Tapestry

Tim Lomas is the curator of an online lexicography of words from over 100 languages that all have one thing in common: they aren't translatable. In an interview with Tapestry host Mary Hynes, Lomas talks about how this massive cross-cultural vocabulary can help us build a more universal understanding of well-being.

CBC Radio's William Firth hosts a show that is broadcast in the Gwich'in language. He tells Tapestry host Mary Hynes about how he embarked on a life-long mission to regenerate the language for today's youth.

Every so often, Mohammed Hashim gets a call to help someone who finds themselves in the news. In this feature interview, Tapestry host Mary Hynes goes deep with Hashim, who’s known as the “unofficial crisis manager” for Canadian Muslims.

Victoria Yang remembers how she was treated as a Chinese-Canadian during the SARS outbreak and tells how she’s working through that shame to reclaim her heritage.

Everything changed for Dev Cuny when they came out as queer to her Evangelical parents. A tormented Cuny agreed to undergo gay conversion therapy, survived the abusive experience, and now helps other survivors. Dr. Willie Parker believed performing abortions was wrong. One day, he felt morally and spiritually compelled to do so.

Alexander Leon, an LGBTQ activist and writer in the United Kingdom, was moved by the response to his social media post about how he found his identity and overcame the stigma attached to it. And Lauren Strapageil considers how her “dream wedding” would fit in with her queer politics.

Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? Tapestry examines the politics of appearance with disability advocate s.e.smith and writer Lisa Tognola.

From plantation tours to the myth of the black Confederate soldier, the history of slavery and the American Civil War has often been whitewashed. In this special episode, Tapestry investigates how distorted versions of the past can do so much harm in the present.

Want to help build better world? Margaret Wheatley is training 'Warriors for the Human Spirit.' Want to see the world in a new light? Riz Virk argues we are all living in a computer simulation.

Lee McIntyre defends the role of the 'public philosopher,' a thinker who steps out of the academy to engage with non-scholars in the hopes of helping them grapple with their questions and challenges. McIntyre recently pushed his own comfort level by setting himself up, outside a New York City subway station, under the sign, "Ask A Philosopher."

Philosopher Lee McIntyre says more than ever, society needs its thinkers to engage in public discourse; and writer T. Wise struggles with how to honour his parents, now that it's too late to give them grandkids.

T. Wise's parents longed for grandchildren. Neither of T.'s older sisters are planning to have kids. And T., a transgender man, never saved any eggs before transitioning. Now that his parents have given up waiting, T. grapples with the question of whether he owes them for the years they spent lovingly raising him. If so, how he should repay them?