A collaboration between CKUT and the Centre for Gender Advocacy, Dragonroot Media was a feminist media collective that aimed to produce anti-oppressive media with a gender focus. Dragonroot valued self-determination and representation, and worked within an anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and anti-colonial framework. As a feminist media collective, Dragonroot enthusiastically rejects the notion of neutral and objective media, recognizing it as actively supporting established social power dynamics and institutional violences.

Dragonroot is currently on hiatus due to lack of a programmer. If you would like to be part of a new feminist media collective, please email spokenword@ckut.ca.

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March 25, 2024: WINGS #49-23 Suppressed Histories Archives & WINGS #47-23 Truth To Power

WINGS #49-23 Suppressed Histories Archives

WINGS contributor in Amsterdam Mindy Ran interviewed Max Dashu via zoom in March 2024, for Women's History Month. Dashu explains how and why she started the Suppressed Histories Archive and explains some of the obstacles and complications in appropriately finding and interrogating the biases of various kind of sources. She notes how the technical demands and opportunities have arisen for the project over its 54 years, and her hopes for making the entire collection searchable and accessible.

WINGS #47-23 Truth To Power

The most dangerous jobs in journalism involve reporting on wrongdoing of governments, corporations, and major criminals in one's own country. Forms of censorship can include imprisonment and death, even in alleged democracies. The women in this program spoke on a panel at a conference themed "Speaking Truth to Power" in Delhi in 2015.

Ilang Ilang Quijano from the Philippines was then managing director and editor of a multimedia outlet for investigative journalism, Pinoy Weekly; she works on media about agriculture and safety. Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena was a media columnist in Sri Lanka; she is now a legal analyst whose work encompasses advocacy, research and litigation in the protection of civil liberties. Dr. Anja Kovacs directs the Internet Democracy Project in Delhi, India. Racheal Nakitare from Kenya is past President of the International Association of Women in Radio and TV (IAWRT); she is a career broadcast journalist with the Kenya Broadcasting Company. Sheila Dallas Katzman, originally from Jamaica, has had a long international career in broadcasting; she is President of the US Chapter of IAWRT.

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