Selected Gender/Sexuality Posts
The following is a select list of original posts related to gender and/or sexuality, not including book reviews. Responding to "How to Talk to Women Without Pissing Them Off", September 2012...
View ArticleSelected Pop Culture Posts
The following is a selected list of original posts related to popular culture, including a couple of relevant book reviews but not necessarily all of them. The Hunger Games, May 2012 Review: Science...
View ArticleReview: Are You My Mother?
[Alison Bechdel. Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.] I don't remember how I first encountered Alison Bechdel's work. The compilation of her long-running comic...
View ArticleReview: Possibilities
[David Graeber. Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire. Oakland CA: AK Press, 2007.] I read this book mostly by accident. There were a couple of points during my recent sojourn into...
View ArticleNew Ways to Find Older Content
To provide a method beyond the search box at the top of the page and browsing the chronological archives to access older content that I think might be worth reading, I have historically had links to a...
View Article"At Least Tomorrow's Friday"
It's nothing terribly original to note that we are shaped by all sorts of messages that train us to see everything that matters about the world as adhering to individuals, and very few messages that...
View ArticleReview: Who Sings the Nation-State?
[Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Who Sings the Nation-State? Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2007.] This document is clearly the edited transcript of an event at which academic luminaries...
View ArticleVirtual Launch Event for Two Books of Canadian History Through the Stories of...
I am excited to announce that my two books of Canadian history through the stories of activists, Resisting the State and Gender and Sexuality were released by Fernwood Publishing in September. With...
View ArticleReview: Orienting Canada
[John Price. Orienting Canada: Race, Empire, and the Transpacific. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.] I have noted before on this site that when I go for a stretch of time without reading much history -- by...
View ArticleReview: Terrorist Assemblages
[Jasbir K. Puar. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2007.] I have complicated feelings about this book. In some ways, that I am choosing to work...
View ArticleReview: Feminism For Real
[Jessica Yee, editor. Feminism For Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2011.] I bought this book about a year ago,...
View ArticleWhose Fight Is It? Sudbury Teachers and Bill 115
[This is my latest journalistic piece for The Media Co-op, originally published here.] Whose Fight Is It? Sudbury Teachers and Bill 115 by Scott Neigh SUDBURY, ON. December 7, 2012 – With rotating...
View ArticleHow Do You Feel the World?
The commonsense view that predominates in North America tells us that we exist as individuals prior to our entry into any sort of social world. There are stronger and weaker versions of this...
View ArticleReview: Whose Streets?
[Tom Malleson and David Wachsmuth, editors. Whose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2011.] Despite living only four hours away, I did not...
View Article#IdleNoMore Day of Action in Sudbury
The following is my latest bit of journalism, originally published at The Media Co-op, where it is accompanied by about 15 photos of the event. #IdleNoMore Day of Action in Sudbury by Scott Neigh...
View ArticleReview: Paved With Good Intentions
[Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay. Paved With Good Intentions: Canada's Development NGOs From Idealism to Imperialism. Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2012.] This is a thorough and...
View ArticleReview: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada
[Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage, editors. Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada. Halifax & Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2012.] This book is, I think, tailored for use in labour studies...
View ArticleReview: The Promise of Happiness
[Sara Ahmed. The Promise of Happiness. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010.] One way that some of my longstanding interests have recently become configured is in a desire to think more...
View ArticleWriting the Nation
Most of us, most of the time, act like we know what we're talking about when we speak or write of "Canada." Their exact content may vary with our politics and preconceptions, but our communications...
View ArticleReview: Rewriting the Rules
[Meg Barker. Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships. London and New York: Routledge, 2013.] I think the fact that I would have related to this book in quite different...
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