tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15392807920901906782024-02-20T13:33:45.589-05:00Spitfiyah! RadioSpitfiyah! is a monthly collective radio show broadcasting from Montreal every last Wednesday of the month on CKUT 90.3 FM. Spitfiyah! breathes the lives
of women and colour in Montreal.Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-65737324170541421442014-11-27T16:22:00.001-05:002014-11-27T16:22:45.048-05:00November 2014: Little Burgundy, Healing Rage, Dark Matter and Janet MockThis month on Spitfiyah!: Mercedes analyzes how Little Burgundy has become known as a Montreal hotspot this year, and the role that gentrification forces played. Gau reports back on the McGill Culture Shock series: in particular, the 'Healing Rage' convergence for Indigenous people and people of colour to discuss their lived experiences and anti-racist organizing, as well as the keynote event featuring Dark Matter, a trans south asian artist collaboration. Victoria facilitates another 'Things We Love" segment, and shares her love this month for Janet Mock's memoir, Redefining Realness.<br />
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<br />Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-17580585898337122582014-11-27T15:54:00.001-05:002014-11-27T15:54:37.473-05:00October 2014: Emily Gan, Ninotchka Rosca, Annette Kassaye <div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-7bcb7a2b-f2bf-601f-bebe-2cc051038418" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-4273959910796201992014-11-27T15:16:00.003-05:002014-11-27T15:16:40.574-05:00September 2014: activist Amanda Lickers on Reclaim Turtle Island, and the repeated victimization of Janay Rice<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-7c7c3647-f2cd-de84-f9f9-48fde062e39a" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Activist and member of the Onondowaga nation Amanda Lickers was in studio to discuss her grassroots radical media project, Reclaim Turtle Island. The project has produced several films and aims to build capacity for Indigenous and anticolonial struggles in Turtle Island, including the extraction of oil from tar sands. Amanda will speak to us about Reclaim Turtle Island, decolonization, divestment, and indigenous solidarity.</span></div>
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Also, earlier thins month, TMZ released a video of football player Ray Rice punching his fiancee, now wife, Janay in an elevator. The Baltimore Ravens, Ray’s team, subsequently posted a disturbing tweet that “Janay Rice says she deeply regrets the role that she played the night of the incident." Since then, Ray has been suspended indefinitely by the NFL. Led by Mercedes, we will discuss how Janay Rice is being victimized over and over again.</div>
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-60831555212551608702014-08-28T23:15:00.001-04:002014-08-28T23:15:05.154-04:00August 2014: Michael Brown and the events in Ferguson, and why are we so thirsty for what Shonda Rhimes is feeding us?<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1;">On this month's show, we look at police brutality in the wake of the killing of Mike Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson is about 3 miles outside of St. Louis. Witnesses say Brown was shot with his hands up. Autopsy reports show that Brown was shot 6-8 times, twice in the head. This most recent death of a black person by the police has us all asking a perennial question, why? Why is it so okay to kill black people and people of color?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listen to the show <a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/76977">here.</a></span>Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-19726753536906099812014-08-28T22:11:00.000-04:002014-08-28T23:23:15.348-04:00July 2014: Actress Tamara Brown, the Occupation of Palestine, Sierra Mannie's Dear White Gays article, the Aaliyah biopic<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-e43e5d70-1f44-887a-d1ef-331ddcdeb8b4" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mercedes brings us the latest on the departure of Zendaya Colman from the Lifetime network’s biopic of Aayliah. This is the latest in a series of controversial biopics of black cultural icons. Is Hollywood whitewashing our singers?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listen to the show <a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/76976" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-600302099944039742014-08-28T20:55:00.001-04:002014-08-28T20:55:47.186-04:00June 2014: Maya Angelou, 300 sandwiches, Amanda Blackhorse and an offensive NFL trademark and more<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-e43e5d70-1ec0-4829-14f4-1c602535cbba" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Mercedes pays homage to the phenomenal woman Maya Angelou, who passed away earlier this month. Sinmi discuss the blog, 300 sandwiches, and the idea that a man would propose after a woman has made him 300 sandwiches. Alyssa will be telling us about how N</span><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 1;">avajo activist Amanda Blackhorse managed to get an NFL trademark revoked. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">We will also honor the life of Yuri Kochiyama as well as salute Laverne Cox in her appearance earlier this month on Time Magazine.</span></div>
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-6802711199437445282014-06-01T22:27:00.002-04:002014-06-01T22:32:09.453-04:00May 2014: bell hooks, and is Beyonce a terrorist? Also the media and the Boko Haram kidnapping<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-84c0471a-5a39-e3b0-7223-c2d59a26fc88" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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kidnapping in the media. Mercedes moderated the discussion and Spitfiyah!
