The much-anticipated first book by journalist and activist Desmond Cole. He uses his experience of 2017 as a frame to talk about Black life and Black struggles in Canada. If you are someone who is glued to grassroots activist social media in the Canadian context, many of the incidents and struggles that Cole speaks about …
Imtiaz Popat is a therapeutic counsellor in Vancouver. He is also the coordinator of the local chapter of Salaam: Queer Muslim Community, and he has played a central role in the Two-Spirit and LGBT People of Colour Alliance and the Coalition Against Bigotry – Pacific. Scott Neigh interviews him about his extensive work against oppression …
Just finished an interview for Talking Radical Radio with Kiyu, Ledna, and Andre about Black in Post-Sec: The Documentary, a new film about the experiences of Black students in Toronto’s universities. Listen for it in the new year!
Just finished a wide-ranging interview with Imtiaz Popat from the Vancouver chapter of Salaam: Queer Muslim Community, the 2sqtilgbipoc Alliance, and the Coalition Against Bigotry – Pacific about the multifaceted intersectional anti-oppression and anti-bigotry work of these organizations. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon, likely early in January!
Burcu Emeç is a performance artist and the outreach and communications coordinator at articule, an artist-run centre in Montreal. Scott Neigh interviews her about articule’s efforts to challenge oppressive systemic disparities through organizational change work within the centre and interventions into the larger arts scene. Articule is an artist-run centre in the Mile End neighbourhood …
Alicia-Marie and Faduma are community activists and co-founders of the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group’s work to bring Ottawa’s Black communities together and to oppose anti-Black racism in the city. The group came together in 2016, broadly informed by Black Lives Matter – not necessarily with any particular connection, …
A solid first book for white people to read to begin learning about racism. The hook and focus indicated by the title points towards how unprepared we generally are in multiple senses for conversations about race and racism. In particular, most of us never learn to handle “the smallest amount of racial stress” and so …
Thank-you to the two members of the Ottawa Black Diaspora Coalition for the interview just now! You’ll be able to hear about their work against anti-Black racism in the nation’s capital on Talking Radical Radio in September.
May Chiu is a lawyer based in Montreal who spends much of her time engaged in grassroots political work. Part of a network of activists and organizers dissatisfied with the ways in which Quebec’s left establishment handles issues of racism and colonization, she is also one of the founding members of a new group called …
LaMeia Reddick is a community worker and consultant in Halifax. Ted Rutland is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University in Montreal and the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax (Univeristy of Toronto Press, 2018). Scott Neigh interviews them about about the long …