Feminist philosophy translated from Italian. Since ancient Greece, philosophy in the West has been predominantly centred on thought and on the visual, the semantic, the disembodied, the Said, and the reified. Cavarero begins from the observation that, when we speak, prior to whatever content is conveyed by our words, the singular character of the speaker’s …
Just finished speaking with Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe Lynn Gehl about the long history of sex discrimination in the Indian Act and the current “6(1) All the Way” campaign to get the feds to eliminate it. Listen for it on Talking Radical Radio in a couple of weeks! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
A big thank-you to Garth Mullins of Crackdown for the interview just now for Talking Radical Radio, about the drug war in Canada, grassroots organizing against it, and his new podcast covering it. Listen for the episode in a few weeks! (And if you haven’t listened to Crackdown yet, you really should — it is …
Jacky Tuinstra Harrison is the general manager of CJRU 1280 AM, also called The Scope, a relatively new campus radio station affiliated with Ryerson University in Toronto. Barry Rooke is the executive director of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA), which represents about 110 not-for-profit radio stations of various sorts across the country, …
Hirut Melaku is a doula and lactation consultant with a focus on reproductive justice. Rachel Zellers is a professor, a community worker, and an organizer. Both are members of the Third Eye Collective, a group of Black women based in Montreal. Scott Neigh interviews them about their work developing transformative justice approaches for responding to …
Just finished my second of two Talking Radical Radio interviews for the week. On Tuesday, I interviewed feminist writer and artist Hana Shafi, aka Frizz Kid, about her work. And today I talked to Barry of the National Campus and Community Radio Association and Jacky of 1280 CJRU, the station at Ryerson University, about the provincial changes that …
Jill Graham-Scanlan is a lifelong resident of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, a lawyer, and the president of the Friends of the Northumberland Strait. Scott Neigh interviews her about the group’s work to oppose a plan that would see effluent from the Northern Pulp mill piped into the strait, putting ecosystems, fisheries, and communities at risk. …
A mental health-related self-help book that I heard about because a friend posted this interview with the author connecting it to writing practice, and it was enough to intrigue me: http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/…/writing-brain-exercise-i…/. I have some significant misgivings, which I talk about below, but there are some core practices in this book that feel solid, useful to me, …
Rowan Moyes is a member of Bar None Winnipeg. Scott Neigh interviews Moyes about Bar None’s prison rideshare project, about their prison abolitionist politics, and about the other ways that Bar None and its members are working towards a world without prisons. In Manitoba, just like in a lot of other places, most of the …
A book of essays – genre-bending ones – by someone who is “sometimes called a poet, sometimes an essayist, sometimes a lyric essayist, sometimes a prose poet” (101). Some are about writing, many are about life, and most feel like they follow closely the fluid movement of the author’s mind. Some cleverness and some lovely …