern issues facing farmers today, including cartel violence driven by lax American gun control laws and the war on drugs.
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Website: https://www.pullback.org/research/avocados
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Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Encore! Look for pod favourite episodes being re-released outside of the regularly scheduled show.
"And when I say 'generational wealth' this is a Duke, right? This dude has been inheriting wealth since, as far as we know, Camelot."
Kyla and Kristen are joined this week by Fariya Mohiuddin to talk about tax justice. Fariya has a masters degree in Global Affairs and works as the Senior Program Officer for the International Budget Partnership's Tax Equity Initiative. Topics: What is tax evasion and tax avoidance? Why is tax avoidance a problem? How big is the problem? How would a wealth tax work? How do we support businesses that pay their fair share, and what other solutions exist?
Website:
https://www.pullback.org/research/taxjustice
https://www.internationalbudget.org/about-ibp/who-we-are-2/staff/
https://www.globaltaxjustice.org/
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Fariya's Twitter: https://twitter.com/fariyamohiuddin
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Pullback is produced and hosted by Kristen Pue and Kyla Hewson. Logo by Rachel Beyer and Evan Vrinten.