Memoir. By someone who is part of southern Ontario/Montreal anarchist networks, about their decade working as a stripper. Rich and nuanced, vehemently refusing the caricatured understandings held by many who do not do this work. As the backbone of the book, uses fragments, moments, nights, weekends extracted from their time at the various clubs where …
Month: February 2022
Thank-you to Sarah, Andrea, Rubén, and Casey for the interview just now about https://beyondthetoolkit.com, a project that investigated how community-based grassroots work adapted to the constraints of the pandemic. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon!
Hanen Nanaa works in research and policy development in the federal political context and as an outreach coordinator for the Syrian Canadian Foundation, but today Scott Neigh interviews her in her role as director of the BAM Collective. The acronym “BAM” stands for “Books Art Music,” and the group is a youth-led collective based in …
Sci-fi. A first contact story set in 2007. The protagonist is the estranged oldest daughter of a narcissistic publish-all-the-leaks anti-government guy. He releases a leaked memo indicating that the US government has been covering up the existence of extraterrestrial life on earth, but she has no interest in this and wants nothing to do with …
Thank-you to Hailey and Emma of the Committee on the Status of Women and Girls (https://cswag.ca) for the interview just now about feminist organizing as students at a Calgary high school. Listen for it soon Talking Radical Radio!
Brie Villeneuve is a Grade 12 student at Grant Park High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Piper Lockhart is a Grade 11 student at Collège Louis-Riel, a French-language high school in Winnipeg. Both are core organizers with Manitoba Students for COVID Safety, a student-led group advocating for safer schools in light of inadequate action from the …
Middle grade contemporary fantasy. A young girl who lives with her grandparents above their bookshop in London, England, discovers that certain people, she among them, can literally enter books, have conversations with characters, and directly observe or even participate in the stories therein. Through the story, she and the reader learn more about the hidden …
Thank-you to grassroots Secwépemc land defender April Thomas for speaking with me just now about opposition to the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline expansion project and about the charges she and others are currently fighting. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon!
Martha Paynter and Frédérique Chabot have each spent a lot of years doing a lot of different kinds of grassroots political work related to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Scott Neigh interviews them about why such work is important, and about why in Canada today it is vital that it centre prison abolition, migrant …
Literary fiction. Follows three women in three different generations of the same family – a riot grrrl-esque musician whom we first meet on her rise to renown in the ’90s, her mother (a hippie), and her paternal grandmother (who migrated to Canada as a young woman). Traces their respective journeys with partners, family, work, sexuality, …