Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a blind/low vision and chronically ill artist and author. She is the co-host of the Death Panel podcast and studies radical patient groups and the capitalist political economy of health as an independent researcher. Her first book, Health Communism co-authored with Artie Vierkant, was published by Verso Books in the US and UK in October 2022. Health Communism argues for a new global left politics aimed at severing the ties between capital and health.
contact: bea.bolton[at]gmail.com
represented by: Alison Lewis
Press, Interviews & Appearances
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Health Communism: Toward a New Political Economy of Health
Sep 4, 2022 — (high quality audio link)
Socialism 2022 Conference, Haymarket Books
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Movement Memos: Capitalism Is Making Us Sick and Sucking Us Dry
August 11, 2022 — (transcript)
Interviewed by Kelly Hayes for “Movement Memos,” Truthout
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Superstructure Podcast: Non-Eugenic Media Practice
March 18, 2022
Interviewed by Will Beaman, Natalie Smith & Maxximilian Seijo
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Voices of the Virus: ‘Pandemic Nihilism [Is] Not the Solution’
May 12, 2022
Interviewed by Sophia Crabbe-Field for Democracy
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KUNM Radio — Let's Talk New Mexico: Long COVID and Disability
August 10, 2022
KUNM Let’s Talk New Mexico, panelist.
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How reopening affects disabled and immunocompromised people
March 22, 2022 — (transcript)
Interviewed by Axios Today Podcast
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KPFA: The Evening News (Saturday) — March 19, 2022
March 19, 2022
interviewed by KPFA, (segment begins at 14:00:00).
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Axios Vitals Newsletter: Quote du jour — March 22, 2022
March 22, 2022
Featured in Axios healthcare newsletter
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Conspirituality Podcast: Eugenic Pandemic (w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton)
April 2022
Interviewed by Matthew Remski
Let It Rip: The Sociological Production of the “End of the Pandemic” with Beatrice Adler-Bolton
interviewed by Last Born In The Wilderness Podcast.
Kunstradio, Urgency of the Arts Lecture Series 2021-2022
lecture at Royal College of Art.
COVID and the Pandemic with Beatrice Adler-Bolton (In Conversation)
interviewed by Upstream Podcast.
Chronicling Illness;
In print, under the title “Everyday Illness” in the September/October 2021 issue, pp. 50–57.
by Emily Watlington, Art in America.
News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help “Friendscaping” Content
interviewed by Citations Needed Podcast.
Disability Justice Panel with Dr. Bethany Ziss and Beatrice Adler-Bolton
panel appearance for Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) Summit 2021.
We need total revolt and the total removal of profit from care: An interview on disability justice with Death Panel's Beatrice Adler-Bolton
interviewed by Alex Wexelman, Insufficient Fare.
Disability Justice and Mental Health: Beatrice Adler-Bolton on reclaiming physical and mental illness to fight against the state
Part 1 of interview by P.E. Moskowitz, Mental Hellth.
Health Is a Myth, Sickness Is a Weapon: Beatrice Adler-Bolton on neoliberalism and disability
Part 2 of interview by P.E. Moskowitz, Mental Hellth.
How Health Care Podcast ‘The Death Panel’ Became a Must-Listen for Influential Artists
Kerry Doran, ARTnews.
How Artists Used the Discord App to Build Community During COVID-19
Rea McNamara, Hyperallergic.
In the New Digital Economy, Are Artists Creators?
Kyle Chayka, ARTnews.
Turning Illness Into a Weapon: Crip Utopia in the Age of Austerity with Death Panel Podcast
for CREATIVETIME Summit X.
Picard Ep. 4-6 w/ Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel
appearance on Struggle Session Podcast.
Heath Care with Artie Vierkant & Beatrice Adler-Bolton
interviewed by Art and Labor Podcast.
september: beatrice adler-bolton
interviewed by lutte collective.