A fascinating book about how humanity went from being entirely comprised of peoples who were organized in relatively small, mobile groups who met their needs via a bunch of different practices generalized as “hunting and foraging,” through the beginnings of sedentary living, agriculture, and the eventual formation of states. To the extent that we think …
Carol Martin is a Nisga’a woman who has been part the Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood of Vancouver for almost 30 years and she works at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre. Sophie Merasty is a Denesuline and Woodland Cree woman who has been part of the DTES for close to 30 years as well, and she …
A sweet if somewhat insubstantial graphic novel. It is set on a space station orbiting a no-longer-habitable Earth. The first generation to grow up on the station have reached their early 20s, and under the mantra of “Honesty keeps us alive” in such confined and precarious circumstances they have developed a relational/sexual culture distinct from …
Did two Talking Radical interviews this week. Yesterday, I talked with Jill of the Friends of Northumberland Strait about the struggle to protect the ecosystem and fishery that lies between Nova Scotia and PEI from pulp mill effluent. And just now, I had a really powerful and generous interview with Rachel and Hirut of the Third Eye …
Frances Ravensbergen is a resident of Hemmingford, Quebec, a small town near the US-Canada border. It lies quite close to Roxham Road, which has become well-known as the most frequently used location for refugees wanting to cross irregularly – that is, not at a formally recognized border crossing – from the US into Canada. Scott Neigh …
Done a first draft of Chapter 3 of my current main book project. Two weeks earlier than I was aiming for, even. Yay! Also: Onwards! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
The author is primarily a poet, I think, but the back bills this book as “lyric essay/poetry,” which is an apt characterization. Along with the images sprinkled throughout there are some fragments that are clearly poetry, but most of the text is comprised of paragraphs written like they are from particularly lyrical personal essays. They …
This afternoon’s interview, which should have been my third of the week, has been postponed, but I’m still very excited about the two I did on Monday and Tuesday. I talked with Rowan of Bar None Winnipeg about their prison rideshare project and about prison abolition politics more generally. And I talked with Carol and …
A short sci-fi novel from the late, great Ursula LeGuin, originally published in 1972. I discovered once I was part of the way through reading it that it is the fifth in a cycle of books she set in the same universe, none of which I have read before, but that didn’t seem to matter. …
A short, accessible, measured, and methodical book that lays out what the author describes as a “reconstructed historical materialism” – that is, a way of understanding the world and of orienting our struggles to change it that fuses a critical marxist approach to class relations with the many other axes of oppression with which they …