Below the Radar

The climatic events of 2021 (heat, fires, floods, storms) have brought home the reality of climate change like never before — and the urgency for media to address this crisis couldn’t feel greater. But how do we talk about the climate emergency in ways that move us away from despair and disaster coverage? How can podcasts shift the conversation in ways the mainstream media cannot or refuses to do? How do we talk about climate justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and de-colonizing media?

For this special release, tune into the live event recording from Podcasting Climate Change, a session at the 2021 Vancouver Podcast Festival. This recording features a panel discussion curated and moderated by Below the Radar host Am Johal. He is joined by Chief Patrick Michell, Julia Kidder, Eugene Kung and Grace Nosek.

This Vancouver Podcast Festival event was presented in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/152-podcasting-climate-change.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/152-podcasting-climate-change.html

Resources:

— Vancouver Podcast Festival: https://www.vanpodfest.ca/

— Doxa Festival: https://www.doxafestival.ca/

— Climate Justice & Inequality, a Below the Radar series: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/about/updates/all-updates/climate-justice-inequality-podcast.html

— Kanaka Bar Indian Band: https://www.kanakabarband.ca/

— Living with Water: Rethinking coastal adaptation to climate change: https://pics.uvic.ca/media-release/living-water-rethinking-coastal-adaptation-climate-change

— West Coast Environmental Law: https://www.wcel.org/

— UBC Climate Hub: https://ubcclimatehub.ca/

— Planet Potluck podcast: http://planetpotluck.com/

Bios:

Julia Kidder (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, communications specialist and researcher based in Vancouver (on unceded Coast Salish Territories.) Currently she is a PhD student at UBC’s School of Community & Regional Planning (SCARP) with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) Living With Water project, where she is exploring how complex climate governance networks incorporate Indigenous Laws on the South Coast of BC.

Eugene Kung (he/him/his) is a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL), working on Tar Sands, Pipelines and Tankers, as well as with RELAW. He is committed to human rights, social justice and environmental justice and has been working to stop the Kinder Morgan TransMountain expansion project. Eugene was born and raised in Burnaby BC, holds a BA from UBC (2001) and JD from Dalhousie (2006) and was called to the BC Bar in 2008.

Chief Patrick Michell of the Kanaka Bar Indian Band has lived in BC’s Fraser Canyon all his life and has worked with his community to establish foundational stability in air, water, food, and shelter with supporting resilient systems like storage, energy, communications, and transportation; for the environment and economy of today and more importantly — tomorrow. Chief Patrick was recently honored with a Clean50 Lifetime Achievement Award and Kanaka’s Community Resilience Plan (2021) was also recognized as the Clean50 2022 Top project.

Grace Nosek is the Founder and Student Director of the UBC Climate Hub, a unique entity combining significant financial and administrative support from the university, with a governance structure that allows student staff and volunteers to shape priorities for the Hub — and collaborate with stakeholders from across the university and beyond.

Cite this Episode

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Johal, Am. “Vancouver Podcast Festival: Podcasting Climate Change” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, January 4, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/152-podcasting-climate-change.html

Writer and poet, Renée Sarojini Saklikar joins Am Johal on this episode of Below the Radar to talk about her latest work, Bramah and The Beggar Boy, first in a series, THOT J BAP (The Heart Of This Journey Bears All Patterns). In this episode, Renée reads passages from her new story and discusses the act of writing as a woman of colour, her creative process, and how writing can be a form of survival and resistance.

Her book is an epic poem and story which was an amazing 10-year undertaking, describing a future dealing with climate change and a viral bio-contagion. Bramah, a locksmith, part human and part goddess, is part of the poet’s “life-long project of unlocking and unbinding, of challenging the primacy of borders, the formal, the political and the self-imposed.” More details about Renée’s new book and her previous books can be found in the resources below.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/151-renee-sarojini-saklikar.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/151-renee-sarojini-saklikar.html

Resources:

— Bramah and The Beggar Boy: https://harbourpublishing.com/products/9780889714021

— children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections: https://harbourpublishing.com/collections/renee-sarojini-saklikar/products/9780889712874

— Listening to the Bees: https://harbourpublishing.com/collections/renee-sarojini-saklikar/products/9780889713468

— SFU’s Writer Studio: https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/programs/the-writers-studio-creative-writing-certificate.html

— Air India Redacted: https://summit.sfu.ca/item/20083

— THOT J BAP: https://thotjbap.com

Bio:

