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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

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All Episodes

20:04

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May,...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/27

Margaret reads chapter six of her book, The Barrow Will Send What it May.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

54:41

Part Two: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/23

Author Suzanne Cope continues teaching Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

47:45

Part One: Women of War: Partisan Struggle Against...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/21

Author Suzanne Cope teaches Margaret about the history of women partisans in the Italian resistance, from her upcoming book Women of War.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

53:02

Part Two: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/16

Jordan from The Dugout continues teaching Margaret about the long history of Black antifascism that brought people to fight in the Spanish Civil War. James Yates, Mississippi to MadridSalaria Kea, “Doing Christ’s Duty”Canute Frankson’s letter from Spain (1937)“The Good Fight” (Documentary)Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln BrigadeALBA-Valb.org archivesTrussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots”National Archives & Harlem Oral History

en-US

61:45

Part One: Black Antifascists In the Spanish Civil War

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/14

Jordan from The Dugout teaches Margaret about the long history of Black antifascism that brought people to fight in the Spanish Civil War. James Yates, Mississippi to MadridSalaria Kea, “Doing Christ’s Duty”Canute Frankson’s letter from Spain (1937)“The Good Fight” (Documentary)Peter N. Carroll, The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln BrigadeALBA-Valb.org archivesTrussel.com, “The Peekskill Riots”National Archives & Harlem Oral History

en-US

25:50

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May,...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/13

Margaret reads another chapter from the second book in her Danielle Cain series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

71:02

Part Two: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/09

Margaret continues talking with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

70:16

Part One: A Madhouse Against the Nazis: the Story of...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/07

Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

54:54

CZM Book Club: Escape, part two

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/06

Margaret reads the second half of an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

62:03

Part Two: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/04/02

Margaret continues talking to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive. The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromihttps://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/osip-mandelstam

en-US

46:51

Part One: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/03/31

Margaret talks to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive. The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromihttps://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/osip-mandelstam

en-US

61:04

CZM Book Club: Escape, part one

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/03/30

Margaret reads an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an anarchist technology enthusiast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

58:00

CZM Rewind: Part Two: Gay Resistance to the Nazis

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/03/26

In this second rewind episode, Margaret continues to tell the story of gay artists and street gangs that fought the Nazis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

78:26

CZM Rewind: Gay Resistance to the Nazis

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/03/24

In this rewind episode, Margaret tells the story of gay artists and street gangs that fought the Nazis.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

29:53

CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May,...

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/03/23

Margaret reads Robert Evans the second book in her Danielle Cain series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

37:56

Part Two: The Fight Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/03/19

Margaret continues an epic tale of treesits, blockades, and resistance to fossil fuel infrastructure and environmental destruction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

33:39

Part One: The Fight Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/03/17

Margaret tells you an epic tale of treesits, blockades, and resistance to fossil fuel infrastructure and environmental destruction.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

53:49

Part Two: The Raid on Harpers Ferry Succeeded, Actually

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/03/12

Margaret continues talking with Bridget Todd about the five Black men who joined John Brown to spark the civil war.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

59:44

Part One: The Raid on Harpers Ferry Succeeded, Actually

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/03/10

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the five Black men who joined John Brown to spark the civil war.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

en-US

53:44

Part Two: Lesbian Mutual AID During the AIDS Crisis

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff ·

2025/03/05

Margaret continues talking with Andrew Ti about the mutual aid and solidarity offered by lesbians in the 1980s. https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/ward-5b-documentary/ https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/14/us/ward-5b-a-model-of-care-for-aids.html https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/26/736060834/1st-aids-ward-5b-fought-to-give-patients-compassionate-care-dignified-deaths https://www.reddit.com/r/Actuallylesbian/comments/16uyn8i/are_there_more_nuanced_accounts_of_lesbians/

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