Is Cleanliness the Most Powerful Taboo?

Nadia Idle, Jem Gilbert and Keir Milburn confront a sensitive topic in this Trip episode about cleanliness, dirt, and the shame and rituals surrounding them, from bathing to bleaching. In the socialist utopia of our dreams, who exactly is doing the cleaning?

With music from X-Ray Spex, The B-52s and more, the gang offer their weird-left perspective on everything from dirty dishes and bodily secretions to circumcision, pollution and the caste system.

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Books and articles: Françoise Vergès – Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism / Emma Casey & Jo Littler – How social media cleanfluencers are refashioning the domestic narrative