Craig Heron, Holly Kirkconnell, and David Kidd are active with the Toronto Workers’ History Project (TWHP), an initiative devoted to preserving and promoting the history of working people in Toronto. Scott Neigh interviews them about the enthusiasm they have found in the community for working-class history, the many facets of the project’s work, and the …
Month: May 2022
Thank-you to Riley and Felix of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia for the interview just now about the grassroots, community-based effort to overhaul gender-affirming health care in their province. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio at some point in June!
Krista Wylie is a mother of one current and one former student in public schools in Toronto, and she is a co-founder of the Fix Our Schools campaign. Scott Neigh interviews her about the $16.8 billion repair backlog in Ontario schools and about her years of campaigning to get the provincial government to take seriously …
A wide ranging work of nonfiction drawing out the connections between the climate crisis and colonialism. Though I had not previously heard of him, the author is a well-known novelist and essayist, and while this book is intellectually substantive enough to be a work of scholarship, it has very clearly been written by a *writer* …
Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.
Thanks to Rosemary and Lisa of We’re Together Ending Poverty for the interview just now about the group’s 14 years of grassroots, intersectional anti-poverty work in Calgary. Listen for it in the coming weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
Sally Lane is the mother of Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen who has been detained for more than five years in northeastern Syria in conditions akin to torture. Matthew Behrens is a long-time activist and a member of Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture. Scott Neigh interviews them about Jack’s case and about the campaign to …
Darlene Okemaysim-Sicotte is part of a grassroots group called Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik, or Women Walking Together, that has been working for many years in Saskatoon on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Scott Neigh interviews her about what that work has involved. Okemaysim-Sicotte grew up in Beardy’s and Okemasis’ Cree Nation in …
Contemporary fiction. Short stories. All of them centre Black women, I think particularly Black women in or from the US South, in a range of relations with faith and family and love and friendship and desire. Short, readable, and engaging. Generally speaking, when I read short fiction, I prefer it to be either genre or …
Thanks to Krista of Fix Our Schools for the interview just now about the campaign to push the Ontario government to address the $16.8 billion infrastructure deficit in the province’s schools, and their take on the current provincial election. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio!