book club
Upcoming Book Club on Pinko Magazine’s After Accountability Wednesday, February 18 5pm eastern
Join us for the next book club meeting!
Shuli Branson
The Breakup Theory
The Breakup Theory Episode 30 - WE ARE NOW LIVING IN THE HELLSCAPE OF POETIC SCIENCE w/ P.
In this episode, I talk with P. about his book God, Aritifical Intelligence, and Me: Some Notes on Being Raised Catholic, God, Atheism, Consumerism, Artificial Intelligence, and Just How Fucked Up It Feels to Be Alive Sometimes :) I think that says it all!
She's Not There
The Christmas tree chipper at Prospect Park
The next day, the trees are gone, dismembered and shattered, like an old battleground littered with corpses blown to pieces from ordinance. But it is sap you smell not blood.
The Breakup Theory
The Breakup Theory Episode 29 - Living with Trans Despair with Simon(e) van Saarloos
Taking a radical approach to despair, Simon(e) van Saarloos and Shuli Branson integrate queer nihilism with the openness of transition, delinking hope and change to operate in the shadows of a progressive rainbow that demands assimilation, rationality, and maturity.
Podcasts
The New Frankenstein - Shuli guests on The Spectacle Podcast
The great Io @bum.lung invited Shuli on to their podcast The Spectacle (a podcast for people who like movies and hate cops) to dig into Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of the much-adapted Frankenstein. They ask the big questions like: “Why?” “How?” and of course “Who?”
She's Not There
Underneath they're all lovable
The sun pours down incessantly, beating us down with the light of love. It does hide itself from time to time, it seems to leave us seasonally, and yet the light is always there.
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory Episode 28 - Jaime Grant on What We Can Do Intimately With Each Other
In this episode, Caroline and I talk to the wonderful Dr. Jaime M. Grant, Sex and Intimacy Coach, Researcher, Writer, and longtime Activist. She has recently published Kink for Dummies, after her previous contribution to the series, Polyamory for Dummies.
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory Episode 27 -- A Conversation with Simon(e) van Saarloos: Disintegrating Linear Timelines at the NY Art Bookfair
When Simon(e) van Saarloos invited me to be in conversation with them at the NY Artbook Fair surrounding their recently published Against Ageism, I was honored and excited. We had already been discussing recording a conversation, so it was serendipitous that this event came along.
She's Not There
dither
a trifle
Podcasts
The Breakup Theory, Agony Letter: The Thing That Cracks Us Open
For this episode, I invited the beautiful Dean Spade to respond to a listener letter with me from someone who had a terrible experience with an accountability process and over the years this has caused them to become disenchanted . . . It has gotten really bad for them.
She's Not There
Maybe everyone thinks New York belongs to someone else but feels it belongs to them.
The shark doesn’t care as it sinks its teeth into your leg. It doesn’t even want to eat you.
translation
an excerpt from Florent Gabarron-Garcia, A People’s History Of Psychoanalysis, trans. Shuli Branson (Pluto Press, 2025)
We are sharing the introduction from the recently published A People’s History of Psychoanalysis by Florent Gabarron-Garcia (Pluto Press, 2025) translated by Shuli. The book sketches a path, from Freud to the Sozialistisches Patientenkollektiv (Socialist Patient’s Collective) in West Germany, to demonstrate that psychoanalysis has a rich history