Monday, January 8, 2018: Lily Iona McKenzie's Curva Peligrosa

Find this book at your local bookstore, library or on-line

The second part of the show Kate talks with author Lily Iona McKenzie about her newest novel, Curva Peligrosa, about a larger-than-life Mexican woman who settles in a tiny Alberta town after a twenty-year trek. It's an engaging and surprising story, touching on indigenous rights and the power of community.

Listen now for complete interview or Get MP3. 44:59

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Also on today's show:
Transparenting - the real true story

Monday, January 2, 2017: Cultures of Resistance: The Canadian Jewish Left

Ester Reiter, Senior Scholar in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto, talks about her new book, A Future Without Hate or Need: the Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada. It's a fascinating history of an immigrant community where culture and politics were intricately linked.

Listen now or Get MP3. 35:53 min

About A Future Without Hate or Need:

Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. A Future Without Hate or Need brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural projects, as they attempted to weave together their ethnic particularity—their identity as Jews—with their internationalist class politics.

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order online at https://btlbooks.com/book/future-without-hate-or-need

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Also on today's show:
The Dance Brigade

April 28, 2014: Listen to the Squawking Chicken

Nonprofit fundraiser turned professional gossip Elaine Lui lays bare her own story, and that of her mother, aka The Squawking Chicken.  Alternately hilarious and tragic, Lui's first memoir bristles with honesty, wit and insight.

Get to know Elaine, founder and maven of the massively popular website laineygossip.com in this charming conversation with Women's Magazine's Kate Raphael.




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Also on today's show:

Artists Sigi Arnejo, Kay Cuajunco and Genevieve Erin O'Brien talk about food and Asian identity, and the exhibit EATING CULTURES, which opens Thursday at SomArts Gallery.

We check out the women-directed and gender-themed films at San Francisco International Film Festival

More info about Listen to the Squawking Chicken

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