Author: Scott Neigh

[Dean Spade. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2015.] This is a classic of radical trans politics, written by legal scholar and organizer Dean Spade, and originally published by the sadly now-defunct South End Press in 2009 and

[Dean Spade. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2015.]

This is a classic of radical trans politics, written by legal scholar and organizer Dean Spade, and origin…

I want to make a simple request to everyone in Canada who thinks of themselves as in some sense or another part of the left. I don’t actually suppose that anyone will listen — after all, who am I to ask such a thing? — but I will ask nonetheless. An…

I want to make a simple request to everyone in Canada who thinks of themselves as in some sense or another part of the left. I don’t actually suppose that anyone will listen — after all, who am I to ask such a thing? — but I will ask nonetheless.

I want to make a simple request to everyone in Canada who thinks of themselves as in some sense or another part of the left. I don’t actually suppose that anyone will listen — after all, who am I to ask such a thing? — but I will ask nonetheless. An…

It shouldn’t be news that knowledge alone is never enough. Ignorance isn’t the root cause of oppression, education won’t singlehandedly change the world, and uncovering just the right fact will not be the catalyst that leads to global transformation.
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It shouldn’t be news that knowledge alone is never enough. Ignorance isn’t the root cause of oppression, education won’t singlehandedly change the world, and uncovering just the right fact will not be the catalyst that leads to global transformation.
…

It shouldn’t be news that knowledge alone is never enough. Ignorance isn’t the root cause of oppression, education won’t singlehandedly change the world, and uncovering just the right fact will not be the catalyst that leads to global transformation. Just because that liberal conception of knowledge-as-social-panacea is foolishness doesn’t mean

Perhaps the most obvious way to summarize a great deal of the work that I’ve done over the last two decades — including the books and radio show of the Talking Radical project, but also a lot of things that haven’t happened under that banner — is the tag-line that I put in the header of the Talking Radical website: "historical & contemporary voices from social movements in Canada."

That’s

Perhaps the most obvious way to summarize a great deal of the work that I’ve done over the last two decades — including the books and radio show of the Talking Radical project, but also a lot of things that haven’t happened under that banner — is the tag-line that I put in the header of the Talking Radical website: "historical & contemporary voices from social movements in Canada."

That’s

Perhaps the most obvious way to summarize a great deal of the work that I’ve done over the last two decades — including the books and radio show of the Talking Radical project, but also a lot of things that haven’t happened under that banner — is the tag-line that

[Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay. A Labour of Liberation. Regina, SK: Changing Suns Press, 2016.]

This is the first book that I’ve read from Changing Suns Press, a new independent publisher with anti-authoritarian politics based in Regina, Saskatchewan. When…

[Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay. A Labour of Liberation. Regina, SK: Changing Suns Press, 2016.]

This is the first book that I’ve read from Changing Suns Press, a new independent publisher with anti-authoritarian politics based in Regina, Saskatchewan. When…

[Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay. A Labour of Liberation. Regina, SK: Changing Suns Press, 2016.] This is the first book that I’ve read from Changing Suns Press, a new independent publisher with anti-authoritarian politics based in Regina, Saskatchewan. When they were crowdfunding for their start-up money, it was a no-brainer for me to

[Craig Heron. Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015.]

Back in March, I was travelling far away from my new-again home of Hamilton, Ontario, and as I often do when I have a spare moment, I was reflecting (obs…

[Craig Heron. Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015.] Back in March, I was travelling far away from my new-again home of Hamilton, Ontario, and as I often do when I have a spare moment, I was reflecting (obsessing?) about the path that I want my

[Craig Heron. Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2015.]

Back in March, I was travelling far away from my new-again home of Hamilton, Ontario, and as I often do when I have a spare moment, I was reflecting (obs…

How do we come to care about the things we care about, do the things we do?

Sometimes, about some things, it’s a slap in the face, a punch in the gut, that makes us care. We care because the world makes us care, or at least makes the work of not-cari…

How do we come to care about the things we care about, do the things we do? Sometimes, about some things, it’s a slap in the face, a punch in the gut, that makes us care. We care because the world makes us care, or at least makes the work

How do we come to care about the things we care about, do the things we do?

Sometimes, about some things, it’s a slap in the face, a punch in the gut, that makes us care. We care because the world makes us care, or at least makes the work of not-cari…