The Eugenic Canadian Context and the Future of the NDP in Canada

Last evening, I attended a campaign event for Avi Lewis that took place in Hamilton, Canada (where I live). Lewis is running to be the new leader of the New Democratic Party in Canada, which was virtually obliterated in the federal election last Spring when many Canadians chose to “strategically” vote for the Liberals and […]

First Symposium on Indigenous Philosophy across the Americas: Epistemologies and Ontologies outside the Settler Colonial Hegemony, U Penn/Online, Mar. 20, 2026

Symposium Description How we as human persons understand and relate to the world has long been fodder for contention.  In the pursuit of absolute, universal truths, the occidental philosophical canon has found itself in a rigid dogmatism that casts out the roles of spirituality, land, and the-more-than-human-world in the formation of our understanding of reality. […]

Iran Resources at Weaving Our Worlds

From Weaving Our Worlds: This resource list was produced in March 2026, less than one week after the US and Zionist entity launched attacks against Iran — manufactured through lies, orientalist propaganda, sanctions, regime-change rhetoric, and monarchist fantasies — in the middle of diplomatic negotiations and killing over 1000 people (and counting) and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. These imperialist attacks come […]

Robert Chapman on Gramsci, Madness, and Fascism

Gramsci on Madness and Fascism: Hegemony and Sanist Slurs By Robert Chapman Mad and neurodivergent people on the left often find ourselves in purportedly inclusive spaces where ableist and sanist language nonetheless circulates casually, most often as a way of dismissing political opponents. Words like mad, insane, or moronic are deployed as if they were […]