Family Dynamics is about growing up with immigrant parents, and the subtle cultural divide that Canadian-immigrant children experience. As a child of a Chinese mother, I wanted to know how much of my experience is shared with others whose paren

Shameless Talks Presents: Heard Before

May 18th, 2018 22m 55s

Capturing memory in a podcast by Nilani Selliah.

Shameless Talks presents: Game to Glory

May 4th, 2018 39m 53s

A podcast by Maryan Haye that looks at movie awards season.

Shameless Talks presents: FARIN

Apr 20th, 2018 16m 8s

Growing up in Canada as a second-generation Afro-Jamaican came with many challenges due to my identity being caught between the West and the Islands. Second-generation youth of the Caribbean diaspora are often overlooked, but little do they kno

Politics

Jun 23rd, 2017 48m 43s

New episode of Shameless Talks is here! This is our first-ever *live* episode and we’re talking politics! You’ll hear from some rad storytellers like Lia and Tessa who began We Give Consent, a social media awareness campaign fighting to have th

Independence Survival Guide

Mar 28th, 2017 47m 58s

A new ep. of Shameless Talks is here! In this episode, we’re talking about Independence! You'll hear from Vivek Shraya, a multi-disciplinary artist, writer and musician, talk about trying out different methods to fine-tune her art, what workin

Music

Nov 25th, 2016 39m 8s

This episode is about music! You'll hear from Brighid Fry, a teen singer-songwriter, on learning how to get good at it and about what to do about stage fright; we speak with Keysha Freshh, a female rapper from Toronto, about being female in a m

Shadeism

Jul 1st, 2016 38m 33s

This episode we welcome Shameless editors past and present as guest hosts. They explore shadeism - the discrimination of skin tone within race and talk about deeply internalized white supremacy within families and communities, learning how to d

Alt Beauty issue launch

Feb 17th, 2016 9m 7s

A new ep. of Shameless Talks is here! Well, a mini-ep. Hosted by our arts editor, Julia De Laurentiis Johnson, this short podcast - dubbed Shameless Talks Short - was recorded at our Alternative Beauty issue launch in January 2016. We set up a

Sex

Jan 19th, 2016 53m 12s

This episode is about sex! You’ll hear from Andy Villanueva of Project Slut, a collective that set out to abolish their high school’s sexist dress code and won; sex-educator Kaleigh Trace talks about navigating sex and disability, squashing sex

Environmental Justice

Aug 12th, 2015 36m 10s

In this episode, we're talking environmental justice. You’ll meet Rebecca Mandamin, a teen who helps run a group called Ferda Water, advocating for safe and fair water use in her community of Shoal Lake No 39 (Iskatewizaagegan). She talks about