Angela Marie MacDougall is a Vancouver feminist who traces her ancestry to northern Sweden and to Western Africa, and the executive director of Battered Women’s Support Services. Jennifer Johnstone is a white settler feminist and the CEO of the Central City Foundation. They are co-founders and co-chairs of Feminists Deliver. Rhiannon Bennett is a Musqueam woman and the …
Shannon Hardy and Bridget Graham live in Halifax and work as doulas. They are also, respectively, the coordinator and the director of volunteers of Abortion Support Services Atlantic, a volunteer-run group that exists to provide support to people in Atlantic Canada who are trying to get an abortion. Scott Neigh interviews them about the barriers that people face …
Sharon Gregson works with the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC and is the provincial spokesperson for British Columbia’s $10aDay daycare campaign. Scott Neigh interviews her about the importance of high-quality, affordable, accessible, public child care, and about both the gains the campaign in BC has made so far and what it has left to win. The crucial role …
Just finished the second of two interviews for the week. Yesterday, I spoke with France and Chris of Primary Colours / Couleurs primaires about their work to challenge racism and colonialism in Canada’s arts system. Today, it was to Tamara of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and Brent of Peace Brigades International – Canada on the campaign against …
I really like Federici’s work, and was keen to get my hands on this new collection of essays touching in one way or another on the body, particularly the capitalist transformation of the body. I found it to be a bit peculiar – not bad, necessarily, but peculiar. Partly, that’s less about the book than …
Frédérique Chabot is the director of the health promotion program for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights and Natalya Mason is a sexual health educator and a registered social worker who works for Saskatoon Sexual Health. Scott Neigh interviews them about this year’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week campaign, about comprehensive sexuality education …
[Patricia Hill Collins. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. New York: Routledge, 2009.] A Black feminist classic, and deservedly so. An effort by one of the most prominent Black feminist sociologists in the US to create a sort of overview and synthesis of the rich and varied Black feminist tradition in …
Sheila Sampath is the editorial and art director of Shameless Magazine, a feminist magazine for teen girls and trans youth. Sampath is also an artist, activist, writer, and co-founder of a social justice art and design space called The Public Studio. Scott Neigh interviews her about feminist media, Shameless, and the Talking Back Feminist Media …
This book has its origins in an online essay by Nora Samaran called “The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture” that went viral when it was first published, and also I think in a direct follow-up that circulated quite widely called “On Gaslighting.” These two essays are included and also augmented by a few …
Hana Shafi, also known as Frizz Kid, is an artist, a poet, a freelance writer, and a feminist. She is also the author of It Begins With The Body (Book*Hug Press, 2018), a book of poetry and illustrations. Scott Neigh interviews her about her work and her politics. As anyone who has been paying attention …