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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
30 episodes
Part One: Big Annie Clemenc and the Copper Strike of 1913
Aug 17, 2026 · 29 min
Margaret tells you the story of the tragic and powerful strike that shook Michigan and copper production, through the lens of the Joan of Arc of Calumet Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Finland https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/scandinavian/the-finns/ https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-michigan/ https://trailsendup.com/en/weather-in-the-upper-peninsula https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2014/spring/women-citizenship-…
CZM Book Club: The Storming of the Bastille, by Alexandre Dumas
Aug 16, 2026 · 45 min
Margaret reads you a story about the French Revolution and the destruction of a prison See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: Cory Doctorow on Speculative Fiction for Social Change
Aug 12, 2026 · 38 min
Margaret continues her interview with author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part One: Cory Doctorow on Speculative Fiction for Social Change
Aug 10, 2026 · 34 min
Margaret interviews the author and activist Cory Doctorow about the role of fiction in making a better world See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: What We Want, What We Believe, by Alex Smith, Part Two
Aug 9, 2026 · 45 min
Prince Shakur returns to finish reading Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Rewind: Part Two: Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them
Aug 5, 2026 · 31 min
Margaret continues talking to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care Original Air Date: 10.22.2025 Sources: https://translifeline.org/about/history/ https://translifeline.org/response-to-988-cuts/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/27/359434925/bernard-mayes-nprs-first-chairman-founder-of-suicide-hotline-dies https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Bernard-Mayes-to-be-honored-as…
CZM Rewind: Part One: Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them
Aug 3, 2026 · 36 min
Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care Original Air Date: 10.20.2025 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: What We Want, What We Believe by Alex Smith, Part One
Aug 2, 2026 · 55 min
Prince Shakur reads Margaret a story about revolution, repression, and survival for Black August See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare
Jul 29, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Margaret finishes her talk with Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan Sources: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.ht…
Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare
Jul 27, 2026 · 50 min
Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan. Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html https…
CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Four of Four)
Jul 26, 2026 · 34 min
Margaret finishes up reading you a story about punks, growing up, and refusing to lose your edge See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England
Jul 22, 2026 · 50 min
Margaret continuing talking to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was. Sources: https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/ https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe https://www.etymonline.com…
Part One: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England
Jul 20, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Margaret talks to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was Sources: https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/ https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour htt…
CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Three of Four)
Jul 19, 2026 · 28 min
Margaret continues the story of the last punk show played at Locust House See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All
Jul 15, 2026 · 37 min
Margaret finished telling you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt Sources: https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/ https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-kingdoms.html https://vintage.tn/why-is-there-a-city-named-thebes-in-greece-and-a/ https://spokenpast.com/articles/egyptian-dream-book/ https://ancientegypt.fandom…
Part One: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All
Jul 13, 2026 · 34 min
Margaret talks to you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt. Sources: https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/ https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-kingdoms.html https://vintage.tn/why-is-there-a-city-named-thebes-in-greece-and-a/ https://spokenpast.com/articles/egyptian-dream-book/ https://ancientegypt.fandom.com/wi…
CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Two of Four)
Jul 12, 2026 · 31 min
Margaret continues reading to you from a novella about a punk house in 2002 San Diego See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process
Jul 8, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min
Margaret continues her talk with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art. Sources: https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/ https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/ Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard Andy Cohen, personal correspondence https://www.…
Part One: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process
Jul 6, 2026 · 49 min
Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art Sources: https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/ https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/ Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard Andy Cohen, personal correspondence https://www.youtube.com/wa…
CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part One of Four)
Jul 5, 2026 · 29 min
For our longer summer read, Margaret reads you a novella about punk houses and identity and growing up written by a master of the medium See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down
Jul 1, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min
Margaret continues her talk with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bring-judgment-day/63271E8000571D588BF52B0F7CA2121E (BJD26 for 20% off) Sources: Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-i…
Part One: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down
Jun 29, 2026 · 59 min
Margaret talks with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison. Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bring-judgment-day/63271E8000571D588BF52B0F7CA2121E (BJD26 for 20% off) Sources: Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-…
CZM Book Club: Two Stories from Gaza Writes Back, edited by Refaat Alareer
Jun 28, 2026 · 45 min
Margaret reads you two stories and a poem from an anthology of young, Palestinian authors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire
Jun 24, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min
Margaret continues talking with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era. Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403 https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/ https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/ https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/ https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/ https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%2…
Part One: The Gay Ottomans: Homosexuality in the Medieval Ottoman Empire
Jun 22, 2026 · 1 hr
Margaret talks with Kaveh Hoda about the complicated history of homosexuality and homoeroticism in one of the most important empires of the medieval era. Sources: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41299403 https://www.thecollector.com/osman-i-ottoman-founder/ https://islamichistory.org/osman-gazi/ https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/jmurj/vol9/iss1/4/ https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/homosexuality-ii/ https://www.webology.org/data-cms/articles/20220528061731pmwebology%2019%20(2)%20-%20670%20pdf.pdf htt…
CZM Rewind: CZM Book Club: CZM Book Club Presents: The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón
Jun 21, 2026 · 28 min
Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution Original Air Date: 6.1.2025 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Two: The Movement Against the Corporal Punishment of Children
Jun 17, 2026 · 57 min
Margaret continues talking with Andrew Ti about the worldwide movement, backed by science, that is changing how we treat children. Sources: https://africapublicity.com/of-ancestors-and-amendments-rethinking-child-discipline-across-african-realms/ https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/usa/ https://www.right-to-education.org/sites/right-to-education.org/files/resource-attachments/CRC…
Part One: The Movement Against the Corporal Punishment of Children
Jun 15, 2026 · 54 min
Margaret talks with Andrew Ti about the worldwide movement, backed by science, that is changing how we treat children. Sources: https://africapublicity.com/of-ancestors-and-amendments-rethinking-child-discipline-across-african-realms/ https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world https://endcorporalpunishment.org/reports-on-every-state-and-territory/usa/ https://www.right-to-education.org/sites/right-to-education.org/files/resource-attachments/CRC_1989.pdf ht…
CZM Book Club: Poems by Incarcerated Authors -- with In The Belly Magazine
Jun 14, 2026 · 31 min
This week, In The Belly is doing a take over to feature the poems of incarcerated writers in their own voices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Part Six: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction
Jun 10, 2026 · 40 min
Margaret concludes the story of the punks, hippies, and poets in Vancouver, Canada who pioneered the modern harm reduction movement Sources: Fighting for Space, Travis Lupick (https://firestorm.coop/products/11537-fighting-for-space.html?referral=killjoy) https://www.addictionresource.net/heroin/types/china-white/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/poll-taxriot-anniversary-solomon-hughes-382/ https://abcbookworld.com/article/article-15099/ https://globalnews.ca/news/370804/income-by-postal-code/ ht…
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