Even leftists dont talk about animals. @TheLeftistCooks

The Leftist Cooks It is dangerous when we, as leftists, can’t discuss a topic. We are committed to examining and breaking down structural inequalities, but there are still some topics it’s taboo to talk about: animals.

Why can’t leftists talk about animals? We discuss cognitive biases, stigma, workers' rights, and, yes, animal rights too. Because bad actors have been taking advantage of the situation while we've been too afraid to look. Featuring:
Allie O'Rourke: twitter.com/allie_orourke, Sophia Malaika, @caelanconrad and Andy from @SeitanicPanicc

Help support the channel on patreon: patreon.com/TheLeftistCooks

Our citations were too powerful for this description, you can find them here:
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Check out the channels from our amazing voice actors:
@ZyllasAthenaeum
@atomfellows
@LegalKimchi
@MainelyMandy
@verilybitchie
@hootsyoutube
@zoe_bee

With additional thanks to Moshe Jonathan Gordon Radain, Zoë Barbeaux, and @Ember_Green for your help and voices!

Recipe:
Make chips however you prefer. We cut and fry potatoes, but store-bought frozen guys work just as well. Don't overcook, because they're going back in the oven. Arrange them on a baking tray
Sauce: Mix equal parts miso and vegan mayonnaise. Add garlic paste and lemon juice to taste. Should be super umami-i. Drizzle, as best as you can, over the chips.
Dry: Sprinkle, to taste, over chips: MSG, nutritional yeast, salt, pepper, and (optionally) a melty variety of vegan cheese
Put in the oven until everything is warm and melty.
Garnish, if you want, with coriander, chives, or wild garlic. Devour

0:00 Intro
08:00 How do you tell if someone is a vegan? They'll tell you.
24:28 I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach
42:47 Intermission
46:03 The meat of the issue
1:05:48 Coming out

updated 2 years ago

Even leftists dont talk about animals.

The Leftist Cooks 2022-05-27 | It is dangerous when we, as leftists, can’t discuss a topic. We are committed to examining and breaking down structural inequalities, but there are still some topics it’s taboo to talk about: animals.

Why can’t leftists talk about animals? We discuss cognitive biases, stigma, workers' rights, and, yes, animal rights too. Because bad actors have been taking advantage of the situation while we've been too afraid to look. Featuring:
Allie O'Rourke: twitter.com/allie_orourke, Sophia Malaika, @caelanconrad and Andy from @SeitanicPanicc

Help support the channel on patreon: patreon.com/TheLeftistCooks

Our citations were too powerful for this description, you can find them here:
tinyurl.com/w6rux38v

Check out the channels from our amazing voice actors:
@ZyllasAthenaeum
@atomfellows
@LegalKimchi
@MainelyMandy
@verilybitchie
@hootsyoutube
@zoe_bee

With additional thanks to Moshe Jonathan Gordon Radain, Zoë Barbeaux, and @Ember_Green for your help and voices!

Recipe:
Make chips however you prefer. We cut and fry potatoes, but store-bought frozen guys work just as well. Don't overcook, because they're going back in the oven. Arrange them on a baking tray
Sauce: Mix equal parts miso and vegan mayonnaise. Add garlic paste and lemon juice to taste. Should be super umami-i. Drizzle, as best as you can, over the chips.
Dry: Sprinkle, to taste, over chips: MSG, nutritional yeast, salt, pepper, and (optionally) a melty variety of vegan cheese
Put in the oven until everything is warm and melty.
Garnish, if you want, with coriander, chives, or wild garlic. Devour

0:00 Intro
08:00 How do you tell if someone is a vegan? They'll tell you.
24:28 I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach
42:47 Intermission
46:03 The meat of the issue
1:05:48 Coming out

Should People Exist? Antinatalism and the Politics of Pregnancy

The Leftist Cooks 2024-08-25 | Reproductive Justice, antinatalism, feminism, and the future of humanity. Is it ethical to have children?

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With illustration by:
Tomm Moore: instagram.com/tomm9769?igsh=djdvZnZnYzBtaW9t
Bloom Burn: tumblr.com/bloomburnweepwilt

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
0:06:06 Part One
0:24:03 Part Two
0:59:36 Part Three
1:36:45 Part Four
2:18:34 Part Five
2:43:40 Conclusion

This leftist video essay strives to debunk the work of philosopher David Benatar, the preeminent theorist on antinatalist philosophy, and his work "Better Never to have Been." It discusses feminist perspectives on childbirth, child raising, and mothering from Simone de Beauvoir, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and others drawing on "The Second Sex", "M/other ourselves", "The Feminine Mystique," and "Revolutionary Mothering". We debunk common pregnancy misconceptions, dissect pregnancy literature, and shine a light on pregnancy related medical malpractice. We talk about trad wives and other conservative pro-natalists. And we discuss why it might be hard to have children now, between late stage capitalism and climate collapse, and introduce social infertility and why addressing it should be a leftist goal. Also yeah, it's a pregnancy announcement.

How America Bought Ireland

The Leftist Cooks 2024-05-30 | There's a petrol station in Ireland dedicated to Barack Obama?? That's weird! I wonder why that would be.

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Thank you to our incredibly talented voice readers. Please check out their channels:
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The youtube short about Hope is by @HogandDice . Please subscribe to their channel for daily Irish proverbs, or check out some yourself at duchas.ie

Chapters
00:00 Intro
1:36 Barack Obama Plaza
13:58 Old Roads & New Roads
24:14 Dublin (or a corporate colony)
45:31 Supermac's
56:24 Why is the world like this?
1:09:30 Hope & Change
1:29:53 Conclusion

Why is it Expensive to be Poor?

The Leftist Cooks 2024-02-27 | Someone stole our car and you won't believe what happened next!
We're talking about poverty, trauma, the bad things that happen to us, and how we can cope.
But it's funny! We swear!

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Citations: docs.google.com/document/d/1qfpJhBkVw4vbpwir42xaw_Yv66SIUsgh7P_2B3O6tc0/edit?usp=sharing

Featuring the voices of:
@ThatDangDad
@talistheintrovert
@FinntasticMrFox
@Ember_Green
@LegalKimchi

And thanks to our friend Owen.
You can follow him on instagram at instagram.com/keepitgowen
or you can buy his book at: amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B083C49D28/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&dib_tag=AUTHOR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.RMGIJS2BRwF6wJ5ythscMQ.XhWwxeWmf2UKnE_3Oeh0Gx88HJlE4_Rf7VC523Et148&qid=&sr=

** Help is available, no matter how dark and intractible it seems.**
Here are some crisis services for countries where people commonly watch our videos. If your country isn't listed, you can find resources here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

For the US and Canada:
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Youthline: theyouthline.org
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Trans Lifeline: translifeline.org

The UK:
Samaritans: http://www.samaritans.org
CALM: thecalmzone.net

Germany:
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Australia:
Lifeline: https://www.lifeline.org.au/
Kids Helpline: https://kidshelpline.com.au/

Netherlands:
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Ireland:
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Contents
00:00 Our Car was Stolen
0:02:35 Dread and Airports
0:31:29 Poverty, Refrigerators, and Marshmallows
0:53:14 Rescuing the Car
1:03:35 CW Despair
1:24:03 Hope

Harm and Justice

The Leftist Cooks 2023-11-29 | What should we do when someone in our community has done something wrong? And how should we act when that person is us?
A Video Essay on Justice by the Leftist Cooks.

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Link to Layla F. Saad's workbook: laylafsaad.com/meandwhitesupremacy **
Link to Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg's website:
danyaruttenberg.net

** Note: the purchase link on Saad's website appears to be broken. If you want to buy her book we'd recommend checking a local bookshop.

Thank you to our extremely talented quote readers. Please check out their channels:
@HyphenatedHistoryUK
@styleissubstance
@Suzaka
@soulbunni
@rohanxdavis
@hootsyoutube
@WhatsTherapy
@JohntheDuncan
@LegalKimchi
@AnansisLibrary
@COLORMIND.mp4
@BABILA.

Chapters:
Intro: 00:00
Owning the Harm: 02:01
Naming the Harm: 17:15
Starting to Change 1: 32:41
CW: 40:57
Starting to Change 2: 45:22
Seeking Support: 48:22
Restitution and Accountability: 57:23
Apologising: 1:05:34
Being a Mess: 1:25:55
Seeking Forgiveness: 1:40:33
Conclusion: 1:53:20

Spider-Verse, Identity Politics, Leftist Infighting, and the Oppression Olympics

The Leftist Cooks 2023-08-20 | Has Spiderman gone "woke," and what does woke mean anyway?
Should the left participate in identity politics, or do they distract from class solidarity?
A video essay about identity and belonging, Baudrillard and Bordieu, how we parse reality, and how we find our place within it.

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Citations: docs.google.com/document/d/1fg3YPz3RR_7a-kP2v0UQeynI1RfrPDDSnPj9RcyRHf4/edit?usp=sharing

Featuring the Extraordinary Voice Talents of:

@HyphenatedHistoryUK
@drapetomania_
@Tirrrb
@JawnLouis
Atom from @atomfellows
@FDSignifire
@SophiefromMars
@disruptivephilosophy
@JoseMariaLuna
@bootstrap_paradox
@Aranock
@lumirueluv
@AnRel
@BellamyJay
@LegalKimchi
@WillieMuse2
@MainelyMandy
@renegadecut9875

With extra special thanks to the enormously talented @Salari as Squintin.

