This episode explores the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada by considering the modes of surveillance, exploitation, denial and violence embedded in the program.
Read moreEpisode 21 – Hazelburn
In a deliberate attempt to un-forget erased histories, this snack episode considers a housing co-op in Toronto’s downtown core.
Read moreEpisode 20 – Self-care, Smudging, and Penguins
In this episode, various voices consider self-care in the work of the henceforward. There is a discussion of self-care collectively vs. individually, Elder Jacqui Lavalley generously explains smudging, and dark sousveillance* is offered as a form of self-care.
Read moreEpisode 19 – Policing Black Lives: An Interview with Robyn Maynard
In this episode, Danielle Cantave and Sefanit Habtom interview Robyn Maynard, author of the new book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present.
Read moreEpisode 18 – Safety For Who?
In this episode, Simone Weir, Kate Curtis, and Jessamyn Polson feature extended interviews with Gita Madan and Tanya Aberman about the safety of Toronto schools for Black and undocumented youth.
Read moreEpisode 17 – Futurities With Alicia Elliot
In this episode, Erin Soros interviews writer, Alicia Elliott. Alicia discusses writing in the “messy zone” without answers, her reasons for writing creative non-fiction, and much more.
Read moreEpisode 16 – Water Ways and Ways to the Water
In this episode, Jessamyn Polson, Kate Curtis, and Greer Brabazon linger with water and all of its rushing meaning. Including an extended interview with Dr. Karyn Recollet, this episode considers ways to find ourselves back in love and in good relation to the water. Other contributors include Simone Weir, Erin Soros, and Sandi Wemigwase.
Read moreEpisode 15 – More Than A Bookstore, A Meeting Place with Itah Sadu
A Different Booklist is an independent bookstore and cultural centre in Tkaronto that specializes in books from the African and Caribbean diaspora. Itah generously outlines the history of the space, naming many prominent writers, poets, and publishers along the way.
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