Literary fiction. Follows three women in three different generations of the same family – a riot grrrl-esque musician whom we first meet on her rise to renown in the ’90s, her mother (a hippie), and her paternal grandmother (who migrated to Canada as a young woman). Traces their respective journeys with partners, family, work, sexuality, …
Had back-to-back interviews earlier this afternoon. Thanks to high school students Brie and Piper of MB Students for COVID Safety for talking with me about COVID-19 in Manitoba and about student organizing for better measures to ensure safe schools. And thank-you to Jesse from Keepers of the Water for speaking with me about Indigenous-led efforts …
David Alton and William Turman are founding members of a multi-issue grassroots group in southern Ontario called GroundUp Waterloo Region. Scott Neigh interviews them about their commitment to what they call “messy activism” and about the group’s work supporting other grassroots groups, filling community gaps, building grassroots infrastructure, and holding politicians to account. Alton and …
YA sci fi. Set on a future earth that is well down the path to climate apocalypse. Follows two teen girls, one living as a scientifically brilliant (and seemingly neurodivergent?) high-status resident of one of the aerial eco-cities that an older generation created as an attempt to reduce humanity’s impact on the planet, and the …
Literary fiction. Follows a blue-skinned boy being raised as a god in an ashram run by his father outside a small village in Tamil Nadu, India. The promotional copy on the book jacket does not make this clear, but because it becomes evident to the reader pretty early on (though not to the protagonist) I …
Anna Badillo and David Heap are members of People for Peace, a local grassroots peace group in the city of London in southwestern Ontario. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group’s two decades of action on a wide range of issues, and in particular about their work opposing the manufacture in a London plant of …
Thanks to Frédérique of Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights and Martha of Wellness Within for the interview just now about sexual and reproductive health advocacy, prison abolition, and the 2022 SRH Week campaign, “Advocacy in Action”! Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio soon.
YA contemporary. A young woman at the end of high school has spent every spare moment over the last few years making a podcast called *Artists in Love* with her boyfriend, with whom she is in one of those ‘perfect couple’ high school relationships. Except he breaks up with her and announces he’s leaving town …
Joe Curnow is a professor in the faculty of education at the University of Manitoba, a long-time community organizer, and a member of the organizing and communications team for the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA). Scott Neigh interviews her about UMFA’s recent strike, in which an organizing orientation allowed the union to accomplish quite …
A scholarly history of workers in media, publishing, design, advertising, and related professions in New York from the 1930s to the 1970s. Across the decades in which capitalism took on a mass consumerist shape, it traces changes in these industries that were so central in that process. And it examines the ways in which workers …