Chapters:
Prosteige: 00:00
The Oppression Olympics: 00:04:02
Identity Politics on the Left: 00:16:44
What is Woke?: 00:39:25
Identity Politics and Conservativism: 01:00:19
Punk Ontology: 01:12:15
Spoilers: 01:43:50
Punk Ontology cont: 01:44:53
Liberal Identity Politics: 01:51:48
Cucked by Idpol: 02:08:45
Conclusion: 02:23:58

Sex and the Revolution

The Leftist Cooks 2023-05-29 | Sex. Feminism. Why pleasure is important and why none of us are free unless we all are. Welcome to the revolution, we've brought hummus.
Patreon: patreon.com/TheLeftistCooks

Written by Sarah Oeffler and Neil Farrell

This video took 6 months and will likely not make ad revenue on youtube.
If you have the capacity, please consider becoming a patron:
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Citations here: docs.google.com/document/d/1SceirYjsr4RKu8tK0vy_TBZCjlsjbKJZ3_4fcMRotoU/edit?usp=sharing

We could not have made this essay without our collaborators. People gave us uncompensated labour because they are passionate about the same things we are.
Please, if you aren’t already familiar with them, please go subscribe to their channels and watch their videos.
They are all incredible creators:

Fouchoul set design by Atom Fellows @atomfellows
@caelanconrad Sheila Jefferies
@AnRel as Margaret Mead
@lonerbox as Concerned Scientist
@HyphenatedHistoryUK as Ruth Goldman
@ArtemisMunoz as Gloria Anzaldúa
@themaddiemerlin as Eve Sedgwick
@ThatDangDad as Leo Strauss
@atomfellows as The Editor/Michel Foucault
@Mexie as Rita May Brown
@upinurbiz as Mary Daly
@miacole as Janice Raymond
@vivianstrange as Kate Millet
@zoe_bee as Shulameth Firestone
@Tirrrb as Space Tirrrb
@Ember_Green as Emma Goldman
@LegalKimchi as Left-Wing French
@3rdWorldMiss reading Enough
@JessieGender1 as Mira Bellweather
@hootsyoutube as Marina Dove
@KhadijaMbowe as Black Women's Blueprint
@BABILA. as Christian Grey
@DaintyFunk as Rebekah Walker
@lily_lxndr as Andrea Long Chu
@alexander_avila reading Amatonormativity (Definition by Elizabeth Brake)
@Salari as Squintin

Chapters:
Intro: 00:00
Born this Way, LGBT as Taboo: 00:02:39
Censorship: 00:23:47
Gender Criticals and Sex: 00:35:01
Vegan Mac and Cheese: 00:54:31
What is pleasure?: 00:54:58
K¡nk and BDSM: 01:09:25
Third Wave Feminism: 1:24:51
Asexuals: 1:44:55
Why the Left Can't Use Joy: 01:56:45
Just Stop: 02:12:58
Conclusion: 02:39:50
?? : 02:48:42

This is Not a Video Essay

The Leftist Cooks 2023-03-09 | Serious Men, the Muppets, and Mortality.
A not video essay by Neil and Sarah.

We did not take a sponsor for this video. If you're able to support the channel you can do so at: patreon.com/neilfarrell

Featuring the incredible insights of: @Tom_Nicholas, @Tirrrb , @KhadijaMbowe , @caelanconrad , @LolaSebastian , @miacole

With voice work by: @Salari

Chapters:
Intro: 00:00
Act 1: 00:09:26
Act 2: 00:36:27
Act 3: 00:54:31
Conclusion: 01:32:48

A Song About Pluto:
neilfarrell.bandcamp.com/track/a-song-about-pluto

Citation:
Schwartz, A. B. (2015). Broadcast hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the art of fake news. Macmillan.

Further reading:
The Ethics of Ambiguity
marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/index.htm

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Sarah's Twitter: twitter.com/Saribeaux

Is Northern Ireland a Country?

The Leftist Cooks 2023-02-01 | What country does the northern part of Ireland belong to? What a simple question! We should be able to answer this very quickly.

Behold, a fully re-edited and re-made re-release of the video that youtube didn't think you should see. Why, you may ask? Did you show nudity or v$0lence? Heavens no. But we did, in fact, talk about the colonial history of Ireland and ways in which that colonisation might still... be... happening right now.

But it's a cheery breezy Leftist Cooks video. Surely we wouldn't be silly enough to tempt the algorithm gods again.... right?

We're on Patreon: patreon.com/TheLeftistCooks
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And we have a channel wishlist (please no pressure): amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2P8KCLJHTDH6A?ref_=wl_share

Thank you to @hootsyoutube for excellent Thatcherian voicework, Paul from @Marxism_Today for his phenomenal analysis, @robmulhern3799 for playing the Irish-Speaking Hitchhiker, and Atom from @atomfellows for their return as "The Editor".

