Tag Archives: health

Radio — Trans youth challenging barriers to gender-affirming health care

Kaeden Seburn is a Bachelor of Social Work student at Carleton University and a community organizer and advocate. Jay Burns is a high school student currently finishing Grade 12. Both are active members of SAEFTY Ottawa, a group run by … Continue reading

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Radio — A gathering of radical health workers

Baj Mukhopadhyay is a physician who is based in Montreal and practices mainly in remote and Indigenous communities in northern Quebec. He also writes about and is active in grassroots politics related to struggles around resource extraction, migrant justice, and … Continue reading

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Radio — A successful campaign against medical colonialism

Samir Shaheen-Hussain is a pediatric emergency physician who practices in Montreal and a professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. He has also been involved in grassroots social justice organizing around issues like … Continue reading

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Radio — Policy advocacy and storytelling linking social justice and health

On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, Scott Neigh speaks with Monika Dutt and Jared Knoll. They talk about Upstream, an organization that is working to get ordinary people, health professionals, and governments thinking about how inequality, injustice, and … Continue reading

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Radio — Health workers radicalizing health struggles

[audio:http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/309699091-scott-neigh-talking-radical-trr-ep-89-nov-122014-health-workers-radicalizing-health-struggles.mp3] On this week’s episode of Talking Radical Radio, I talk with Martha Roberts. She is a midwife, an educator, and a community organizer, and was one of the founders of the Alliance for People’s Health, a collective of health … Continue reading

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