Seeking Resources for Thinking About Co-operatives
As part of my temporary foray back into the world of formal education, I have to do a practicum placement — that is, I have to work for ten hours…
Scott Neigh
Seeking Resources for Thinking About Co-operatives
As part of my temporary foray back into the world of formal education, I have to do a practicum placement — that is, I have to work for ten hours…
Video: Taiaiake Alfred – “The Psychic Landscape of Contemporary Colonialism”
Check out this video with Mohawk activist and scholar Taiaiake Alfred giving a talk in Ottawa called “The Psychic Landscape of Contemporary Colonialism”: (Found via Intercontinental Cry.)
Video: Taiaiake Alfred – "The Psychic Landscape of Contemporary Colonialism"
Check out this video with Mohawk activist and scholar Taiaiake Alfred giving a talk in Ottawa called “The Psychic Landscape of Contemporary Colonialism”: (Found via Intercontinental Cry.)
Review: The Queer Art of Failure
The most useful lesson I took from this book is the importance of looking for that which runs against your expectations, of taking that which matters to you and seeking…
Review: Disidentifications
How do we come to be who we are? How can we relate to what we are told that we are or that we must be … especially when those…
New Colours of Resistance Archive!
Just got this from a friend who has been involved in making this site happen: We are excited to announce the launch of the Colours of Resistance Archive, a collection…
Journalism and the Toronto G20
The final major piece of work that I have to do for school before the break is a paper looking at some of the ways that the G20 summit in…
Quote: Beyond Marriage Equality
The recent efforts to promote lesbian and gay marriage also promote a norm that threatens to render illegitimate and abject those sexual arrangements that do not comply with the marriage…
Sudbury’s 99%: Day 1
My first journalistic piece in awhile — written for and published at the site of the Grassroots Sudbury Media working group affiliated with The Media Co-op. Sudbury’s 99%: Day 1…
Quote: Masculinity
Masculinity has been and continues to be a normative rubric that has policed the sex/gender system. I see very little advantage in recuperating the term masculinity because, as a category,…
Taking Hope From Right-Wing Ridiculousness
I almost never spend any time reading material from the right-wing blogosphere — I can appreciate that understanding the discourse of various categories of opponents is worthwhile, and I respect…
Review: Earth Into Property
New Book Explores the Legacy of Colonization and Decolonization for Native American Rights by Scott Neigh (originally published at Left Eye On Books, a U.S.-based site, hence the use of…
Why Write About Gender and Sexuality?
Here’s the situation: A year and a half ago I finished my first go at writing a book. How it might get published was unclear at that point, but I…
To Supporters of “Progressive” Parties: You Need Movements
Part of the unprecedented outpouring of emotion after the recent death of federal NDP leader Jack Layton was about the loss of a good man who had done lots of…
Transitions
I’m at a bit of a transition point, and a fairly significant one. Earlier this week, I sent off two book manuscripts to the publisher with whom I signed a…
Movement History on the West Coast
There is an exciting new initiative from No One Is Illegal - Vancouver Coast Salish Territories called ”Inheriting Resistance: A Community History Project”. They just released their first video from…
Austerity and Welfare State Practices
I’m going to dip my toe back into the blogging pool via a quick “Lookee here!” post. In the last little while, lots of energy on the left has been…
The Worst Outcome of G20 Policing
As awful as it has been for those whose lives have been turned upside down, the worst outcome of the deplorable, authoritarian policing at last year’s G20 summit in Toronto…
Petition: Feminist Demand Let Justice Be Done
Just received word of this international petition that was written “to unite people in support of the alleged rape victim of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former director of the International Monetary Fund.”…