analyzed Western media's reaction to the kidnapping, and the role of social
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the internet blew up watching Solange beat Jay Z in TMZ’s elevator video,
renowned feminist, and radical critical thinker bell hooks was back at the New
School as Scholar-in-Residence for another discussion on May 6th. In the
discussion, entitled "<span style="background: white; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Are You Still
a Slave?: Liberating the Black Female Body", </span>hooks was joined
by black feminist thinkers <span style="background: white;">Marci Blackman,
Shola Lynch and Janet Mock </span>and drew controversy when the
conversation turned to Beyonce. Is Beyonce a terrorist? Moderated by
Alyssa, we discuss hooks' use of the ‘t’ word towards one of the most
universally revered pop culture figures of our time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is also Asian Heritage Month! In honor of Asian Heritage Month, we will be
featuring tracks from several influential women from the Asian diaspora. They
are Susheela Raman ("<span style="background: white;">Ye Meera Divanapan
Hai"), </span> Ann One ("Crush on You"), Thao Nguyen
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("Warriors Tongue"). We also talked about the Komagata Maru's
centenary, and you can read the press release authored by migrant justice
advocates<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.komagatamarulegacy.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">here</span></a><span lang="EN-US">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we would like to dedicate this show to Maya Angelou, poet, author, activist,
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-10859570975112665022014-06-01T22:09:00.002-04:002014-06-01T22:09:45.108-04:00April 2014: Spitfiyah! discusses Gloria Steinem and Second Wave Feminism, and the Quebec provincial electionsThis month, Spitfiyah! discusses Gloria Steinem as she turns 80 years old, her persona and her impact on feminism, and the relevance of second-wave feminism to women of colour.<br />
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Spitfiyah! also addresses the outcome of the recent election in Quebec. Discussing the role the Charter of Values played in the campaign, the Parti Quebecois's staggering defeat, and the various policies that were emphasized during the campaign, Spitfiyah! analyzes what this means for the future, and how Quebec politics frame communities of colour.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mercedes addressed the recent social media campaigns of - #ItooamHarvard/Oxford, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1;">the stakes involved, and the pushback we’ve been witnessing in our cyberuniverses.</span></div>
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Happy Black History Month to our listeners in Montreal and beyond! In addition to tackling issues related to homelessness, we celebrated Black history throughout this February edition of our show.<br />
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Malek brings you an interview with Bridget Tolley, founder of Families of Sisters in Spirit, an emerging grassroots volunteer organization led by families of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.<br />
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Victoria brings headlines on grassroots migrant justice activism in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.<br />
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Gau turns a critical eye on the recent push from the Ville-Marie borough to “revitalize” Cabot square, which would lead to the displacement of marginalized people that currently use the square as a place to convene. She explored the theme of spacial colonisation in gentrification projects and spoke with Allison Reid and Nakuset from the Cabot Square Project at Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy<br />
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Mercedes discussed a recent crisis brought to light by American news sources ProPublica and Colorlines. A disturbing number of post-traumatic stress disorders cases are found in lower income neighbourhoods (such as those with a high concentration of African Americans) in Detroit, Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia.<br />
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In honour of Black History Month, and the historical connections between Black and Indigenous collective resistance, Alyssa discusses the history of Black-Indigenous connections through the voice of Clinton, a Black Indian depicted in Leslie Silko’s novel Almanac of the Dead. She will read an excerpt from the novel.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Listen to the show <a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/74880" target="_blank">here.</a></span>Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-54687601152290665842014-03-14T22:36:00.001-04:002014-05-25T16:50:36.942-04:00October 2013 Show: Special funding drive edition, Humera Jabir on the PQ, and Malika Tirolien<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1;">Up first, We take a critical look at the coalition movements that brought the PQ to power in a narrow victory back in September 2012. As several prominent self-called feminists express their support for the Charter, we ask where are the progressive voices in Quebec denouncing what many are calling racism a la Quebecoise. We speak with Humera Jabir, </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">a law student at McGill University in Montreal. </span><span style="line-height: 17px;">Her article, “The Hijab is not a Political Tool” appeared in Maisonneuve and was re-printed in the Toronto Star. </span><span style="line-height: 1;">Her piece cuts through hardly disguised attack on immigrants, people of colour, and religious minorities in Quebec. </span></span><br />
