Nothing Never Happens is a journey into cutting-edge pedagogical theory and praxis, where co-hosts Tina Pippin and Lucia Hulsether connect with leading voices in radical teaching and learning. We engage a range of approaches — including but not limited to democratic, feminist, queer, decolonial, and abolitionist models.
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Nothing Never Happens is a journey into cutting-edge pedagogical theory and praxis, where co-hosts Tina Pippin and Lucia Hulsether connect with leading voices in radical teaching and learning. We engage a range of approaches — including but not limited to democratic, feminist, queer, decolonial, and abolitionist models.
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Recent Episodes
November 1, 2025
Love Us Back: Queer Commitment After Institutional Betrayal
<p>What pedagogies arise from institutional betrayal? How can we do the work we love in contexts where harassment is endemic and administrative responses to it escalate the problem? What assumptions have normalized the expectation that our institutions cannot be spaces of love?</p><p>In this episode, we welcome <a href="https://profjdoyle.wordpress.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Jennifer Doyle</a> to discuss all of these issues as they arise in her most recent book, <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/shadow-of-my-shadow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shadow of My Shadow</a> (Duke University Press, 2024). This remarkable work develops from Doyle's own experience of being stalked by a student and unfurls into a bracing critique of the institutional administration of harassment cases--as well as the attachments that arise in their aftermath. This line of inquiry builds on Doyle's <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781584351696/campus-sex-campus-security/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Campus Sex / Campus Security </a>(Semiotexte, 2015), on how the bureaucratic management of sex on college campuses coincides with the militarization of campus police.</p><p>Jennifer Doyle is a writer, arts and performance curator, sports analyst, and professor of English. She serves on the Board of Directors of <a href="https://www.h-r.la/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Human Resources</a> Los Angeles; her most recent co/curated exhibition is Sciencia Sexualis at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, LA (2024-2025). </p><p>In addition to the books named above, Jennifer is the author of <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/hold-it-against-me" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art</a> (Duke University Press, 2013) and <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816645268/sex-objects/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire</a> (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). She is also the voice behind the beloved soccer blog <a href="https://fromaleftwing.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">From a Left Wing</a> (2007-2013) and, now, <a href="https://thesportspectacle.com/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Sport Spectacle</a>.</p><p><strong>Links to recommended stuff!</strong></p><p>Esme Wang, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-collected-schizophrenias-essays-esm-weijun-wang/b1b654d88a68bd91?ean=9781555978273&next=t" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Collected Schizophrenias</a> (Graywolf, 2019)</p><p>Barbara Johnson, "Muteness Envy" in T<a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2227/The-Barbara-Johnson-ReaderThe-Surprise-of" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">he Barbara Johnson Reader </a>(Duke UP, 2014)</p><p>Francois Tosquelles, <a href="https://press.ici-berlin.org/catalogue/doi/10.37050/ci-31" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Psychotherapy and Materialism</a>, English translation (ICI Berlin Press, 2024)</p><p>Camille Robcis, <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo86433534.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Disalienation </a>(University of Chicago Press 2021)</p><p>Colm Toibin, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-magician-a-novel-colm-toibin/e88b78e361c73b51?ean=9781476785097&next=t" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Magician</a> (Scribner, 2022)</p><p>Alexandra Horowitz, <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-looking-a-walker-s-guide-to-the-art-of-observation-alexandra-horowitz/0090663dd8df2f78?ean=9781439191262&next=t&" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">On Looking</a> (Scribner, 2014)</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/real-point-god.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer"...
