Science fiction, or maybe science fantasy. Set in a future world built in part out of elements drawn from Chinese history. The China-ish realm is besieged by giant aliens which can only be fought off by equally giant transforming mechs, each piloted by one man and one woman, the latter of whom often ends up …
Month: June 2022
Steve September was born into the struggle against South African apartheid, and today he is the chair of the Anti-Racism Coalition (ARC) Vancouver, a grassroots group working to end all forms of racial inequality through education, legislation, and social events. Scott Neigh interviews him about the work of ARC Vancouver and about the perspective he …
Thank-you to Beatriz and Aabir of SeedChange for the interview just now about their work supporting ecological farming, farmers’ rights, and seed sovereignty & diversity in Canada and around the world. Listen for it Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
I have read several books by this author before, all middle-grade, and really, really liked them, so there was no way I wasn’t going to read this one, her first book aimed at adults. The titular Delilah, a big-city photographer who doesn’t do relationships, goes back to the small town where she grew up to …
Riley Nielson-Baker and Felix Vandergrift are part of Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia, a grassroots, community-based policy process to address issues of gender-affirming care and access to health care for trans, intersex, and gender-diverse people in Nova Scotia. Scott Neigh interviews them about the process, the policy, and the work they have been doing to …
Sci-fi thriller. Set in a ship that has been sent by the monopolistic corporation that claims all non-Earth space to explore a world for possible settlement. The main character is a psychologist of sorts, but one that specializes not in talk therapy but in observing people’s secret tells to figure out what they won’t talk …
Thanks to Jen and James of Rent Strike Bargain for the interview just now. We talked about tenant organizing and about the fight for real collective bargaining for tenants in British Columbia. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Sci-fi. A scientist who has developed sophisticated human cloning technology that works but that has not yet been broadly commercialized finds out that her husband is somehow having an affair with a clone of her. Told in a first-person voice that wonderfully conveys (particularly in the audiobook) the suffer-no-fools, brilliant, not really very nice, damaged, …
Jordan Westfall is co-founder and president of the Canadian Association for Safe Supply (CASS), an organization that aims to reduce the immense harms of the overdose crisis by pushing for an increase in people’s access to a drug supply that is legal, regulated, and safe. Scott Neigh interviews him about the crisis and about the …
Thank-you to Steve September of the Anti-Racism Coalition – Vancouver for the interview just now about opposing racism in Vancouver, the importance of building unity and taking offline action, and lessons from the struggle against South African apartheid. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!