Shawna Dempsey is an artist and the co-executive director of Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA). Scott Neigh interviews her about feminism in the arts, and about MAWA’s decades of work. Dempsey is primarily a performance and video artist. She got her start as a university student in the 1980s, and was heavily influenced by …
Thank-you to Shawna Dempsey of https://mawa.ca for the interview just now about the organization’s three and a half decades of feminist work in Winnipeg’s arts scene and beyond. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in the coming weeks!
Emma Clark and Hayley Bryant are grade 12 students at Western Canada High School in Calgary, Alberta. Scott Neigh interviews them about the feminist organizing they do as members of a group at their school called the Committee on the Status of Women and Girls (CSWAG). The experiences of high school among young women and …
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!
Ardath Whynacht is an activist, writer, and scholar who lives in Mi’kmaq territory and teaches sociology at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. She is also the author of Insurgent Love: Abolition and Domestic Homicide (Fernwood Publishing, Nov 2021) which she describes as “a book about how we can think through abolition and defunding police …
Thank-you to Ardath Whynacht for the great interview just now about prison abolitionist feminism in the context of responding to domestic homicide, and about her new book on the topic, *Insurgent Love*. Listen for it in the coming weeks on Talking Radical Radio!
Movement history. An interview-based and archival history of the emergence of the women’s liberation movement in the United States in the late 1960s. It particularly focuses on the ways in which women’s liberation came out of the experiences of women active in the civil rights movement and in the new left student movement earlier in …
Barbara Byers, Lori Johb, and Donna Smith are long-time feminists and trade unionists in Saskatchewan. They are also organizers of the Prairie School for Union Women, happening this year as an online event between June 22 and 25. Scott Neigh interviews them about the 25-year history of the school, and about its current incarnation in …
Thanks to Barb, Donna, and Lori for the great interview just now about the Prairie School for Union Women, an annual feminist labour education event held in Saskatchewan for the past 25 years. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks!
A short nonfiction collection by Rebecca Solnit. Most of the contents originally appeared online between 2017 and 2019. The pieces fell roughly into three categories. Some focused relatively directly on the theme described by the book’s title, the relationship between power and stories. The second category, which overlapped with the first, included a range of …