Margaret sits down with author Alan Lea to discuss his novella, Hermetica.

 

Margaret sits down with author Alan Lea to discuss his novella, Hermetica.
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Your storytime podcast for a troubled world and for those who dream of better tomorrows, Cool Zone Media Book Club brings you fiction that is one part provocative and one part cozy. Read to you by host Margaret Killjoy, this is the only book club where you don’t have to do the reading, because we do it for you.

Your storytime podcast for a troubled world and for those who dream of better tomorrows, Cool Zone Media Book Club brings you fiction that is one part provocative and one part cozy. Read to you by host Margaret Killjoy, this is the only book club where you don&rsquo;t have to do the reading, because we do it for you.

Cool Zone Media Book Club

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

It Could Happen Here started as an exploration of the possibility of a new civil war. Now a daily show, it's evolved into a chronicle of collapse as it happens, and an exploration of how we might build a better future. Every day Robert Evans, Garrison Davis, Mia Wong, and James Stout take you on a jaunty walk through the burning ruins of the old world and towards a better one that lays just on the horizon.

It Could Happen Here

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.

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CZM Book Club: Hermetica, Interview with Alan Lea

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Molly interviews Michael Edison Hayden about his new book, Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small Town. The book is an intimate portrait of what happened in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia after a white nationalist group moved into the castle on the hill.
Preorder the book now or buy it anywhere books are sold when it comes out on April 7, 2026

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-edison-hayden/strange-people-on-the-hill/9781645030607/ 

Molly interviews Michael Edison Hayden about his new book, Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small Town. The book is an intimate portrait of what happened in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia after a white nationalist group moved into the castle on the hill. Preorder the book now or buy it anywhere books are sold when it comes out on April 7, 2026
<a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-edison-hayden/strange-people-on-the-hill/9781645030607/">https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/michael-edison-hayden/strange-people-on-the-hill/9781645030607/</a>&nbsp;

Strange People on the Hill: An Interview with Michael Edison Hayden

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/7c3ab730-bd36-40f8-bb89-b41e0176f1e0/transcript

James talks to Marian about how the left discourse about the US kidnapping of Maduro has silenced Venezuelan leftists and how the anti Maduro Venezuelan left is navigating the US intervention.

https://www.instagram.com/e.m.arian 

James talks to Marian about how the left discourse about the US kidnapping of Maduro has silenced Venezuelan leftists and how the anti Maduro Venezuelan left is navigating the US intervention.
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/e.m.arian">https://www.instagram.com/e.m.arian</a>&nbsp;

Talking to Venezuelans About Venezuela

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/179ac731-eca2-4f58-abee-b41d015a4852/transcript

Garrison investigates a series of frightening claims: that ICE can detain people for ‘looking trans,’ the creation of a transgender public registry, and that an adult gender-affirming healthcare ban is imminent.

Sources:

https://transitics.substack.com/p/trump-administration-opens-the-door 

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/11/2026-04737/visas-enhancing-vetting-and-combatting-fraud-in-the-diversity-immigrant-visa-program 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/ 

https://rachelnorfolk.me/sites/default/files/2025-02/25_State_11402.pdf
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250402-RecognizingMaleAndFemaleSexes.pdf

https://iptp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/2025.2.24_DOS_Guidance_for_Visa_Adjudicators_EO_14201_22Keeping_Men_Out_of_Wom_VhPai1S.pdf

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/administrative-processing-information.html 

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1182%20edition:prelim)%20OR%20(granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182)&f=treesort&num=0&edition=prelim 

https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM030209.html 

https://bsky.app/profile/progesteronipizza.bsky.social/post/3m5w6wnkyhc2u 

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/transgender-kansans-challenge-state-law-invalidating-their-drivers-licenses-and-allowing-them-to-be-sued-for-using-public-restrooms 

https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/sb244_03_0000.pdf 

https://www.tiktok.com/@transitics/video/7616520936925285662

https://bsky.app/profile/firestorm.coop/post/3mgwxdih3x222 

https://www.tiktok.com/@e_c_lider/video/7616688370462231830 

https://www.vera.org/news/ice-is-excluding-data-on-transgender-people-in-detention

https://www.them.us/story/alice-correia-barbosa-ice-arrest-brazil-trans

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/trump-mexico-deportation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportations_of_U.S._citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration#

https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118180/documents/HMKP-119-JU00-20250430-SD003.pdf

https://19thnews.org/2025/12/trump-administration-plans-to-end-prison-rape-protections-for-trans-and-intersex-people-memo-says/

https://theneedlenews.com/2026/03/anti-trans-hate-groups-petitioning-fda-for-registry-of-trans-women-crackdown-on-transition-newly-revealed-document-shows/

