Nothing Never Happens

Feb 18 2025 50 ep. 60 mins 1.3k
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Nothing Never Happens is a journey into cutting-edge pedagogical theory and praxis, where co-hosts Tina Pippin and Lucia Hulsether connect with leading voices in radical teaching and learning. We engage a range of approaches — including but not limited to democratic, feminist, queer, decolonial, and abolitionist models.

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Beyond/Against/Within Education: Radical Pedagogy as Radical Study

Feb 18 2025 55 mins  
What is education for? What modes of study become possible beyond the frameworks of formal schools and universities? How does radical studying fit into the work of grassroots liberation work?As we enter the new year, educator, writer, and organizer Eli Meyerhoff brings us back to foundational questions about radical pedagogy. His book Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another

Practicing Pedagogies of Resistance and Liberation: The Critical Study of Zionism

Nov 18 2024 72 mins  
This podcast is a dual release between Nothing Never Happens and The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism’s “Unpacking Zionism” podcast.* * * * * How have the norms of mainstream educational institutions shaped how teachers and students can study and talk about Zionism? What does it mean to study Zionism critically? What does the current moment -- fourteen months into

No Separation: Religion, Race, and Moral Education in US Public Schools

Sep 30 2024 67 mins  
How has the intersection between religious and racial politics shaped the landscape of public education in the United States? How have communities, both past and present, historically resisted covert and overt white Christian supremacy in public education? What lessons can radical pedagogues draw from these movements today?Our September 2024 episode features Dr. Leslie Ribovich, a

Humanizing Critical Pedagogy: The Promise of Community Colleges

Jul 31 2024 65 mins  
Sometimes theories of critical pedagogy can be quite abstract. What does it look like to front concrete practices in our approaches to this tradition? How do those practices change in the context of community colleges? What can radical community college educators teach us about radical teaching and learning broadly?Our July 2024 episode features three community college educators wh

Roots, Branches, Wings: On Feminist Theater of the Oppressed

Jun 30 2024 71 mins  
Feminist Theater of the Oppressed: What is it? How can its philosophies and methods transform our approaches to critical pedagogy? How does Feminist Theater of the Oppressed help us reflect on improvisation, experimentation, and power in our teaching and organizing contexts?Our June 2024 guest, Bárbara Santos, takes up these questions as a portal into discussion of how power shape

Feed the People! From Alternative Schools to Anarchist Pedagogies

May 30 2024 66 mins  
What is anarchist pedagogy? What does it have to do with so-called “alternative” schools, where mainstream educational systems often send students they have expelled, suspended, or otherwise excluded? How can working at the intersection of anarchist pedagogical philosophy and marginalized educational spaces open up new layers for how we rearrange power and accountability in lea

Playing with Texts: Pedagogies of Scripture

Mar 31 2024 69 mins  
What does critical pedagogy offer when it comes to texts entangled with histories of oppression and disenfranchisement? How might we approach these texts so as to ask new questions and bring out different stories?In this episode, we discuss these questions with three scholars from the Institute for Signifying Scriptures. These scholars discuss how the normative ways of studying "sa

Revolutionary Blueprints: The Question of Palestine is a Question of Pedagogy (RE-RELEASE)

Feb 29 2024 64 mins  
How can we align our pedagogies with the Palestinian freedom struggle and other anti-colonial movements? How do we tune our minds and imaginations toward just futures--even and especially when facing retaliation for liberationist stances?In light of the reinvigorated global struggle for a free Palestine, and as we witness the state of Israel's ongoing genocidal violence against Pal

Community as Rebellion: A Conversation with Lorgia García-Peña

Dec 30 2023 57 mins  
What does it mean to “teach in and for freedom”? What does it look like to create liberatory spaces centered around the lives and needs of faculty and students of color? How do we sustain and defend such feminist and anti-racist teaching against threats of institutional cooptation, censure, and exploitation?To ring out 2023, we welcome Professor Lorgia García-Peña to discuss

Libraries Are Magical: On Public Space, Democracy, and Free Access to Information

Nov 30 2023 59 mins  
Many of us think of public libraries primarily as places to read and check out books—but this is only the beginning of their role in our communities. What else do libraries do? What roles do libraries and librarians play in broader movements for social democracy and educational access? How can we collectively defend our libraries from right-wing attacks on their vital work?Our No