Music featured in this episode from Neil Farrell's album The Universe is Sound, available here: neilfarrell.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-is-sound

Chapters:
Video: 00:00
Sponsor: 26:37
Video: 29:30

Citations
TheNumber10.gov.UK, Countries within a Country, 10 January 2003, access date Feb 2022 (webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20080909013512/http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page823)

Bollens, S. A. (2000). On narrow ground: Urban policy and ethnic conflict in Jerusalem and Belfast. SUNY Press.

2021 Census, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, (nisra.gov.uk/statistics/census)

Farrell, B. (1971). The founding of Dáil Eireann: parliament and nation building (No. 2). Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.

Ainsworth, J. (2001). British security policy in Ireland, 1920-1921. The Australian Journal of Irish Studies, 176-190.

Mullally, U. 2017, 11 March. A history of Ireland in 100 great quotes. The Irish Times. irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/a-history-of-ireland-in-100-great-quotes-1.2994069

Final text of the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland as signed. 1921, 6 December 1921. Available through: Documents on Irish Foreign Policy. https://www.difp.ie/volume-1/1921/anglo-irish-treaty/214/#section-documentpage

Collins, L. (2019). Ireland’s War of Independence 1919-21: The IRA’s Guerrilla Campaign. The O'Brien Press Ltd.

theirishstory.com/2020/01/13/the-black-and-tans-and-auxiliaries-an-overview

irishcentral.com/opinion/others/ireland-winston-churchill

legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/10-11/67/schedule/FIFTH/enacted

amazon.com/Bloody-Sunday-Inquiry-Families-Speak/dp/0745325106

Smith, E. (1939). Life's a Circus. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 142

McCann, M. (2019). Burnt Out: How the Troubles' Began. Mercier Press Ltd.

UN General Assembly, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 28 July 1951, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, available at: unhcr.org/4ca34be29.pdf

Browne, B. "The Troubles: Tens of Thousands of People Were Violently Displaced in Northern Ireland."

Connolly, S. J. (Ed.). (2012). Belfast 400: People, place and history. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Browne, B. C., & Asprooth-Jackson, C. (2019). From 1969 to 2018: Relocating historical narratives of displacement during ‘the Troubles’ through the European migrant crisis. Capital & Class, 43(1), 23-38.

THE REMEMBRANCE COMMISSION AND SCHEME OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, REMEMBRANCE, AND ASSISTANCE FOR VICTIMS IN THIS JURISDICTION OF THE CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND
https://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/RembCommOverview.pdf/Files/RembCommOverview.pdf

UN General Assembly, Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 28 July 1951, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, available at: unhcr.org/4ca34be29.pdf

theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/11/its-so-dangerous-to-be-a-black-american-ive-sought-asylum-in-canada

colorlines.com/articles/canada-denies-asylum-african-american-man-fearing-police-violence

unhcr.org/en-ie/publications/brochures/5ebe6b8d4/protecting-persons-diverse-sexual-orientation-gender-identities.html

https://www.thejournal.ie/thatcher-cannot-trust-the-irish-873496-Apr2013/

margaretthatcher.org/document/104641

Further Reading:

Althusser, L. (1973), "Reply to John Lewis" in Essays in Self-Criticism (1976), pp. 33–100, 95. ISBN 0-902308-87-4

Housing TV is Selling a Scam

The Leftist Cooks 2022-12-19 | We're on Patreon: patreon.com/TheLeftistCooks
And on Discord: Join our Discord: discord.gg/7wSXkaBFcF

Let's talk about houses, those things that everyone has and that are really easy to get, those things which you need to have in order to not die! Let's talk about the housing market and how strange it is that this basic necessity is the thing you're meant to make all the money from! Let's talk about that very cool situation where someone will let you live in a house they own in exchange for lots of your own money which you'll never get back! Let's talk about predatory mortgages, financial crisis, land back. Let's talk about... Kevin McCloud's Grand Designs!

Featuring the voices of:
@ponderful
@BABILA.
@Rosencreutzzz
@atomfellows
@SKTheCrusader
@FDSignifire
@hootsyoutube
@ThoughtSlime

Citations: docs.google.com/document/d/1X5_aQWm27R5T7RP3rTT2qtlHCf3lkOPweyvx-jq8A8c/edit

Youre Probably Mentally Ill

The Leftist Cooks 2022-10-25 | We're all probably mentally ill. Why don't we talk about it?
History, anthropology, mad pride, and some confession thrown in, why not. It's a Leftist Cook video.
You're probably mentally ill, and it's ok.

We have a Patreon!

