This Machine Kills Fascists is a podcast rooted in exploring how community, creativity, and care can challenge oppression. Through conversations with organizers, artists, and healers, we hope to uplift the lived experiences and highlight the role of music, story, and solidarity in collective healing and resistance.
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Exploring how community, creativity, and care can challenge oppression
Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Liberation Music Therapy Ep 9
In this episode, we explore Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed as a framework for understanding education, power, and liberation. We examine how traditional “banking model” education can reproduce hierarchy by treating learners as passive recipients, and contrast this with dialogical, problem-posing approaches that center shared inquiry, lived experience, and collective meaning-making. These perspectives highlight education as a relational process shaped by social context rather than a neutral transfer of information.
We also discuss critical consciousness, praxis, and cultural hegemony as tools for recognizing how systems of domination persist—and how they can be challenged through reflection, dialogue, and action. Situating pedagogy within broader social forces such as colonialism, capitalism, and liberation movements, the episode considers how learning itself can become a site of resistance, transformation, and collective agency. The focus remains on critical awareness, harm prevention, and building collective resilience—offering conceptual tools to recognize structural power, navigate complexity, and support liberatory practice in real-world contexts.
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8 Feb 2026
Caste and Class | Liberation Music Therapy Ep 8
In this episode, we examine high-control dynamics across interpersonal, organizational, and political contexts, showing how power operates, how autonomy erodes, and how dependency can be intentionally cultivated. The session focuses on recognizing behavioral patterns as a form of harm prevention and collective resilience.
The episode also introduces frameworks for understanding fascism as a developing process rooted in reactionary identity politics, institutional alliances, economic pressures, and organized narratives of fear and purification. We examine how authoritarian movements gain traction, normalize exclusion, and reshape democratic structures—while reflecting on how these tendencies can surface in everyday environments.
This session is designed for mental health professionals, creative arts therapists, educators, organizers, and anyone engaged in healing, cultural work, or liberation-oriented practice.
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit doriansmode.substack.com/subscribe (https://doriansmode.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)
6 Feb 2026
High-Control Dynamics and Fascism | Liberation Music Therapy Ep 7
In this episode, we examine high-control dynamics across interpersonal, organizational, and political contexts, showing how power operates, how autonomy erodes, and how dependency can be intentionally cultivated. The session focuses on recognizing behavioral patterns as a form of harm prevention and collective resilience.
The episode also introduces frameworks for understanding fascism as a developing process rooted in reactionary identity politics, institutional alliances, economic pressures, and organized narratives of fear and purification. We examine how authoritarian movements gain traction, normalize exclusion, and reshape democratic structures—while reflecting on how these tendencies can surface in everyday environments.
This session is designed for mental health professionals, creative arts therapists, educators, organizers, and anyone engaged in healing, cultural work, or liberation-oriented practice.
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit doriansmode.substack.com/subscribe (https://doriansmode.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)
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