Renée Sarojini Saklikar is a poet and lawyer who lives in Vancouver. She is the author of the ground-breaking poetry book, children of air india, about the bombing of Air India Flight 182 which won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize and is the co-author, with Dr. Mark Winston, of the poetry and essay collection, Listening to the Bees, winner of the 2019 Gold Medal Independent Publishers Book Award, Environment/Ecology. She is the curator of the poetry reading series Lunch Poems at SFU and in 2021 curated Vancouver’s first free Poetry Phone, 1-833-POEMS-4-U. Renée Sarojini is an instructor for SFU and VCC and was the first poet laureate for the City of Surrey, (2015-2018). Her work has been adapted for opera, visual art and dance. Her epic fantasy series in verse, THOT J BAP: The Heart Of This Journey Bears All Patterns, is about a female hero battling to save a planet ravaged by climate change, launched in 2021.

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Johal, Am. “Bramah and the Beggar Boy — with Renée Sarojini Saklikar” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, December 21, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/151-renee-sarojini-saklikar.html

Below the Radar explores the transformational capacity of dialogue with apiculturist, award-winning author, and SFU Professor of Biological Sciences Mark Winston. He is in conversation with host Am Johal about SFU’s Semester in Dialogue program and the importance of providing students with opportunities to be engaged with their communities.

Mark shares how part of a university’s job is to help people realize who they want to be in the world, speaking to the impact of alternative pedagogical models that embrace dialogue and art. We hear stories from his time as director of the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, and the complex process of creating a non-traditional, interdisciplinary program such as the Semester in Dialogue.

They speak about Mark’s journey with dialogue, which grew out of his fascination with bee communication. He also talks about the shortcomings of dialogue, what conversations need to be elevated emerging from the pandemic, and how we can translate them into building equity and compassion for all.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/150-mark-winston.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/150-mark-winston.html

Resources:

— Mark’s website: http://winstonhive.com/

— Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674368392

— Listening to the Bees: https://harbourpublishing.com/products/9780889713468

— Semester in Dialogue: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/semester/

— Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue: https://www.sfu.ca/dialogue.html

— Vancouver Manuscript Intensive: https://www.vancouvermanuscriptintensive.com/

Bio:

Mark L. Winston is the recipient of the 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction for his book Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive, and an Independent Publishers 2019 Gold Medal “IPPY” Award for his book Listening to the Bees. One of the world’s leading experts on bees and pollination, Dr. Winston is also an internationally recognized researcher, teacher and writer. He directed Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue for 12 years, where he founded the Semester in Dialogue, a program that creates leadership development opportunities equipping and empowering students to address community issues.

As a consultant and thought leader, Dr. Winston partners with universities, corporations, NGOs, governments and communities to advance communication skills, engage public audiences with controversial issues through dialogue, and implement experiential learning and community engagement in educational institutions. As an award-winning writer and editor, he works with students, scientists, other professionals and writers to develop compelling non-fiction, from proposals and newspaper opinion pieces to manuscripts and books.

He currently is a Professor and Senior Fellow in Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue, a Professor of Biological Sciences, and the SFU Library’s inaugural Nonfiction Writer in Residence (2020-2021).

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Johal, Am. “Dialogue & Social Change — with Mark Winston” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, December 14, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/150-mark-winston.html

Performance scholar and Associate Professor in the Dramatic Arts department at the University of Alberta Selena Couture joins Am Johal to talk about her latest book, Against the Current and Into the Light. Selena speaks about how her book explores varying historical and contemporary performances involving Stanley Park through language, relationships to land, and the unlearning of settler knowledges. She draws from colonial and counter-colonial performances such as the 1946 Jubilee show, and the public performances of Native Brotherhood of BC in the same year.

Selena also explores how her doctoral dissertation and the taking of hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language classes influenced the creation of her book, and speaks about the instability of archive-based “truths,” by discussing the fabricated history of Lord Stanley’s dedication of Stanley Park to “people of all colours, creeds and customs.”

Selena and Am end their conversation by speaking of the absence of Indigenous women from historical archives, and the resonating performances of contemporary Indigenous women artists such as Quelemia Sparrow and Marie Clements.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/149-selena-couture.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/149-selena-couture.html

Resources:

— Against the Current and Into the Light: https://www.mqup.ca/against-the-current-and-into-the-light-products-9780773559219.php

— UBC’s First Nations and Endangered Languages Program: https://fnel.arts.ubc.ca/

— Inventing Stanley Park by Sean Kheraj: https://www.ubcpress.ca/inventing-stanley-park

— The Archive and the Repertoire by Diana Taylor: https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-archive-and-the-repertoire