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Citations:
docs.google.com/document/d/1s2i0yeqoaRSgrP4iEQz931vZiys_VdFUUd8ahRnCh2M/edit?usp=sharing

Mad Pride Resources:
- Hearing Voices Network:
hearing-voices.org/about-us
- Rachel Waddington, Behind the Label: behindthelabel.co.uk/about
- The work of Sarah K. Reece: sarahkreece.com/2013/09/26/poem-voices-in-the-night

Chapters:
Intro: 00:00
Why is Mental Illness a Category: 02:16
What is a Narcissist?: 13:34
Expertise: 28:15
The Problem with Psychology: 35:36
Panopticon of the Bog: 48:51
Mad Pride and Community Support: 59:52
Conclusion: 1:23:05

Neil is on twitter @theleftistcook

Sarah is on twitter @saribocook

Youre Wrong About Dunking

The Leftist Cooks 2022-08-24 | Dunking! It's fun! Because fuck Ben Shapiro!
Except what if dunking is bad, actually? Or! What if it's speaking truth to power? Could there be anthropological reasons for dunking? Is it possibly good actually? We don't know, but we made a YouTube video about it! Fuck Ben Shapiro!

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Because of technological issues, this episode was edited by the incredible @caelanconrad. Please check out their channel if you haven't already!

** The Leftist Cooks are Neil Farrell and Sarah Oeffler. **

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Neil's Twitter: twitter.com/TheLeftistCook
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Recipe:
100g softened vegan butter
2/3 cup flour
1/3 caster sugar

mix well and form into finger shapes
put in oven at 190 c
bake for 15/20 minutes

Citations:

BBC (2022, April 5) "Privatising Channel 4: What could new ownership mean and who might buy it?" BBC News. bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60993887

Flade, F., Klar, Y., & Imhoff, R. (2019). Unite against: A common threat invokes spontaneous decategorization between social categories. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103890.

Hopkins, J. (2006, 11 Oct.) "Surprise! There's a third YouTube co-founder." USA TODAY.

Kashima, Y., Yamaguchi, S., Kim, U., Choi, S. C., Gelfand, M. J., & Yuki, M. (1995). Culture, gender, and self: a perspective from individualism-collectivism research. Journal of personality and social psychology, 69(5), 925.

Lin, H., Tov, W., & Qiu, L. (2014). Emotional disclosure on social networking sites: The role of network structure and psychological needs. Computers in Human Behavior, 41, 342-350.

Neely, C. R. (2019). The world's game, but not America's: An analysis of soccer's disposition in the United States. Thesis. The University of Mississippi.

Pedersen, E. (2019). "My Videos are at the Mercy of the YouTube Algorithm": How Content Creators Craft Algorithmic Personas and Perceive the Algorithm that Dictates their Work. Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California at Berkeley
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Zeffane, R. (2020). Gender, individualism–collectivism and individuals’ propensity to trust: A comparative exploratory study. Journal of Management & Organization, 26(4), 445-459.

"This video was sponsored by Wren"

Chapters:
Intro: 00:00
Dunk!: 01:28
YouTube without Capitalism: 08:32
We Were All Chuds Once: 19:35
Ad for Wren: 29:28
Art: 32:50
Conclusion: 39:21

Postmodernism is Dead

The Leftist Cooks 2022-07-26 | What comes after post-modernism? What if it's already here?
A journey through the multiverse with Neil Farrell, the Liberal Cook.

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Citations:

• Akker, R. V. D., & Vermeulen, T. (2010). Notes on metamodernism. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 2, 1-14.
• Cardenas, J. "“You’re Like Me” – A Metamodern Reading of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse." What is metamodern. whatismetamodern.com/film/spider-man-spider-verse-metamodernism
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Introduction: 00:00
(Batman vs Superman) x Spiderman: 04:22
Many Worlds Copenhagen: 17:25
Into the Cookverse: 33:12
July 22, 6.40 AM: 44:38
The Postmodern Multiverse: 49:06
3.30 PM: 1:00:02
11.00 PM: 1:21:26
Infinite Jests: 1:03:45
Conclusion: 1:45:50

Journalism and Bias

The Leftist Cooks 2022-04-14 | Are journalists the backbone of democracy or reinforcers of the status quo? How does money impact journalism? Political influence? Advertising? Can we trust that it's not all fake news? It's not as straightforward as you'd think.

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Campbell, D. (2022, Feb 18). British police are hounding a journalist for his sources – it’s vital he resists. The Guardian

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Boomers are not the enemy

The Leftist Cooks 2022-01-31 | Okay Boomer! Okay Millennials! Let's talk about how older adults are a marginalised group, how ageism is a socially acceptable form of bigotry, and how the generation war narrative helps capitalists. And while we're at it, let's make a vegan Irish stew with Guinness, and let's talk to our Dads because they're cool.

