Take Back the Fight
with Nora Loreto
Hosted by The Hill Times’ Erica Ifill
Nora Loreto shows both the strengths and the weaknesses of Canada’s largest feminist organization. Thank you to Nora for making this important part of activist history come alive for readers and now be documented for history.
Economist, columnist. entrepreneur, activist, and podcaster, Erica Ifill hosts a conversation with Nora Loreto, journalist, activist, co-host of the Sandy and Nora podcast and the author of Take Back The Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age.
In her book, Loretto argues that two decades of neoliberalism have destroyed a structured, pan-regional feminist movement in Canada. As a result, new generations of feminists have come to age without ever seeing the force that an organized social movement can have in democratic society. They have never benefited from the knowledge, the debates, the actions, the mass mobilizations or the leadership that all accompany a social movement and instead organize in decentralized silos.
In Take Back The Fight, Nora Loreto examines the state of modern feminism in Canada and argues that feminists must organize to take back feminism from politicians, business leaders and journalists who distort and obscure its power. Furthermore, Loreto urges todays activists to overcome the challenges that sank the movement decades ago, to stop centering whiteness as the quintessential woman’s experience, and to find ways to rebuild the communities that have been obliterated by neoliberal economic policies
Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books. You can also get this book from Fernwood with the discount code: TBTFOTW10
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