Beatrice Adler-Bolton is a disabled and chronically ill writer, artist, and independent scholar, and has
been a leading voice in pushing the left to advance and expand its politics of disability and health.
Beatrice is also the co-host and co-creator of Death Panel podcast,
one of the largest and most prominent left podcasts in the US with a focus on the material politics that shape our everyday lives and survival.
She is the co-author, with Artie Vierkant, of the book Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto (Verso, 2022), a
pathbreaking work in the fields of disability theory and of the political economy of health, and which has been translated into
forthcoming translations in French, Spanish, and Korean.
Her next two books, All Care for All People and Stay Alive Another Week will be published by Haymarket Books.
She has given many public lectures as well as talks at numerous institutions including Oxford, Dartmouth, Bard, the Royal College of Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut.
Beatrice has written for The Nation, In These Times, Teen Vogue, The New Inquiry, the Law and Political
Economy (LPE) Project, Jacobin, and more, and in 2022 organized a symposium on the work of Marta
Russell for the LPE Project.
She has been featured as a guest on numerous podcasts, including Citations
Needed, The Majority Report, Conspirituality, Axios’ 1 Big Thing, Red Medicine, Struggle Session, Pod
Damn America, Upstream, The Insurgents, This Machine Kills, Movement Memos, Means Morning News,,
Time to Say Goodbye, and more. She has been interviewed by Bookforum, Democracy Journal, The New
Republic, TANK Magazine, The Disability Archives Lab, among others, and was named one of The
Nation’s “Progressives Who Give Us Hope for 2024.”
You can book Beatrice as a speaker here. Or email her at: bea.bolton [at] gmail [dot] com
Represented by: Alison Lewis of Frances Goldin Literary Agency
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.