We’re covering The Martian! Both the book AND the movie, in which NASA scientist Mark Watney gets left for dead on the red planet and the only billionaires who can save him are the collective coffers of the US and China because Elon blew his monthly allowance trying to buy Twitter :(

Y’all! We talk poop farming, colonization, space travel and bodies, nerd masculinity and so much more. You can find the Chanda Prescod-Weinstein article that we discuss here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/becoming-martian-prescod-weinstein

and Nikki Giovanni’s “Quilting the Black Eyed Pea (We’re going to Mars)” here: https://issues.org/quilting-the-black-eyed-pea-going-to-mars-poem-giovanni/

Meanwhile, apologies for the sound quality—we had some mic snafus over the course of the recording. To lift your spirits, listen to Nino’s favorite extra-planetary spiritual (it’s true even though they misquoted it in the episode) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMUyUft2Zk

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Queers at the End of the WorldBy Nat & NinaMar 05, 2021