— The Native Brotherhood of British Columbia: https://www.nativebrotherhood.ca/

— Ashes on the Water: A Podplay Video: https://vimeo.com/27876873

— The Road Forward by Marie Clements: https://www.nfb.ca/film/road_forward/

— Urban Ink: https://urbanink.ca/

Bio:

Renée Sarojini Saklikar is a poet and lawyer who lives in Vancouver. She is the author of the ground-breaking poetry book, children of air india, about the bombing of Air India Flight 182 which won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize and is the co-author, with Dr. Mark Winston, of the poetry and essay collection, Listening to the Bees, winner of the 2019 Gold Medal Independent Publishers Book Award, Environment/Ecology. She is the curator of the poetry reading series Lunch Poems at SFU and in 2021 curated Vancouver’s first free Poetry Phone, 1-833-POEMS-4-U. Renée Sarojini is an instructor for SFU and VCC and was the first poet laureate for the City of Surrey, (2015-2018). Her work has been adapted for opera, visual art and dance. Her epic fantasy series in verse, THOT J BAP: The Heart Of This Journey Bears All Patterns, is about a female hero battling to save a planet ravaged by climate change, launched in 2021.

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Johal, Am. “Performing History & Land in Vancouver’s Stanley Park — with Selena Couture” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, December 7, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/149-selena-couture.html

Travis Salway, a social epidemiologist and Assistant Professor with SFU’s Faculty of Health Sciences, joins Am Johal in a conversation about syndemic theory, the state of conversion therapy in Canada, and LGBTQ2S+ affirming healthcare.

Going in-depth about the structural health disadvantages of LGBTQ2S+ people and the multiple epidemics concurrently affecting them, Am and Travis discuss how Canada still needs to do more to achieve an equal society. Travis also speaks to the current limitation of data collection for this vulnerable population and how he and his team are working to create visual tools to help keep people informed on the state of Canada’s LGBTQ2S+ policies.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/148-travis-salway.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/148-travis-salway.html

Resources:

— Travis’s Faculty Page: https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/about/people/profiles/travis-salway.html

— ILGA Europe: https://www.ilga-europe.org/rainboweurope/2021

— Trans PULSE Canada: https://transpulsecanada.ca

— Between Two Pandemics, Ballroom Has Something to Say: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/library/2021/between-two-pandemics-ballroom-has-something-to-say/

Bio:

Dr. Salway is a social epidemiologist whose research investigates population health inequities in the context of stigma. He joined SFU Faculty of Health Sciences in 2019, coming with 18 years of experience working with sexual minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer) communities to inform and improve public health interventions.

Dr. Salway’s research has resulted in an improved understanding of patterns and causes of mental health outcomes among sexual minority populations. In 2019, he presented this research to the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Health, in the context of their historic study on LGBTQ2 Health in Canada. Dr. Salway is the co-founder and facilitator of The Roundtable: BC’s LGBTQ2S Mental Health & Substance Use Networking Space. He is a Michael Smith Scholar (2019-2024) and an Affiliated Researcher/Faculty at the BC Centre for Disease Control, the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity, and the Community-Based Research Centre.

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Johal, Am. “LGBTQ2S+ Health: Impacts of Stigma — with Travis Salway” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 30, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/148-travis-salway.html

For this final episode of Women, Work, More, host Alyha Bardi speaks with Sheila Block, a senior economist from the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, and Jo-Ann Hannah, retired Director of the Pensions and Benefits at Unifor, and board member at the BC Financial Services Authority.

Sheila and Jo-Ann speak in conversation about retirement incomes with a gender and racial equity lens, and explore how pay gaps and gendered life-patterns influence income security for senior women. They speak to the flaws in existing public and private pension systems, discuss the benefits and downfalls of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), and explore solutions in the realms of structural changes, public services and healthcare, and pooled retirement pensions systems.

Throughout the episode we hear from four senior women, as they speak about their life-work trajectories, and the resulting money struggles, worries, or “lucks” they have now — while expressing dissatisfaction with lacking assistance from government systems.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/women-work-more/145-evelyn-encalada-grez.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/145-evelyn-encalada-grez.html

Resources:

— Sheila’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/SheilaBlockTO

— Colour Coded Retirement: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/ColourCodedRetirement

— Sheila’s Other Reports & Commentaries: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/authors/sheila-block

— Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives Toronto: https://twitter.com/SheilaBlockTO

— BC Financial Services Authority: https://www.bcfsa.ca/about-us

Bios:

Sheila Block is a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Sheila’s research focuses on Canada's labour markets, public finance, and inequality. She has worked as both a political advisor and a public servant in the Ontario government and as an economist in the labour movement.