July 31, 2025
Banking Methods: Education Finance for Radical Teachers
<p>What do advocates for educational justice need to know about school financing? What's the relationship between the critical pedagogy and the budget sheets that get passed around at school board meetings? What kinds of community organizing do we need to change how school financing works?</p><p>In this episode, we welcome writer and organizer <a href="https://www.shu.edu/profiles/backerda.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David I. Backer </a>to discuss these questions and more. David is best known for his substack, <a href="https://davidibacker.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Schooling in Socialist America</a>, a public project in which he investigates (and educates his readers about) the ins and outs of school finance policy, with an emphasis on the politics of racial capitalism, climate change, and infrastructure. His forthcoming book, <a href="https://thenewpress.org/books/as-public-as-possible/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America's Schools</a> (The New Press, 2025), is a deep dive into these issues--and a positive vision of what can change.</p><p>David has also published two other books. The first, <a href="https://davidbacker.com/books-2/elements-of-discussion/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elements of Discussion</a>, is a "practical-poetic" reflection emerging from his PhD dissertation on pedagogical theories of discussion. The second, <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/althusser-and-education-9781350226845/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Althusser and Education</a> was praised by a reviewer as “the most comprehensive and nuanced reading of Althusser’s thinking in the English language.”</p><p>Currently, David is an Associate Professor of Education Policy at Seton Hall University.</p><p><strong>Links to recommended stuff!</strong></p><p><a href="https://wprb.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WPRB - Princeton Public Radio</a> (great music)</p><p>China Mieville, <a href="https://subterraneanpress.com/the-scar-dinged/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Scar</a> (book)</p><p><a href="https://debtcollective.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Debt Collective </a> (organizing collective)</p><p>Nick Doox, <a href="https://www.markdoox.com/work/the-nword-of-god-3ecj2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The N-Word of God</a> (book)</p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/pages/help/podcasting" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Democracy Now </a>daily podcast</p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-news-with-doug-henwood/id73801817" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Behind the News with Doug Henwood</a> (podcast)</p><p><a href="https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/beef-and-dairy-network/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Beef and Dairy Network</a> (podcast)</p><p><a href="https://emelmathlouthi.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EMEL</a> (musician)</p><p><a href="https://www.mustafathepoet.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mustafa</a> (musician)</p><p><a href="https://astridsonne.bandcamp.com/music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Astrid Sonne</a> (musician)</p><p><strong>Episode Credits:</strong></p><p>Co-hosts and co-producers: Lucia Hulsether and Tina Pippin</p><p>Editing and Production Manager: Aliyah Harris</p><p>Intro Music: Lance Haugen and the Flying Penguins</p><p>Outro Music: <a href="https://akrasis.bandcamp.com/album/unemployed-apologist" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Akrasis</a></p>
March 24, 2025
Literacy and Liberation: Radical Schooling in the Black Freedom Movement
<p>What role did education play in the US civil rights movement? What did it look like for anti-racist organizers to build radical schooling and organizing spaces that could evade the harsh surveillance lights of white supremacy and Jim Crow? What lessons can we learn from them today?</p><p>Our March 2025 episode features journalist <a href="https://www.ElaineWeiss.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elaine Weiss</a>, who speaks about her new book, <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Spell-Freedom/Elaine-Weiss/9781668002698#:~:text=%E2%80%9CSpell%20Freedom%20is%20a%20powerful,in%20the%20Jim%20Crow%20South." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement</a>, published by Simon and Schuster this month.</p><p>Spell Freedom traces the educational program that was the underpinning of the civil rights movement and voter registration drives. The Citizenship Schools originated from workshops in the summer of 1954 at the <a href="https://beta.highlandercenter.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Highlander Center</a>, a labor and social justice training center, located on a mountain in Monteagle, TN, just after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision. The heart of the book is Elaine’s vivid retelling the stories of the four main leaders of the citizenship school movement, Septima Clark, Bernice Robinson, Esau Jenkins, and one of the founders of the Highlander Center, Myles Horton. She traces the path from this mountain center to Charleston and the sea islands of South Carolina, all framed by the segregated and racist South and the leaders who rose up to organize and resist Jim Crow and create a new South. </p><p>As is often said in southern movement building (from the World Social Forum in 2006), “another South is possible; another South is necessary,” and Spell Freedom connects the histories and voices of the movements that continue to be necessary today.</p><p><strong>Episode Credits:</strong></p><p>Co-hosts and co-producers: Lucia Hulsether and Tina Pippin</p><p>Editing and Production Manager: Aliyah Harris</p><p>Intro Music: Lance Haugen and the Flying Penguins</p><p>Outro Music: "Plato's Republic" by <a href="https://akrasis.bandcamp.com/music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Akrasis</a></p>
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