Just finished an interview with Judy and Liane of the Halifax-based group Equity Watch, about their work against inequities and harassment in workplaces. Listen for it in a few weeks on Talking Radical Radio! Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
Mike Reynolds is a father of two girls and an online content creator and community builder under the banners of Everday Girl Dad and the Sew Manly Podcast. Frédérique Chabot is a mother, also of two girls, and the director of health promotion at Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights. In the context of …
I’ve been reading a scholarly history of liberalism. It isn’t directly about this, but as it reminds me of things that I already knew in broad strokes and fills in some details, it is making me think morbid thoughts about the relative historical novelty and consequent fragility of the institutions that, at least in 21st …
[Pankaj Mishra. Age of Anger: A History of the Present. New York: Picador, 2017.] A far-ranging and clever book that convinced me of its core thesis but left me with some questions and considerable ambivalence about some of the things surrounding that. The book sets out to understand some key elements of our current moment – …
Silly, fluffy, escapist. A contemporary queer friends-to-lovers plot. At least a couple of key aspects of the premise that allow the story to unfold don’t actually make any sense, and there are noticeable continuity errors. Plus the writing is not great in other ways. Still, if you can suspend your judgement at those things, it …
Samir Shaheen-Hussain is a pediatric emergency physician who practices in Montreal and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He has also been involved in grassroots social justice organizing around issues like Indigenous solidarity, migrant justice, and anti-police brutality for more than a decade and a half. …
Recently, long-time anti-poverty organizer John Clarke stepped down from his position as a paid organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. He will remain an active member of OCAP as well as taking on new movement-related challenges. I just interviewed him about his long involvement in radical grassroots movements for Talking Radical Radio. Listen for it later …
Originally posted to Scott’s page on Facebook.
I noticed during my year-end/new-year reflections this year that I had fallen into a common-to-me pattern: Most of my nonfiction reading in the previous six months had been things that I selected for their content not for their writing. I get why this happens, because I do often need to read a lot of things …
LaMeia Reddick is a community worker and consultant in Halifax. Ted Rutland is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University in Montreal and the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax (Univeristy of Toronto Press, 2018). Scott Neigh interviews them about about the long …