The People's History Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The People’s History Podcast (PHP) aims to recognize and preserve the important roles that Kingstonians and Queen’s students have played in social movements throughout the years. The stories of people who participated in struggles for social and environmental justice – queer, indigenous, black, anti-racist, feminist, among many others – often go untold in “official” histories. The PHP seeks to remedy these silences by recording Kingston’s rich history of social movements and resistance.
In this episode, we throwback to 1985, where two seemingly unlikely activism campaigns collided. Kingston’s fight to have a gay and lesbian pride day, and the campaign for nuclear disarmament joined together to stage a controversial lesbian and gay kiss-in on the steps of Kingston city hall, that sparked controversy throughout Kingston. Though we had […]
In this episode, we discuss a brief moment in the summer of 1999, where parking attendants in downtown Kingston were rendered so incapable of doing their jobs, that you could find them sitting frustrated in restaurants instead of looking for parking violations. These parking attendants were prevented from doing their jobs by no more than […]
In this episode, we discuss the violent and racist history of Kingston prison institutions, through the lens of one activist at the center of it, Robert Tex Gentles.
In this episode, we discuss how an act of misogyny on Queen’s campus lead to one of the greatest pushes for sexual assault activism and the installation of the blue safety lights across campus.
Alfie Pierce, the former namesake of our beloved campus pub, is a Queen’s legend, yet few really know the true story behind his life. This episode of the People’s History Podcast brings Alfie’s story to life detailing the trials and barriers he faced as a person of colour on Queen’s campus and exposing the racist […]
This podcast illustrates the story of how LGBT activists from Queen’s University in the mid-80’s to early 90’s, advocated for the city to recognize an official ‘Pride’ day for the LGBT community, only to be turned away multiple times over the years by homophobic council members, and shunned by homophobic Kingstonians. They never gave up […]