Sheila has an Honours B.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Toronto.

Jo-Ann Hannah is currently on the board of directors on the BC Financial Services Authority, which regulates pensions, credit unions, mortgage brokers, and trust companies.

In 2016, Jo-Ann retired as Director of the Pensions and Benefits Department at Unifor, one of Canada’s largest private sector unions. She worked with Unifor for over 25 years and bargained with many of Canada’s major corporations: CN Rail, Air Canada, Rio Tinto Alcan. She was invited to speak on pension issues in Canada as well as Europe and the United States.

She also represented the union in international work in various countries including Swaziland, Bolivia, and South Africa.

Her education includes an MA (Psychology, UBC), LLM (Osgoode Hall Law School), and PhD (Education, University of Toronto).

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Bardi, Alyha. “Women, Work, More: Senior Women & Economic Insecurity — with Sheila Block & Jo-Ann Hannah.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 25, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/women-work-more/147-sheila-block-joann-hannah.html

The director of the SFU Labour Studies program, Kendra Strauss, joins Am Johal in a conversation about systemic challenges facing workers, and the ways in which workers shape economies and exercise power in the workplace.

Honing in on issues of precarious work, low wages, technological change, contracting out, and the devaluing of feminized work like care work, Am and Kendra discuss trends in labour studies and how they impact migrant and racialized workers. Kendra also speaks to how labour studies as a discipline can work in-step with labour organizers and workers to strive towards a just transition, to create better, more secure jobs, and to address social issues that affect all workers.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/146-kendra-strauss.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/146-kendra-strauss.html

Resources:

— SFU Labour Studies: http://www.sfu.ca/labour.html

— Kendra’s faculty page: http://www.sfu.ca/labour/about/people/kendra-strauss.html

— Workers in the Aging City research project with Dr. Feng Xu: https://www.sfu.ca/eldercareworkers/project.html

— Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — BC Office: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/offices/bc

— Women, Work, More series: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/women-work-more.html

Bio:

Dr. Kendra Strauss is the Director of the Labour Studies Program and a Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. She is also an Associate Member in the Department of Geography. Kendra is a labour geographer and feminist political economist with research and teaching interests in the areas of precarity, migration, social reproduction, and care labour.

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Johal, Am. “Labour Studies & Justice for Workers — with Kendra Strauss" Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 23, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/146-kendra-strauss.html

A transnational labour scholar, co-founder of Justicia for Migrant Workers, and assistant professor from SFU's Labour Studies Program, Evelyn Encalada Grez joins this episode of Women, Work, More to speak about migrant women and their experiences of transnational loving.

Evelyn explores the pains that accompany migration, from separating families to the often temporary loves that migrant women find while working within Canada. Despite these pains, Evelyn speaks about the forms of agency that migrant women enact throughout their migration — that often revolves around reasserting their power over their bodies and sexualities.

As the episode continues, Evelyns speaks about her past projects that have aided in re-empowering migrant workers and migrant women within their migration. She also shares the changes that need to be made to undo the exploitation inherent within temporary labour migration programs.

Throughout the episode we hear quotes from migrant women whom Evelyn has encountered and interviewed as part of her research. These quotes came from Evelyn’s transcribed interviews and are voiced by readers in both English and Spanish. These do not feature the voices of the migrant women who initially spoke these words in order to maintain their anonymity.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/women-work-more/145-evelyn-encalada-grez.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/145-evelyn-encalada-grez.html

Resources:

Evelyn’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/professor_evy

Justice For Migrant Workers: https://harvestingfreedom.org/who-we-are/

Justice For Migrant Workers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/j4mw

CODEMUH: http://codemuh.hn/

El Contrato film: https://www.nfb.ca/film/el_contrato/

Migrant Dreams film: https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/migrant-dreams-feature-version

‘Contestations of the Heart’ essay: http://www.inderscience.com/storage/f101237925168114.pdf

‘Between Hearts and Pockets’ essay: https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2013.834131

‘The Other Side of el Otro Lado’ essay: https://doi.org/10.1086/605483

Bio:

Dr. Evelyn Encalada Grez is a transnational labour scholar, organizer and co-founder of Justice for Migrant Workers and Assistant Professor in Labour Studies at Simon Fraser University. She has worked with migrant farmworkers for two decades across rural Canada, Mexico and Guatemala. She has mobilized her research in various venues such as the UN in New York, the National Autonomous University of Mexico and collaborated in various multidisciplinary projects to amplify the voices of migrant workers. Her research has focused on the experiences of Mexican migrant women who forge transnational livelihoods between Canada and Mexico. Currently, she is conducting research on the effects of the pandemic on migrant farmworkers within a transnational perspective.