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We trained an A.I. to write breadtube video essays and this is what it wrote

The Leftist Cooks 2021-12-02 | This isn't our fault.

Created by GPT 2, based on the work of The Liberal Cook by Neil Farrell and Sarah Oeffler.

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Capitalism and the Body

The Leftist Cooks 2021-10-28 | We all have bodies... how can we use them to make money? What are the moral implications of selling access to our bodies and our body parts? While the liberal feminists scream "lean in!" and "ra ra capitalism," how do feminists critical of the patriarchy and capitalism conceptualize hierarchy and consent? This is an in-depth, colourful, uncompromising, sexy essay about the gruesome world of bioethics and body horror! Neil Farrell explores this thorny, controversial topic, all while making a recipe for vegan seitan wings.

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Thank you to the brilliant Matthew Tallon! You can follow him on Twitter: twitter.com/matthew_tallon and on TikTok at tiktok.com/@matthewtallon
Thanks so much to Ponderful for giving her voicebox to this video, check out her brilliant channel: youtube.com/watch?v=QMBcWlsn6XY

↓↓↓ Citations ↓↓↓

There were TOO MANY citations to fit in youtube's description box, so here is a link to an external document. :
docs.google.com/document/d/1SvvGL-ywkkZuENe2vQSgdh5mtbzErYDL7mWtgFmdgFs/edit?usp=sharing

↓↓↓ Recipe ↓↓↓
Seitan:
(Essential)
1 cup wheat gluten
1/2 cup flour
1 cup water
(Optional)
Nutritional Yeast
Soy Sauce
Garlic Powder
MSG

Vegetable Stock
Frying Oil (canola/rapeseed, vegetable, etc)

Sauce:
Vegan Mayonaise
Frank's Hot Sauce
Lime Juice
Garlic Powder

To make: Mix gluten and flour in bowl with water. Stir until water is evenly spread through the mixture, and add seasonings. These are optional and added to taste, but the MSG is the most critical. Let sit for 30 minutes or until mixture is the texture of chewing gum (or gak, remember gak?). Form into loose ball and boil uncovered in vegetable stock on high heat for 1.5 hours. When finished, slice into thin strips.

In frypan, heat oil on medium to medium-high heat. Add strips of seitan and fry until golden and crispy.

In bowl, mix sauce ingredients. Again, this is to individual tastes. Once strips are fried, coat with sauce on both sides.
Serve immediately.

Capitalism is Killing Us

The Leftist Cooks 2021-09-29 | Is there any hope for our health, happiness, and prosperity under late-stage capitalism? In this follow-up to "Neoliberalism Bad", Neil Farrell continues their adventure through the Irish Labyrinth of Capitalist Realism and takes a deep dive into the bad politics of Jingle All The Way. And also there are puppets.

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Citations:
American Psychological Association (2013). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. In Diagnostic and Statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.)

Sainato, M. ( 2019). "'Go back to work': outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor." The Guardian. theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/17/amazon-warehouse-worker-deaths

Friedman, M.J., Resick, P., Bryant, R., & Brewin, C. (2011). Considering PTSD for DSM-5. Depression and Anxiety, 28, 720-769.

Bostock, L., Sheikh, A.I. & Barton, S. (2009). Posttraumatic Growth and Optimism in Health-Related Trauma: A Systematic Review. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings 16, 281-296.

Hosfordr, P. (2021) "Renewed calls to stop letting US troops use Shannon Airport." Irish Examiner. irishexaminer.com/news/politics/arid-40360724.html

Power, J. (2021). "US military troops travelling into Shannon breached Covid-19 rules." The Irish Times. irishtimes.com/news/politics/us-military-troops-travelling-into-shannon-breached-covid-19-rules-1.4485263

Fisher, I. (2005). Reports of Secret U.S. Prisons in Europe Draw Ire and Otherwise Red Faces. New York Times. nytimes.com/2005/12/01/world/europe/reports-of-secret-us-prisons-in-europe-draw-ire-and-otherwise.html

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Ireland and The Great Reset: understanding the worlds biggest tax haven

The Leftist Cooks 2021-07-28 | Ireland markets itself as many things: quaint, twee, and down-to-earth. It's also one of the biggest players in the world of money laundering billionaires. It's a secret the Irish state tries desperately to keep, and its time you know about it.

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This is the unexamined state of Irish neoliberalism, wealth inequality, health inequality, and Capitalist Realism? In Ireland, we have one of the most neoliberal political establishments and precarious boom-and-bust economies in the world.
Can we ever redeem it and make it something greater than normal?

