Militant Joy Today: Noticing Patterns and Cracks
Join the Social Thought and Political Economy Department for a conversation with carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, authors of Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times. This event is free and open to the public.
carla joy bergman is a mom, transdisciplinary artist, podcaster, and writer. They are the co-author of Joyful Militancy, editor of Radiant Voices and Trust Kids! Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy. These days carla does most of her creative endeavours for CAW, a worker-run art and culture journal.
Nick Montgomery is a white settler living on Sla-dai-aich (Denman Island) on K’omoks, Qualicum, and Pentlatch territories. He is a community organizer, cooker of big meals, paramedic, and university lecturer as an Adjunct Professor in UVic’s School of Environmental Studies. A major focus of his teaching and organizing is on creating regenerative alternatives to the nightmare we are trapped in. He is involved in supporting horizontal movements and collective decision-making, mutual aid, Indigenous solidarity, feminism, unschooling, affordable and DIY housing, and regenerative farming. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University and his academic background includes political ecology, affect theory, Indigenous resurgence, permaculture, autonomist feminism, communization, and anarchism. With carla bergman, he is the co-author of Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times.