Music:

“Words” by Jason Shaw is licensed under CC BY 3.0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/WORDS______________________________2-35

“Drive” by Scanglobe is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scanglobe/industrial-sunrise/drive-2

"Mexico DF 1996" by Monplaisir is licensed under CC0 1.0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Monplaisir/Baisers_de_Sonora/Monplaisir__Cie_-_FAWM2017_-_13_Mexico_DF_1996

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Bardi, Alyha. “Women, Work, More: Migrant Women & Transnational Loving — with Evelyn Encalada Grez.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 18, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/women-work-more/145-evelyn-encalada-grez.html

Ken Lyotier tells stories from his early days in the Downtown Eastside and how he came to found United We Can, an initiative by binners, for binners. United We Can creates economic opportunities for those who rely on collecting and returning recyclables for their income.

In this episode of Below the Radar, Ken is in conversation with host Am Johal about building community in the neighbourhood, advocating for policies and resources to benefit binners, and reaching across difference to support our neighbours and make progressive change.

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/144-ken-lyotier.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/144-ken-lyotier.html

Resources:

— United We Can: http://www.unitedwecan.ca/

— Binners’ Project: https://www.binnersproject.org/

— CBC IDEAS documentary on Ken Lyotier: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/meet-ken-lyotier-an-unforgettable-encounter-for-ideas-host-paul-kennedy-1.5188962

Bio:

Ken Lyotier has lived and worked in the Downtown Eastside since the late 1970s, and is the founder and former Executive Director of United We Can. Ken founded United We Can, a non-profit bottle depot, in 1995 in order to provide work experience opportunities and income for residents of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. A community leader, Ken has advised the city of Vancouver and many other groups on social issues, such as medical and housing services and poverty alleviation in Vancouver's inner-City.

His work has been well recognized. He is a recipient of the Medal for Meritorious Service by the Governor-General of Canada, an Environmental Citizenship Award by the Province of British Columbia, the Civic Merit Award by the City of Vancouver, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of British Columbia.

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Johal, Am. “United We Can — with Ken Lyotier” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 16, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/144-ken-lyotier.html

SFU Sociology and Anthropology Professor Amanda Watson, joins Alyha Bardi to speak about her recent book, 'The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in an Age of Anxiety.'

Amanda speaks about our cultural fascination with the figure of the juggling mother, explores the ableism and racism behind this depiction, and scrutinizes the immense pressures of motherhood that are often ignored — from juggling work and home life, to breastfeeding, to acting unencumbered at work.

Amanda also discusses depictions of mothers as the “gender neutral CEO” — and explores how misogyny, white liberal feminism, and gender socialization, have led us to accept these very ideas involving motherhood that do more harm than good.

The episode ends with Amanda and four working mothers sharing some advice with working mothers, present and future. They speak to their visions for making work better serve parents, reshaping cultural ideas of motherhood to alleviate pressure, and placing greater value on the labour of mothers.

About the Women, Work, More series: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/women-work-more.html

Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/women-work-more/143-amanda-watson.html

Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/142-amanda-watson.html

Resources:

— The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in an Age of Anxiety: https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-juggling-mother

— Amanda’s website: https://www.amandadwatson.com/

— Amanda Watson & the birthstrike movement: https://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/news-events/news/2020/amanda-watson-sshrc-grant.html

Bio:

Amanda Watson is an author, lecturer, researcher, and mother of two. Her new book, The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety, is available from UBC Press. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, and has a focus on feminist teaching and learning. Amanda teaches and studies theories of labour, capitalism, motherhood, care, representation, and popular culture. She also writes opinions for newspapers and magazines.

Her next book project explores the politics of the BirthStrike movement for climate justice.

Credits:

Host & Producer - Alyha Bardi

Audio Editor - Paige Smith

Cover Artist & Secondary Editor - Kathy Feng

Transcriber & Copywriter - Melissa Roach

SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement Director - Am Johal

“Words” by Jason Shaw is licensed under CC BY 3.0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/WORDS______________________________2-35

“Drive” by Scanglobe is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scanglobe/industrial-sunrise/drive-2

“Industrial Sunrise” by Scanglobe is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scanglobe/industrial-sunrise/industrial-sunrise

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Bardi, Alyha. “Women, Work, More: Working Mothers & the Pressures of Motherhood — with Amanda Watson” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 15, 2021. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/women-work-more/143-amanda-watson.html