Essays by a Canadian now living in New York. Makes heavy use of sequential illustrative specifics to create feel, meaning, narrative beyond the linear flow of the words themselves, a technique I like and gravitate towards myself (though am not nearly as good at as she is). Particularly liked the earlier, longer, and more stylistically …
Month: May 2019
Hana Shafi, also known as Frizz Kid, is an artist, a poet, a freelance writer, and a feminist. She is also the author of It Begins With The Body (Book*Hug Press, 2018), a book of poetry and illustrations. Scott Neigh interviews her about her work and her politics. As anyone who has been paying attention …
Feminist philosophy translated from Italian. Since ancient Greece, philosophy in the West has been predominantly centred on thought and on the visual, the semantic, the disembodied, the Said, and the reified. Cavarero begins from the observation that, when we speak, prior to whatever content is conveyed by our words, the singular character of the speaker’s …
Just finished speaking with Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe Lynn Gehl about the long history of sex discrimination in the Indian Act and the current “6(1) All the Way” campaign to get the feds to eliminate it. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
A big thank-you to Garth Mullins of Crackdown for the interview just now for Talking Radical Radio, about the drug war in Canada, grassroots organizing against it, and his new podcast covering it. Listen for the episode in a few weeks! (And if you haven’t listened to Crackdown yet, you really should — it is …
Jacky Tuinstra Harrison is the general manager of CJRU 1280 AM, also called The Scope, a relatively new campus radio station affiliated with Ryerson University in Toronto. Barry Rooke is the executive director of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA), which represents about 110 not-for-profit radio stations of various sorts across the country, …
Hirut Melaku is a doula and lactation consultant with a focus on reproductive justice. Rachel Zellers is a professor, a community worker, and an organizer. Both are members of the Third Eye Collective, a group of Black women based in Montreal. Scott Neigh interviews them about their work developing transformative justice approaches for responding to …
Just finished my second of two Talking Radical Radio interviews for the week. On Tuesday, I interviewed feminist writer and artist Hana Shafi, aka Frizz Kid, about her work. And today I talked to Barry of the National Campus and Community Radio Association and Jacky of 1280 CJRU, the station at Ryerson University, about the provincial changes that …
Jill Graham-Scanlan is a lifelong resident of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, a lawyer, and the president of the Friends of the Northumberland Strait. Scott Neigh interviews her about the group’s work to oppose a plan that would see effluent from the Northern Pulp mill piped into the strait, putting ecosystems, fisheries, and communities at risk. …
A mental health-related self-help book that I heard about because a friend posted this interview with the author connecting it to writing practice, and it was enough to intrigue me: http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/…/writing-brain-exercise-i…/. I have some significant misgivings, which I talk about below, but there are some core practices in this book that feel solid, useful to me, …