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-28104929697290734812013-10-05T17:41:00.000-04:002013-10-05T21:44:07.349-04:00September 2013 Show: The "Charter of Quebec Values", Angela Davis on the 1963 Birmingham Bombing, Tribute to Sharon Jones<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">Finally, this month's show is dedicated to the legendary and beloved American soul and funk star , Sharon Jones. As a vocal powerhouse and charismatic stage performer Sharon Jones has led her band, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, to critical acclaim in the recent mass revival of soul and funk music. By bringing the sound of soul and funk as it was at its height in the late 1960s and 1970s, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have rocked audiences from across North America to Europe with 5 album releases since 2002 - and a new album on the horizon, "Bring the People What they Want". </span><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">In therapeutic musical accompaniment to tonight's feature stories, we played a number of our favourite songs by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. From everyone here at Spitifyah - we are sending through the radio waves our appreciation, love, and support to the humble, kind, great, sassy, soul conduit herself, Sharon Jones. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline;">Music played: Theme songs: Mystic, "The Life"; Michie Mee, "Don't Wanna Be Your Slave"; Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, "</span>What if we all stopped paying taxes?", "Money", "This Land is Your Land", "100 Days, 100 Nights".</span><br />
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-44944162527955217392013-09-03T13:05:00.001-04:002013-09-03T13:12:31.287-04:00August Show: Nydia Dauphin and Professor Charmaine Nelson discuss reactions to Nydia's Huffington Post article on blackface in Quebec, and Jackie Wang's revolutionary loneliness<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 1;"><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">We welcomed journalist Nydia Dauphin and Professor Charmaine Nelson who discussed reactions to Nydia's</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; line-height: 1;"> May 5th article on Huffington Post Canada </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">entitled, “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/nydia-dauphin/blackface-in-quebec_b_3276801.html" target="_blank">Why the Hell are Quebec Comedians wearing Blackface</a>?”. Nydia pointed out the resurgence of blackface dawned by white Quebec comedians and offered a number of recent images demonstrating this trend. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1;">Her lucid commentary offered a moment to pause on the historical roots of blackface--- the transatlantic slave trade that brought millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas for more than three centuries. Blackface minstrelsy was a popular, nostalgic site through which whites lamented the end of slavery using dark "humour" delivered in song, dance, and jokes that celebrated white fantasies of violence against black bodies. It is a disturbing reminder of slavery’s evils and a symbol of anti-black racism. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.15;">As Professor Nelson pointed out, the McCord Museum holds broadsheets, photography, advertisements, and other paraphernalia of Canadian minstrel troupes that performed in Canada in blackface in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 1;">Nydia’s plain assertion that ugly forms of racism persist in Quebec society was mocked in many media outlets as was Professor Nelson’s response to the hostile reaction in the press. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">(En)gendering Resistance: Exploring the possibilities of gender, resistance and militancy" at the University of Waterloo held in late-April. Revolutionary loneliness refers to the seemingly inevitably traumatizing and alienating effects of participating in </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">revolutionary struggle, and to the sense of loneliness that the experience of gendered </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">and racialized forms of suffering can produce. Historically, revolutionary movements </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">have based their politics on masculine and white positions and fail to eradicate social </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">alienation. Jackie explores the liberation narratives of militant women and gender </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: italic;">variant revolutionaries. </span></div>
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-16830979135490272182013-09-03T12:31:00.001-04:002014-05-25T16:51:25.714-04:00July Show: Bethany Or from the film Être Chinois au Quebec, immigration policy, poetry, Trayvon Martin verdict<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1;">Victoria interviews Bethany Or in studio, to speak about a new documentary she co-created, called Être Chinois au Quebec.</i><br />
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-92165879482582276612013-09-03T11:54:00.002-04:002013-09-03T13:14:46.528-04:00June Show: Racism in Quebec<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">When Nydia Dauphin published <span id="goog_531198934"></span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/nydia-dauphin/blackface-in-quebec_b_3276801.html" target="_blank">a post </a>on HuffPost Canada on May 16th<span id="goog_531198935"></span>, bells and whistles went off; sirens even. Her crime: pointing out the resurfacing of blackface minstrelsy in Quebec. Dauphin was responding specifically to the dawning of Blackface by Mario Jean at the annual comedy award show, the Gala Les Olivier. The show aired on Radio Canada. Jean was apparently attempting to impersonate a black comedian.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">We, as women of colour, lamented the reaction and the outpouring of mischaracterizations and attempts to dismiss Dauphin's remarks. Flat out defenses of blackface were given in media. The assertion that ugly forms of racism persist in Quebec society were mocked. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">We also had a reading by Lili Dao - The Silencing of Racism in Quebec, which is a book review of Jan Wong’s Out of the Blue.</span></i></span></div>
