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Louie Palu is an award−winning photographer who stretched the boundaries of his emotional and mental capacities covering the war in Afghanistan. He came back a different man—which, as his friend and fellow journalist Christie Blatchford describes, is a common experience in their profession. Author and doctor Vincent Lam adds the heft of his medical knowledge to the conversation, and Benjamin Hertwig reads his poetry about coming back from war.

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Forget everything you think you know about Tom Mulcair. The former leader of the New Democratic Party sat with Noah to talk about what happened after the 2015 federal election, when he had to shake hands with the victor across the aisle. What is the role of the leader after the fall? Plus, Patti LaBoucane-Benson reflects on the larger theme of leadership through Indigenous models of apprenticeship, with leaders and elders.

The Fall

Our ties to places we call home can cause us joy and pain, and while there are plenty of Canadians who are away from home, missing home, or calling a new place their homes, Noah spoke to two young Indigenous artists about their ideas of home. Dale Alexis, a Cree man from the Enoch Cree Nation outside Edmonton, and Hunter Cardinal, of American Jewish and Cree descent, both decided to leave the metropolis and the burgeoning success they were enjoying here. With a special interview and reading by Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt.

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Two stories about how death or near-death changed lives forever. Toronto Transit Commission streetcar operator Jason Banfield did not expect a tedious afternoon to become tragic, but when a pedestrian ran into the middle of the street, that afternoon, and his life dramatically changed. Bradford Parady, an American lobsterman who has worked in Nova Scotia, has struggled with his mental health his whole life. In 2016, he tried to kill himself and survived, but he still has a bullet in his brain. Where did they go from here?

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Losing your words takes on a whole deeper meaning when one is talking about a writer and when you add the cruelty of dementia. Graeme Gibson is a celebrated writer who spoke about his experiences with the diagnosis of dementia, and the healing power of nature and birdwatching for both him and his partner, Margaret Atwood. Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane created a book called The Lost Words that laments the words that move out of our common vernacular. Also featuring Trillium Prize winner Kyo Maclear, who wrote Birds Art Life during a year of grief and discovery.

Lost Words

Sex is something that comes with all kinds of markers—the first time, the best time, how many times, and so many more. But what about sex addiction? Erica Garza has written extensively about her addiction to porn and sex and the pivotal moments in the very personal journey to where she is today. It’s hard to talk about sex without thinking of Savage Love, the internationally syndicated column written by Dan Savage, so we asked him to weigh in on relationships and sex addiction.

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The value of Art and times of social upheaval

In this episode Professor John Paul Ricco from UofT Mississauga’s Department of Visual Studies talks about his art and art history research, and also about how past health crises have shaped art movements. We also talk about some of the ways in which this current pandemic may influence artists now and in creations to come, and what kinds of things John Paul is doing in this time of solitude.  

John Paul is an art historian and queer theorist whose interdisciplinary research, teaching and writing draws connections between late-twentieth-century and contemporary art and architecture; continental philosophy; and issues of gender and sexuality, bodies and pleasures, pornography and eroticism.

He graduated from New York University where he majored in art history and minored in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. After a couple of years lecturing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Paul went on to complete a PhD in the Theory, Historiography and Criticism of Art History at the University of Chicago. During his doctoral studies at Chicago, Ricco was a Graduate Exchange Scholar in the School of Architecture at Princeton University.

As a young scholar in the early-1990s, John Paul contributed to the formation of three newly emerging fields of study: Gay and Lesbian Art History, Visual Culture, and Queer Theory, and he was one of the first scholars to bring questions of space, geography and architecture to bear upon the discourses of queer theory and the politics of AIDS.

John Paul joined the Visual Studies department at UTM in 2006.
A full transcript of the interview is available at https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/shared/JPR-interview-transcribed_April2020.pdf.

Resources
- John Paul's webpage is at https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/dvs/john-paul-ricco. 
- Read a profile based on this interview at https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/news/art-time-covid-19.
- Read Professor Ricco’s article “Impotentiality and Resistance,”https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/sduk/tilting/impotentiality-and-resistance, his contribution that appears in Tilting, a publication the Blackwood Gallery recently issued as part of their Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) broadsheet series, launched expressly in response to the pandemic and to support artists.
- To read Ricco's contribution to the UofT Press journal Topia, "On Ways of Living in the Midst of the COVID-19 Global Pandemic (Three Brief Meditations)," https://www.utpjournals.press/journals/topia/covid-19-essays/on-ways-of-living-in-the-midst-of-the-covie-19-global-pandemic.
- You can view an excerpt of the film Blue by Derek Jarman that John Paul mentions at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jEer2d3nMg.
- The recent article John Paul mentions from the New Yorker magazine "A New Doctor Faces the Coronavirus in Queens" is at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/27/a-new-doctor-faces-the-coronavirus-in-queens.
- The article by Catherine Malabou "To Quarantine from Quarantine" can be read at https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/03/23/to-quarantine-from-quarantine-rousseau-robinson-crusoe-and-i/.
- The book John Paul is reading by Anne Dufourmantelle is called In Praise of Risk https://www.amazon.com/Praise-Risk-Anne-Dufourmantelle/dp/0823285448.

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