This week has included two Talking Radical interviews — yesterday with paediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain (below), about last year’s #AHand2Hold campaign that won an important victory vs. medical colonialism and systemic racism in health care in Quebec; and today with LaMeia Reddick (top left) and Ted Rutland (top right) about histories and present realities of anti-Black citybuilding …
Geraldine McManus is a Two-Spirit Dakota woman of the Bear Clan. She is the driving force behind the Spirit of the Buffalo Camp, a prayer camp in rural Manitoba on the US/Canada border that sits on top of where Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline runs. Scott Neigh interviews her about about her opposition to …
A…political art intervention and act of cultural criticism, I guess? The author – a writer, artist, curator, and activist in the UK – has produced a manifesto and collection of documents from an imagined Shy Radical movement. This movement brings together people who are shy, introverted, socially anxious, on the autism spectrum, or otherwise oppressed …
Alison Clancey is the executive director of SWAN Vancouver – that’s short for Supporting Women’s Alternatives Network – which is a sex worker support organization based among migrant and immigrant women who do indoor sex work. Jessi Taylor is the orgaization’s research programs manager. Scott Neigh interviews them about SWAN Vancouver’s advocacy work around everything …
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