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Find our friends @HogandDice (youtube.com/watch?v=ftp7QrDEA6o) and Joe Rooney (headstuff.org/podarooney)

Coping Skills:
mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/stress-relief/art-20044476
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/coping-with-coronavirus-anxiety-2020031219183

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O'Connel, H. (2021, June 06). "Ireland's Second in command calls for Spend Spend Spend." Independent. (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/spend-big-and-keep-spending-says-varadkaras-country-re-opens-40506638.html)

Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research. Alternative Top Ten Tips for Better Health. University of Bristol. (bristol.ac.uk/poverty/healthinequalities.html)

Kitchin, R., O'Callaghan, C., Boyle, M., Gleeson, J., & Keaveney, K. (2012). Placing neoliberalism: the rise and fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger. Environment and Planning A, 44(6), 1302-1326.

Smyth, J. (2013, Aug 29) "One person emigrates every six minutes." Financial Times. (ft.com/content/d27e950a-10bf-11e3-b291-00144feabdc0)

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An Roinn Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta -- Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. (2021, June). Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
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Brennan, C. (2016, Mar 16th). "Almost 100,000 Irish homes are still in negative equity..."
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(https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_16_2923)

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O'Dwyer, P. (2018, 14 June ) "Ireland named as world’s biggest tax haven." The Times.
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Polyamory and the Family

The Leftist Cooks 2021-06-15 | Does Polyamory work? Is it moral? Can we build new family modes?
A video essay exploring non-monogamy, queering the family model, and what love is.

Written by Neil Farrell and Sarah Oeffler, edited by Neil Farrell.

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↓↓↓ CITATIONS↓↓↓
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Plato. Symposium. The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Princeton University Press.

Eichenberger, S. L. (2011). When for better is for worse: immigration law's gendered impact on foreign polygamous marriage. Duke LJ, 61, 1067.

Carolan, Mary (15 June 2017). "First marriage of Lebanese man with two wives recognised under Irish law". The Irish Times. Retrieved 4 May 2021

↓↓↓ RECIPE FOR VEGAN LASAGNE↓↓↓

PASTA: 200g or white flour, 1.5tbs olive oil, 200ml water. Mix, pound, knead and persuade into a surprisingly dry dough. Refrigerate for half an hour. Remove, roll out, and run sections through a pasta maker from the widest setting to the narrowest, occasionally folding in half to strengthen the glutenous bonds.

"MEAT" SAUCE: Onions, finely diced mushrooms, broccoli and cauliflower, garlic, fresh basil, two tins of tomato.
Sautee onions in vegetable oil, with a pinch of sugar. Add mushroom, broccoli and cauliflower. One vegetable stock cube, balsamic vinegar to taste. Two tins of tomato. Garlic and fresh basil late in the cooking process. You want everything to soften down but retain its zingy flavour.

"CHEESE" SAUCE: Heat up 300ml cashew milk in a saucepan, throw in a few handfuls of a good vegan cheese. Add a quarter teaspoon of asafetida, and preferably some nutritional yeast flakes. Lots of salt and black pepper. Scoop up a small amount of your heating sauce and add half a teaspoon of corn starch. Mix into a slurry and reintroduce to thicken your sauce.

Assembly: Lightly oil a casserole dish. Add a layer of pasta, then the "meat" sauce, then the "cheese" sauce, and then another layer of pasta. Keep going til you can go no further and top with a handful of vegan cheese. Cook for 25 - 35 minutes at a medium-low heat.

↓↓↓ RECIPE FOR TEA↓↓↓

Pick Gorse petals.
Boil water.
Steep for ten minutes.

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Do Your Research: How To Understand Scientific Studies

The Leftist Cooks 2021-05-13 | A video essay about the scientific method, how we try to find out what's true, and exactly why it matters. Also an adventure through time and space, and a homage to all your favourite high-concept 80s movies. The Liberal Cook explains the Strength of Evidence Pyramid, how studies are conducted, how data is gathered, and how it can be confounded. You want to "Do Your Research"? Here's how!

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↓↓↓ COCHRANE↓↓↓
cochranelibrary.com

↓↓↓ CITATIONS↓↓↓
Brody, Jane E. (2021, Jan 4). Does Coconut Oil Deserve Its Health Halo? The New York Times. nytimes.com/2021/01/04/well/eat/coconut-oil-health.html

Jayawardena, R., Swarnamali, H., Lanerolle, P., & Ranasinghe, P. (2020). Effect of coconut oil on cardio-metabolic risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional studies. Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews.

Saha, S., Chant, D., Welham, J., & McGrath, J. (2005). A systematic review of the prevalence of schizophrenia. PLoS Med, 2(5), e141.

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Whats With All These Wacky Right Wing Identities?

The Leftist Cooks 2021-04-14 | They call themselves Super Straights, Proud Boys, Gender Critical, Classical Liberals and you have to wonder what on Earth they're talking about. In this video essay we examine right-wing culture through the lens of Social Identity Theory. We touch on freedom of speech, comedy, a brief history of the British colonisation of Ireland and a whole heap of Queer Theory. Oh, and there's another spiffing recipe! This time for nettles and wild garlic miso soup.

