I really wanted to like this book more than I did. I like the author – I’ve enjoyed her acting and her range of online projects, as well as her memoir a few years back. I also read a lot of books about process – this one frames it as process related to “creativity” rather …
L., Kaku Kenyi, and Andre Harriott are all current students or recent graduates of post-secondary educational institutions in Toronto. Scott Neigh speaks with them about Black in Post-Sec, a new documentary film about the experiences of Black students in Canadian universities. Profound anti-Blackness is built into the heart of this country’s mainstream insitutions. Black people …
Essays about schizophrenia and related conditions. Written by a multiple-award winning author (and highly skilled essayist) with a schizoaffective disorder diagnosis. Draws heavily on memoir, of course. Intense, powerful, honest, sometimes hard to read, occasionally funny, and very well written. I can imagine it would be a topic where it would be easy to overdo …
Memoir shading into dream, everyday life into imagination that reveals truths as it goes beyond fact. Meditations that are melancholy, even bleak, with age and the looming deaths of friends and the state of America in 2016, but that are also, through their weariness, curious and playful and fully engaged with life. I love Smith’s …
Imtiaz Popat is a therapeutic counsellor in Vancouver. He is also the coordinator of the local chapter of Salaam: Queer Muslim Community, and he has played a central role in the Two-Spirit and LGBT People of Colour Alliance and the Coalition Against Bigotry – Pacific. Scott Neigh interviews him about his extensive work against oppression …
Second and latest book in what promises to be a lengthy series. In my review of book one, I desribed it as “sufficiently akin to *Harry Potter* in premise and story to bear the comparison, but not so similar that you feel like you’ve read it before,” and that assessment holds in book two. It’s …
A very thoughtful, very well-written book by an artist who lives in California’s Bay Area. A self-proclaimed “field guide to doing nothing as an act of political resistance to the attention economy” (xi) that is “not anti-technology” but that is “obviously anti-capiatlist” (xii). A book about why we might want to resist the latest generation …
This is a rebroadcast of an episode of Talking Radical Radio that was originally broadcast in September 2019. Tiffany Joseph‘s ancestry is of the Saanich people on her mother’s side and the Squamish people on her father’s side, and she currently lives in Tsartlip First Nation, a bit north of Victoria on Vancouver Island. Scott …
It is early winter in an Ojibwe community in northern Ontario, and all of the external infrastructure – electricity, internet, phone – goes out, all at once. Though all of these systems are relatively recent and precarious this far north, it soon becomes clear that this was not some random, localized blip but something general …
Doug Hewitt-White is a retired civil servant and the current chair of the board of Conscience Canada. Murray Lumley is a retired teacher and Scott Albrecht is a bookkeeper, and both are members of the organization’s board. Scott Neigh interviews them about Conscience Canada and about their work to extend the longstanding right to conscientious …