January 3, 2013 show: Barbara Todish on researching the emergence of self-validity

On January 3, 2013, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed the unique and intense Barbara Todish about her books, her childhood, her "non-performances" in nightclub comedy clubs, her professional academic career, and a desperate period in her life when she sold her body for sex. We also discussed Pierre Joseph Proudhon's proposition that "Property is robbery", as Barbara extends this to the realm of identity and status. And Barbara explained the extent to which we are so very disconnected from ourselves and from each other as a result...

Barbara Todish -- Banned from academia and from her professional associations for her honesty about the human condition

On June 16, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed teacher and performing artist Barbara Todish based in Newark, NJ; by phone about her banishment from academia and from her professional associations for being honest and real.

Barbara is an eclectic original, a Freirian educator, a criminology researcher, a certified performing artist, a stand up comic, a survivor of economic apartheid, and a former prostitute (for three months).

This is an interview you do not want to miss.


DR: What is one key thing you learned from being a prostitute in that three-month period?
BT: Well... I learned I could enjoy sex... (explained in the interview).

Cited articles:
"Love Is Only Practice for Absolute Meaning"
"Just trying to attract attention?"