Episode #8: Breeders

Evgenia at the LA River.We’re about to become parents so this ep has serious breeder energy. We start off by talking about Evgenia’s recent great essay on “procreation horror” and then we move on, riffing on things like fertility under neoliberalism, Soviet bourgeois family life, dogs as baby replacements, and having children as a consumer choice. —Yasha LevineNotes: Evgenia mentioned Natalya Baranskaya, who wrote stories about what life was like for women in the Soviet Union. She also mentioned Eternal Eve, a history of gynecology.Check out our previous episodes…and subscribe: * Episode #0: The Ukrainian-Canadian left & Chrystia Freeland's Nazi grandpa* Episode #1: Russians Against Politics* Episode #2: All the Sad Soviet Immigrant Lit* Episode #3: Eduard Limonov and Natalia Medvedeva w/Thierry Marignac* Episode #4: Palestine and Soviet Jews* Episode #5: The Serf aka Холоп* Episode #6: Navalny, the Kremlin, and the curse of neoliberalism* Episode #7: Adam Curtis, get out of my headIntro song: American Boy by Комбинация. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yasha.substack.com/subscribe