May 18, 2016
As a white person in Canada, especially one writing about a topic that intersects with Indigenous issues, I have found Métis writer Chelsea Vowel’s blog âpihtawikosisân invaluable. Vowel is a legal researcher who somehow explains complex issues with total clarity without ever being anything less than gripping or undercutting her politics.
April 24, 2016
Purple is associated with mourning as well as all the better known things—royalty, magic and spirituality etc. Somehow I’d forgotten this until Prince died.
I am so gutted by this news, I don’t even know what to write.
April 11, 2016
Here’s yet another condo development framed as a modern repeat of Canada’s 19th C colonial pioneer era. It’s called “Venue” and it’s in Whalley, a small town centre within Surrey, a large, racially mixed Vancouver suburb mostly known for farming.
April 4, 2016
Baghdad, 2002
I was sent the following email and article in 2002, about 9 months before the Iraq War. I’m posting it here because I’ve noticed that in the current 2016 US election campaign so many people seem to have forgotten the kind of plentiful information we were seeing circulated well before the war.
March 20, 2016
Finnish News takes on the US election. Please note that I don’t think this US election is a joke. Trump is close enough to a fascist demagogue, and the spectre of the million who have died as a result of the illegal Iraq War also hangs over both campaigns.
February 14, 2016
Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and the other very excited nerds at the Windows 95 launch.
Fitting because I was helping my mother with her work PC earlier and it was really was like going back in time.
January 23, 2016
No one believes you, YouTube.
January 22, 2016
Old version of the World Passport, from 1979
The website of the organization that issues this passport, the World Government of World Citizens and its associated World Service Authority (WSA), has a quote from Einstein:
So long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
January 18, 2016
I made this fur lifejacket partly in homage to Meret Oppenheim, one of the founders of surrealism and most famous for her “Object in Fur,” a fur teacup and spoon. Oppenheim is yet another woman artist who did not receive the credit or status she was due.
January 15, 2016
“Haste doesn’t live here,” says one sign on the door. Another inside says “Nothing in this room is for sale.” An Italian woman named Chiara Vigo is the last living master of the ancient textile tradition of spinning “baysuss” or silk produced from the fibres exuded by a giant mediterranean mollusc.
