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After an anxiety induced extended hiatus, we have made it out of the house and into the studio (which is in our house) to record an episode about Facebook.

Cambridge Analytica helped bring to the world’s attention what we have known all along: Facebook is a steaming pile of anxiety inducing poison. We ask questions like does Facebook really improve our lives, or were things better when we lived in a series of networked caves and grunted at each other around a fire? Were cavemen affected by toxic masculinity and how is Facebook like your abusive ex boyfriend?

Further reading:

• With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit (Professor Jean Twenge in The Conversation)

• The Secret Ways Social Media Is Built for Addiction (Vice)

• Facebook admits it poses mental health risk – but says using site more can help (The Guardian)

• How Do You Solve A Problem Like Analytica? (Green Agenda)

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Living while millennial is hard at the best of times – but imagine if you had an impairment that stopped you participating in ordinary life. This episode we speak to Sara Gingold, disability activist and consult, about the experience of young people living with a disability in a country that doesn’t cater for their needs and sometimes doesn’t even believe in their disability.

Sara describes her own experience of managing Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) sometimes known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). We talk about the systems that are set up to help people live the lives they want to live, like the NDIS and disability support pension, whether they work for young people, why everyone deserves a seat on the train and the terrible scourge on society that is staircases.

To find out more about ME/ CFS or to support people managing the condition visit Emerge.

Sign Sara’s petition to make public transport more inclusive for people with a disability.

Read more about Sara’s experience of having an invisible disability.

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Alright, let’s talk about this bloody postal survey then. Love is love, but politics is politics and right now queer love is being voted on by all Australians who know how to use a mail box. This whole crazy situation has the potential to have a serious impact on the mental health of queer young people.

Friend of the pod, Simon Copland rejoins us to talk identity politics, queer spaces, and what a powerful, unbridled campaign for equal love can do to quash homophobia and enhance the rights of everyone in the LGBTIQA+ community.

We send this podcast out with a strong YES and all the love with have to give to our queer friends and their allies.

Song in the outro is “You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me” by Alex Lahey. You can listen to the full song on Unearthed. Her awesome debut album was released last week and you can find out more about that at alexlahey.com.au.

Links:

Listen to more concentrated Simon wisdom on his hit podcast Queers.

Sign up to make calls or volunteer for the YES campaign at www.yes.org.au

Support and counselling services for LGBTIQA+ people (Australia only)

Join the Sunrise Movement or the Harry Potter Alliance (US only)

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The election of Donald Trump and the sudden prominence of white nationalists organising in the streets has caught many people by surprise. But for people of colour, racism has been a part of their daily experience of the world their entire lives.

In the week after the events in Charlottesville where an anti-racisim protester was killed by a white supremacist, and Pauline Hanson wore a burqa in Parliament to speak against Muslim immigration to Australia, we spoke to Tim Lo Surdo and Ngaire Sidhu from Democracy In Colour, a new organisation run by people of colour to tackle structural racism in Australia, to talk about what this volatile political moment means for people of colour and how growing up under structural racism impacts their mental health.

You can support Democracy In Colour here: democracyincolour.org/donate

Outro music is “Black Lives matter” by Birdz. You can listen to the full song on Unearthed, Apple Music or Spotify.