I don’t pay a lot of attention to literary awards for the most part, but the one exception that I regularly make is what used to be called the Tiptree Award and is now the Otherwise Award, the tagline for which is “an award encouraging the exploration & expansion of gender.” I picked this book …
Thank-you to Fazeela of Fernwood Publishing and Dave of Between the Lines for speaking with me about the Radical Publishers Alliance, a new initiative that brings together 30+ lefty publishers from around the world. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Sarah Jama is a young organizer in Hamilton, Ontario who has been involved in a wide range of different kinds of grassroots work – prominently including struggles against anti-Black racism, working for disability justice, and a whole range of other things. Scott Neigh interviews her about the trajectory of her organizing, particularly her work co-founding the Disability Justice Network …
A scholarly history of the social and cultural origins of sound reproduction. Very much not an effort to tell a straightforward, linear story about the history of telegraphy, telephony, broadcasting, and recording, but rather draws selectively and nonlinearly from the decades before such tech was introduced and the early decades after to push readers to …
Just finished a great interview with Souheil of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project, a joint community/academic project that does education and organizing around prisoner justice and prison abolition. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a few weeks!
Brendan Devlin and Shaden Abusaleh are university students and organizers with Communities Not Cuts Manitoba. Scott Neigh interviews them about the political situation in their province and about what it looks like to fight austerity during the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic – something that everyone across the country may well have to deal with soon. As …
Thank-you to Sarah Jama for the wide ranging interview just now! We talked about disability justice, mutual aid, police brutality, anti-Blackness, and her trajectory as an organizer. Listen for it soon on Talking Radical Radio!
Derek Blackadder went to his first union meeting in the 1970s, and since the 1980s has been involved in multiple ways in shaping how the labour movement has made use of digital communication techology. Scott Neigh interviews him about that long history of experimentation, debate, and action with online tools, and about what social movements can learn from …
Memoir. Place, desire, compulsion, shame, relationships ending and beginning, abuse, family history, faith. And especially place. The place that it is, especially, is Epping Forest, a 2400 hectare former royal forest in the UK that straddles the border between London and Essex. It is other places too, but particularly there. The author broods and reflects. …
Thank-you to Adriana and Miigam‘agan for talking with me about being part of Righting Relations: Adult Education for Social Change/Apaji-wla’matulinej, a women-led network of adult/popular educators coming together to strengthen our capacity to work for radical social change. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in June!