Shauna Faye is a straight woman who is also a drag queen - 'Skirt Browning'. In this episode she talks about what draws her to drag, her relationship with Kurt Browning, what the process of becoming 'Skirt Browning' looks like, the comedy in drag,  and what it's like being a woman in the Winnipeg drag scene. 

Erika talks to award-winning film makers Joel Penner and Anna Sigrithur, about their beautiful new short film "Wrought" in which Joel's penchant for filming 'rotting' things is taken to the next level.  What can we learn by taking a (very) close look at things rotting, what does it say about human beings relationship with nature..... what are the mechanics of collecting and filming dead things... 

Abortion was legalized in Canada in 1988. But this didn't happen easily. All across Canada women had been organizing and fighting for this basic health right, for decades. In Winnipeg, Ellen Kruger was one of the leaders of this struggle all through the '70s and '80s. In this episode she tells Afterthought co-host Lynne Fernandez about the organizing strategies, the set-backs, Henry Morgenthaler's influence, what barriers remain for women seeking abortions, and potential implications for Canada of the threats to Roe vs Wade in the US. 

A new book 'Disarm, Defund, Dismantle: Police Abolition in Canada' makes the case for radical change in policing including eventual abolition, and lays out historical and current reasons for this. 

So.... really? How realistic is it to consider police abolition as a viable proposition, and if it is realistic, how would that work exactly?

In this episode Erika discusses these questions and more, with two of the contributors - Kevin Walby and Ted Rutland.

Lynne talks to Shauna MacKinnon (Chair, Urban and Inner City Studies  Program, U of W) and Kirsten Bernas (West Central Womens Resource  Centre),  about the many barriers to quality, affordable housing for  low-income Winnipegers. In part two they talk about loopholes in rent regulations, role of government including the National Housing Strategy, and housing as a human right - not a commodity. 

Lynne talks to Shauna MacKinnon (Chair, Urban and Inner City Studies Program, U of W) and Kirsten Bernas (West Central Womens Resource Centre),  about the many barriers to quality, affordable housing for low-income Winnipegers - and how this wasn't always the case. We wonder why so many people are homeless. Well, there are some very practical answers.  

In Episode 1, Erika Wiebe talked to Ralph Friesen about the Russia experience of the Mennonites who ended up immigrating to Southern Manitoba in the 1800s. In this episode, they talk about the settler experience, with an eye to uncovering historical events which might help explain the response of Southern Manitoba Mennonites to the Covid pandemic. 

Afterthought co-host Erika Wiebe has Mennonite heritage and grew up in rural Saskatchewan. During her 40 plus years in Winnipeg she noticed a difference in political and social norms between her Mennonite experience, and the Mennonites of Southern Manitoba. The Covid pandemic has highlighted some of these differences with the high rates of vaccine hesitancy and opposition to government mandates in Southern Manitoba. 

In a quest to find out if maybe these differences can be explained at all by different immigration histories between the two groups, Erika spoke to Ralph Friesen, author of three books which inform this issue. He also grew up in Steinbach.

This episode is the first of two, and focuses on the Russian history, prior to the Mennonite immigration to Southern Manitoba.  

Afterthought co-host Lynne Fernandez recently got on the genealogy bandwagon, and learned some new and surprising things about her family. In parts 1 and 2 of this episode, she talkes to two more genealogy enthusiasts, Gillian Glover and Blair Hamilton about what they've learned about their families, and more broadly, their own place in history. 

Afterthought co-host Lynne Fernandez recently got on the genealogy bandwagon, and learned some new and surprising things about her family. In this episode she talks to two more genealogy enthusiasts, Gillian Glover and Blair Hamilton about why and how, and insights it has led to about important historical events.