<![CDATA[Toxic Life Podcast]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/toxic-life-podcast We’ve seen the word everywhere: we live in “toxic times;” feel the threat of toxic discourse; and are awash in toxic materials. Together, we want to think about the intersections of labour, place, and scale in a world structured by transnational capitalism, persistent colonialisms, occupations and war-time destruction, large-scale infrastructure and energy projects, and environmental ruin. Our conversations are minimally edited and serve to broaden the discussion around what is toxic in our world today.

The Toxic Life Podcast is co-hosted by environmental media scholars Krista Lynes and Ayesha Vemuri at the Feminist Media Studio at Concordia University in Tio'tia:ke, Montreal, Production and music by Piper Curtis.

]]> RSS.com 2026.224.22327 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:39:27 GMT en 270f4389-347d-5950-b26a-f06e7850a831 https://media.rss.com/toxic-life-podcast/20260212_070252_518ac2b3ee20b71eb0877ad0fa63dc20.png Toxic Life Podcast https://rss.com/podcasts/toxic-life-podcast yes Feminist Media Studio Feminist Media Studio false episodic podcast Montreal, Urban agglomeration of Montreal, Quebec, Canada false <![CDATA[A Dirty, Dirty World: A conversation with Françoise Vergès]]> In this episode of the Toxic Life podcast, co-hosts Krista Lynes and Ayesha Vemuri talk with feminist, decolonial scholar Françoise Vergès about her most recent book, "Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism" (2025). We discuss the racial and gendered dynamics of the work of cleaning, the denial of people's elemental rights to clean air and water, how an abolitionist framework is the answer to racial capitalism, and how we live with toxicity from a place of love.

Show notes:

Françoise Vergès, Making the World Clean (2025)

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/toxic-life-podcast/2578762 83797fd3-95e0-4f67-8ce5-95da9108c8c5 2292 full 1 1 2 2 false Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:35:57 GMT false <![CDATA[What is Toxic Life? A conversation between co-hosts Krista Lynes & Ayesha Vemuri]]> In this inaugural episode of the Toxic Life Podcast, environmental media scholars Krista Lynes and Ayesha Vemuri ask, What is toxic life? Where do we locate toxicity? How is it unevenly distributed among bodies, places and scales? What is its relation to environmental justice or reparation?

Show Notes:

Françoise Vergès, Making the World Clean (2025)

Olufemi O. Taiwo, Reconsidering Reparations (2021)

Neferti Tadiar, Remaindered Life (2022)Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism (2021)

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/toxic-life-podcast/2544819 82699d6d-1bc3-49d6-a8d4-9da3ceab22c5 2119 full 1 1 1 1 false Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:50:28 GMT false Montreal, Urban agglomeration of Montreal, Quebec, Canada