For the next while, I am not going to write and post book reviews. I have written at least a little bit about at least a subset of the books I’ve read, at some points just for my own eyes and at others for public consumption in different ways, for more than 25 years. For …
Mili Roy and Angela Bischoff are involved, in different capacities, in the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign (OCEC), a broad, loose, non-partisan coalition of individuals and groups working hard to get Ontario to improve its response to the climate crisis. Scott Neigh interviews them about the crisis, about the campaign’s 12-point Climate Action Plan to address …
YA contemporary. Hani and Ishu are Bengali-Irish teens living in Dublin. They are among the only desi girls in their school, are very different people, and are not friends. But when Hani is trying to figure out how to stop her white Irish friends from their quite aggressive refusal to accept her identification as bi, …
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 …
Thank-you to Emma Norton of both the Climate Emergency Unit and the ReCover Initiative for the interview just now about the intertwined work of pushing forward practical and policy responses to the climate crisis in Atlantic Canada. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Gladys Rowe, Teddy Zegeye-Gebrehiwot, and Liz Carlson-Manathara are part of Stories of Decolonization, a film project that is working to give people in Canada a chance to reflect on how colonization shapes our lives, on what decolonization might mean, and on how we might act to get there. Scott Neigh interviews them about the role …
YA speculative fiction. A prequel to Emezi’s wonderful book Pet. That one is set in a city that is a generation past a revolution won under abolitionist politics (though that language is never used), while this one is set in the midst of that revolution. The protagonist of Bitter, after whom the book is named, …
Thanks to Mili of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and Angela of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance for the interview just now about the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign, a broad-based campaign in Ontario pushing for action on the climate crisis. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in August!
Simran Kaur Dhunna and Bikram Singh are members of the Naujawan Support Network, a group of international students and immigrant workers primarily based in Brampton, Ontario, who are challenging the exploitation and mistreatment that their members face using protest, mutual support, and collective direct action. Scott Neigh interviews them about how they directly confront the …
Thanks to Dev and Kate of the CRIP Collective for the interview just now! We talked about disability and ableism, and about their work doing community-based education in those areas. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!