Let's Give A Damn
Let's Give A Damn is your one-stop shop for inspiring, raw, no-bullshit conversations with damn-giving artists, activists, and troublemakers from all over the world. We believe that no one is free until everyone is free. With these conversations, we're trying to help you get free. Are you in? Welcome to Let's Give A Damn.
Episodes
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🎉 It’s Fady Joudah week on the podcast!
🙏🏽 Fady is the author of [...], a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His other poetic works include: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; ...
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🎉 It’s The Committee for the First Amendment week on the podcast!
🙏🏽 This week on the show, I have the honor of speaking with Anjuli Kronheim Katz (Executive Director of TCFA), Bruce Cohen (Film, TV, and Theater Producer and part of the steering committee of TCFA), Wilson Cruz (Actor and Activist), and...
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🎉 It’s Jess Janz week on the podcast!
🙏🏽 Jess is a writer, community facilitator, the creator of With Strangers, and a damn good human. Also, she’s one of my favorite Canadians. Jess started Dinner With Strangers in 2017 with her friend Ryan at his hair studio to invite people who didn’t know each other to...
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🎉 It’s Misan Harriman week on the podcast!
📷 Misan is am award-winning photographer, social activist, Oscar-Nominated filmmaker, and is one of the most widely-shared visual storytellers of this age. He is also the first black person in the 104 year history of British Vogue to shoot the cover of its September issue...
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🎉 It’s Roger Waters & Mona Miari week on the podcast!
🇵🇸 On June 12, 2026, the legendary Roger Waters and acclaimed Palestinian musician Mona Miari release a re-imagined version of the iconic song Comfortably Numb, 47 years after the original was released, with new Arabic verses that transform the Pink Floyd ...
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🎉 It’s Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez week on the podcast!
👉🏽 Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez spent almost a decade in gay conversion therapy—all while working behind the scenes at some of the most influential Evangelical Christian megachurches. After embracing his identity as a gay Christian and stepping away from church...
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🎉 It’s Tatiana Maslany week on the podcast!
👉🏽 Tatiana is an Emmy® Award-winning actress known for Orphan Black, She-Hulk, and Perry Mason. She will next appear in Sony Pictures Classic's The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Recently, Maslany wrapped production on...
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🎉 It’s Pattie Gonia week on the podcast!
👉🏽 Pattie is a critically acclaimed drag queen, environmentalist, and advocate for inclusivity and diversity in the outdoors. She is the co-founder of the Outdoorist Oath (a non-profit that gets BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and femmes into the outdoors through community and education) ...
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🎉 It’s Julian Brave Noisecat week on the podcast!
👉🏽 NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about healing from intergenerationa...
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🎉 It’s Dr. Ibram X. Kendi week on the podcast!
👉🏽 Dr. Kendi is one of the world’s foremost historians of racism and a leading antiracist scholar. He is the Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History at Howard University, and the inaugural director of Howard’s Institute for Advanced Study. Kendi has published eighteen book...
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🎉 It’s Charithra Chandran week on the podcast!
👉🏽 Charithra Chandran has quickly established herself as an internationallyrenowned actor, showcasing her range of disciplines both on-screen and theatrically. Charithra is currently starring in Season 2 of Netflix’s One Piece — a live-action adaptation of the best-selling mang...
It’s Kat Abughazaleh Day on the podcast!
Kat is a 26-year-old, Palestinian American, grassroots congressional candidate running to represent Illinois’ Ninth District. She’s a renter, a formerly uninsured worker, and a union representative running to bring a new generation of leadership to Congress, defend democracy, fight for economic justice, and advance a humane foreign policy.
Kat is a badass. Don’t b...
🎉 It’s Shabnam Mogharabi week on the podcast!
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👉🏽 Shabnam Mogharabi is an entertainment executive, producer, and New York Times bestselling author with 20 years of experience in mission-driven media. She currently runs The Joy Brigade, a boutique film and media p...
🎉 It’s Saja Kilani week on the podcast!
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👉🏽 Saja Kilani is a Jordanian/Palestinian/Canadian actress and spoken word poet. Her first film performance, Simsim, earned her the Best First Time Lead Actress Award at the Amman International Film Festival. She starred in her debut international...
🎉 It’s Noam Shuster-Eliassi & Amber Fares week on the podcast!
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👉🏽 Noamis an Israeli activist and comedian who writes and performs in Arabic, English, and Hebrew, frequently touching upon her experience growing up in “Oasis of Peace” (Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam), a mixed...
🎉 It’s Brian Recker Week on the podcast!
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👉🏽 Brian Recker is a public theologian, speaker, and writer on Christian spirituality without exclusionary dogma.
In October, Brian released his first book, Hell Bent. In this taboo-shattering book, Brian takes an honest look at the Bible...
It’s Mohsen Mahdawi Day on the podcast!
Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian organizer, human rights activist, co-founder of the Columbia Palestinian Student Union, and a damn good human.
Mahdawi was a leading voice during the 2024 protests and the encampments at Columbia University. His leadership during those months and his support for a Free Palestine and an end to the Israeli occupation led to him being arrested in ...
🎉 It’s Arian Moayed week on the podcast!
👉🏽 Ben Cohen is a philanthropist, an antiwar activist, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and the founder of Up In Arms — a movement that is taking on war profiteers and weapons manufacturers and is demanding that the Pentagon slash out outrageous defense budget by...a lot.
👉🏽 In this conversation, Arian and I talk about his immigrant story, moving to the US at a...
🎉 It’s Ben Cohen week on the podcast!
👉🏽 Ben Cohen is a philanthropist, an antiwar activist, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and the founder of Up In Arms — a movement that is taking on war profiteers and weapons manufacturers and is demanding that the Pentagon slash out outrageous defense budget by...a lot.
👉🏽 In this conversation, Ben and I discuss his Zionist upbringing, his decades of service to ...
🎉 It’s Max La Manna week on the podcast!
👉🏽 Max La Manna is an award-winning author, low-waste chef, and campaigner whose casual approach to cooking has attracted over 2 million followers and more than a billion video views. Drawing from his own life, he shares simple, affordable recipes that make the most of every ingredient and inspire people to waste less. His debut cookbook More Plants Less Waste won “Most ...
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