Earlier this week I interviewed Hemant Mehta about… various things. Here’s the interview. I was going to upload the entire show onto here – but it took 20 minutes just to upload the interview, so there’s no way I was going to wait for a hour and a half show to upload. Anyway – it’s long, but it’s interesting, because he’s interesting.
Seriously – this guy was the easiest interview of my life. You don’t even have to ask a question – just say like three words and he’ll start talking for like 10 minutes straight… There I was worried I wasn’t going to have enough questions when really I didn’t even get to like 1/2 of the other I wanted to ask.
Anyway – it was a pre-hype for his visit to Toronto on June 27th when he’ll be doing a talk at U of T in the multi-faith center at 7 pm. I’m pretty excited for his visit.
In other news – Tomorrow is the ROM trip for all the campus groups in the area! Woo! About 50 secular students will be meeting in front of the Royal Ontario Museum to go see the Darwin Exhibit. We solidified a few extra tickets – so if you’re a student and in the area feel free to meet everyone there at 11 am! The exhibit will be followed by a BBQ and discussion at the Center for Inquiry – Ontario located at 216 Beverley. This whole trip was the baby of my group… but now I can’t go, nor can my VP who was most excited for it. I’ve been running a fever for the past three days and barely been able to get out of bed for more than half an hour. (Hence the complete lack of posting while having the entire week off.)
Hopefully I’ll feel better soon.
Go to the ROM in my name.
I did an interview with Ashly Kissman on the weekend about being a multiracial girl. She also interviewed her mother and younger sister about the issue. Her mother is biracial, and was born in Liberia. Her sister is 16 and you can tell from her interview that she has yet to grow up a little bit and admit that sometimes things hurt and sometimes people are jerks. Anyway, they’re not that long, and they’re worth the time it takes to listen. They’re all really great and strong women. Simendea’s interview is especially good.
Amanda Kissman (younger sister)
Simendea Kissman (mother)
Ashly Kissman
They’ll be air on CFUV on Wednesday November 8th at 5 pm PST. With some awesome musical selections and hopefully a brand spankin’ new news anchor, Diana… She’s fabulous.
For those of you who care about random facts… also on Wednesay mercury will be passing across the Sun’s face beginning at 1:13 pm PST…It will only be visible using a properly filtered telescope though…and only in the Western half of north america for 2.5 hours… Just so you know.
I think if I thank her once more she’s never going to speak to me again in fear that the only thing I can say anymore is "thank you so much!!" but, I’ll try my luck…thanks again!! The following link is for the interview I did with Lindsay earlier today.
The more I listen to it, the more I think I did a pretty horrible job, and at around the 30 minute mark the sound card of the computer went wonky. By wonky I mean it slowed the recorder down to 1/2 pace and dropped our pitched by about 2.5 whatevers.
I tried to fix it, and I got it pretty close, but if we start to sound a little funny – its because my boss won’t listen to me when I say "We need a new computer in the news room."
I also pronounced a ‘p’ on ‘pseudo’ more than i pronounced the rest of the word, even. And I was so nervous that words over 7 letters long never came out properly. Ha ha ha.
Anyway, here it is. Enjoy it. Love it. Embrace it. Listen to it again, and the rest of my show tomorrow night, 5 -6 (8 -9, east coast darlings!) at the CFUV site.
Download Lindsay2.mp3 (15947.8K)
Go here and you can send questions to Ellie Smeal. She doesn’t really seem to be answering the questions that she gets asked, and she hasn’t made more than 4 posts in the past 2 days… and today is her last day… but maybe if you’re lucky she’ll attend to your questions.
Not gonna lie… I was a bit excited for the discussions with her, but am horribly dissapointed. Such is life. Ellie is the founder of the Feminist Majority and has been a member of NOW since 1970. I thought she’d be a little bit more active in the discussion.
Here it is boys and girls, the interview with Mr. Alon Levy. Listen to it on the show at 5 by going here!
I think this is the other interview I’m going to play tonight, but I’m not entirely certain.
I just realized that I should probably point out that I really like Feministe, and Jill and that I am a fun feminist myself. So hopefully people dont get angry at me for railing it.
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