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-25885033714846466452013-06-11T08:04:00.000-04:002013-06-11T08:04:41.439-04:00May 2013 Show<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-4dd546bb-314b-956f-099c-a17752341a94" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Malek reported on the
Status For All March which took place earlier this month in Montreal. </span></span></span></i></div>
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her recent placement by the FBI on their list of Most Wanted Terrorists</span><i><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>hakur
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-72639575854224466332013-06-11T01:05:00.000-04:002013-06-11T01:05:02.174-04:00April 2013 Show<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We welcomed back into the studio, journalist and critic </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Christiana
for an interview with Mercedes Bonair about the Funny or Racist
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</style> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-size: xx-small; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">We started our March show with a piece by Pre<span style="font-size: small;">eti Dhaliwal </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-size: xx-small; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-size: xx-small; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">on a crime that has received widespread intern<span style="font-size: small;">ational media <span style="font-size: small;">attention - the rape of a <span style="font-size: small;">young woman in India.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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In honour of Black History Month, Alyssa Clutterbuck reported on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, and today's US Supreme Court’s hearings on the matter. </span><br />
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Yalaoui brought us a report on the sexaul assaults and acts of violence
against women in the Tahrir Square protests, as well as on the worldwide day of
action that took place this month calling for an end to the violence.</span><br />
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also welcomed black feminist writer and critic Christiana Collison as
our in-studio guest. Mercedes Bonair interviewed Christiana on
her recent piece “Complicating Space - Safe Space and the Politics of Privilege and Marginality” which was published earlier this month in the
McGill Daily. </span><br />
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-9125552744177663132013-02-27T23:59:00.001-05:002013-02-27T23:59:04.888-05:00January 2013 Show<span id="internal-source-marker_0.3391638448113843" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">We featured an interview from
McGill artist KOSI whose art will be exhibited next Wednesday, February
6th at O Patro Vys.</span><br />
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brought us a report on a story not getting the attention and care it
deserves: The survivors of the “Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children”
have broken their silence and are now suing in a class action suit for
the sexual and physical abuse they suffered, or what one survivor
describes as “torture”</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alyssa
also gave a small comment on President Obama’s second inauguration
and Merlie Evers’ Williams, long-time Civil Rights Activist, who
delivered of the 2013 invocation</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">We
also hosted a round-table discussion about recent headlines this
month -- The removal of Kwaanza as proposed by Senator Glen Grothman --
also the controversial film Django Unchained. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">Listen to the show <a href="http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/66620" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-994486962264695922013-02-27T23:41:00.001-05:002013-02-27T23:41:45.994-05:00December 2012 Show<br id="internal-source-marker_0.7122130567807508" />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Alyssa reported on the Idle No More Movement, a
nationwide grassroots movement to protest the Harper government’s harsh
policies and treatment of First Nations peoples.<br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">We also heard from Mercedes about reality TV and its portrayal of Black men.</span><br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Spitfiyah also caught up with D’Bi Young, dub poet and playwright, when she was in town for her show last month.</span><br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"></span><br /><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Lastly,
Alyssa spoke about Republican opposition to the
reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, the main piece of
federal legislation which addresses domestic violence, and what it could
mean for Native Women.</span></span><br />
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Spitfiyah! Radiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16200713384309655363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1539280792090190678.post-11597762441495908742012-12-25T15:36:00.000-05:002012-12-25T15:36:05.879-05:00November 2012 Show<span id="internal-source-marker_0.06157371528993427" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This month, we featured another edition of
the Spitfiyah Roundup, where we share highlights from news stories
outside the margins. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We also spoke with
D’bi Young during her 333 tour
through Montreal. </span><br />
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