The Child and Its Enemies

Brenton Clutterbuck on Discordianism as Anarchism

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:38:40 GMT

This time we talk to author and gonzo anthropologist Brenton Clutterbuck about his book Chasing Eris, Discordianism, and the interactions between the religion and youth liberation and anarchy. Stay Safe, Stay Dangerous!

Music is Glamour Girl by Um Jennifer

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Oak on Stop Cop City and Community-Based Art

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:20:45 GMT

mk: Hello and welcome to The Child and Its Enemies, a podcast about queer and neurodivergent kids living out anarchy and youth liberation here at the Child and its enemies. We believe that youth autonomy is not only crucial to queer and trans liberation, but to anarchy itself. Governance is inherently based on projecting linear narratives of time and development and gender onto our necessarily asynchronous and atemporal.

Queer lives and youth and teams are at the center of this form of oppression. Our goal with the podcast is to create a space by and for youth that challenges all forms of control and inspires us to create feared, feral, ageless networks of care. I'm your host MK Zariel. I'm 16 years old and I'm a French masculine poet theater artist and insurrectionary anarchist in the Great Lakes region.

With me today is anarchist visual artist and mutual aid organizer shining oak.

Oak: Hey, mk, it's great to be here. Thank you for welcoming onto your show. It's so important to have representation and networks for queer youth. I wish I knew of these kinds of resources when I was your age. I feel really honored to be here.

I'm a 22-year-old multimedia artist and aspiring ecologist and educator. I've lived and worked in Atlanta or Muskogee Creek territory most of my life. But I'm currently based in Ireland. I dabble in different media, but my favorite is Relief Print. I center queer liberation in my art, and I also do environmental and food justice work in my personal life.

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Tsela Barr of Jewish Voice for Peace

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 05:13:44 GMT

With me today is Tsela Barr, an organizer with the Madison, Wisconsin chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Tsela: Thanks for having me on your podcast. I guess I’ll start with my, my background and how I came to my activism.

I’ve been a Palestine solidarity activist since the mid eighties, so since roughly my early twenties I was raised in a pretty typical Jewish household in the DC area. And I went to services regularly at a synagogue. And my parents put me and my siblings in a Hebrew school...

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Ashley Halliwell on Music & Neuroqueer Community

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 05:00:00 GMT

"I could not even pretend to be neurotypical if I tried. So the neurodivergent community is very important to me. My fellow neurodivergents are my kin and my comrades, and we live anarchy day in and day out, even if we don't realize it. I think most of us would have a harder time trying to shove ourselves into capitalistic, neurotypical boxes than to let ourselves be free, if we all thought about it and did the work necessary to liberate ourselves and each other."

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David From Queer Satanic on Power Dynamics, Anarchy, and Satanism

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:19:13 GMT

Join us for an exploration of what Satanism has been and is today. David from Queer Satanic has been through the ringer being sued by The Satanic Temple numerous times. His group has successfully resisted litigation and exposed this so called church for the harmful and abusive institution it is. Let's hear what he has to say about Satanism and the Anarchist movement. Music today is I Survived American Christianity by New Here. You will find a transcript on our website at thechildanditsenemies.noblogs.org. Enjoy!

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Clover on Jail Support

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:18:57 GMT

From PDX Jail Support organizer Clover joins us for a discussion about the implications for youth that this strategy of organizing holds. Music from Elliot Smith this time. Enjoy!

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Shannon Clay on the History of Anti-Racist Action

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:23:08 GMT

Co-Author of the new book "We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action" Shannon Clay joins us for a discussion about this youth movement phenomenon that is still going strong today. Music fro Ramshackle Glory this time. Enjoy!

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Anarchist Educator Jordan on Alternative Schooling

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:00:50 GMT

An anarchist educator talks GEDs, queer youth organizing in schools, how to navigate academia as an anarchist, free schools, homeschooling, unschooling, and other queer insurrection <3

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Tom From Its Going Down

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 05:06:49 GMT

Join us and Tom from Its Going Down, one of the more successful anarchist news organizations in recent years, to talk about what got them into this work, how its going now, and thoughts about what people should be doing in this moment. Music is "Wrecking Ball" by Mother Mother. Enjoy!

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Madeline Lane-McKinley and Childhood as a Concept

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 01:10:11 GMT

An episode on Madeline Lane-McKinley and their work. We get into how it intersects with youth autonomy and liberation efforts. Heck we even talk about what childhood even means and where it comes from. Is children's literature even possible? This and more on a long one, double interlude, let's go!

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Shuli Branson and The Breakup Theory Of Anarchism

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:00:43 GMT

"We don't seek to create forever institutions or parties. We acknowledge that we need to retain the flexibility to move with conditions and to counter the tendency of power to collect and stay in certain places."

