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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Nora Loreto uses humour and critical debate to confront the neoliberal politics of fauxminism
Description: Nora Loreto is an author and political organizer, and a vital voice in podcasting within Canadian politics especially. Sandy and Nora Talk Politics (https://sandyandnora.com/) features conversations with co-host Sandy Hudson on a broad cross-section of contemporary issues. She tells me, in this interview, that the podcast started by recording her conversations with Sandy -- as a consequence of their authentically friendly delivery, the podcast boasts a wildly diverse audience in this sprawling and diffuse country.
We discuss the podcast’s unique sense of humour and when that sense of humour comes in handy as a means of dealing wi...