Just closed out the week with an interview for Talking Radical Radio with Maia from Pull Together, a campaign raising funds to support the legal challenges by First Nations to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project. Listen for it in a couple of weeks! Originally posted to Scott’s author page on Facebook.
Month: September 2019
Tiffany Joseph‘s ancestry is of the Saanich people on her mother’s side and the Squamish people on her father’s side, and she currently lives in Tsartlip First Nation, a bit north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. Scott Neigh interviews her about her peoples’ history and about her work revitalizing her language and culture, and restoring …
First fantasy novel by Ann Leckie, who made her name as an original voice in the sci-fi world with the excellent *Ancillary Justice* trilogy (of which I still haven’t read the final entry). As you might expect from Leckie, this is not typical fantasy. There are humans at a relatively early stage of state formation …
Short, powerful graphic novel. Centred on two teenage Indigenous girls in Winnipeg. Simple, clear storytelling about the relentless pressure of gendered colonial violence and about love, culture, resilience, and survival. Very good. Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.
This is an eclectic collection “written and gathered” (as the author credit puts it) by organizer, facilitator, and writer adrienne maree brown. It contains many, many different kinds of pieces – both newly written and older re-published work by brown herself; pieces by other people, and pieces where other people are in dialogue with her; …