Happy National Aboriginal Day everyone!
Wab Kinew, always concise, does 500 years of ‘Canadian’ history in 2 minutes.
National Aboriginal Day – Wab Kinew’s “500 years in 2 minutes”
June 21, 2015
politics
“When Hipsters Dream of the 1890s” – an abridged version of my hipster essay is now in Briarpatch Magazine
May 7, 2015
Briarpatch Magazine, one of Canada’s oldest lefty political mags, has published an abridged version of my earlier essay on heritage hipsters and colonialism redux.
If you want to read the original and longer post (with a far drier title) it is here: Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More, Chinatown gentrification, &c.
Murder Murder
April 28, 2015
Apparently this is not a renegade settler war party, it’s a new “bloodgrass” band from Sudbury in Northern Ontario called Murder Murder. You can listen to their banjo-esque non-Northern-Ontario-ish neo-bluegrass murdery numbers at the link above.
Craigslist: “For Sale: Vancouver City Hall. Cash only, please. No Questions asked.”
April 6, 2015
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Ha ha. Sadly, this Craigslist ad was quickly taken down, but not before lots of us took screenshots and copied the text (a friend uploaded it to her Facebook).
“In the lonely cockpit of our lives” by Bifo Berardi
April 4, 2015
Franco ‘Bifo’ Beradi, author of Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide, responds to the Germanwings crash, which is believed to have been intentionally crashed by co-pilot Andreas Lubitz
I think this is essential reading on the Germanwings suicide crash.
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DSquared’s provocational fashion line & #Dsquaw hashtag
March 5, 2015
Despite all the backlash to Ralph Lauren’s genocide chic advertising campaign last year, it seems designers have either learned nothing, or conversely they’ve learned that outrage is free and effective PR in the fashion world.
Turbo Architecture
January 22, 2015
This example of blobitecture is being proposed for Vancouver, apparently to be squeezed between two older buildings on the waterfront in the historic neighbourhood known as Gastown. There has been no public hearing regarding the building, so the public have taken to social media to express what seems to be more displeasure than pleasure.
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Colonial aesthetics and Ralph Lauren
December 20, 2014
In a direct line from my earlier post on the heritage hipster style as a settler colonial aesthetic, here is another exhibit in the colonial museum of fashion: Ralph Lauren using genocide-era vintage photographs of native men in western dress as part of its recent marketing campaign.
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cultural appropriation
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fracking
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genocide chic
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Idle No More
indigenous
lumberjack
Ralph Lauren
settler colonial
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Ursula K. LeGuin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”
November 29, 2014
Reprinted from Parker Higgins of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who transcribed Le Guin’s speech:
Ursula K. Le Guin was honored at the National Book Awards tonight and gave a fantastic speech about the dangers to literature and how they can be stopped.
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Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More, Chinatown gentrification, &c.
October 14, 2014
Men in British Columbia, 1859, one in a newly discovered collection of early photographs of white settlers and First Nations in B.C. Via Vancouver Sun © Royal British Columbia Museum, reprinted with permission
An abridged version of this essay has been published in the May/June 2015 issue of Briarpatch Magazine
I am probably as bored of casual hipster-slagging as you are.
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Asiatic Exclusion League
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Depression era
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First Nations
gentrification
Glen Coulthard
Head Tax
heritage hipster
hewers of wood and drawers of water
hipster
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Idle No More
Japanese internment
Komagata Maru
Lumberjoke
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Mamie Taylor's
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middle class
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