Feminist philosophy translated from Italian. Since ancient Greece, philosophy in the West has been predominantly centred on thought and on the visual, the semantic, the disembodied, the Said, and the reified. Cavarero begins from the observation that, when we speak, prior to whatever content is conveyed by our words, the singular character of the speaker’s …
Just finished speaking with Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe Lynn Gehl about the long history of sex discrimination in the Indian Act and the current “6(1) All the Way” campaign to get the feds to eliminate it. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
A collection of essays by a white US American feminist. The collection begins from her own horrific experiences of gendered and sexual violence (about which she has previously published a memoir), and then moves into essays on what might be described as areas of complicity and of collectively experienced harm. Contains a number of quite …
Kathy Dawson is a board member of the Alberta Pro-Choice Coalition (APCC), which brings together groups from across the province to “protect and support sexual health and reproductive rights in Alberta.” As a provincial election looms that may well bring the United Conservative Party (UCP) under Jason Kenney to power, Scott Neigh interviews Dawson about …