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Pearson, Host of Coffee with Comrades

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:00:28 GMT

Fuck theory, do shit.

To change everything, start anywhere.

Don't ever be deceived into thinking that you and a small group of your friends can't change the world.

Stay wild. Stay young. Stay free.

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Lola Bloom, Transfeminine YouTube Influencer

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:00:21 GMT

Lola Bloom on being trans online: "I think the space I aim to create would pave the way for trans kids to do similar work in an environment that isn't so hostile or alienating. I also think that giving people a space to exist and to be authentically themselves while they share skills and grow is integral to helping our community heal. It's incredibly difficult to transition and providing people the encouragement and resources they need is always my biggest success."

Lola's Discord: https://discord.gg/aDMWFZMtz2

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Vicky Osterweil, Author of THE EXTENDED UNIVERSE

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:30:00 GMT

Vicky Osterweil's book, as she puts it, seeks to answer two questions: "why are all superhero movies the same?" and "why did Disney lobby the Biden administration to stop them sharing the COVID vaccine with the third world in 2021?" THE EXTENDED UNIVERSE, her upcoming book, is all about the role of Disney in the nuclear family, ageism, and the state. On this podcast, we talk about media, trans health, and (yas) our childhoods projecting transness onto various Disney characters.

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Jennie Bastian, founder of Communication

Tue, 21 May 2024 14:00:46 GMT

No, Jennie Bastian did not invent communication as a concept. But she DID start a really cool punk venue by that name! Interested in riot grrl, political art, and social justice since her teen years, Jennie makes art about disability liberation, creates all-ages art spaces, and is a youth-liberationist parent of a five-year-old. In this episode, mk and Jennie chat about age inclusion in the punk scene, the role of art in social movements, and so much more.

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Cate Moses, Artist and Housing Advocate

Tue, 07 May 2024 14:00:30 GMT

"We were organizing and enacting mutual aid without having the words to call it that. Again, I credit my parents. They were hella organizers. Their tentacles reached way beyond our backwoods area. Without the internet. So I actually did know at an early age that resistance was not only possible but necessary. When the school told us asinine things like girls can't wear pants or salute the flag or there are different rules for poor and less poor; for different colors, when we figured out that our local volunteer fire dept. was the KKK, I knew what to do. Organize and fight back. Burn the flag, walk out of school, stand up on a desk and yell, sing, take to the woodswith your comrades. The possibilities are more numerous today, with digital media to amplify us, and youth so savvy and informed and using it to organize."

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Temperance Blyck, The Youth-Liberationist Lockdown Activist

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:00:04 GMT

Temperance Blyck organizes to defend old-growth forests by locking down to construction equipment. Temperance Blyck got radicalized as a kid in an alternative school. Temperance Blyck sometimes does community organizing with their friend's three-year-old. Temperance Blyck is really, really cool. And in this podcast, mk zariel chats with them about eco-defense, youth liberation, and tranarchy.

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Isabelle Santin of Chosen Few Software

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:48:19 GMT

Isabelle and mk discuss Chosen Few Software—the trans-anarchist tech company run by entirely youth and teens—as well as liberatory education, trans identity, and why, in Isabelle's words..."anarchy is the purest form of decentralized control. In my mind, its the ideal way to organize a massive network, whether that network is made out of computers or people, it makes little difference to me. The reality is that the computers we build are just as fallable as us. They just tend to do more and more of our thinking for us, as they become more powerful and reliable. I think its an important part of the future of human evolution, but we live at a point in time where our societies are beginning to show their scars, show their weak points."

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Skye-Gia Garcia of OutReach LGBTQ

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:05:52 GMT

Hello and welcome to THE CHILD AND ITS ENEMIES, a podcast for and about queer and neurodivergent kids and teens living out anarchy and youth liberation.

Here at THE CHILD AND ITS ENEMIES we believe that youth autonomy is not only crucial to queer and trans liberation, but to anarchy itself. Governance is inherently based on projecting linear narratives of time and Development and gender onto our necessarily asynchronous and atemporal queer lives, and kids, teens, and everyone else affected by anti-child ageism are at the center of this form of oppression.

Our goal with the podcast is to create a space by and for kids and teens that challenges all forms of control and inspires us to create neuroqueer, feral, ageless networks of care.

I'm your host, mk zariel. My pronouns are they/them, I'm fifteen years old, and I'm the youth correspondent at the Anarchist Review of Books, author of the blog Debate Me Bruh, and organizer of some all-ages queer spaces in my city and online. With me today is our first-ever guest, Skye Gia Garcia, who is a community organizer and freedom fighter! Hello, Skye!

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