Another collection of weird, fantastical short stories. (I certainly seem to have a type when it comes to short fiction, don’t I?) I first encountered this author a couple of years ago when she was the only person with two stories in a “best of” collection that I read, and they were also two of …
Month: October 2020
Thanks to Cam, Irene, and Daniel of Police-Free Schools Winnipeg for the interview just now about their campaign to end the Student Resource Officer program that puts cops in schools in their city. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in November!
Michael Kwag is the director of knowledge exchange and policy development at the Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC). Scott Neigh talks with him about the CBRC’s use of research, community-level interventions, and advocacy to promote the health of gay, bi, trans, Two-Spirit, and queer men. Grassroots organizing in the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis produced a number of important …
Good ol’ fashioned space opera. Told from the point of view of a former ship commander of a space exploration force now residing on the to-her alien planet where her new husband is a retired military officer and high-ranking nobleman’s son – she is pregnant and said husband has just been appointed regent for the …
YA. Set in a city in a world very much like our own. Except the city – no mention is made of broader polities of any sort – is a couple of decades past a revolution. And that revolution seems to have been based on prison abolitionist and transformative justice principles, though such terms are …
Medeana Moussa is an entrepreneur and mother of four who lives in Calgary, and she is the executive director of Support Our Students (SOS) Alberta. Wing Li holds a PhD in neuroscience, has two children, and is the communications director for the group. SOS Alberta is a grassroots, nonpartisan network focused on standing up for the …
Literary and fantastical. Stories from the history of an empire that never was. Slow, vaguely dream-like, in quite a distinctive voice. Very much told in the form of storytelling, in the sense that it is as if they are being told orally by storytellers. Not high fantasy, which you might stereotypically expect when the words …
A multi-author collection edited by three of the core members of Black Lives Matter – Toronto. Personal essays, dialogues, scholarly essays, poetry, photo essays. Includes accounts of the iconic moments of BLM-TO’s founding and early years of action, but ranges far beyond in its exploration of Blackness and Black struggle in Canada today. I’m a …
Thank-you to Renae, Michael, and Leah of the Mount Royal Anti-Racism Coaltion for the interview just now about faculty-based anti-racism work at their university in Alberta! Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the coming weeks.
Shannon Hardy and Bridget Graham live in Halifax and work as doulas. They are also, respectively, the coordinator and the director of volunteers of Abortion Support Services Atlantic, a volunteer-run group that exists to provide support to people in Atlantic Canada who are trying to get an abortion. Scott Neigh interviews them about the barriers that people face …