Thank-you to Doug, Murray, and Scott of Conscience Canada for the interview just now about their work to enable conscientious objection to military taxation and for a broader peace agenda. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in December or early January!
Month: November 2019
[Patricia Hill Collins. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 2009.] A Black feminist classic, and deservedly so. An effort by one of the most prominent Black feminist sociologists in the US to create a sort of overview and synthesis of the rich and varied Black feminist tradition in …
Rachel Huot is a mom of three kids and a parent organizer in the west end of Toronto. She is part of a group called West End Parents for Public Education, which has been central to the emergence of the province-wide Ontario Parent Action Network. Scott Neigh interviews her about the cuts that the province’s …
Short stories. Literary. Weird. Focused on women, the body, transformation. At its best when evoking feeling and mood, particularly variations on the unsettling and the not really possible but the relentlessly true nonetheless. I’ve seen it compared to Carmen Maria Machado’s *Her Body and Other Parties*, which is apt though they explore somewhat different flavours …
Young adult contemporary. Read it because I read a middle-grade book by the same author earlier in the year and really liked it. Focused on a teen girl and her relationship with her traumatized, addicted, and likely mentally ill mother. It captures something real and overwhelming and painful about that experience, and captures it well. …
A big thank-you to Lora and Wendy for the interview just now. They are part of Joint Effort, a grassroots feminist prison abolition group that has existed in Vancouver for almost 40 years. Listen for the interview on Talking Radical Radio in December or early January!
Burcu Emeç is a performance artist and the outreach and communications coordinator at articule, an artist-run centre in Montreal. Scott Neigh interviews her about articule’s efforts to challenge oppressive systemic disparities through organizational change work within the centre and interventions into the larger arts scene. Articule is an artist-run centre in the Mile End neighbourhood …
Sheila Sampath is the editorial and art director of Shameless Magazine, a feminist magazine for teen girls and trans youth. Sampath is also an artist, activist, writer, and co-founder of a social justice art and design space called The Public Studio. Scott Neigh interviews her about feminist media, Shameless, and the Talking Back Feminist Media …
Third and final book in Nnedi Okorafor’s *Binti* series. (I believe in my review of #2 earlier in the year I said there were four books in the series – not sure where I got that idea.) I won’t say anything about the plot of this one, because spoilers, but the series features a young …
Sakura Saunders is on the board of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and Lisa Cameron is on its organizing committee. They speak with me about the struggles faced by low-wage and precarious workers in the city, and about the work of the Halifax Workers Action Centre and the city’s Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign. …