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27871234-fda-2025-p-7321-0001-attachment-public-fda/?ref=theneedlenews.com

https://bsky.app/profile/angelic.style/post/3mgv3hjepvs2p

https://bsky.app/profile/tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/post/3mgvbihtidu2m

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4865109/#:~:text=Only%20346%20(18%25)%20of,Risk%20Evaluation%20and%20Mitigation%20Strategy

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/19/tennessee-gop-advances-bill-that-would-create-public-list-of-trans-residents/?utm_content=1773928472&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

https://trackbill.com/bill/tennessee-house-bill-754-an-act-to-amend-tennessee-code-annotated-title-1-title-4-title-33-title-56-title-63-title-68-and-title-71-relative-to-health-care/2644177/

https://x.com/popbase/status/2034737772792041622?s=46

https://transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-republicans-advance-bill

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/movaokabwva/USA_HEALTH_TRANSGENDER_WESTVIRGINIA.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/rfk-jr-transgender-care-ruling.html

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-rules-that-states-can

https://bsky.app/profile/davidforbes.bsky.social/post/3mgv5httwss26

https://glaad.org/new-york-times-sign-on-letter-from-lgtbq-allied-leaders-and-organizations

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people

https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/18/meaning-through-its-opposite-significance-quest-theory-and-nihilistic-violent-extremism/

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/what-are-nihilist-violent-extremists 

https://x.com/ItsYourGov/status/1968802472111083949?s=20

https://oversight-project.revv.co/urge-the-fbi-to-designate-transgender-terrorism

