Thanks to Natalie for the interview just now about the troubling rise in anti-trans politics in Canada, about Rainbow Ottawa Student Experience (which until recently was Rainbow Carleton), and about the group’s recent organizing against transphobia. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!
Brandon Doucet is a dentist in Nova Scotia and a founding member of the Coalition for Dentalcare, an organization that brings together dentists, hygienists, dental students, other health care professionals, and members of the public to advocate for universal dental care in Canada. Scott Neigh interviews him about how dental care currently works in this …
Contemporary fantasy. The protagonist and her parents had lived in the US since she was a toddler, but now they have moved back to Malaysia and are living with her aunt and uncle. She just graduated, she has no job, she has no money, she’s closeted to her family, and she has started hearing voices…well, …
Many years ago, I was walking in downtown Hamilton with a friend. As often happens in downtown Hamilton, a woman we walked by asked us for spare change. I no longer remember exactly how the interaction played out – then as now, I often give change if I have it, but not always (particularly after …
Mary Kelly is an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia and she is a national board member of Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy (CSSDP). Alex Bestos works at a health research centre focused on substance use, and they are the international liaison for CSSDP. Scott Neigh interviews them about the current state …
Thanks to long-time labour organizer Nick Driedger for the conversation just now about the nuts and bolts of worker organizing and about his recent article “Common Organizing Mistakes” (https://organizing.work/2020/11/common-organizing-mistakes/). Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the new year!
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 …
Shahrzad Mojab is an activist and an academic at the University of Toronto. She was recently involved in the publication of a book called Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow, a translation of a powerful poem by Iranian poet Saeed Yousef that remembers the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in the 1980s. Scott Neigh interviews Mojab …
Cole Rockarts is a labour and community organizer, and a member of Free Transit Edmonton. Scott Neigh interviews them about the importance of public transit and about the growing effort to make it public, accessible, high quality, and free. It wasn’t too long ago, at least in the Canadian context, that the idea of free public transit did not …
Thank-you to radical scholar Shahrzad Mojab for the interview just now. We talked about the newly translated poem Lives Lost by Saeed Yousef, and about the politics of grassroots memory of oppression and resistance. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio!