Sheena Wilson is a professor of media, communications, and cultural studies at the University of Alberta. One of her many roles is leading an initiative called Just Powers, described on its website as “an interdisciplinary and community-engaged network of research projects focused on climate justice issues” and “on creating socially-just approaches to energy transition and …
Memoir. By a prominent French public intellectual of the left (whom I had not heard of until a friend recommended this book to me). He first made a name for himself with an important biography of Michel Foucault, cemented his reputation by producing some of the foundational scholarly work in gay studies in the French …
Just finished the second of two interviews this week! Earlier in the week, I spoke with Kari of the Ottawa Transit Riders about advocating for better, more affordable, more accessible public transit in Ottawa (as well as the fiasco that has been the implementation of light rail in that city). Today, I talked to Simon of Labour …
Dave Bleakney is the second national vice-president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). In that role, he attended the COP 25 United Nations climate change conference in Madrid in December. Scott Neigh interviews him about how his union is responding to the climate crisis, and about what CUPW has previously described as the …
Frédérique Chabot is the director of the health promotion program for Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights and Natalya Mason is a sexual health educator and a registered social worker who works for Saskatoon Sexual Health. Scott Neigh interviews them about this year’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Awareness Week campaign, about comprehensive sexuality education …
Another collection of weird speculative literary short-stories – seemingly my go-to type for short fiction in the last year or two. It’s mostly about the characters, of course, but you’ll also find some time travel, a few fossils from sentient wolverine otter-ish things that lived millions of years before humans, the odd mildly irritating haunting …
Scott Beaver is the president of the St. Mary’s River Association. Chris Hunter is a past president of that organization and he is currently the program director for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island with the Atlantic Salmon Federation. Scott Neigh interviews them about the NOPE Campaign – it stands for No Open Pit Excavation …
A look at the ways in which, in Western societies, binaries organize our thinking and our lives, and at ways we can navigate and perhaps at moments move beyond them. Clever and very accessible, though not without its limitations. I’ve read two books by one of the authors (Barker) before, one focused on relationships and …
Thank-you to Frédérique and Natalya for the Talking Radical Radio interview just now about this year’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Week campaign. Listen in a couple of weeks to hear us talk about sex ed as not just a health intervention but also a justice intervention!
Aadita Chaudhury is a graduate student at York University in Toronto. Mehak Sawhney is an international student doing her PhD at McGill University in Montreal. And Baj Mukhopadhyay is a physician also based in Montreal. Scott Neigh interviews them about the wave of protests in India against the National Register of Citizens, the Citizenship Amendment …