Call-out for an online and printed zine about dealing with body/hair/size/fat phobia for and by Indigenous peoples and people of colour. The title is still a work in progress, but here you can find all the details on submitting & how to get involved.

We interview Steven Salaita, the author of The Uncultured Wars, Arabs, Muslims and the Poverty of Liberal Thought. Through witty humour and incisive essays, his book critiques the American liberal-left’s complicity in perpetuating anti-Arab, Islamophobic, and imperial modes of thought. In doing so, he raises important questions about the nature of race relations and the manifest Orientalism in American political discourse today. His target is not the neoconservative right who are blatant and easily identified in in their dogmatic doctrine of the war on terror and in their racist caricatures of Arabs and Muslims. Rather, he sounds the alarm on the misrepresentative ideas of the liberal left, passively justifying the sensationalized excesses of the right.

We trawl the news media so you don’t have to.

A Sorry State :: “Canada is becoming a world leader in official apologies. Do they benefit anyone but the people offering them up?”

The Walrus - December 2009 :: Read the entire story here

TORONTO - “The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is an international festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and new media.” Check out: ‘Tungijuq’ & ‘Reel Injun’

We trawl the news media so you don’t have to.

Tiananmen: two men, two countries, one tragedy :: The Globe & Mail
50 days of protest and one massacre in the Peruvian Amazon :: Rabble.ca
Court orders Ottawa to let Abdelrazik return to Canada :: cbcnews.ca ; The Globe & Mail
Is The Media Or Gay Community To Blame For LGBT Activists Of Colour Being Invisible? :: GayBlackCanadianman
Akwesasne under siege :: The Globe & Mail
For Lebanese-Canadians, a free flight to the poll :: The Globe & Mail
Teacher Transfers Linked to Influx of Black Students :: Education Week
Africville: Nova Scotia’s string of broken promises :: Rabble.ca