Barberian Productions

07/07/2025

SYNOPSIS: Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in America. It is also home to the country’s second-largest population of immigration detainees. Last week, a group of workers from the Service Employees International Union from across the U.S. took a caravan of buses to demonstrate outside t...

02/07/2025

Proud to work with Jesse Fox Mayshark on this production.

On this week's episode of HEADLIGHTS: Voices From the Progressive South (link in comments), we talked to Jeff Graham of Georgia Equality and Chris Sanders of Tennessee Equality Project about the Supreme Court's Skrmetti decision and the embattled status of LGBTQ rights across the South. Both pushed back against any idea that advocates should soft-pedal transgender rights because of right-wing attacks.

Sanders: "I'm particularly frustrated by the very small minority of people who want to break off gay/lesbian/bisexual people from trans people. They fool themselves into thinking that if we just didn't have to deal with gender identity issues, the movement would magically have everything it wanted. And that is not true. The Project 2025 people do not like any form of what they would describe as 'aberrant sexuality.' And if you think for one minute that they are forgetting us, that's ridiculous. We are all in this together."

02/06/2025

SYNOPSIS: While much of the U.S. has given a green light to cannabis, the South remains mostly hostile to legalization. This week we look at recent moves in three states to restrict hemp-based THC products — and why Virginia still doesn’t have a commercial w**d market, even though ma*****na is l...

28/04/2025

New release from Barberian Productions

Politics Podcast · Updated Weekly · The American South is much more than Spanish moss and plantation politics. In every city, town and rural county across the region, there are people working for a better future, continuing a centuries-…

16/04/2025

Happy Holler’s Annual Street Festival, Holleroo, returns on Saturday, May 17th. Get ready for a day packed with excitement, including the legendary soapbox derby, live music, local vendors, and so much more. Best of all—it’s free for the whole family!

Our music line-up is coming soon. So stay tuned for more exciting announcements!

👉 https://holleroo.co/

25/08/2024

More on the Benny Smith Saga...

Podcast · [object Object] · A supplement podcast for Compassknox.com. Releasing every Sunday at 10:00am with a look back at the week that was, and a look ahead at the week to come.

11/04/2024