Aaron Devor is the Chair in Transgender Studies at the University of Victoria (UVic), in the territories of the Lkwungen-speaking peoples on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Scott Neigh interviews him about the Transgender Archives at UVic, the largest archive in the world of material related to trans people, research on trans issues, and struggles …
Thanks to David Spaner the interview just now about Solidarity, his book about the massive 1983 social uprising in British Columbia against a regressive right-wing government. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in September!
By a professor of history and African American studies at Yale, this book examines the history of urban rebellions – often called ‘riots’ by official sources – in US cities from the mid-1960s to the present day. Though today we most often remember only the highly publicized uprisings in the largest cities in the mid-to-late …
Craig Heron, Holly Kirkconnell, and David Kidd are active with the Toronto Workers’ History Project (TWHP), an initiative devoted to preserving and promoting the history of working people in Toronto. Scott Neigh interviews them about the enthusiasm they have found in the community for working-class history, the many facets of the project’s work, and the …
History. Examines the interconnections between colonialism in the British Empire and slavery in the United States, primarily over the period from the abolition of slavery in the former in the 1830s to its abolition in the latter in the 1860s. At least in part because of how history is so often written in national silos, …
Prehistory. A massive book that looks at what is known and what can be reasonably guessed about the trajectory of human existence in the distant past, written by an anthropologist and an archaeologist. It is a bold new synthesis woven in part from straightforward reporting of empirical evidence long-known in specialist circles but rarely disseminated …
An intellectual biography of radical English writer and art critic John Berger. Examines his key work from the end of the Second World War to his death in 2017, in the context of at least the major features of his life, if not really the nitty-gritty details, and of the broader political and intellectual culture. …
Historical scholarship. A sweeping history of the long sixteenth century, from the first voyage of Columbus in 1492 to the establishment of the first permanent English-speaking settlement in North America in 1607. Though it was really in the seventeenth century that it became clear that all of these interlinked phenomena would become the defining features …
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 …
The following is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that was originally broadcast in the first week of March 2021. Samir Shaheen-Hussain is a pediatric emergency physician who practices in Montreal and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He also played a central role in the #aHand2Hold …