Margaret finishes talking with Francesca Fiorentini about the AIDS activists who changed the world.

Margaret finishes talking with Francesca Fiorentini about the AIDS activists who changed the world.

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.

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.

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

As long as there&rsquo;s been oppression, there&rsquo;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&mdash;and fight to be&mdash;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.

Part Two: ACT UP: How Angry, Dying Queers Invented Modern Activism

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/907b475b-795d-4921-9349-b192010be2c5/transcript

Margaret continues telling you 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/
https://immigrationnewscanada.ca/most-dangerous-cities-in-canada-mid-2025/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/expo-86-evictions-remembered-1.3566844

Margaret continues telling you 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/ https://immigrationnewscanada.ca/most-dangerous-cities-in-canada-mid-2025/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/expo-86-evictions-remembered-1.3566844

Part Two: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/d24dd4d5-55e7-4f09-b8fe-b44900234d3c/transcript

Margaret tells you 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/
https://immigrationnewscanada.ca/most-dangerous-cities-in-canada-mid-2025/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/expo-86-evictions-remembered-1.3566844

Margaret tells you 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/ https://immigrationnewscanada.ca/most-dangerous-cities-in-canada-mid-2025/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/expo-86-evictions-remembered-1.3566844

Part One: Harm Reduction: The Direct Action Movement that Changed How We Understand Addiction

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/d60466d4-b5c7-43f6-adfb-b447001290c3/transcript

Margaret continues her talk with Caitlin Durante about Truus and Freddie Oversteegan and Hannie Schaft and their rebellion that left Nazi bodies around the Netherlands

Sources:

Three Ordinary Girls, Tim Brady
https://firestorm.coop/products/24908-three-ordinary-girls.html?referral=killjoy

https://socialisme-nu.translate.goog/truus-menger-oversteegen-1923-2016-een-strijdster-die-doorging/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/222/mandatory-registration-for-forced-labour/

https://dirkdeklein.net/2025/03/29/the-arbeidsinzet-forced-labour/

https://dirkdeklein.net/2017/05/24/ernst-cahn-the-koco-affair/

https://www.flashscore.com/news/80-years-of-freedom-the-amsterdam-boxing-school-which-formed-the-first-jewish-resistance/ncIglSYp/


https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=229629

https://libcom.org/article/history-dutch-fascism-and-militant-anti-fascist-response-job-polak

https://dirkdeklein.net/2018/01/21/the-dutch-jews-who-fought-back/

https://socialisme-nu.translate.goog/75-jaar-februaristaking-wat-herdenken-we/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www-dedokwerker-nl.translate.goog/boksschool_olympia.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://sportgeschiedenis-nl.translate.goog/overige-sport/vechtsporten/het-joodse-verzet-van-1941-bestond-grotendeels-uit-amsterdamse-boksers-en-worstelaars/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://www.canonvannederland.nl/nl/page/206267/de-geuzen

https://elib.be/m/articles/view/FROM-THE-HISTORY-OF-THE-RESISTANCE-MOVEMENT-IN-THE-NETHERLANDS-1940-1945

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/liberation-of-holland

https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/history-of-war/armies-cant-march-in-clogs/

https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/nl/kennisbank/nederlandse-unie

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5249956/nazi-collaborators-netherlands-archive

https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-collaboration-nazis-holocaust-remembrance-archives-d7d3b0c6e2e99146c484171e03046758

https://web.archive.org/web/20230307064313/http://home.iae.nl/users/arcengel/NedIndie/introengels.htm

https://tomgoyens.substack.com/p/how-a-dutch-anarchist-defied-the

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/from-nazi-criminal-to-postwar-spy-german-intelligence-hired-klaus-barbie-as-agent-a-740393.html

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13507486.2019.1699505

https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2025/10/14/shells-dark-fuel-the-nazi-past-the-oil-giant-couldnt-bury/

https://www.hannahbyron.com/blog/the-first-resistance-the-geuzen

Margaret continues her talk with Caitlin Durante about Truus and Freddie Oversteegan and Hannie Schaft and their rebellion that left Nazi bodies around the Netherlands
Sources:
Three Ordinary Girls, Tim Brady https://firestorm.coop/products/24908-three-ordinary-girls.html?referral=killjoy
https://socialisme-nu.translate.goog/truus-menger-oversteegen-1923-2016-een-strijdster-die-doorging/?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp
https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/222/mandatory-registration-for-forced-labour/
https://dirkdeklein.net/2025/03/29/the-arbeidsinzet-forced-labour/
https://dirkdeklein.net/2017/05/24/ernst-cahn-the-koco-affair/
https://www.flashscore.com/news/80-years-of-freedom-the-amsterdam-boxing-school-which-formed-the-first-jewish-resistance/ncIglSYp/
 https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=229629
https://libcom.org/article/history-dutch-fascism-and-militant-anti-fascist-response-job-polak
https://dirkdeklein.net/2018/01/21/the-dutch-jews-who-fought-back/
https://socialisme-nu.translate.goog/75-jaar-februaristaking-wat-herdenken-we/?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp
https://www-dedokwerker-nl.translate.goog/boksschool_olympia.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp
https://sportgeschiedenis-nl.translate.goog/overige-sport/vechtsporten/het-joodse-verzet-van-1941-bestond-grotendeels-uit-amsterdamse-boksers-en-worstelaars/?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp
https://www.canonvannederland.nl/nl/page/206267/de-geuzen
https://elib.be/m/articles/view/FROM-THE-HISTORY-OF-THE-RESISTANCE-MOVEMENT-IN-THE-NETHERLANDS-1940-1945
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/liberation-of-holland
https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/history-of-war/armies-cant-march-in-clogs/
https://www.verzetsmuseum.org/nl/kennisbank/nederlandse-unie
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5249956/nazi-collaborators-netherlands-archive
https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-collaboration-nazis-holocaust-remembrance-archives-d7d3b0c6e2e99146c484171e03046758
https://web.archive.org/web/20230307064313/http://home.iae.nl/users/arcengel/NedIndie/introengels.htm
https://tomgoyens.substack.com/p/how-a-dutch-anarchist-defied-the
https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/from-nazi-criminal-to-postwar-spy-german-intelligence-hired-klaus-barbie-as-agent-a-740393.html
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13507486.2019.1699505
https://royaldutchshellplc.com/2025/10/14/shells-dark-fuel-the-nazi-past-the-oil-giant-couldnt-bury/
https://www.hannahbyron.com/blog/the-first-resistance-the-geuzen

Part Four: The Dutch Resistance: The Teens Who Seduced and Killed Nazis

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/f6e42419-dd07-4fab-980d-b4420003ab32/transcript

Part Two: ACT UP: How Angry, Dying Queers Invented Modern Activism

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