A collection of essays by Tuscarora writer Alicia Elliott. I’ve encountered her writing online from time to time in the last few years and thought highly of it every time, so I was very excited to hear she had a debut collection coming out. I was not disappointed. These essays are strongly grounded in memoir, …
Month: June 2019
Just finished the second of two Talking Radical Radio interviews for the week. Yesterday, I spoke to Kate of End Dress Codes about their work in Toronto against discriminatory dress codes in public schools — part of a recent victory that resulted in a major policy change by Canada’s largest school board. And today I talked with Marty and …
Kaeden Seburn is a Bachelor of Social Work student at Carleton University and a community organizer and advocate. Jay Burns is a high school student currently finishing Grade 12. Both are active members of SAEFTY Ottawa, a group run by and for trans and gender-diverse youth. Scott Neigh interviews them about SAEFTY and about the …
Book two of four in Okorafor’s series featuring a young human woman who decides to follow her prodigious mathematical abilities and become the first of her insular people to travel to a distant solar system and attend the galaxy’s greatest university. The first book was about her decision to go and the unexpected sequence of …
Just finished an interview with Marisa of the Global Catholic Climate Movement and Agnes of the GCCM’s new Canadian chapter. We talked climate change, faith, and social change. Listen for it on Talking RadicalRadio later in the summer! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
A really great little book combining movement history and radical analysis. The goal seems to be to clarify some current debates by creating a resource to allow a more robust understanding of the Combahee River Collective, whose famous statement from the 1970s is both a crucial document in the Black feminist tradition and also foundational …
Baj Mukhopadhyay is a physician who is based in Montreal and practices mainly in remote and Indigenous communities in northern Quebec. He also writes about and is active in grassroots politics related to struggles around resource extraction, migrant justice, and health. Bilal Mamdani is an organizer with a long history of involvement in land defence, …
Garth Mullins is an activist and organizer who has been part of many different movements, as well as a freelance journalist and an award-winning broadcaster. He has been a drug user for most of his adult life – primarily heroin in his younger years and methadone today – and he is currently a drug user …
The latest from Mariko Tamaki, a writer of prose and comics whose work I have enjoyed for a long time. This one is a graphic novel – teen heartbreak in slow motion, and a young woman’s move from bad decisions and the drama of her dysfunctional on-again-off-again first queer love to a friend- and community-rich …
Lynn Gehl is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe, an advocate, and a writer based in Peterborough, Ontario. Through her own decades-long court battle as well as her involvement in political mobilizations, she is a long-time participant in the fight against sex discrimination in the federal Indian Act. Scott Neigh interviews her about the history of that struggle …