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOykLZJDS2h/

https://www.tiktok.com/@genericartdad/video/7554381061128473886

Garrison investigates a series of frightening claims: that ICE can detain people for &lsquo;looking trans,&rsquo; the creation of a transgender public registry, and that an adult gender-affirming healthcare ban is imminent.
Sources:
<a href="https://transitics.substack.com/p/trump-administration-opens-the-door">https://transitics.substack.com/p/trump-administration-opens-the-door</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/11/2026-04737/visas-enhancing-vetting-and-combatting-fraud-in-the-diversity-immigrant-visa-program">https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/11/2026-04737/visas-enhancing-vetting-and-combatting-fraud-in-the-diversity-immigrant-visa-program</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://rachelnorfolk.me/sites/default/files/2025-02/25_State_11402.pdf">https://rachelnorfolk.me/sites/default/files/2025-02/25_State_11402.pdf</a> <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250402-RecognizingMaleAndFemaleSexes.pdf">https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/policy-manual-updates/20250402-RecognizingMaleAndFemaleSexes.pdf</a>
<a href="https://iptp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/2025.2.24_DOS_Guidance_for_Visa_Adjudicators_EO_14201_22Keeping_Men_Out_of_Wom_VhPai1S.pdf">https://iptp-production.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/2025.2.24_DOS_Guidance_for_Visa_Adjudicators_EO_14201_22Keeping_Men_Out_of_Wom_VhPai1S.pdf</a>
<a href="https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/administrative-processing-information.html">https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/administrative-processing-information.html</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1182%20edition:prelim)%20OR%20(granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182)&amp;f=treesort&amp;num=0&amp;edition=prelim">https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1182%20edition:prelim)%20OR%20(granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182)&amp;f=treesort&amp;num=0&amp;edition=prelim</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM030209.html">https://fam.state.gov/fam/09FAM/09FAM030209.html</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/progesteronipizza.bsky.social/post/3m5w6wnkyhc2u">https://bsky.app/profile/progesteronipizza.bsky.social/post/3m5w6wnkyhc2u</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf">https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf</a> 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/transgender-kansans-challenge-state-law-invalidating-their-drivers-licenses-and-allowing-them-to-be-sued-for-using-public-restrooms">https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/transgender-kansans-challenge-state-law-invalidating-their-drivers-licenses-and-allowing-them-to-be-sued-for-using-public-restrooms</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/sb244_03_0000.pdf">https://www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/measures/documents/sb244_03_0000.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@transitics/video/7616520936925285662">https://www.tiktok.com/@transitics/video/7616520936925285662</a>
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/firestorm.coop/post/3mgwxdih3x222">https://bsky.app/profile/firestorm.coop/post/3mgwxdih3x222</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@e_c_lider/video/7616688370462231830">https://www.tiktok.com/@e_c_lider/video/7616688370462231830</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.vera.org/news/ice-is-excluding-data-on-transgender-people-in-detention">https://www.vera.org/news/ice-is-excluding-data-on-transgender-people-in-detention</a>
<a href="https://www.them.us/story/alice-correia-barbosa-ice-arrest-brazil-trans">https://www.them.us/story/alice-correia-barbosa-ice-arrest-brazil-trans</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/trump-mexico-deportation">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/trump-mexico-deportation</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportations_of_U.S._citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration#">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportations_of_U.S._citizens_in_the_second_Trump_administration#</a>
<a href="https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118180/documents/HMKP-119-JU00-20250430-SD003.pdf">https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/118180/documents/HMKP-119-JU00-20250430-SD003.pdf</a>
<a href="https://19thnews.org/2025/12/trump-administration-plans-to-end-prison-rape-protections-for-trans-and-intersex-people-memo-says/">https://19thnews.org/2025/12/trump-administration-plans-to-end-prison-rape-protections-for-trans-and-intersex-people-memo-says/</a>
<a href="https://theneedlenews.com/2026/03/anti-trans-hate-groups-petitioning-fda-for-registry-of-trans-women-crackdown-on-transition-newly-revealed-document-shows/">https://theneedlenews.com/2026/03/anti-trans-hate-groups-petitioning-fda-for-registry-of-trans-women-crackdown-on-transition-newly-revealed-document-shows/</a>
<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27871234-fda-2025-p-7321-0001-attachment-public-fda/?ref=theneedlenews.com">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27871234-fda-2025-p-7321-0001-attachment-public-fda/?ref=theneedlenews.com</a>
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/angelic.style/post/3mgv3hjepvs2p">https://bsky.app/profile/angelic.style/post/3mgv3hjepvs2p</a>
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/post/3mgvbihtidu2m">https://bsky.app/profile/tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/post/3mgvbihtidu2m</a>
<a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4865109/#:~:text=Only%20346%20(18%25)%20of,Risk%20Evaluation%20and%20Mitigation%20Strategy">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4865109/#:~:text=Only%20346%20(18%25)%20of,Risk%20Evaluation%20and%20Mitigation%20Strategy</a>
<a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/19/tennessee-gop-advances-bill-that-would-create-public-list-of-trans-residents/?utm_content=1773928472&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/19/tennessee-gop-advances-bill-that-would-create-public-list-of-trans-residents/?utm_content=1773928472&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter</a>
<a href="https://trackbill.com/bill/tennessee-house-bill-754-an-act-to-amend-tennessee-code-annotated-title-1-title-4-title-33-title-56-title-63-title-68-and-title-71-relative-to-health-care/2644177/">https://trackbill.com/bill/tennessee-house-bill-754-an-act-to-amend-tennessee-code-annotated-title-1-title-4-title-33-title-56-title-63-title-68-and-title-71-relative-to-health-care/2644177/</a>
<a href="https://x.com/popbase/status/2034737772792041622?s=46">https://x.com/popbase/status/2034737772792041622?s=46</a>
<a href="https://transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-republicans-advance-bill">https://transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-republicans-advance-bill</a>
<a href="https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/movaokabwva/USA_HEALTH_TRANSGENDER_WESTVIRGINIA.pdf">https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/movaokabwva/USA_HEALTH_TRANSGENDER_WESTVIRGINIA.pdf</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/rfk-jr-transgender-care-ruling.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/rfk-jr-transgender-care-ruling.html</a>
<a href="https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-rules-that-states-can">https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-rules-that-states-can</a>
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/davidforbes.bsky.social/post/3mgv5httwss26">https://bsky.app/profile/davidforbes.bsky.social/post/3mgv5httwss26</a>
<a href="https://glaad.org/new-york-times-sign-on-letter-from-lgtbq-allied-leaders-and-organizations">https://glaad.org/new-york-times-sign-on-letter-from-lgtbq-allied-leaders-and-organizations</a>
<a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people">https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readies-new-war-on-trans-people</a>
<a href="https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/18/meaning-through-its-opposite-significance-quest-theory-and-nihilistic-violent-extremism/">https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/18/meaning-through-its-opposite-significance-quest-theory-and-nihilistic-violent-extremism/</a>
<a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/what-are-nihilist-violent-extremists">https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/what-are-nihilist-violent-extremists</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://x.com/ItsYourGov/status/1968802472111083949?s=20">https://x.com/ItsYourGov/status/1968802472111083949?s=20</a>
<a href="https://oversight-project.revv.co/urge-the-fbi-to-designate-transgender-terrorism">https://oversight-project.revv.co/urge-the-fbi-to-designate-transgender-terrorism</a>
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/</a>
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/</a>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DOykLZJDS2h/">https://www.instagram.com/p/DOykLZJDS2h/</a>
<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@genericartdad/video/7554381061128473886">https://www.tiktok.com/@genericartdad/video/7554381061128473886</a>

The Trans Panic Clickbait Economy

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