Episodes

11. The Big Gay Episode

October 9, 2017 By Generation Anxiety

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.

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

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

Join the Generation Anxiety Facebook discussion group and email us your ideas at hello@generationanxiety.com

10. Actual, Real, Goddamn Nazis

September 25, 2017 By Generation Anxiety

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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.

9. What We’ve Learned So Far

June 18, 2017 By Nat Tencic

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We’re halfway through this 2017 nightmare so we’re looking back at what we’ve learned so far, examining a few more issues of anxiety that have arisen for young people, like “attacks” on free speech and a moment of hope thanks to our best boy’s UK Election result.

We’re opening up our anxious chats to the community, so if any aspect of modern young life is keeping you up at night, we want to hear about it. You can join us on our subreddit r/generationanxiety or you can join our Facebook Discussion Group.

8. Reclaim Your Brain From Advertising

May 31, 2017 By Generation Anxiety

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Ads are a ubiquitous part of the world we’ve grown up in: they peer at us from billboards, sit next to us on the train and obnoxiously clog up our news feeds. No matter where you look there are ads and it’s only getting worse. You probably find ads annoying, but have you ever stopped to ask what impact all that advertising might be having on your brain? Because it turns out it’s probably not good for you.

In this episode we speak to Tim Hollo from The Green Institute to find out why advertising makes us feel bad and what we can do to reclaim our brains.

7. So You’ve Inherited The Apocalypse

May 17, 2017 By Generation Anxiety

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Are you anxious because you feel like the world is ending? Well the good news you aren’t crazy and it definitely is. In fact scientists confirm that all the predictions of a fiery climate change apocalypse are being realised promptly ahead of schedule! And you can thank the fossil fuel industry and years of political inaction for that one.

This week co-hosts James and Cat both reveal that thinking about the climate apocalypse is their day job and we all get our climate nerd on and talk about what it will actually take to slow down global warming and safeguard our future.

Sources:

The Coming ‘Instant Planetary Emergency’ (The Nation)

Climate Change Is Giving Us ‘Pre-Traumatic Stress’ (Motherboard, Vice)

When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job (Esquire)

Places to get involved

Fossil Free Universities Australia

Join the campaign to #Repower Victoria (Environment Victoria)

Volunteer with Australian Youth Climate Coalition

SEED Indigenous Youth Climate Network