Sci-fi. Set on a planet on which one side is always day and the other is always night, ten or twelve generations after the arrival of a massive ship bearing the remnants of humanity from a dying Earth. Only the narrow strip of twilight between the two halves of the planet is suitable for human …
A short, sharp book exploring what is necessary in Canada, in this era of Black Lives Matter, to transform dominant conceptions of Black personhood – which is to say, dominant denials of Black humanity – and all of the knowledge, imagination, liberal and left political organizing, and fundamental features of social organization that are based …
YA contemporary queer rom-commish hate-to-love story. Originated, or so the rumour goes, as a Rory/Paris *Gilmore Girls* fanfic, and you can see those roots, but it has been turned into quite good YA. I thought one of the central characters (Rachel) felt a bit over-the-top and a bit caricatured early on, though less so as …
Kate Curtis is a high school teacher in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) and one of the co-founders of an organization called the End Dress Codes Collective. Scott Neigh interviews her about the problems with school dress codes, and about the major policy change that happened this spring at the TDSB thanks to the …
Laura Cuthbert is an organizer who has a keen interest in history. She is a central part of Populous Map, a grassroots project that aims to preserve and share marginalized histories from communities large and small across British Columbia, in ways that respect autonomy, privacy, and reciprocity. Scott Neigh interviews her about those histories and …
This week has included two Talking Radical Radio interviews, both of which will likely be aired in August. On Monday, I talked with Mac Scott of the Movement Defence Committee – Toronto, a radical collective of lawyers and legal workers who have been supporting movements in Toronto and beyond for over a decade. And just now, I talked …
Literary paranormal thriller set in 1990 in a small southern Ontario border town that once had a famous amusement park. At the start, the haunted main character reminded me in attitude and sensibility of a more sombre version of the titular character from TV’s Wynonna Earp, with her mouthy ways, her personal and sexual recklessness, …
Marty Wexler is a social worker and one of the founding members of the Disability Rights Coalition of Nova Scotia, a cross-disability coalition of individuals and organizations. Claire McNeil is a lawyer. She has been involved in a number of cases challenging instances of institutionalization in Nova Scotia, and for many years has been an …
A book by a life-long activist and retired scholar thinking through the many varieties of a kind of moment familiar to anyone invested in questions of justice and liberation: When we know we could speak, we should speak, perhaps at least part of us wants to speak, and yet we remain silent. This might be …
Rama DelaRosa has been a musician and an activist for many years. She lives on Salt Spring Island, just off Vancouver Island, and she is the director of the Resistance Rising Choir, based in Victoria. Scott Neigh interviews her about music, about movements, and about what Resistance Rising brings to struggles for social change. DelaRosa’s …