Showing posts with label queer rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label queer rights. Show all posts

Thursday, May 31, 2012

May 24, 2012 show: Conversation with Scott of KidsOnTV

On May 24, 2012, CHUO 89.1 FN (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Scott from the queer Toronto-based theatrical-musical-activist group "Kids On TV", in a far-reaching discussion about human psychology, oppression, bullies, education, society, art...

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Dr. Steven E. Noble on queer theory and education


On October 27, 2011, CHUO 89.1 FM (Ottawa) The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed Dr. Steven E. Noble, Educator, Researcher, Councellor, and former professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.

This is what applied critical pedagogy, inspired by queer theory and critical disability theory, looks like in Dr. Noble's class room -- until he was fired in reprisal for filing a grievance to contest breaches of his contract. And that's what the University of Ottawa looks like.

Dr. Noble is also informed by his community work with addicted youth in the Downtown East Side, Vancouver, by his work with "mental illness" patients, and by his experience with government and public institutions.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Kids on TV::: Music, queer activism, pedagogy of liberation


On January 27, 2011, The Train's Denis Rancourt interviewed two members from Kids on TV: Scott Kerr and John Caffery.

This wide ranging interview touched on: Queer history, music band life, pedagogy of liberation, anarchism and performance art, balancing work and life, social agency, and the phenomenon of "social acupuncture".


Saturday, November 14, 2009

El-Farouk Khahi


This week activist, lawyer and politician El-Farouk Khaki joined us by phone from Toronto.


A self-proclaimed feminist, Khahi focuses his work on queer rights issues within Islam and works as a lawyer in the filed of human rights and immigration law.