
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.
Latest episodes

May 28, 2025 • 34min
Part Two: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle
Margaret tells you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 26, 2025 • 40min
Part One: The Alter-Globalization Movement: From the Zapatistas to the Battle of Seattle
Margaret tells you about the rise of neoliberalism and the rise of its opposition and about better ideas about how to globalize society.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 25, 2025 • 21min
CZM Book Club: The Abbot of Druimenach
Margaret reads you an Irish fairy tale about gender transformation that she really likes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 21, 2025 • 49min
Part Two: Habeas Corpus and the Peasant Origins of Western Democracy
Margaret continues talking with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 19, 2025 • 44min
Part One: Habeus Corpus and the Peasant Origins of Western Democracy
Margaret talks with Kat Abughazaleh about the folk councils that came to define English Common Law. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 18, 2025 • 27min
CZM Book Club: Soria Moria Castle
Margaret reads you a classic norse fairy tale and then makes a thin and likely incorrect argument for why it's a queer parable. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 14, 2025 • 58min
Part Two: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking Around Jonas Salk
Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 12, 2025 • 56min
Part One: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking Around Jonas Salk
Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 11, 2025 • 34min
CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapters Eight and Nine
Margaret reads the final two chapters of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 7, 2025 • 47min
Part Two: International Antifascists in Ukraine: the Story of Anarchists at War Against Putin
Margaret continues talking with Ron Placone about three antifascists who died protecting a humanitarian corridor--and one would-be antifascist who died on the other side of the war. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.