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Fishing Derby, Norse, Stuttering
04 May, 2023 | 0:29:58 |
EN | CJAM-FM Music Department |

This program focuses on disability issues. Host Cam Wells will explore all sides of this comparing and contrasting with able bodied life.
Stephen Wentzell sits down with Joshua Whitehead, author of Making Love with the Land.
30 Sep, 2022 | 0:29:59 |
EN | rabble podcast network | rabble radio

This week on rabble radio, Stephen Wentzell sits down with Joshua Whitehead, author of ‘Making Love with the Land.' Whitehead is an Oji-Cree/nehiyaw, Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of the novel ‘Jonny Appleseed’ (Arsenal Pulp Press), which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for a Governor General's Literary Award in...
For weeks of June 13 and June 20, around the new Juneteenth US holiday
13 Jun, 2022 | 0:57:38 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

As of 2022 Juneteenth is a US federal holiday. First celebrated by Black communities in Texas, it marks June 19th, 1865, when Union troops arrived at the port of Galveston, to enforce Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. While Americans celebrate that enslaved people were freed, many refuse to hear the cruel facts of slavery or allow them to be taught. The late...
Actress and author Eleanor Reissa
28 May, 2022 | 0:00:00 |
EN | Dan McPeake | Endeavours

Eleanor Reissa is Tony and Drama Desk-nominated actor, writer and director active in both English and Yiddish Theatre. The daughter of Holocaust fighters, she has released the memoir The Letters Project: A Daughter's Journey, which chronicles her discovery of her father's letters to her mother after surviving Auschwitz, his testimony to receive reparations, and his journey to America. Eleanor's research...
One of the last interviews of the late time traveler, theologian and radical feminist pirate.
15 Apr, 2022 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Mary Daly published her final book in 2006, 4 years before her death. Mara Williams (DJ Cariad), a programmer at KDVS campus radio, crossed the feminist wave generation gap to interview Daly - who explained, among other things, how rage can make you happy.
The Iroquois system has lasted hundreds of years
11 Apr, 2022 | 0:28:48 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Barbara Alice Mann describes the inner workings of a long-established North American matriarchal society, where women lead the arrangement of life, including festivals, collective decision-making, management of longhouses, food storage, marriages, childrearing, inheritance, rotating land use, agriculture, food storage, sharing, and gift-giving.  And war and peace.
Mistaking discomfort for violence is an error of our times
02 Jan, 2022 | 0:28:44 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Lesbian novelist and nonfiction writer Sarah Schulman speaks in Vancouver about her book Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair. The book could not find a publisher in the US, but was picked up by Vancouver's Arsenal Pulp Press. As of this reading in 2018, it had sold more than 10,000 copies. Schulman says...
on feminism, race, violence and dealing with rage
20 Dec, 2021 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

The world-famous Black author and thinker known as bell hooks passed away on December 15, 2021, at age 69. From the WINGS archive, here are excerpts of her speaking in 1993, the year she published Sisters of the Yam: Black women and self-recovery, and whilst she was working on the book to be titled Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995).
Our Season One Finale!
07 Sep, 2021 | 0:29:46 |
EN | UMFM Music Department | Prairie Design Lab

Today’s episode, #28, is the final one of the first sea­son of PDL. Don’t wor­ry. We’ll be back in the fall. Today we explore the impact of 30 years of the stu­dent-pro­duced Ware­house Jour­nal, and we offer you the chance to win a copy.
What does hand­made book­bind­ing have to do with Inte­ri­or Design?
06 Sep, 2021 | 0:29:32 |
EN | UMFM Music Department | Prairie Design Lab

What does hand­made book­bind­ing have to do with Inte­ri­or Design? Plen­ty, as we’ll find out from a book­bind­ing artist, an Inte­ri­or Design pro­fes­sor, and two stu­dents who saw and felt the link between the two first hand.
An organizer of and two contributors to the *Our Climate, Our Stories* project talk climate change.
03 Aug, 2021 | 0:28:12 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Areej Riaz is one of the key organizers behind Our Climate, Our Stories, a new book that collects essays, stories, and poems related to the climate crisis written by Black, Indigenous, and racialized youth from across Canada. Faith Edem and LJ Prabaharan are both contributors to the volume. Scott Neigh interviews them about the climate crisis, about the importance of...
Outside the country, but connected - and they care
05 Jul, 2021 | 0:28:48 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

In the premier edition of the podcast version of her radio show HotSeat, Violet Gonda interviewed Thandiwe Newton, filmstar and human rights activist. Some highlights of the one-hour interview are excerpted in this program.
The case for solidarity
02 May, 2021 | 0:28:44 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

The late Leslie Feinberg gave this rousing and reasoned plenary speech at the 1995 US National Women's Studies Association conference in Oklahoma City, calling for unity in struggle across apparent divides of sex, class, race, and gender expression.
Eddie Glaude, Jr. & Cornel West - James Baldwin’s Legacy
22 Feb, 2021 | 0:57:00 |
EN | Shawna Sprowls |

James Baldwin was one of the most significant figures of the 20th century. In this moment of racial reckoning, his life and work are being discovered and rediscovered. He was born in 1924 and died in 1987. He graduated from high school in New York but was otherwise self-taught. He said, “I love America more than any other country in...
Adhel Arop discusses healing from trauma through art, and Sista C shares a preview of "Po-Et on"
30 Sep, 2020 | 0:59:57 |
EN | Frieda Werden | Speak Up, Listen Up, Act Upon

Sista C spends some time getting to know regular guest Adhel Arop about healing from emotional trauma, shares some music from composer Della Orrey, and gives a sneak preview of her Poetry-focused spin-off, "Po-ET On"
Shahrzad Mojab talks about Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow by Saeed Yousef.
25 Aug, 2020 | 0:27:57 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Shahrzad Mojab is an activist and an academic at the University of Toronto. She was recently involved in the publication of a book called Lives Lost: In Search of a New Tomorrow, a translation of a powerful poem by Iranian poet Saeed Yousef that remembers the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in the 1980s. Scott Neigh interviews Mojab about...
On the price of freedom and the price of oppression
16 Aug, 2020 | 0:28:49 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

Nawal el Saadawi gave a rousing speech in San Francisco's Mission District in October 1993 covering feminism, colonialism, and other forms of oppression in both the Arab and the Western worlds.
The International Women's House in Rome
27 Jul, 2020 | 0:28:43 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

The Casa Internazionale delle Donne - the International Women's House - is a former convent in Rome that was occupied by feminists in 1987 and approved by the city in 1992. The current city council is trying and failing to oust them. Women talk about its history, its programs, and ideas related to women's work including immigrant status, poetry, and...
...in the old days.
20 Jul, 2020 | 0:28:47 |
EN | Frieda Werden | WINGS

From the WINGS archive back in 1996, these are two short stories read by their authors. They are from a collection titled Great Explanations: 4 Lesbian Stories, originally published on cassette by Women's Press, Toronto. This program is re-released as a tribute to the virtual celebration of Vancouver Pride 2020, which requested stories from history.
Two Canadian publishers talk about the new Radical Publishers Alliance.
08 Jul, 2020 | 0:28:14 |
EN | Scott Neigh | Talking Radical Radio

Fazeela Jiwa is an acquisitions editor at Fernwood Publishing, which is based in both Halifax and Winnipeg. David Bush is the publicity and promotions manager at Between the Lines, an independent publishing collective in Toronto. Fernwood and Between the Lines are among the handful of publishers in Canada that specialize in social justice-focused, critical, and radical books, and both recently...
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