Lenard Monkman talks about Red Rising, a new magazine being produced by Indigenous youth in Winnipeg

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Recording Date: 29 Nov, 2015
Recording Location: Skpe between Hamilton, ON, and Winnipeg, MB.
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Language: English
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Program Title: Red Rising: A new magazine by and for Indigenous youth
Description: On this week's episode of Talking Radical Radio, I speak with Lenard Monkman. He is part of a collective of Indigenous youth in Winnipeg who recently started publishing a new magazine called Red Rising.

As writer and activist Arundhati Roy noted in her acceptance speech for the 2004 Sydney Peace Prize, "We know of course there's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard." The corollary of that is that there is no such thing as giving voice to someone else – there is only challenging the active process of silencing, and creating ways for the unheard to amplify their voices such that they cannot be ignored.

According to Monkman, he and a lot of the other Indigenous youth that he knows and works with in Winnipeg have a lot of stories, a lot of experiences, and a lot of ideas that haven't yet been heard, and that should be -- and many of those who have had a chance to share them with mainstream media have often experienced having them distorted, misconstrued, and taken out of context. So earlier this year, he and a number of other youth decided that they needed to found their own magazine. They have jumped into the process of soliciting submissions, editing, and producing, and they have one issue out and another well underway, as well as a great website. They still haven't figured out quite where the project is going, but already they have a vibrant, wonderful mechanism that is, according to Monkman, an "uncensored and unfiltered" way for Indigenous youth to speak their truths to each other, to broader Indigenous communities, and to the world at large. Monkman talks with me about Indigenous youth, communities, and resurgence in Winnipeg; about the practicalities of founding a magazine; and about the importance of making sure that the diverse voices of Indigenous youth get heard.

To learn more about Red Rising Magazine, to order copies, or to find out how to submit, clikck here: http://redrisingmagazine.ca/.

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