Written by Neil Farrell & Sarah Oeffler

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RECIPE

1. Forage for wild garlic and nettles. Use gardening gloves to keep from getting stung, and a good guidebook to keep from getting poisoned.
2. Using gloves, wash the nettles under boiling water, and run more hot water over them for good measure.
3. Roughly chop nettles and slice tofu, add them along with garlic, 3 teaspoons of miso paste, a veg stock cube, and optional dried wakame seaweed, to a pot of water.
4. Let simmer until nettles are soft and flavors are combined.

CITATIONS

Roney, J. B. (2019). [Mis-] managing Fisheries on the West Coast of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. Humanities, 8(1), 4.

Donnelly, J. S., & Póirtéir, C. (1995). The Great Irish Famine.

Woodham-Smith, C. (1962). The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-9.

Ó'Gráda, C. (1995). The great Irish famine (No. 7). Cambridge University Press.

Tajfel H. Social categorization. English manuscript of “La categorisation sociale.” In: Moscovici S, editor. Introduction a`la psychologie sociale. Vol. 1. Paris: Larousse; 1972. pp. 37

Haslam, C., Jetten, J., Cruwys, T., Dingle, G., & Haslam, S. A. (2018). The new psychology of health: Unlocking the social cure. Routledge.

CDC, NCIPC. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS). (2010)

CDC. (2016). Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Risk Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9-12: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Pompili, M., Lester, D., Forte, A., Seretti, M. E., Erbuto, D., Lamis, D. A., ... & Girardi, P. (2014). Bisexuality and suicide: A systematic review of the current literature. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 11(8), 1903-1913.

James, S. E., Herman, J. L., Rankin, S., Keisling, M., Mottet, L., & Anafi, M. (2016). The Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey. Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality.

Herek, G. M., & Glunt, E. K. (1988). An epidemic of stigma: Public reactions to AIDS (Vol. 43, No. 11, p. 886). American Psychological Association.

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Gender and Authenticity

The Leftist Cooks 2021-01-26 | Time to get cancelled!

What is gender? Who is this lipstick-wearing person and what do they mean when they say they're “genderqueer”? What do they mean by “authentic gender expression”? What is gender dysphoria? What about gender euphoria? Is biology destiny? Can we even talk about biology without the noise of culture entering into the science? What is this delicious recipe for roast tomato ragu? Joined by Ireland's best trans, non-binary and gender-fluid comics, we embark on a journey through time and space to examine gender and probably get ourselves cancelled so damn hard!

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↓↓↓RECIPE↓↓↓

Place a punnet of cherry tomatoes and four to five whole unskinned cloves of garlic in a suitable baking dish
Drizzle in olive oil and crack a little salt over the top
Roast for only about fifteen minutes in an oven preheated to 200 degrees Celsius or 390 degrees Farrenheit
While that’s cooking, slice and fry one whole shallot and as many mushrooms as you like
Add half a tin of chopped tomatoes or, alternatively, some tomato puree
Add a dash of balsamic vinaigrette
Pepper
(a little fresh basil helps here. We didn’t have any and we’re not making superfluous trips to any store right now because lockdown - but fresh basil really elevates this dish)
Add a generous slug of red wine
Take out your roast tomatoes and garlic
Dice the garlic
Combine roast and fried ingredients
Use a peeler to create beautiful slivers of vegan parmesan (where available)
Did you remember to cook pasta? We were testing you here; you really should have done that.
Assemble like you’re Tony Stark
Crack a little dried oregano on top
More fresh basil wouldn’t go astray here either.
Buon Natale!

↓↓↓ CITATIONS↓↓↓
Slade, T., Chapman, C., Swift, W., Keyes, K., Tonks, Z., & Teesson, M. (2016). Birth cohort trends in the global epidemiology of alcohol use and alcohol-related harms in men and women: systematic review and metaregression. BMJ open, 6(10).

Hsu, L. G. (1989). The gender gap in eating disorders: Why are the eating disorders more common among women?. Clinical psychology review, 9(3), 393-407.

Rossiter, M. W. (1982). Women scientists in America: Struggles and strategies to 1940 (Vol. 1). JHU Press.

Scot, J. (2014). A Revisionist History: How Archives are Used to Reverse the Erasure of Queer People in Contemporary History. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 1(2), 205-209.

Mayernick, J., & Hutt, E. (2017). US Public Schools and the Politics of Queer Erasure: Book Review. Educational Theory, 67(3), 343-349.

Butler, J. (2011). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. routledge.

Martin, E. (1991). The egg and the sperm: How science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 16(3), 485-501.

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